With the 81st overall pick in the third round of the 2021 Major League Baseball First Year Player Draft, the New York Mets select Dominic Hamel. A 6’2”, 22-year-old right hander from Dallas Baptist. Hamel was draft eligible last season but wasn’t selected in the five round shortened affair. Baseball America had Hamel slotted at the 151st rank in this years draft and see him as both a solid...
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The Mets have done a lot of good things through the first half of 2021 to dispel the LOLMets moniker they’ve so painfully earned over the years. Sunday’s loss to the lowly Pirates – in a game they Mets led 5-0 after one inning – was not one of those things. A four-game split with Pittsburgh wasn’t the worst-case scenario, but it certainly wasn’t what the Mets had in mind headed to the All-Star...
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With the 46th overall pick in the second round of the 2021 Major League Baseball First Year Player Draft, the New York Mets select Calvin Ziegler, a right handed pitcher from St. Mary’s Catholic High School. Ziegler was committed to play baseball at the University of Auburn and was ranked as the top Canadian prospect going into this years draft. Mets second rounder Calvin Ziegler. The top...
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The Mets ended the first half of the season with a disappointing series split against the Pirates, one of the worst teams in baseball. In our attempt to be optimistic when possible, the Mets still enter the break in first place in the NL East with a 47-40 record and a 3.5-game lead over the Phillies. It’s their best first half in a decade record-wise, but you still feel the Mets...
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The buzz surrounding the Mets’ first-round draft selection this year is real. Sunday night, Vanderbilt University hurler Kumar Rocker became the latest college pitcher to join the organization. Selected with the No. 10 overall pick, Rocker is considered by many to be the steal of the draft thus far. There was initial talk of him going number-one overall, so for the Mets to get him at pick...
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Aaron Loup and Jerad Eickhoff combined to throw 4 2/3 innings of work Sunday afternoon in the New York Mets’ first-half finale against the Pittsburgh Pirates. There was some talk about Jacob deGrom potentially working in an opener type of role since he’d have a long layoff between his last start and his next one to open up the second half, but that didn’t happen. New...
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