According to Tim Healey of Newsday, the Mets have decided on the managers for all four of their full season teams for the upcoming season, and all four of them were in the Mets organization this past season. Here’s how it looks for the 2022 season: Triple-A Syracuse Mets – Kevin Boles Double-A Binghamton Rumble Ponies – Reid Brignac High-A Brooklyn Cyclones – Luis Rivera...
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Good morning, Mets fans! Jeff Passan of ESPN wrote an article about how MLB’s lockdown negotiations have gone nowhere. A summarizing quotation from the article is: “Pitchers and catchers reporting in mid-February gets less likely by the minute, and after 36 days of silence since the lockout began, there remain no plans for the sides to talk about the core economic issues that cleave...
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Buck Showalter’s coaching staff for his first season with the Mets is very quickly starting to come together. We’ve learned the past two days that the Mets are reportedly bringing in both Wayne Kirby and Joey Cora to be their first and third base coach, respectively. They join Jeremy Hefner, who was brought back from Luis Rojas’ staff as the pitching coach. According to Deesha Thosar of the NY...
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Start spreading the news, I’m betting today. The New York Mets have everyone wanting to be a part of it this upcoming season from managers and players to sports bettors. SportsBetting.AG has the Metropolitans at number two on their best odds to win the 2022 World Series at +850. The only team the Mets trail are the perennial favorite Los Angeles Dodgers at +600. Here’s the full list...
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Buck Showalter’s staff is starting to come together. Ken Rosenthal reports that the Mets are expected to hire Wayne Kirby as their first base coach. This is the Mets second reported coaching addition in as many days. On Tuesday it was revealed the Mets intend to hire Joey Cora as the team’s third base coach. Now the Mets have three coaches heading into the 2022 season, with pitching...
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The ripple effects that have been flowing through the trading card industry since last August’s announcement that Fanatics had signed new licensing deals with MLB, the MLBPA, the NBA, the NBAPA, and the NFL to become the exclusive manufacturer of trading cards, reached a crescendo Monday night as Fanatics announced its latest industry changing trading card deal by purchasing the Sports and...
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