Good Morning, Mets fans! It’s been a long and winding journey but we have officially reached opening day as the Yankees will take on the Nationals in Washington D.C. to kickoff the 2020 regular season. This also means we are only one sleep away from seeing Mets baseball! Let’s take a look at some of the news and notes from around the league on Wednesday. Latest Mets News Marcus...
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As the New York Mets set their sights on the 2020 season, they got two doses of bad news. Marcus Stroman and Robert Gsellman both landed on the injured list. Talk about a double-whammy right before the 60-game sprint is set to start for the Mets on Friday against Atlanta. Stroman was diagnosed with a muscle tear in his calf. Gsellman has triceps tightness in his throwing arm. The Stroman injury...
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Mets hitting coach Chili Davis spoke to the media on Wednesday in the same way he has been with his players over the past month: via Zoom. Davis, in his second season with the Mets, spoke from his home in Arizona where he has been since spring training was shut down in March. Due to the ongoing threat of COVID-19 and underlying health conditions, he doesn’t know when he will re-join the...
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On Wednesday, the New York Mets added depth and a load of experience with the additions of Juan Lagares and Brian Dozier. The Lagares news was first reported by Deesha Thosar of the N.Y. Daily News while Anthony DiComo of MLB.com was first with the Dozier signing. Moments after the signings, the Mets announced they have released Melky Cabrera and Gordon Beckham per DiComo. Lagares and Dozier...
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Updated: July 22, 5:30 p.m. As expected, Mookie Betts has come to terms with the Los Angeles Dodgers on a massive long-term extension. According to ESPN’s Jeff Passan, the new deal is a 12-year extension worth a whopping $365 million. That 12-year deal is tacked onto the one-year, $27 million contract he was currently playing under, taking the total value of the deal to $392 million...
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With the season set to begin for the Mets this Friday, we have to ask, which player will exceed our expectations? Will it be Amed Rosario? Edwin Diaz? We all know it won’t be Jed Lowrie (too soon?), but there are many others who do have the potential to. Matt Edwin Diaz I don’t think you can have as unlucky a season as Diaz had in his first year in Queens. Statistically speaking,...
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