Morning Briefing: Noah Syndergaard Officially Placed On IL

Good Morning, Mets fans! Oh no! The Mets did not submit a 60-man Player Pool. They will not be participating in the 2020 season. — Jacob Resnick (@Jacob_Resnick) June 29, 2020 Just kidding. Latest Mets News  Call it roster pool, summer camp, or club player pool; it all means the same thing. Mets baseball is coming back! Yesterday, the Mets released their roster pool list, which consisted...

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Mets Announce 60-Man Player Pool Ahead of Summer Training

The Mets have announced the names of the 45 players that will comprise their initial player pool for the truncated 2020 season. The group includes 34 members of the 40-man roster (Noah Syndergaard was placed on the 45-day injured list as he recovers from Tommy John surgery) and 11 non-roster invitees. 40-man pitchers Stephen Gonsalves, Jordan Humphreys, Franklyn Kilome, and Thomas Szapucki were...

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Shoebox Memories: 1983 Topps Willie McGee

In a recent Shoebox Memories article on Art Shamsky, commentor Jason Black asked us to review the card above – #49 from the 1983 Topps set – and to identify the Mets first basemen. Most of the other commentors, particularly MetsHof, felt that the Mets first baseman that day was either Lee Mazzilli or Dave Kingman.  Let’s take our Sherlock Holmes deerstalker hat off of the peg...

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Modeling the Mets’ Attendance

  Even before the pandemic, baseball attendance was declining. According to Ronald Blum of Boston.com, attendance was down in 2019 for the fourth straight season, the longest such streak in league history. Why? Perhaps young people are losing interest in the game. Perhaps the increasing polarization of team records, with multiple squads winning (and losing) over 100 games regularly, is...

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On This Date: Steven Matz’s Historic Debut

  On this day in 2015, the Mets’ southpaw had a day for the ages on the mound and at the plate. June 28, 2015 is a day that will live on in history, but for reasons outside of the expected. It was on this day that Steven Matz made his debut. And it was on this day he won his Major League debut. It was on this day that Matz made his biggest impact…at the plate. What’s more, it wasn’t a...

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Morning Briefing: Eastern Aces Set To Kick Off Season

Good morning, Mets fans! Saturday marked another day closer to the 60-game 2020 season! Latest Mets News As owners of the Mets, the Wilpons have amassed quite a bit of loans throughout their tenure. Joel Sherman of the New York Post believes that both the Mets and Yankees have the most to prove in the shortened 2020 season. Latest MLB News MLB is not ruling out the possibility of fans in the...

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