Reliving baseball trades can either be a fun trip down memory lane, or it can leave fans regretting the decisions their teams’ front offices made. Author Shawn Krest wanted to identify some of baseball’s very best and worst trades in his new book, Baseball Meat Market: The Stories Behind the Best and Worst Trades in History. Krest included detailed reports on the behind-th-scenes...
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The 2017 season started out great for New York Mets reliever Fernando Salas with seven scoreless outings to begin the year. He pitched in seven of the teams first ten games to start the year despite missing most of spring training because of visa issues. Salas then hit his first rough patch as a Met, allowing ten earned runs on 12 hits and five walks in only 4.1 innings. His ERA ballooned all...
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In a fascinating piece in the New York Times, James Wagner writes that Mets hitting coach Kevin Long may have found the solution to Lucas Duda’s occasional offensive troubles. Long was recently looking at tape of Mike Trout’s swing when the Angels visited Citi Field for a series a few weeks ago. He began comparing Mike Trout’s swing to Duda’s. He found that Trout often...
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Salt Lake Bees (34-27) 4, Las Vegas 51s (24-37) 3 F/11 Box Score Amed Rosario SS 2 for 5, RBI, R .340/.381/.500 Dominic Smith 1B 2 for 5, 2B, RBI .323/.373/.480 Gavin Cecchini 2B 1 for 4, R .255/.319/.353 The 51s tallied three runs on seven hits on the afternoon. Four of those hits came from Amed Rosario and Dominic Smith, as both reached base twice and drove in a run. Both Smith and Rosario’s...
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Good Morning Mets Fans. The New York Mets (25-32) open up a big four game series tonight against the Atlanta Braves (26-32). Matt Harvey (4-5, 5.43 ERA) will take the ball for New York and will be opposed by Julio Teheran (5-4, 5.40 ERA) for the Braves. Tonight’s contest is scheduled to begin at 7:35 PM ET and can be seen on SNY as well as heard on 710 WOR. LATEST METS NEWS Mike Puma of...
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Jay Bruce was not supposed to be on the 2017 New York Mets roster, yet here he is, and helping them win games as their season hovers on life support. Another case of that was Wednesday night when Bruce hit two home run in the Mets 4-3 win over the Texas Rangers. Bruce had half of the Mets hits and drove in three of the four runs. Both homers came off Yu Darvish, whom struck out nine and allowed...
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