The Mets have deepened their bench by recalling infielder Matt Reynolds from Triple-A Las Vegas. In a corresponding move, the Mets have optioned left-hander Sean Gilmartin to Vegas, the team announced on Twitter. Reynolds, 26, appeared in 47 games for the Mets in 2016, hitting to a .225/.266/.416 clip with three home runs and 13 RBI’s in 89 at-bats. Reynolds was hitting .300/.364/.360...
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Wednesday, April 26, 2017 • 7:10 p.m. Citi Field • Flushing, N.Y. RHP Julio Teheran (1-1, 3.52) vs. RHP Robert Gsellman (0-1, 5.09) SNY • WOR 710 AM • ESPN 1050 AM Well, let’s try that again. The Mets and the Braves were rained out last night and after announcing that Noah Syndergaard would start tonight’s game, they changed their mind and decided to not skip Robert Gsellman in the...
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One of the ongoing jokes during yesterday’s rain out was that despite the rain out, Terry Collins had Jerry Blevins and Fernando Salas warming up in the bullpen in case the game started on time. As with most jokes, this one did have a twinge of truth to it. So far this season, the Mets bullpen has been going on an unsustainable rate. Mike Marshall holds the single season record for...
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Before Monday’s rainout, former Met and Cy Young winner R.A. Dickey was going to face off against current Met and Cy Young threat Noah Syndergaard. It would have been a fun start to watch because of how different the two pitchers are – one throwing 100 mph fastballs and the other throwing 80 mph knuckleballs – but also because they were once traded for one another. After Dickey...
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The Jose Reyes experiment is just not working. He’s hitting .125/.222/.250 and — oh wait, those are Zack Wheeler’s batting stats. Reyes’s numbers are worse as he’s slashing .104/.189/.134 with no home runs, no triples, one stolen base, and two doubles in 19 games. He has already accumulated a -0.8 WAR on the season and that just will not cut it for a team trying to...
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The Mets are currently 8-11; certainly not where they wanted to be at this point. However badly Mets fans are panicking, there is none of that behavior allowed in the Mets clubhouse. That is a rule established by the Mets’ leader Terry Collins. “You look at this team, what they did last year, guess what, you’ve got to do it again,’’ Collins told Kevin Kernan of the New York Post. “That’s...
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