Good Morning Mets Fans! Jeff McNeil’s MLB The Show Player’s League continued with another successful night. Squirrel went 3-1, defeating Jon Duplantier of the D-backs 4-0, Amir Garrett of the Reds 4-1 , and Lance McCullers Jr. of the Astros 2-1. For a recap, check out MMO’s new twitter account, where I live-tweeted McNeil’s four games. Latest Mets News Jacob deGrom talks...
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MMO Fan Shot by Brandon Gross Because it has nothing to do with the Mets. In 2010, Julian Casablancas, lead singer and songwriter of New York’s own Strokes and noted Mets fan, said in a Rolling Stone article that he wants to “…write the new TV theme song for the Mets.” A decade later, it looks like the “Last Nite” hitmaker sort of made good on his promise, as a song entitled “Ode to the Mets”...
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Major League Baseball players and employees will be participating in a Stanford University, USC, and Sports Medicine Research Testing Laboratory (SMRTL) medical study of COVID-19, according to Jeff Passan of ESPN on Tuesday. The study will test up to 10,000 people to identify coronavirus antibodies, with the hope of understanding how widespread the virus is in major cities. Researchers found...
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John Franco never fit the mold of a stereotypical closer. At 5-foot-10 and 170 pounds, he was far from an intimidating presence on the mound. With a repertoire of pitches consisting of changing speeds and pinpoint control, batters were never going to overpowered. But when it came to representing a city, as he did with the Mets for 15 years, the fit was perfect. The Brooklyn native and St....
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Sports Info Solutions has been an industry leader of in-depth data and analysis for almost two decades, with their flagship defensive stat, Defensive Runs Saved (DRS), being one of their most well-known contributions. DRS attempts to measure how many runs a player saved on defense and has been one of the most utilized statistics when looking to quantify a player’s value defensively. Sports...
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New York Yankees part owner and co-chairman, Hank Steinbrenner, has died at his home in Clearwater, Florida. The news was first reported by Joel Sherman of the New York Post. Steinbrenner, who turned 63 on April 2, died of a long battle with an illness that reportedly is not COVID-19 related. Exact details of the cause of death were not disclosed. Hank Steinnrenner, along with his younger...
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