Today isn’t just any day — it’s Pete Alonso’s birthday. The New York Mets’ single-season home run king turns 26 on Monday. Birthdays are a great time to reflect on what changed and how one has grown over the past year, and it’s likely that Alonso has a lot to reflect on despite only playing 60 games in 2020. Although most of the season didn’t go how he wished (from both a team and personal...
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According to Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic, Major League Baseball sent a memo last week to clubs instructing them to proceed under the assumption that there will be no designated hitter in 2021 in the National League. This if course, follows a 2020 shortened season in which teams operated with an universal DH. It allowed the Mets to get more at-bats from guys like Robinson Cano, J.D. Davis,...
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The Mets need a quality starting pitcher and Trevor Bauer is clearly the best on the free agent market. Enter new Mets’ owner Steve Cohen. Not only are his pockets deep, but his goals are high as well. That has impressed many, including Bauer, and he expressed that during a YouTube video. Deesha Thosar of the New York Daily News talked to Bauer’s agent Rachel Luba about the...
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On December 7, 1984, the Mets traded pitcher Walt Terrell to the Tigers for Howard Johnson. Terrell had become a Met just before the 1982 season began, coming to New York from the Texas Rangers along with Ron Darling in a deal for Lee Mazzilli. Though Mazzilli was a fan favorite in his two stints with the Mets, and was instrumental off the bench in the 1986 post season, the Mets got the better...
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After their respective strong 2020 seasons, Mets’ pitcher Jacob deGrom and outfielder Michael Conforto were named as finalists for the 2020 All-MLB Team. MLB Network announced the finalists for each position on Sunday night. The All-MLB Team will be split into first and second team’s, each having one catcher, a first baseman, a second baseman, a third baseman, a shortstop a...
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Good Morning, Mets fans! Latest Mets News Jonathan Mayo and Jim Callis of MLB.com did a mock draft on Saturday for the top 10 picks of the 2021 draft and they believe that the Mets will take James Wood of the IMG Academy in Florida. Latest MLB News According to Robert Murray of Fansided, Marcus Semien’s market has extended beyond the shortstop market and “a few” clubs have...
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