Following Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred’s discouraging comments regarding the weak prospects of a 2020 season on Monday afternoon, the MLB Players’ Association struck back swiftly and strongly. Manfred, speaking on ESPN on Monday, said “The owners are 100 percent committed to getting baseball back on the field. Unfortunately, I can’t tell you that I’m 100 percent...
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Less than a week — five days, actually — since Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred declared there would “100 percent” be baseball played in 2020, the tables have turned dramatically on a potential season. Following the league’s 72-game, 70 percent prorated pay proposal last week, the MLBPA walked away from the negotiating table on Saturday, rejecting the...
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Perhaps no other day in Mets history shook the franchise to its core like this date in 1977 when the organization traded “The Franchise” Tom Seaver. Three days earlier, Seaver beat the Astros in Houston, 3-1, and after the game said: “This may very well be my last game as a Met.’’ Seaver went the distance that day, giving up five hits while walking two and striking out six to raise...
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The Mets have made their first undrafted free agent signing with Brandon McIlwain, an outfielder out of the University of California, Berkeley. Interestingly, McIlwain played football for Cal and threw for two touchdowns while running for four in 2018, and was also drafted by the Marlins in the 26th round of the 2019 draft. Here’s some video of McIlwain playing football against BYU:...
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Joe Pantorno of AM New York is reporting that a shortened (or even no) 2020 MLB season will force Mets owners Fred and Jeff Wilpon to “essentially stop pumping money into the team.” The notion is based off of Pantorno’s sources and the fact that the Mets stand to lose many millions in a shortened season. The Associated Press reported in May that the team would lose about $214...
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He was with his new team for hardly a month before he made his presence felt and it wasn’t with his bat or his glove. Donn Clendenon, the free swinging, free-talking, outspoken new first baseman for the New York Mets was in the field for New York on July 9, 1969. Tom Seaver was on the mound and the opponent was the Chicago Cubs whom the Mets trailed by 4.5 games. In perhaps the greatest...
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