Monday, January 18, 2021. At about 11:00 PM, this is the time the New York Mets entered more than a Twilight Zone, they entered the Forbidden Zone. An area where an employee of the team, a front office honcho, is accused and later admitted to sending graphic photos to a female reporter in 2016. The ugly, and all too frequent, aura of sexism and harassment had engulfed the Mets, courtesy of their...
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According to an industry source, the New York Mets have recently reached out to the Cincinnati Reds inquiring about a potential trade for right-handed starter Sonny Gray and third baseman Eugenio Suarez. With rotation help still on the team’s docket and the Mets presumably on the lookout for a potential upgrade at third base, both players would respectively check those boxes. Gray, 31, has...
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Updated 1/20/20, 4:15 p.m. According to Houston Fox Sports Director Mark Berman, Michael Brantley is not changing teams after all, as he has agreed to return to the Astros. Berman reports that Brantley is signing a two-year, $16 million deal with the Houston Astros. ESPN’s Buster Olney confirmed Berman’s report as well. This news comes after multiple MLB insiders reported that...
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Late Tuesday, Jon Heyman of MLB Network noted that under now-fired general manager Jared Porter, the New York Mets had shown “pretty strong” interest in free-agent utilityman Enrique Hernandez. On Wednesday morning, Heyman (Twitter) once again included the Mets among the teams vying to secure the 29-year-old’s services in 2021, naming the Red Sox as another potential suitor, as...
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Whether you’ve been hibernating with high hopes or riding out the winter months knowing full well your team is destined for yet another middling campaign, there comes a point when you can actually feel a new baseball season’s impending arrival. For me, that sneaking suspicion comes in the form of dreams. To be honest, I don’t remember a ton of dreams. But around this time every...
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There was a point this offseason, after they had signed James McCann, where it seemed like George Springer was destined to become a Met. Buster Olney of ESPN was betting his family farm that a deal would get done, while his colleague Jeff Passan was willing to bet his Honda CRV. Ultimately those bets came up empty, as the Toronto Blue Jays pushed all their chips onto the table Tuesday night,...
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