Speaking on MLB Network Tuesday night, Mets GM Sandy Alderson said, “We’d like to have [Céspedes] back. We’ve reached out to him and expect to have more conversations in the next few days.” This means the Mets are pursuing Yoenis Cespedes differently than last offseason, when they let the market play out before signing him to a virtual one-year deal. This quickened pace...
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The New York Mets have an interesting situation named Michael Conforto. While he has shown that he can produce at an elite level for extended periods of time, he has far from proven he can be defined as an elite hitter. Despite his ambiguity, his potential remains, and the Mets want to give him every opportunity to blossom into the slugger we know he can be. At the GM meetings, Sandy Alderson...
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Jae-Gyn Hwang Position: Third Base Bats: Right – Throws: Right Born: July 28, 1987 (Age 29) The last two offseasons saw the signings of three very talented players out of South Korea: Jung Ho Kang (Pirates), Hyun Soo Kim (Orioles) and Byung Ho Park (Twins). This year, another talented KBO slugger will become an unrestricted free agent, and that is 6-time All Star third baseman Jae-Gyn Hwang....
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Sandy Alderson spoke with reporters at length during the GM meetings Monday. One discussion topic was the Mets catching situation. Alderson said that he is expecting to stay in-house behind the dish, citing a hope that Travis d’Arnaud and Kevin Plawecki will put up better numbers. After Wilson Ramos tore his ACL, the 2016-2017 free agent catching market was left barren. The best available...
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Yoenis Cespedes is clearly the biggest free agent this offseason, and the team we all least want to see him go to is probably going to make a big push to sign him. The Nationals didn’t come out and say they would pursue Cespedes, but they certainly did not rule out the possibility. “When [Cespedes] played for the Mets, the guy scared me,” Nationals’ GM Mike Rizzo said,...
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Sandy Alderson met with reporters on Tuesday, and said right-hander Noah Syndergaard will not have surgery to remove a bone spur in his pitching elbow. “I think this one is so insignificant in the eyes of the physicians,” said Alderson. “It was probably blown a little out of proportion last year, which tends to happen around the Mets.” Syndergaard, 24, showed no signs of...
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