MLB Network ranked the top 10 second basemen in baseball according to “The Shredder” and two Mets appeared on the list. The Shredder gave the Mets two of the top five second basemen in baseball in Robinson Cano and newly acquired Jed Lowrie. MLB.com’s Mike Petriello gave his feedback, where he ranked Jed Lowrie as the third best second basemen and Robinson Cano as the fourth...
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Good Morning, folks! Latest Mets News Fangraphs wrote up the latest Mets signing, Jed Lowrie. In the article, they include a quote from Lowrie that says, “I look back at the success I’ve had in my career hitting, and the focus has always had to be on my legs, getting the most out of my legs as I can.” He also said, “I’m trying to maximize bat speed to maximize exit velocity.” Jeff McNeil...
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The Mets managed to avoid going to arbitration with any of their six players eligible this offseason as they reached agreements with Jacob deGrom, Noah Syndergaard, Zack Wheeler, Steven Matz, Michael Conforto, and Travis d’Arnaud. Next offseason, the team will likely see Syndergaard, Conforto, and Matz be eligible again while they will hope deGrom is locked up with a contract extension....
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You can say what you will about the new general manager of the New York Mets, but nobody can deny that Brodie Van Wagenen has been one of the most active GM’s of this offseason. He has handled himself like a gunslinger at OK Corral thus far, and while his aggressive and stealth-like manner may seen haphazard or fast & loose, in actuality his vision for this team has clearly come into...
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The card above, card number 544 from the 1978 Topps set, is an interesting card of an interesting character during a very non-interesting time period in the history of the New York Mets. As we often do here in the Shoebox Memories section of MMO, when we see an in-action card, we like to get our Sherlock Holmes hat off the wall and try to deduct some elementary questions such as was who are all...
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Babe Ruth has been dead for over seventy years, but he’s been haunting Jane Leavy’s mind for over two decades. Leavy, the New York Times best-selling author whose works include heavily researched biographies on Hall of Famers Sandy Koufax and Mickey Mantle, had been planning to write a then-novel on the most celebrated and, by most standards, greatest Major League Baseball player of...
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