As we head towards the 2020 season, MLB Pipeline has prepared their annual list of prospects from each organization which they believe will have a breakout season. For the New York Mets, MLB Pipeline selected Francisco Alvarez, who is currently their fifth-best prospect in the Mets farm system. Last year, Alvarez made his professional debut. In 42 games for Gulf Coast and Kingsport, he would hit...
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Nationals sign Castro Starlin Castro is joining the World Series Champion Washington Nationals on a two-year deal as noted by Joel Sherman of the New York Post and first reported by Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic. Castro spent the last two seasons with the Miami Marlins. At only 29 years old the Nationals are hoping that Castro can continue his 2019 second-half success when he hit over .300 and...
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Good morning, Mets fans! Latest Mets News Some NY Post writers, Mike Puma, Joel Sherman, and Ken Davidoff reported that the source of Yoenis Cespedes’ ‘violent fall’ was a boar that ran out of his cage. Michelle Ioannou of MMO released an article to further discuss the report from the Post. The Mets signed minor league OF Ryan Cordell in a minor league deal as reported by...
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Most games pitched in Mets history is a pretty easy trivia question, I would expect a large number of the fan base to know it’s John Franco. The former Mets closer appeared in 695 games for the Mets. But, who is second? Perpetual Pedro Feliciano. The left-handed reliever threw in 484 games with the Mets from 2002 through 2013. And those appearances were broken into three different stints...
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Yoenis Cespedes’s contract was restructured last month, which is how we knew there was some sort of contract infraction when it came to the injury. But, we didn’t know exactly what it was. Now we do. And it involved a wild boar. Mike Puma, Joel Sherman, and Ken Davidoff of the New York Post set out to give us the answers we were looking for. We knew that the injury was caused by...
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The Mets bullpen has the potential to be incredibly good. Possibly one of the best in baseball. That feels weird to say after it was the team’s Achilles heel in 2019, but possible bounce-backs from both Edwin Diaz and Jeurys Familia, the return of Brad Brach, the acquisition of Dellin Betances, and Seth Lugo’s emergence creates an array of horrifying late inning scenarios for opponents. That...
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