Author: Sam Neumann

Kodai Senga Continues His Cy Young Quality Season

Kodai Senga is objectively really good. He might even be great. What we do know is he’s a legitimate National League Cy Young contender, nearly a dozen starts into his 2025 campaign. And, as he improved to 6-3 on the season in New York’s 8-2 win over the Colorado Rockies on Saturday, he reminded all of us that he might just be the most under-the-radar ace in the sport. After giving...

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Brett Baty’s Multi-Home Run Game Provides Optimism For The Future

If this is Brett Baty’s coming-out party, you might want to buy stock — and now. The former top-100 prospect appears to have turned a corner in his latest opportunity to prove he belongs in the big leagues. Since being recalled from Triple-A Syracuse to replace the injured Jesse Winker (oblique), the 25-year-old Baty has rediscovered his swing. In two games against the Chicago Cubs, he’s...

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Holmes Continues To Pitch Like One Of The National League’s Best

Clay Holmes had to deal with two rain delays on Saturday. It didn’t matter. He threw 13 pitches before being sidelined by Mother Nature. He returned nearly 50 minutes later to finish the first inning with a scoreless frame. He’d only throw 57 more pitches on the afternoon, as the weather was really the only thing affecting him from going the distance. Holmes left his latest start of...

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Kodai Senga Continues Excellent Start To The Season

Kodai Senga would be the first to admit he didn’t have his sharpest stuff in Saturday’s 3-0 win over the St. Louis Cardinals. It wasn’t that the St. Louis Cardinals — now losers of three straight at Citi Field — batted him around the ballpark. But Senga’s signature forkball wasn’t missing bats like it usually does. He managed just four strikeouts over 5 2/3 innings, a far cry from the...

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Jesse Winker Plays Integral Role In Mets Comeback

Francisco Lindor joked postgame that someone might need to check on Jesse Winker’s hamstrings. Lindor delivered the walk-off sacrifice fly in the New York Mets’ 3–2 comeback win over the Blue Jays on Saturday, but it was his old buddy Winker who did the heavy lifting. Winker ripped a game-tying, two-run triple in the bottom of the eighth — his second triple of the night — to set the table for...

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