The Mets recently revamped their training staff, bumping Brian Chicklo up to head trainer and bringing in Jim Cavallini in the capacity of Director of Performance and Sports Science, a newly created position. However, Ken Davidoff of the New York Post published a column Saturday in which he reveals that sources told him many injuries in recent years have stemmed from Jeff Wilpon’s desire...
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When Keith Law publishes his annual preseason Top 100, it serves as a measure not only to the state of an organization’s farm system, but also how a particular prospect is developing. This year, that rang true of a now much maligned Mets farm system that didn’t see their top prospects develop the way everyone believed they would. For proof of this, we need not look any further than...
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An MMO Fan Shot by Rob Walsh Here we sit approximately 19 days from pitchers and catchers and much of the top free agent class still remains and our Mets are still projecting a lineup inferior to the 70-92 team that finished last season. To their word, Sandy Alderson and Jeff Wilpon recently alluded to the fact that there are still a number of moves that the team may make to upgrade themselves...
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** This interview was conducted with Josh Smoker in early January, prior to him being designated for assignment on January 26.** When Josh Smoker made his major league debut with the New York Mets back on August 19, 2016, at the age of 27, he knew how difficult the road had been to make it there. Smoker, a former supplemental first-round pick of the Washington Nationals back in 2007, overcame...
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Juan Lagares hasn’t hit for much power in his career, as apparent by his ground ball rate (50.8 percent) to fly ball rate (28.8 percent). However, this winter he has been on a mission to revamp his swing. The 28-year-old is already down in Port St. Lucie, Florida with some teammates after spending 10 days in California with hitting mogul Craig Wallenbrock, according to Mike Puma of the New...
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Jeurys Familia and AJ Ramos have both spent time locking down games over the last several years, but neither of them will begin the season as the team’s everyday closing pitcher. In an interview with Jon Paul Morosi of MLB.com, new Mets manager Mickey Callaway said New York will likely go into the season without a set fireman. “I don’t think we’re going to name a closer...
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