Good Morning, Mets fans! Latest Mets News Marcus Stroman and Dominic Smith prepared for the season together, as shown in a video that Stroman posted on twitter showing Stroman pitching to Smith in a street in Florida. Latest MLB News According to Alex Speier of the Boston Globe, Chris Sale underwent Tommy John surgery. Shannon Drayer of ESPN Seattle conducted a Skype interview with Seattle...
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On March 30 in 2001, Mets’ prospect Brian Cole tragically passed away in a car accident. Here’s a post by Joe D. from 2016 remembering the potential star. So one of my writers sent me a link to Baseball America asking me to check out last week’s Ask BA feature. A reader posed the following question to J.J. Cooper: “Who are the best prospects such as Grant Desme who never made MLB...
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In the latest episode of Simply Amazin’, Tim is joined by Jacob Resnick of Metsmerized and Mets Minors to discuss the COVID-19 agreement between Major League Baseball and the MLB Players’ Association, as well as what this means for the future of the game — the minor league players and upcoming potential draftees. Subscribe, rate and review!...
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Swing Kings By Jared Diamond. 336 pp. $28.99 In Swing Kings, Jared Diamond unearths chance encounters, unlikely coaches and stark technique changes responsible for transforming pedestrian batters into Major League Baseball’s elite sluggers. Diamond illustrates the precise moments when today’s power hitters — the likes of J.D. Martinez and Aaron Judge — discovered the need to deconstruct and...
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At the beginning of 2006, second base was a major weakness for the Mets. They received little production from both Anderson Hernandez (.407 OPS) and Kazuo Matsui (.505 OPS), so on May. 13, Willie Randolph decided to make a change. He turned to 36-year-old, Jose Valentin, who unexpectedly became a vital piece for the NL East Division Champions with a .271/.330/.490 triple slash line and 18...
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While we still don’t have much of an idea as to when the New York Mets and the rest of Major League Baseball will actually get to start the 2020 regular season, we can at least hope it’ll happen at some point. Once it finally does, the Amazins will get to begin the next decade of Mets baseball in Queens at Citi Field. Despite starting pitcher Noah Syndergaard now being on the...
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