As the Mets get ready to return to action on Tuesday with a doubleheader against the Marlins, Brodie Van Wagenen talked to reporters extensively on a variety of different topics. In-House Deadline Acquisitions When asked about how Brodie would treat the trade deadline this season, he noted that getting pitchers David Peterson and Michael Wacha and outfielder Jake Marisnick back from the injured...
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The start of Edwin Diaz’s second year with the New York Mets likely isn’t going exactly how he planned. It’s a helluva lot better so far than his first campaign in Queens, though. Everything went according to plan for the Mets on Opening Day — Jacob deGrom dominated, Yoenis Cespedes hit a go-ahead homer, and Diaz looked great in an uneventful ninth inning for his first...
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What were you doing when you were 21? With all due respect, it probably wasn’t as exciting as the show Fernando Tatis Jr. is putting on nightly in San Diego. In just his second major league season, the dynamic shortstop, barely old enough to sip an adult beverage to celebrate his success, is the clear-cut headliner of baseball’s youth movement. Tatis has picked up in 2020 where he...
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Updated August 24, 12 p.m.: Per Anthony DiComo of MLB.com, the Mets will resume play Tuesday against the Marlins at Citi Field. The teams will play a twi-night doubleheader starting at 5:10 p.m., with the Mets as the home team for the first game and the Marlins as the home team in the second matchup. Original post: Mets baseball is back… again. According to Joel Sherman, the Mets have not...
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Mike Jacobs made his major league debut on August 21, 2005. In his first major league at-bat, he hit a three-run home run off Esteban Loaiza of the Washington Nationals, in a game the Mets would lose 7-4. Jacobs did not stop there. hitting a total of four home runs in his first four games, including two in the Mets game on August 24 against Arizona. Jacobs helped propel the Mets to a five-game...
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Good Morning, Mets fans! Latest Mets News As of this writing, the Mets are scheduled to play baseball tomorrow for the first time in five days. Since news of their COVID-19 outbreak arose Thursday afternoon, the Mets have been forbidden from holding team workouts. Fingers crossed that we’ll get to see a Mets-Marlins game tomorrow. MetsMerizedOnline’s Jacob Resnick learned that the...
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