In case you missed the news, New York Mets outfielder Yoenis Cespedes opted out of the 2020 season due to COVID-19 concerns on Sunday (at-risk family member). According to the team, the 34-year-old Cuban product did not inform the club of his decision to opt-out, he simply didn’t show up for work. Per Mets outfielder Brandon Nimmo, speaking with the team’s press corps ahead of...
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In the latest episode of Simply Amazin’, Jacob Resnick returns to discuss the dumpster fire that is currently the New York Mets. The team has lost five in a row, they’re trading away prospects for .210 hitters, and what went down on Sunday — no, not the game — may be the strangest development of them all. Be sure to subscribe to the show wherever you listen to podcasts....
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Another of the New York Mets’ high-level pitching prospects was shipped off on Sunday, as the team sent right-hander Tyler Bashlor to the Pittsburgh Pirates for cash considerations. Bashlor, 27, was designated for assignment on July 28 to make room for left-handed starter David Peterson on the Mets’ 40-man roster. Over five minor league seasons, the Savannah, Georgia product pitched...
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The New York Mets made a flurry of roster moves ahead of Sunday’s game in Atlanta, presumably hoping to shake things up amid their ongoing four-game losing streak. Right-hander Jordan Humphreys, designated for assignment earlier this week, was traded to the San Francisco Giants for veteran outfielder Billy Hamilton. Humphreys, 24, missed nearly two full seasons after undergoing Tommy John...
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New York Mets outfielder J.D. Davis mashed in 2019. After a middling start to this strange 2020 season, the 27-year-old California product has begun to rake, once again. In 453 plate appearances during his first season with the Mets (acquired from Houston for three prospects in one of general manager Brodie Van Wagenen’s first moves at the helm of the club two winters ago), Davis wowed at...
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