With the Mets scrambling to find a manager to replace Carlos Beltran with pitchers and catchers reporting in less than one month, Mike Puma of the New York Post reports three-time NL Manager of the Year Dusty Baker is being considered for the position. Baker, 70, was not seriously considered earlier in the offseason to replace Mickey Callaway. However, Baker was previously considered last year...
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Good morning, Mets fans! Countdown to Baseball: 68 days until opening day Latest Mets News Andres Gimenez was named the Mets’ best defensive prospect according to MLB Pipeline’s list of the best defensive prospects from each MLB team, He was also named the best shortstop prospect for MLB Pipeline’s 2019 All-Defensive Prospect Team. Latest MLB News The Colorado Rockies plan to...
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MMO Fan Shot by Matt Dorritie And just like that, Carlos Beltran’s tenure as manager of the New York Mets is over before it began. Beltrán’s dismissal should not come as any great surprise. His name was one of the first linked to the Astros sign-stealing scandal when the story first broke, and he was the only player named in Commissioner Robert Manfred’s report detailing the league’s findings...
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On Thursday, the New York Mets made the decision to ultimately fire manager Carlos Beltran before he could manage a single game for the team because of his involvement in baseball’s recent sign-stealing scandal. This leaves the question: who is going to be the next Mets manager? Luckily for the Mets, there are both solid internal and external candidates that could take over the managerial...
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Although there are three viable in-house candidates to replace Carlos Beltran as the manager of the New York Mets, it is baseball analyst Eduardo Perez who is the current favorite to land the job according to BetOnline.ag. Although the odds are in flux, as of 3:00 PM on Friday, Perez was listed as +300 to become the Mets 22nd manager. Perez has been broadcasting on ESPN and later Sirius XM since...
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What a sad, dark, dramatic and unprecedented week it’s been for the game of baseball. The Houston Astros were smacked down with a handful of penalties that included the forfeiture of their first and second round picks in the next two drafts, a fine of $5 million and the suspension and subsequent firings of general manager Jeff Luhnow and manager A.J. Hinch. This has set off a chain of...
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