Good Morning, Mets fans! Yesterday, the MLBPA and MLB kicked off negotiations on how to start up the 2020 season. It was ugly. Latest on MLB’s Negotiations with the MLBPA Well, a lot happened yesterday. It almost broke Baseball Twitter. The first item to figure out: player salaries. Major League Baseball proposed a sliding scale of pay reductions. In layman’s terms, this means that...
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In light of Major League Baseball’s economic proposal presented Tuesday afternoon to the Players Association, pay cuts for players is a topic weighing heavily on everyone’s mind as they await the start of a shortened season. After the COVID-19 outbreak in early March put a stop to baseball, players were due to receive their full per-game salaries in a shortened season in an agreement...
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According to multiple outlets, Major League Baseball’s economic proposal to the Players Association was met with harsh criticism following their virtual meeting on Tuesday afternoon. Evan Drellich and Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic reported that the MLBPA is “very disappointed” at the additional “massive cuts” proposed by MLB. Following league operations being put on...
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Although baseball could be returning stateside relatively soon, Korean baseball is still the only live professional baseball happening around the world. Three former Mets were in action last night. Let’s catch up with them and see how they have been doing in the KBO. Chris Flexen – Doosan Bears Righty Chris Flexen made his fourth start for the Doosan Bears last night. He tossed a...
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It’s not every day that a player who figured prominently in a famous book, and later a movie based on that book, comes knocking on your door. But that’s exactly what happened to the New York Mets when they signed Chad Bradford as a free agent before the 2006 season. Bradford, never known for his athletic ability, relied on his unorthodox submarine-style delivery to get major league...
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The Mets had transformed from a 94-loss club in 1983 to a 90-win dynamo the following year, thanks in large part to first-year skipper Davey Johnson and two phenomenal rookie campaigns from Dwight Gooden and Darryl Strawberry. Perhaps the biggest contributor to this early turnaround, however, was first baseman Keith Hernandez, who posted a 6.3 bWAR in his first full year with the team. With a...
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