The Mets signed John Mayberry in the offseason to a one year, $1.45 million contract mainly because of his success hitting against lefties. Mayberry is mainly a bench player, but manager Terry Collins has put him in the starting lineup vs opposing lefty pitchers and benches Curtis Granderson or Lucas Duda to get him in the lineup. Mayberry got off to a good start in his first game as starter,...
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Las Vegas (22-10) 3, El Paso 1 Tyler Pill can finally breathe a sigh of relief as he picked up his win of the season in his 6th start spinning 7 innings of one-run ball. After giving up a run early in the game Pill retired the last 16 hitters he faced with 7 strike outs in that span. His final line was 7 innings, three hits, R, BB, eight strike outs and threw 98 pitches with 66 for strikes....
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Alright, this is better. After losing three series in a row, the Mets got over the minor hiccup by winning their next two. Although a series of two games shouldn’t really count as a series, I’ll take any sort of uplifting stat that I can. Now, this week was special in that not only were there two off days, but there really wasn’t any one consistent player. Each player played...
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Bobby Parnell surrendered three runs in his first minor league rehab appearance since suffering a setback from Tommy John surgery three weeks ago. According to Jeff Moore of Baseball Prospectus, Parnell’s fastball was sitting at 90-92 MPH. Moore also tweeted that Parrnell was hit hard and lacked command on both his fastball and breaking pitches. Buddy Carlyle left yesterday’s game...
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The Mets (20-12) lost to the Cubs (16-15) by a score of 4-3 on Monday night at Wrigley Field. Jacob deGrom pitched for the Mets and struggled. The sophomore allowed four runs in five innings, surrendering five hits and four walks, striking out five. The Mets got off to a rough start in this one. Jacob hit Dexter Fowler to begin the bottom of the first, and ultra-prospect Kris Bryant made him pay...
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Good news on the Travis d’Arnaud front as he has been cleared for baseball activity, according to Mets assistant GM John Ricco. D’Arnaud has been out since April 19, when he was hit by a pitch and suffered a fractured metacarpal bone on his right hand. The plan is to take it slow and ease him back a few steps at a time, and Adam Rubin reports d’Arnaud likely won’t be...
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