The Colorado Rockies have signed outfielder Gerardo Parra to a three-year, $27.5 million contract, according to multiple reports. The deal will pay Parra $26 million in salary over the three years and includes a fourth-year option at $12 million with a $1.5 million buyout. Parra, 28, has been linked to the Mets for months, including at the trade deadline in July, but nothing ever materialized....
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Rafael Montero pitched two scoreless innings (7th & 8th inning) allowing only one hit last night for the Leones del Escogido in their 6-1 victory. He allowed just the one baserunner who was erased on a double play ball hit by former Met Jordany Valdespin. Montero has now thrown six innings (five during playoffs) for the Leones this winter allowing only one run, which was produced by a solo...
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The last image we have of Matt Harvey was him walking off the mound in the ninth inning of a do or die game. He was everything anyone reasonably could’ve asked him to be. Perhaps more. I thought that after that night, he would get the benefit of the doubt. I was wrong. In a garbage take-down on The Big Lead, Stephen Douglas chastises Matt Harvey for attending a Kings game and then going to...
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Michael Conforto, LF Bats/Throws: L/R DOB: March 1, 1993 (23 on Opening Day) Contract Status: Pre-Arb Eligible (Free Agent after 2021) 2015 Recap A little over a year after being drafted, Michael Conforto was called up with the expectations that he would turn around an ailing Mets lineup. What the Mets got in Conforto was a dynamic middle of the order hitter who many now think could become a...
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Following the Mets’ agonizing World Series defeat, Terry Collins’ decision to leave Matt Harvey in the game haunted him for days. However, in an interview that airs tonight on MLB Network, Collins now says that he feels better about it and has moved on. ” I had my bad three days. You’ve got to move on,” Collins says in the show. (Anthony McCarron, NY Daily News.) Collins...
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We wanted to update this article with a quote by ESPN’s Buster Olney who ranked the Mets rotation as the best in baseball today. “Of the National League’s top five hardest-throwing starters with at least 140 big league innings in 2015, the Mets have three of them: Noah Syndergaard, whose fastball averaged 97.1 mph; Matt Harvey at 95.9 mph; and Jacob deGrom at 95 mph. No. 4...
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