Morning Briefing: Mets Baseball Returns This Week

Good Morning, Mets fans! Before the week is over, we will see our Mets take the field and play another baseball team for the first time in nine months. That’s a sentence I didn’t expect to write when the season ended last year, but 2020 has been full of surprises to say the least. Latest Mets News  Charles Gasparino of FOX reports that A-Rod’s bid for the Mets is pretty close...

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Marcus Stroman Ready to Step Into No. 2 Role

As essentially a replacement for Zack Wheeler, one of the best pitchers in the National League over the past two seasons, the spotlight was always going to be fixated on Marcus Stroman in 2020. Following Noah Syndergaard’s season-ending elbow surgery in March, the wattage on that spotlight was increased dramatically. “I always have the utmost confidence in myself to go out there and...

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Amazin’ Memories: Kirk Nieuwenhuis’s Three-Homer Game

  On July 12, 2015, Kirk Nieuwenhuis became the first Met to hit three home runs in a home game. The 2015 season was a magical ride for the Mets. From the near trade of Wilmer Flores, to the acquisition of Yoenis Cespedes, to the late-season march to the World Series, the 2015 campaign provided a little bit of everything (and most of it was good). When the Mets took on the Arizona...

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Don’t Forget About J.D. Davis

On Saturday, New York Mets slugger Yoenis Cespedes declared himself – in all likelihood – ready to go on Re-Opening Day, 12 days away at Citi Field versus the Braves. Just typing that was exhilarating. Anyway, Cespedes, 34, is presumably penciled into the newly-adopted designated hitter spot, which is a plus considering how he’s looked so far in Summer Camp. When he does take...

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International Baseball Spotlight: Italy

In light of all the negative air which has seemed to follow Major League Baseball around over these last few months (for a number of reasons), I’ve become quite fearful for the game’s future. Don’t get me wrong, I am obviously excited that MLB is at least attempting to have a season in 2020 and hope they can play as much of it as possible, but the fact remains that the powers...

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Morning Briefing: Aroldis Chapman Latest To Test Positive For COVID-19

Good Morning, Mets fans! Saturday marked another day closer to the start of the 2020 MLB season! Latest Mets News In his press conference Saturday, Yoenis Cespedes announced that he will be ready for Opening Day. The Mets have a planned off day on Monday, July 13th, an attempt to stay rested before the start of the 2020 season. Latest MLB News Yankees closer Aroldis Chapman has tested positive...

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