Mets relief prospect Corey Taylor has been chosen to play in the Arizona Fall League All-Star game. He will be playing on Team East which includes top prospects like the Cubs Eloy Jimenez, the Indians Bradley Zimmer and the Brewers Brett Phillips. Taylor, 23, is 0-1 with a 2.16 ERA, 1.08 WHIP and has one save in six games for the Scottsdale Scorpions. He’s allowed two earned runs in 8.1 innings...
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Kristie Ackert of the New York Daily News, examines and ranks the potential suitors for free agent outfielder Yoenis Cespedes, who is expected to opt out of his contract with the Mets as soon as the World Series ends. She projects the San Francisco Giants and the Los Angeles Angels as the leading candidates to sign Cespedes, picks the Miami Marlins and Los Angeles Dodgers as the dark horses, and...
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This past Saturday marked an anniversary of sorts for the New York Mets, as general manager Sandy Alderson was introduced and hired as the 12th general manager in team history on October 29, 2010. Alderson signed a four-year deal at the time, with a club option for 2015, after working with Major League Baseball and then commissioner Bud Selig to help address the various corruptions in the...
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The injury of Lucas Duda created a black hole for at first base for the majority of the 2016 season that the Mets tried to plug with James Loney. The Mets sent cash to the San Diego Padres for Loney, who was playing Triple-A, in hopes of filling Duda’s shoes. Loney started and finished strong for the Mets, but in between he was brutally bad. He went a 20 start stretch without an extra base...
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In the 1973 Amateur Draft, right after the Texas Rangers selected the highly regarded and ultimately ill-fated David Clyde with the first pick, the Phillies used the second selection to take catcher John Stearns out of the University of Colorado. The next two picks both turned out to be hall-of-famers, Robin Yount and Dave Winfield. Since Bob Boone was just starting what would turn out to be a...
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The struggles of Travis d’Arnaud and Kevin Plawecki this past season have the Mets on the lookout for a possible upgrade at the catching position. Rene Rivera was solid as a backup after signing with the Mets, but that’s exactly what he is at this point in his career. Unfortunately for the Mets, the options on the free agent market are bleak. The top target on the market...
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