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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For better or worse, the Mets felt compelled to fire Carlos Beltran before he even managed a game. Accepting the Mets at face value, they were blindsided by this, and they believed this was the best thing to do for the organization. Hanging over the organization right now is who is going to be the next manager? The longer that question lingers, the worse the Mets look, so it would behoove them...
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In this week’s episode, Tim Ryder of MetsMerized is joined by Justin Toscano, New York Mets beat writer for The Record. Tim and Justin discuss Carlos Beltran’s brief tenure with the Mets coming to a shocking close, what’s next for this organization (hiring the right managerial replacement is a good start), and how close the Mets are to competing in 2020....
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There is no denying the fact that sports take a huge physical toll on those participating, but what many fail to see is how much of a mental strain it is as well. Yogi Berra once said that baseball is 90% mental and 10% physical, and he could not be more spot on. Between playing in front of thousands of people every night and the wolves of the internet breathing down their neck, many...
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What a tangled web we weave. Once again, Major League Baseball finds themselves embroiled in another incredible and incredulous scandal. A scandal whose repercussions have already brought down one general manager and two managers… wait, make that three managers… It wouldn’t be a proper baseball scandal if the Mets weren’t knee deep in it either directly or indirectly, in...
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