The Mets’ offense has failed to support its starting pitchers on numerous occasions throughout the first third of the 2018 season. While particularly dominant yet criminally unprotected starts have frequently befallen Jacob deGrom in his early bid for his first Cy Young award, the woes have manifested themselves across the entire rotation. Excluding deGrom’s one-inning, 45-pitch...
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St. Lucie 6 (23-28), Tampa 2 (29-28) F/10 Box Score RHP Justin Dunn (2-3, 2.36 ERA): 7 IP, 2 H, 1 BB, 10 K RHP Ezequiel Zabaleta (W, 1-0, 3.00 ERA): 3 IP, 3 H, 2 R, 1 ER, 3 K Draft night turned out to be a pretty good night for a couple of the more well-known Mets’ prospects. Starting on the pitching side of things, Justin Dunn turned in what might have been the best outing of his professional...
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Good morning, Mets fans! Today, Jason Vargas (2-3, 8.53 ERA) and the Mets will begin a two-game set against Alex Cobb (1-7, 6.80 ERA) and the Orioles. Vargas has seemingly righted the ship since an atrocious start to his season. The Orioles, meanwhile, sit in the cellar of the AL East with an MLB-worst 17-41 record. The game will start at 7:10 p.m. and can be viewed on SNY and heard on 710 WOR....
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The New York Mets have selected RHP/3B Simeon Woods-Richardson 48th overall in the second round of the 2018 draft. The following are scouting reports on Simeon from three major outlets: Baseball America says: #76 HS RHP/3B Notes:School: Kempner HS, Sugar Land, Texas Ht: 6-4 | Wt: 210 | B-T: R-R | Commit/Drafted: Texas Scouting Report: One of the youngest players in the 2018 draft class,...
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The New York Mets have drafted prep outfielder Jarred Kelenic from Waukesha (Wis.) West High School with the sixth overall pick in the 2018 draft. Kelenic was the only outfielder in the high school class to unanimously make the first team in Baseball America’s Preseason All-America vote, as decided on by major scouting directors. He is widely regarded as the top prep bat in the 2018 draft. He...
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Mike Silva discusses the Cubs sweep of the Mets and reacts to Sandy Alderson’s comments on the Mets handling of injuries. David Jordan, co-author of Fastball John and Sporting News contributor, chats about evaluating pitchers in the bullpen era and his conversation with Keith Hernandez. [iframe]<iframe...
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