For the second time this offseason, the New York Mets are involved in a three-team trade. This time, New York is acquiring the Royals No. 8 prospect Khalil Lee, in a deal that is sending Red Sox outfielder Andrew Benintendi to Kansas City. According to Joel Sherman of the New York Post, the Mets are trading RHP Josh Winckowski in the deal along with a player to be named later. New York acquired...
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Jacob deGrom was unable to secure his third-straight Cy Young this past season, finishing third behind Yu Darvish and Trevor Bauer. Yet despite missing out on the award for the COVID-shortened season, deGrom is still the favorite to win next year’s Cy Young according to DraftKings. DraftKings’ Sportsbook released futures odds for the Cy Young races and deGrom headlines the list in...
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Every year since 1984, Baseball America has ranked each team in Major League Baseball for who has the best farm system. In their first two rankings back in 1984 and 1985, the New York Mets topped their list for having the best farm system in baseball. The Tampa Bay Rays have now accomplished that same feat, becoming just the sixth team to ever receive back-to-back No. 1 rankings in Baseball...
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At some point in the next three to five years, Major League Baseball will no longer have pitchers batting. The reasons are obvious as baseball has been moving towards the age of specialization for some time now. Now there are kids growing up that consider themselves pitchers and won’t spend any time or energy worrying about their swing because developing that 95 mph fastball is their...
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Updated 2/5/21, 11:55 a.m. Deesha Thosar of the New York Daily News has now refuted the report of there being a noon deadline for Trevor Bauer to accept the Mets contract offer. Still, Thosar says we should know soon one way or the other on where Bauer will chose to sign. Original Post: According to Joel Sherman of the New York Post, the Mets have set a hard deadline of 12:00 p.m. ET today for...
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