The New York Mets officially began spring training on Monday and kicked off their 59th MLB season. As with every year, the phrase “Hope springs eternal” from Alexander Pope’s “An Essay on Man” echos in the background of all 30 MLB clubhouses. Yet in the end, only 10 teams will make the playoffs at the end of September. A month later only one team will stand as World...
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New York Mets backstop Wilson Ramos is no defensive whiz — this is not news — but he’s trying to change that. The 32-year-old Venezuelan product had a fine first year in Flushing, especially at the plate, slashing .288/.351/.416 with a glowing 13.2% strikeout rate — 12th among all qualified MLB hitters; go ahead, read it again — and a respectable 105 wRC+ with 14 homers, 19 doubles and 73 RBIs...
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Baseball Prospectus released their 2020 PECOTA projections, and not only are the New York Mets projected to win the National League East with an 88-74 record, but they are also viewed as the second best team in the National League. It should come as little surprise that they are quite behind the Los Angeles Dodgers who just acquired Mookie Betts and David Price. Overall, the Mets are seen to...
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The $57 million renovations of Clover Park, the Mets Spring Training facility and home to the St. Lucie Mets, are far behind schedule. Worse yet, due to cost overruns, some of the plans have been altered. The 360-degree concourse is gone. Worse yet, the Little League fields have been scrapped. What did remain was a beautiful state-of-the-art clubhouse for the Mets’ Major Leaguers. With...
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Good morning Mets fans! The New York Mets moved into newly-named Clover Park in Port St. Lucie on Monday and officially began spring training. They now begin day two of spring training. Latest Mets News Kevin Kernan of the New York Post wrote about fan-friendly Clover Park which, in the addition to its new name, was overhauled for $57 million. Mets chief operating officer (COO) Jeff Wilpon...
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In what seems like a further attempt to regain some of its lost popularity, Major League Baseball is planning to alter its playoff format perhaps as soon as the 2022 season. According to Joel Sherman of the New York Post, there would be seven teams per league that qualify for post-season play in each league rather than the current five adding two extra wild-cards. The two teams with the best...
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