While the Mets continue to monitor whether Wilmer Flores is viable at shortstop, and making the decision to stick with him for another month, there has been a lot of speculation about infield prospect Matt Reynolds. The Mets have been hesitant to promote Reynolds, preferring instead to leave him in Las Vegas where he can show the organization that last season’s breakout wasn’t a...
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The team just announced that David Wright has suffered another setback and has been shutdown for the second time this month due to a sore back. Assistant general manager John Ricco told reporters that the injury has been identified as spinal stenosis – a narrowing of the spinal column. Doctors have made it clear that only rest will help, and Wright could make the injury worse if he tries to push...
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The New York Mets and Pittsburgh Pirates will go at it again on Saturday at 4:05 PM in beautiful PNC Park. Matt Harvey (5-1, 1.98 ERA) gets the nod for the Mets and will be opposed by right-hander A.J. Burnett (3-1, 1.38) for the Bucs. Harvey has run into some hard luck of late, departing each of his last two outings with a 1-0 lead, only to come away with a no-decision. Harvey is one of only...
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Piggy-backing is a practice employed primarily in the low minors where teams will pair 8 starting pitchers into 4 tandems that alternate starting and relieving duties from one start to the next. The games are usually split into 5 and 4 inning increments. The idea behind it involves limiting pitch counts while helping to gradually stretch out innings limits without putting an inordinate amount of...
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Ready? Set? Go!!! Quick. Name FIVE San Diego Padres to have their number retired. A few weeks back I needed to get recharged and drove one hour north of Las Vegas to Valley of Fire State Park. One of the many things to see amongst the 42,000 acres of red sandstone formations, shifting sand dunes and dinosaur fossils is Atlatl Rock. I climbed the stairs and took in the ancient petroglyphs that...
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Speaking to reporters after Friday night’s 4-1 loss to the Pirates, manager Terry Collins emphatically said that Noah Syndergaard will remain in the rotation. “I like him a lot… Right now, he’s not going anywhere,” Collins said. “He’ll go back out there in five days, and we will see how he does.” Syndergaard pitched solidly against the Bucs and better than his numbers...
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