The New York Mets announced on Thursday their plans to change Citi Field’s address to honor all-time ace Tom Seaver. According to Anthony DiComo of MLB.com, the address will be 41 Seaver Way once New York City makes the change official. They are also working on a statue, and Steven Marcus of Newsday says the plan is to unveil what it will look like some time in June. “We’re going to...
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Baseball America has released their latest installment of the 2019 MLB mock draft. They still have Oregon catcher Adley Rutschman going first overall to the Baltimore Orioles. They have the Mets taking left-hander Nick Lodolo with the 12th overall pick. In their first mock back in December, BA had the Mets taking left-hander Zack Thompson from the University of Kentucky. Lodolo, turned 21 last...
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Ichiro Suzuki has officially decided to retire from Major League Baseball. The 45-year-old went 0-for-4 on Thursday morning for the Mariners vs the Athletics in Tokyo, Japan. Ichiro came out in the bottom of the eighth inning to a roaring ovation at the Tokyo Dome. https://twitter.com/Mariners/status/1108724506992898049 The future Hall of Famer will end his MLB career with 3,089 hits (23rd...
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Last year, the Braves were the surprise team in baseball winning the NL East by an eight game margin over the Nationals. This is a young talented group who has the talent to not only win the division again next year but also go on a run like the Greg Maddux-Tom Glavine-John Smoltz Braves teams. Freddie Freeman has become an MVP caliber player. Josh Donaldson has won an MVP and has the sixth...
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Since the New York Mets’ last rebuilding phase began at the start of this decade, the focus has been on the starting rotation. And once their competitive window opened in 2015, the team’s eventual failure or success has always been tied to how far this particular part of the roster could carry them. Some years — like in ’15 and ’16 — it worked pretty well....
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Good Morning Mets fans! With the beginning of spring, we are only one week away from regular season baseball games! (Thank God). The Seattle Mariners and Oakland Athletics began their regular season prematurely yesterday, which saw a run fest that ended in a Mariners win 9-7 (Box Score). Yesterday was a quiet day down in Port St. Lucie as the Mets had a rare day off as spring training winds...
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