Good morning, Mets fans! Happy first Grapefruit league game day! The New York Mets will play baseball on Saturday (yes, you read that right). The team has split-squad games today against the Miami Marlins and St. Louis Cardinals. The home game, airing on WPIX at 1:10 p.m., will feature off-season acquisition Rick Porcello on the bump and the away game, which can be heard on WCBS 880, will...
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Jeff McNeil and J.D. Davis were two of the best hitters in baseball last season. Hyperbole? You say maybe. I say no. By the catch-all offensive metric Weighted Runs Created+ (wRC+), which quantifies runs created and normalizes for ballpark and overall MLB run-scoring environment, JD Davis ranked 22nd in all of baseball last season among players with 450+ plate appearances. That’s better...
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Clover Park has some new artwork adorning it’s walls, and it’s like nothing you have ever seen before. Well, maybe you have already seen it, because while I was working on the story about the artwork, my friend Tim Healey of Newsday tweeted out some sneak peek pictures: Some of the decoration on the new concourse at Clover Park blends Mets eras in a cool, kinda trippy way....
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Arguably, the biggest x-factor for the New York Mets in 2020 is Yoenis Cespedes. As we have seen, when Cespedes is Cespedes, he is a Gold Glove caliber outfielder who can ignite the Mets offense. That was a key factor in the Mets making consecutive postseasons in 2015 and 2016. However, Cespedes had a similar double heel surgery to the one which effectively ended Troy Tulowitzki’s career....
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Eduardo Perez spent 13 seasons in playing in Major League baseball, over two seasons as a coach for both the Marlins and Astros, several appearances as a coach in Winter Leagues, and a stint managing Team Colombia in the World Baseball Classic. He has won the 2008 Manager of the Year Award in the Puerto Rico Baseball League. He has served as a analyst with ESPN for 12 seasons, between Baseball...
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No. 14 Junior Santos, RHP B/T: R/R Age: 18 (8/16/2001) Height: 6’8” Weight: 218 Acquired: Signed as an International Free Agent in 2017 from Dominican Republic ETA: 2023 Previous Rank: 13 2019 Stats: 40.2 IP, 5.09 ERA, .277 AVG, 1.75 WHIP, 36 K, 5.57 FIP At first glance, his stats do not warrant him being a top 15 prospect. But his frame, fastball, and a weak system has him here. Around this...
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