As Herman’s Hermits famously sang, “second verse, same as the first.” Only in this case, it’s “fourth session, same as the first (and all preceding ones)”, no progress toward a new Collective Bargaining Agreement. Representatives from Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players’ Association met for a fourth consecutive day in Jupiter,...
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Now that we’ve covered catcher, first base, second base, third base, and shortstop, let’s jump into what the Mets depth chart looks like in the outfield. More specifically, we will cover the corner outfield today and tackle center field on Friday. Big League Starters The Mets signed long-time A’s outfielder Mark Canha earlier this offseason to start in one of the Mets corner...
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The New York Mets announced on Thursday that Howard Johnson, Billy Wagner and Ken MacKenzie have been added to the Old Timers’ Day roster. In a move that drew universal praise from the Mets fanbase earlier this month, the organization announced the long-awaited return of Old Timers’ Day, an event that last took place in 1994, with this year’s Old Timers’ Day taking place...
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Fan Shot by Bill D’Angelo Service time manipulation was possible under the old CBA. There were not rules against it, but the optics could be bad. I think there is a way to address it and slightly tip the service time issue in the players’ favor. For the purpose of this article, let’s make Super 2’s out of scope. It could remain on changed or tweaked. Given: Players...
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Over the span of a few hours on Black Friday last November, the New York Mets completely remade their outfield by signing Mark Canha and Starling Marte to join Brandon Nimmo. And, as it turns out, they may not be done supplementing to this part of the roster once the lockout ends sometime this century. With all the innings he’s logged in center field, it was easy to assume Marte would man...
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Good morning, Mets fans! MLB has made it clear that regular season games will start to be cancelled if there is no new collective bargaining agreement by Monday. A shortened season would result in players not being paid their full salaries. Alex Wood of the San Francisco Giants had this to say about the latest developments: It’s fascinating MLB setting a hard deadline to play a full season for...
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