Thursday afternoon got off to a rocky start for Mets’ southpaw and fifth starter probable Jason Vargas, who surrendered a home run to Cardinals’ Matt Carpenter on just the second pitch of the game. However, Vargas rebounded to set the next three batters down in a row, including punch outs to Dexter Fowler and Jose Martinez. In the second inning, Vargas yielded a walk to Tyler...
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Baseball is a wonderful game, but it can be full of clichés at times — even though a lot of them are true. We’ve all heard the following handful (or some variety of them) too many times to count: You can never have too much pitching. Baseball is a marathon, not a sprint. You can’t win championships in April, but you sure can lose them. That last one is what I’d like to...
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After losing a couple of games badly over the few days the Mets were able to pounce all over the Marlins yesterday, 14-6. Amed Rosario had a nice two-hit day, J.D. Davis at DH had a three-hit day including a homer, Gavin Cecchini raised his small sample size OPS to 1.056 and Arquimedes bounced back on the mound with a scoreless, clean inning of work. Today the Mets will travel to the Cardinals....
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In lieu of early injuries to Jed Lowrie and Todd Frazier this spring, New York Mets minor-league stalwart and once-again full-time first baseman Dominic Smith has an opportunity to show he was worthy of a first-round draft pick in 2013 and has the ability to stick around at the major-league level for a while. At just 23-years-old, there’s still plenty of time for Smith to figure things...
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On January 6, the Mets acquired infielder/outfielder J.D. Davis from the Astros in exchange for prospects Luis Santana, Ross Adolph, and Scott Manea. The right-handed hitters offensive calling card has always been his power, he had 25 doubles and 17 home runs in 333 at-bats during the 2018 season in Triple-A. He had at least 23 home runs in the previous three seasons and his career minor league...
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Mets’ outfielder Brandon Nimmo is back at camp today after losing four pounds from vomiting after an uncooked chicken incident. Reports came out yesterday that Nimmo, 26 next month, had under cooked his chicken dinner the night prior and was up all night vomiting. Talking to the media on Thursday, the outfielder said he lost four pounds after the incident. “I cooked it all the way through....
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