In 2019, Mets second baseman Robinson Cano played only 107 games. His year was hampered by multiple quad, hamstring and hand issues that made him miss time and have an inconsistent place in the Mets lineup. The injuries also caused the lifetime .302 hitter to bat an uncharacteristic .256/.307/.428 with 13 home runs and 39 RBI to give himself a lowly 93 wRC+ and 0.8 fWAR. Cano plans on changing...
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Steven Matz made his second spring training start of the year on Saturday against the Houston Astros and got through two innings of work relatively easily. In the first inning, the southpaw induced three groundouts that came from George Springer, Myles Straw, and Yuli Gurriel, in that order. Matz’s second inning wasn’t too difficult either as he got Aledmys Diaz and Kyle Tucker to...
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The New York Mets (3-5) won their third Grapefruit League contest as they came back late to defeat the Houston Astros (3-4) by a score of 2-1. (Box Score) Pitching The pitchers dominated in Saturday’s game, giving up just one run on six hits. Steven Matz pitched a nearly perfect two innings in his second outing of the spring, giving up just a two-out triple to Taylor Jones in the second....
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New York Mets shortstop prospect Andres Gimenez has seen his once-brilliant luster fade over the last 12 months. Going back to last summer, he’s been doing all he can to reverse that process. After being tabbed as baseball’s no. 58 prospect heading into the 2019 season, per MLB Pipeline, the 21-year-old Venezuelan product struggled with underperformance and injuries last season,...
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The New York Mets play the Houston Astros again today. How surprising. Anyway, the Mets finally picked up their second win of Spring yesterday as they rounded out their first full week playing baseball this year. Highlights so far have included two positive starts by Rick Porcello, Brad Brach looking good in outings so far, Andres Gimenez showing hitting skills in addition to flashing leather...
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Daniel Zamora has been an up-and-down pitcher for the Mets over the last couple of seasons, coming up when they needed a temporary arm just to be shipped back to Triple-A later on. However, the southpaw is making a case early in spring training to possibly be trusted as more than a lefty-specialist in 2020. In three appearances thus far, Zamora has four strikeouts among the nine batters...
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