Good morning, Mets fans! The Mets had the day off Monday, and now they welcome the Astros to town for a quick two-game set. The Astros swept the Mets at Minute Maid Park last week, with Yordan Álvarez smacking three homers in the two games. This is Houston’s first trip to Citi Field since the last weekend of the 2014 season, in which the Mets took two of three. Carlos Carrasco (8-3, 4.42...
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In a mostly clerical move, the Mets transferred starting pitcher Tylor Megill to the 60-day injured list. Megill was on the 15-day IL. By transferring Megill, the Mets opened up a space on their 40-man roster and signed infielder Kramer Robertson off waivers from the Atlanta Braves. Roberston was assigned to Triple-A Syracuse. The Mets made a third move as well, activating reliever Colin...
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It was a “down” week for the Mets – and that’s in relative terms because, at this point in the season for the Metropolitans, a down week means anything other than a winning week. In a sign of how good the Mets have been all year, their worst week is often other teams’ best efforts. After winning the wraparound series finale while hosting the Marlins, the Mets were...
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No player on the Mets has received more votes for the All-Star Game than Pete Alonso. Alonso, vying for his first All-Star appearance, has earned 958,777 votes. The second-most among National League first basemen. Only the Cardinals’ Paul Goldschmidt has more with 1,562,027. MLB released the updated vote totals on Monday. Here are where the rest of the Mets position players stand. Catchers...
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3 UP RBI Machines In this series, Pete Alonso and Francisco Lindor both homered and added to their RBI totals. For Lindor, it all come in the series opener as his bat carried the Mets to a victory. He is now tied for fourth in the majors with Aaron Judge for the most RBI in the majors. Of course, Lindor doesn’t lead his city or even his team in RBI as Alonso is the Major League leader with...
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In his second “on-call” outing, David Peterson continued to impress and is giving Buck Showalter a reason to consider keeping the young left-handed pitcher in the Mets rotation. Peterson has managed his last two outings to keep himself calm and cool as he tries to focus on the task at hand while awaiting the phone call he could get any minute, that he has been promoted officially to the title of...
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