With Francisco Álvarez, Brett Baty, and Alex Ramirez ending the 2022 season on the MLB Pipeline top 100, we expected to see them on their rankings to begin the 2023 season, and they were. The trio of prospects would be joined by Kevin Parada, who was the Mets first round draft pick and 11th overall in the 2022 draft. That makes four Mets prospects overall in the MLB Pipeline Top 100. They are in...
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Francisco Lindor was ranked as the fifth-best shortstop in MLB by MLB Network heading into the 2023 season. Lindor was previously ranked the ninth-best shortstop in MLB before the 2022 season. The full MLB Network ranking was: Trea Turner Carlos Correa Xander Bogaerts Corey Seager Francisco Lindor Dansby Swanson Bo Bichette Willy Adames Tim Anderson Wander Franco After a poor first season in New...
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Good morning, Mets fans! Team Japan has released its roster for the 2023 World Baseball Classic and it includes major leaguers such as Shohei Ohtani, Yu Darvish, Seiya Suzuki, Lars Nootbaar, amongst others. One notable absence is newly signed Mets pitcher Kodai Senga. Instead of joining Team Japan, Senga prefers to get acclimated to his new team facility in Port St. Lucie and with the Mets, but...
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In the analytics era, lineup construction comes down to two central concepts that are often conflicting: batter strengths and handedness matchups. In 2022, Buck Showalter seemed to stick with the dual philosophies that handedness > strengths and lineup consistency > matchups. Those ideals are also contradictory at times, which led to some strange lineup decisions. The Mets will roll back a...
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Mike Puma of the New York Post reports that the Mets have brought back veteran catcher Michael Pérez on a minor league deal. Pérez will act as depth in Triple-A Syracuse for the Mets. Pérez, 30, was claimed off waivers by the Mets from the Pirates on July 23 of last year and made his Mets debut in August. The left-handed hitter went 2-for-14 with three RBIs and six strikeouts in for the Mets...
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Poor Billy Wagner… arguably the best left-handed reliever in the game and once again he failed to get enough votes for enshrinement in the Hall of Fame. And while Wagner was undoubtedly one of the most glaring snubs, he certainly was not the only one as Todd Helton, Andruw Jones, and former Mets Carlos Beltran and Jeff Kent all failed to make the grade. But hey, congratulations to Scott...
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