Tonight is Major League Baseball’s annual draft. The draft will begin at 7 p.m. on MLB Network and can be seen on MLB.com. The Mets will be picking 12th overall tonight and they will $8,224,600 to work with. Here is a link for the full draft bonuses. The heavy consensus seems to indicate it will be a college player. Specifically, a college pitcher. The college pitchers who have been...
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3 UP 1. Come Go with Me Between injuries and ineffectiveness, the Mets finally instilled Dominic Smith as their left fielder. With the caveat that this is an EXTREMELY small sample size, Smith is hitting .359/.519/.609 with a 1 DRS when he’s a left fielder. No, Smith can not possibly keep up that level of production, but that’s also not the point. The point is Smith came to Spring...
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With the Major League Baseball draft beginning today, free agents Dallas Keuchel and Craig Kimbrel can now sign without draft pick compensation. Prior to today, the Mets would have sacrificed their second highest pick, number #53 overall, and had their signing bonus pool cut by $500K, if they had signed either pitcher. In 204.2 innings last year, Keuchel, posted a 3.74 ERA, 3.69 FIP and a 1.31...
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After losing 7-1 to the Diamondbacks, the Mets fell to three games below .500 in an underwhelming outing from Steven Matz on Sunday afternoon at Chase Field. The club came into their final game in Arizona confident in their starter’s ability to secure the series win. Over his prior six starts, Matz surrendered just three or fewer runs. In his most recent outing at Dodger Stadium, he threw six...
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After a dreadful 2-5 road trip versus the Dodgers and Diamondbacks , and a 9-11 record in their last 20 games, Mickey Callaway is getting tired of making excuses. The Mets suffered their fifth loss of their road trip on Sunday against the Diamondbacks’ Merrill Kelly – a 30-year-old rookie with a 4.41 ERA – and Callaway was livid about the team’s performance. “We have to do better. I’m kind of...
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Pawtucket (23-31) 7, Syracuse (28-27) 5 Box Score Matt Kemp DH: 2-for-3, 2 R, 2 BB, K, .308/.400/.308 Danny Espinosa SS: 2-for-4, R, HR, 2 RBI, BB, K, .272/.349/.480 Arismendy Alcantara LF: 1-for-3, R, HR, RBI, BB, 2 K, .333/.444/.567 The Mets scored five runs on the strength of three home runs in Sunday’s game. Kemp has been the designated hitter during his first three games with the...
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