Sunday, October 11, 2020 • 7:37 PM Petco Park • San Diego, CA – TBS LHP Framber Valdéz (2-0, 1.50) vs LHP Blake Snell (1-1, 2.81) Fresh off the heels of their late-inning, go-ahead home run off the Yankees’ Aroldis Chapman, the Rays look to take Game 1 of the ALCS against a confident Astros team. Tampa Bay will send their ace, Blake Snell, to the mound to face off against...
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While the Mets may not have as many October highlights as some other teams, they have had some memorable postseason moments. As Marshall Field wrote here on MMO, the Mets surprised the Cincinnati Reds and the rest of MLB in 1973 by winning the pennant after an amazing September run. A key player on that 1973 Mets team was John Milner. Milner led the team with 23 home runs, was second in RBIs...
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On July 21, 2004, a 21-year-old top prospect from Virginia made his major league debut for the team he grew up rooting for. Batting seventh and playing third base, David Wright began a career that seemed destined for eventual enshrinement into the hallowed halls of Cooperstown. Showcasing extra-base power – with his trademark hits to right-center field – along with good speed on the...
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J.T. Realmuto Position: Catcher Bats/Throws: R/R Age: 29 Traditional Stats: .266/.349/.491, 47 games, six doubles, 11 HR, 32 RBI Advanced Stats: 1.2 bWAR, 1.7 fWAR, 123 OPS+, 125 wRC Defensive Stats: 25% CS, -1 DRS, 2.2 FRM Back up the Brinks truck. J.T. Realmuto, the best catcher in baseball, is a free agent this winter and is projected to become the highest paid player at his position. With...
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Good Morning, Mets fans! The ALCS between the Tampa Bay Rays and Houston Astros begins tonight at 7:37 PM. The NLCS between the Atlanta Braves and Los Angeles Dodgers will begin tomorrow night at 8:08 PM. Latest Mets News Per Charles Gasparino of the Fox Business Network (FBN), a Major League Baseball ownership committee comprised of half a dozen owners discussed Steve Cohen’s proposed $2.4B...
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The Division Series match-up pitting the Mets against the 97-win Giants assumed the usual headliners: New York’s duo of Mike Piazza and Edgardo Alfonzo along with San Francisco’s power odd couple of Barry Bonds and former Met Jeff Kent, the likely MVP of the National League. Postseason baseball, though, has a way of placing the spotlight on the unheralded — those who happen to...
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