Good morning Mets fans! Rintaro Sasaki, a Japanese high school phenom and the potential No. 1 pick in the Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) Draft, officially decided to forego the NPB on Tuesday, signing a national letter of intent to play college baseball with Stanford, the university announced. Sasaki will graduate from Hanmaki-Higashi High School, the same school Shohei Ohtani attended, in...
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Good morning Mets fans! In an interview with the digital baseball show Foul Territory, former Mets manager Buck Showalter passionately discussed load management. “We had a guy hit a triple and two doubles, and they said he probably needs a day off because he ran too much around the bases,” Showalter said during the interview. “I said ‘What do you want me to tell him? Don’t get anymore hits so...
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Good morning Mets fans! Today’s biggest news is that Baltimore Orioles owner John Angelos has agreed to sell the team in a deal worth $1.725 billion to a group led by Baltimore billionaire David Rubenstein. Puck News first reported the deal. Mike Arougheti, the co-founder of Ares Management Corp., is a major player in the deal. Rubenstein is worth $4.6 billion, according to Forbes, while...
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Good morning, Mets fans! After years of being a divisional pest, former Philadelphia Phillies first baseman Rhys Hoskins agreed to a two-year, $34 million contract with the Milwaukee Brewers. ESPN’s Jeff Passan was the first to report the agreement. The deal comes with an opt-out after the first season, according to Passan. Hoskins, 31, missed last season after suffering a torn ACL during...
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Good morning, Mets fans! What are David Stearns’ expectations for 2024? The Mets’ president of baseball operations said he expects the team to be competing for a playoff spot in an interview with Andy Martino of SNY. “We should be competing for a playoff spot, we should be competing for a team that has the ability to make the playoffs,” Stearns said. “That’s certainly our...
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