After a disabled list stint with shoulder issues last season and a spring training that’s already been plagued by shoulder weakness and now an elbow issue, the long term future of Jon Niese can start to be questioned. Is this the beginning of a chronic issue that will plague him for the rest of his career or is this just a blip on the radar? This is the reason that players sign the kind of...
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The individual team MLB sites are currently listing 19 different bobblehead giveaways throughout the month of April. Some of them are pretty awesome. The R.A. Dickey bobble looks great. Michael Cuddyer is a Gnome in what looks like a smoking jacket. The Big Papi one is spot on. The Cubs are going Old School all season. The Giants are honoring their longtime announcer with a bobblehead as a...
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We’re a week into spring training games and the big position battle we’ve been anticipating all winter has thus far been, shall we say…. underwhelming? Ike Davis has calf tightness. Lucas Duda has leg stiffness. Pardon the pun, but are we dealing with a couple of stiffs? In a battle for their Major League lives with millions of dollars in future earnings at stake for both...
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The Mets currently have 26 non-roster invitees in camp, according to mets.com. The list consists of 15 pitchers, 2 catchers, 6 infielders, and 3 outfielders. It’s not too often that players with very high numbers in camp end up making the team, so let’s sort the non-roster invitees by the numbers so we can watch them over the spring to see if they break the usual high-number trend...
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Entering the 2014 season, the Third Base position is the most stable position on the team. David Wright has been manning the hot corner since he was called up in 2004. You’d think there haven’t been that many playing Third since he was called up. Guess again. There have been 23 different players who have manned third at least one time during the David Wright era. In all, there have...
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