The top free agent reliever is off the board. The Chicago White Sox have signed Liam Hendriks to a four-year, $54 millon deal. The Athletic’s Ken Rosenthal was the first to report the deal. Jeff Passan reports the contract details are as follows: he gets $39 million over the first three years, and then there is a fourth year club option for $15 million. However, if the club option is...
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Good Morning, Mets fans! Francisco Lindor met with the media on Monday. In his press conference, Lindor stated that he’s ready to bring some smiles to New York, and that he’s ready to work, and he’s ready to win. Hopefully Mets fans will be able to see him play sooner than later. Commissioner Rob Manfred told teams on Monday to prepare for Spring Training to start on time in 2021, and for there...
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According to a source, free-agent starting pitcher Masahiro Tanaka is talking to a number of teams besides the Yankees, however, clubs have expressed some concerns over the results of his physical. Tanaka slightly tore his ulnar collateral ligament in his pitching elbow back in 2014, which did not require surgery. While Tanaka has been able to pitch through it for the past six seasons with no...
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Would you order Doritos at a fine French restaurant? That’s a loaded question, isn’t it? Would a fine French restaurant even serve Doritos? If it did, would it still be fine? For one, Doritos have a made-up English/Spanish name, so who knows what the French would call them. But for another, what customer would want that? If you’re the kind of person coming to a fine French restaurant, you...
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When the New York Mets acquired Francisco Lindor and Carlos Carrasco in a trade last week, it was clear they had made the defining move of their offseason. It is not often that a team trades for a superstar shortstop in his prime. Getting a quality starting pitcher on top of that made the deal an absolute home run. Still, the magnitude of landing Lindor was not truly felt until today’s...
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You weren’t dreaming, Mets fans. The Mets really did acquire Francisco Lindor and Carlos Carrasco from the Indians last week. It leaves Jack and I asking a couple questions: Is this the most exciting team the Mets have put together in recent memory? And, and the Mets the team to beat in the NL East? We also introduced a new mailbag question, so be sure to sound off on our Twitter. Who was...
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