When it comes to discussing how Carlos Beltran will fare as the Mets manager, there are few people who could have the level of insight Carlos Delgado has. In addition to being teammates on the 2006 – 2009 Mets, the two have their experiences from the Puerto Rican World Baseball Classic teams. In 2006, they were teammates for Puerto Rico. In 2013 and 2017, Delgado would the the hitting...
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Omar Minaya became the Mets general manager following a disappointing 2004 season. He quickly made his mark by signing two stars in Pedro Martinez and Carlos Beltran. Beltran was coming off a good regular season between the Royals and Astros, and a monster postseason with Houston following a midseason trade. The switch-hitter would play parts of seven seasons with the Mets, becoming one of the...
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Brad Brach, RHP Player Data: Age: 33, B/T: R/R Primary Stats: 16 games, 14.2 IP, 3.68 ERA, 1.227 WHIP, 2.67 FIP, 9.2 K/9 Advanced Stats: 113 ERA+, 2.67 FIP, 72.3 LOB%, 34.1 GB%, 4.09 xFIP, 0.5 fWAR Free Agent: 2020 Grade: B- 2019 Review As the Mets looked to capture a Wild Card spot down the stretch, Brad Brach was signed on Aug. 9 to reinforce their bullpen. The right-hander pitched the first...
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With free agency starting yesterday, Joe D asked the editors at MMO to each produce their own Mets offseason plan for the 2020 season. We are planning as if we were the GM and had $17.5M to work with. According to our projections, $17.5M is the total the Mets can spend before reaching the luxury tax threshold of $208M. This financial constraint makes the exercise difficult, and it exemplifies...
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Major League Baseball’s commissioner Rob Manfred said that the automated strike zone will be used in the minor leagues in some capacity during the 2020 season. This news comes following the testing of the technology in both the Atlantic League and Arizona Fall League this year. Most recently, the automated strike zone made news when an AFL player was ejected arguing one of it’s...
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We have a lot to cover in our first installment of the offseason, so let’s jump right in, shall we? As per Bob Nightengale of USA Today Sports, ten players were extended respective one-year, $17.8 million qualifying offers from their previous teams; Josh Donaldson (Atlanta), Stephen Strasburg (Washington), Anthony Rendon (Washington), Gerrit Cole (Houston), Jose Abreu (Chicago White Sox),...
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