Carlos Carrasco took the mound in West Palm Beach, looking to improve after he had trouble with the pitch clock in his first spring outing. The Mets’ veteran had a better second start on Tuesday night, facing an Astros lineup that was missing starters that left for their respective WBC teams. Carrasco allowed a first-inning double to Alex Bregman but retired Jose Abreu and Zach Daniels to...
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Tuesday, March 7, 2023 • 6:05 PM The Ballpark of the Palm Beaches • West Palm Beach, Florida RHP Carlos Carrasco (0-1, 9.00) vs. LHP Framber Valdez (1-0, 0.00) KBME 790 AM Hello! It’s been a while! Between the day off on Monday and the Mets playing the late game tonight, the Mets haven’t played baseball for nearly 48 hours. Since the Mets last played we got news that José Quintana suffered a...
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The World Baseball Classic starts Tuesday night with a matchup between Cuba and the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Before that gets started, let’s rank every team playing in the 2023 WBC. 1. USA Trout. Mookie. Goldy. Arenado. Realmuto. Turner. Tucker. Simply put, this may be the best batting lineup we’ve ever seen in baseball history. Chock-full of MVPs and All-Stars, the batting order...
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Mets fans, we have an all-new episode of MMO Weekly ready! This week, Mike and I discuss Justin Verlander and Kodai Senga’s first spring starts, Francisco Lindor being voted captain of team Puerto Rico, Brett Baty and his hot spring training continues, and much more! Will Francisco Álvarez or Brett Baty have a bigger impact on the big league club in 2023? For Mike, it will come down to...
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It wouldn’t be much of a novelty to state that Pete Alonso is the Mets’ biggest power threat—not heading into 2023, not in 2022, and not in any season since he joined the major league club in 2019. That being the case, it is more puzzling to understand why the other major league teams took three years to catch up to that fact—or, at least, in one area they did. From 2019 through...
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With the World Baseball Classic beginning on Tuesday night, we take a look at Pool A, which kicks off all of the action in Taichung, Taiwan. Yes, the games will be on late at night or early in the morning, but it is a good way to get your fix of meaningful baseball games in before the start of the regular season. While there is one prohibitive favorite in the group, the race for second place and...
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