New York Mets left-hander Steven Matz didn’t get off to a great start in his first Grapefruit League outing on Sunday in Port St. Lucie, but that’s what this time of the the year is for. After a solid 2019 season, and an especially strong second half (3.52 ERA over 14 post-ASG starts; 1.94 ERA over seven starts from August 7 to September 11), the 28-year-old Ward Melville High School alum is...
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There are two great things about baseball in February. First, it’s baseball, and that’s pretty neat on its own. Second, the results don’t matter and you can actually define “winning” however you want. In other words, the Mets lost both games they played yesterday in the traditional sense, but there were legitimate reasons to be excited. Luis Guillorme made his first...
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Yoenis Cespedes’s media silence did not last long. On Sunday morning, he spoke to the media and addressed several topics. Off the bat, Cespedes said that he did not want to speak about the past during this interview. He acknowledge that he made a mistake and paid for it, and left it at that. He then touched upon what is the biggest question: will he be ready for Opening Day? Cespedes...
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Good morning, Mets fans! Happy Sunday, and it’s an especially exciting one because Saturday kicked off the first game action for the Amazin’s this Spring. The Mets participated in two games on Saturday, one against the Marlins and one against the Cardinals, and dropped both. They will be right back at it on Sunday though, as they play the Cardinals again at 1:10 p.m. The game can be...
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Thornton McEnery of the New York Post reports that New York Knicks and New York Rangers owner, James Dolan, has interest in purchasing SNY from Jeff and Fred Wilpon. According to McEnery, that could require Dolan to also buy the Mets as well. “Jim Dolan buying the Mets sounds crazy at first,” one banker told him. “But he has always wanted to merge [the MSG network] with another...
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Marcus Stroman and Rick Porcello made their Grapefruit League season debuts on Saturday against the St.Louis Cardinals and Miami Marlins, respectively. Stroman, 28, started off his spring season with a Dexter Fowler pop-up to shortstop, Luis Guillorme. After allowing a single to Matt Carpenter, he proceeded to strike out Paul Goldschmidt and Yadier Molina. However, he gave up a homer to Tyler...
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