Friday afternoon, the New York Mets announced that they optioned lefty P.J. Conlon to Triple-A Las Vegas in order to make room for Noah Syndergaard after he was activated from the 10-day disabled list. Conlon, 24, is in his second stint with the Mets organization after being designated for assignment by the Mets in late May, enjoying a four-day cup-of-coffee with the Dodgers in June, and...
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When a player receives a then team record $2.1 million signing bonus, you have a real inkling the organization is high on the player. It may not seem possible, but in the first 20 games of his career, Ronny Mauricio is already exceeding lofty expectations. At the same time the sixth overall pick in the draft, Jarred Kelenic was setting the world on fire forcing a promotion to Kingsport, the...
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According to Joel Sherman of the New York Post, longtime Philadephia Phillies and current Los Angeles Dodgers second baseman Chase Utley plans to retire at the end of the season. Utley, 39, has collected 1,880 hits over his seventeen-year career with 259 home runs, 1,025 runs batted in, and a .276/.358/.466 slash line. Infamous for his years of Mets-killing with Philadelphia and for breaking...
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The New York Mets have a valuable commodity in Amed Rosario. No, not the type you trade, but the type an organization invests in. By bringing up the Dominican native as a 21-year-old, as well as he may have played in the minor leagues, they did, in a sense, invest in Rosario. They also put an awful lot of responsibility on the shoulders of a very young player. He wasn’t asked to be a...
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While prospects like Peter Alonso, Jeff McNeil, and since the draft, Jarred Kelenic receive all the headlines and attention, the consensus in scouting circles continues to be that Andres Gimenez is the best prospect in the Mets organization. We saw further evidence of that with Gimenez skyrocketing up into Baseball Prospectus Top 50. In their pre-season list, Gimenez was ranked 82. After a...
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Good afternoon, folks! We’re have our eyes on Twitter waiting for news to break. Here is the latest information going around the league. Manny Update According to Jon Heyman of Fancred, the Yankees offer for Manny Machado does not include either Clint Frazier or Justus Sheffield. Makes sense since Machado is only rental. Last year, J.D. Martinez got a rather underwhelming return. Granted,...
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