When Andrés Giménez made the Opening Day roster, some were surprised that the top prospect had broken camp with the big league club. Under normal circumstances, Giménez would have started the season in the minor leagues. Yet due to the cancellation of the minor league season, there was no place to put Giménez other than at the alternate training site or on the active roster and the Mets decided...
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Five years ago to this day, the New York Mets were in the middle of a game against the San Diego Padres when news began to trickle out about a trade involving young infielder Wilmer Flores. Flores was just 23 years old at the time, and had started the game at shortstop. As the night wore on, reports hit social media saying that there was a done deal between the Mets and the Milwaukee Brewers to...
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Despite featuring their deepest lineup in years, the New York Mets offense got off to a slow start in their opening series against the Atlanta Braves. They only managed to score five runs across the three-game set, with one of those coming due to the new extra-inning rule that put a free runner at second base in Saturday’s 5-3 loss. Luckily for the Mets, their first road series was against...
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Updated: July 22, 5:30 p.m. As expected, Mookie Betts has come to terms with the Los Angeles Dodgers on a massive long-term extension. According to ESPN’s Jeff Passan, the new deal is a 12-year extension worth a whopping $365 million. That 12-year deal is tacked onto the one-year, $27 million contract he was currently playing under, taking the total value of the deal to $392 million...
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After many months of waiting, the New York Mets will finally kick off their season this Friday, playing the Atlanta Braves at 4:10 ET. The Mets last hosted a game at Citi Field on September 29th, when Dominic Smith hit a walk-off home run against the Braves to close out the season. When the two division rivals meet again on Friday, it will have been exactly 299 days since that game. New York...
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