The New York Mets (7-11-2) will play a pair of split squad games on Thursday as they try to snap a five-game Grapefruit League losing streak. Opening Night starter Matt Harvey will oppose left-hander Dallas Keuchel as the Mets take on the Houston Astros at 1:10 PM in Port St. Lucie. (SNY) New York Mets Curtis Granderson, RF David Wright, 3B Yoenis Cespedes, CF Lucas Duda, 1B Neil Walker, 2B...
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Bartolo Colon threw six scoreless innings against the Toronto Blue Jays in the Mets 3-1 loss on Wednesday. On the same day news had broke that Alex Rodriguez would retire after his contract with the New York Yankees expires in 2017. This had caused “Big Sexy” to be asked on his status, past his current one year contract with the Mets. “For me, I am not worried about it, I take...
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Ask a Mets fan which team is going to represent the National League in the World Series, and you know what their answer will be. In a clubhouse full of confident guys like Matt Harvey, you know to a man the Mets believe they are returning to the World Series. You know who else agrees that the Mets will return to the World Series? Eric Hosmer. The Kansas City Royals first baseman told Ebenezer...
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Whether players like it or not, New York City has enacted a smokeless tobacco ban that will prevent them from using chewing tobacco at Citi Field and Yankee Stadium. As we see from the quotes, there are players like Lucas Duda, to whom it’ll have no effect. There are others who do use it. We don’t know what, if any, impact it will have on them. At this point, no one knows how this...
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For the last three years, all of the talk surrounding young Mets catching prospects started and ended with Travis d’Arnaud and Kevin Plawecki, and for good reason. Now that both have graduated onto bigger and better things in the major leagues, you can forget about exciting minor league backstops now, right? Wrong. Enter Ali Sanchez. #15 C Ali Sanchez...
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The Mets (7-10) were defeated by the Toronto Blue Jays (13-4) by a score of 3-1 this afternoon at Florida Auto Exchange Stadium. Pitching: Bartolo Colon got the start for the Mets and turned in a great outing, tossing six scoreless innings, with only three hits allowed and striking out six. Hansel Robles and Stolmy Pimentel pitched the seventh and eighth innings respectively, and kept the Blue...
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