According to Jon Morosi of MLB.com, one of the two remaining high-profile free-agent hurlers left on the market is close to putting pen to paper. “Craig Kimbrel is moving ‘closer’ to a decision on where he will sign his next contract, one source said Monday,” Morosi wrote. “But the situation remains sufficiently fluid that there is no clear favorite to sign the...
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On April 15, 1997, I was a baseball-obsessed 13-year-old kid. Luckily for my brother and I, our father’s employer had box seats at Shea Stadium and we were able to attend a ton of Mets games throughout our formative years. That specific night was the inaugural celebration of Jackie Robinson Day across Major League Baseball, 50 years to the day after Robinson broke baseball’s color...
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The New York Mets surely looked at the J.D. Davis glass as being half-full when they gave up three mid-level, reasonably-high ceiling prospects to acquire the 25-year-old from the Houston Astros. Over five minor-league seasons, Davis holds a .292/.362/.521 slash line with 105 homers, 393 runs batted in, 126 doubles, and 543 strikeouts in 507 games. His potential and ceiling are clearly high...
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New York Mets general manager Brodie Van Wagenen spoke out in support of the team’s beleaguered left-hander, Jason Vargas, on Sunday evening in Atlanta. Besides his unsightly 14.21 earned-run average, 8.20 fielding independent pitching rating, and 4.26 strikeouts and 5.68 walks per nine, respectively, over his first two appearances (just 6.1 innings total), Vargas’ 70.8% hard-hit...
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New York Mets second baseman Robinson Cano hasn’t found his groove at the plate just yet, but, as per Matt Ehalt of Yahoo Sports, the 36-year-old isn’t all that concerned and feels he’s very close to busting out. Cano, a career .282/.336/.466 hitter over the first month of the season (324 games played in March and April), is slashing just .182/.237/.327 this season (59 plate...
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