May 8 A day after Vic Black took over the closing duties from Jeff Walters for Triple-A Las Vegas, the hard-throwing righty struck out the side on Wednesday night and picked up his fourth save of the season. He has now gone four consecutive appearances without issuing a walk and his ERA has improved to 0.68 for the season in 13.1 innings. Fare thee well, Jose Valverde. May 6 I know that one out...
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Baseball Prospectus today released a host of eyewitness scouting reports on top prospects in the minors, one including Brandon Nimmo, which, in contrast to other top picks like Bubba Starling is an excellent scouting report with a good future projection on his value. The scouting report was issued by scout Jeff Moore, who saw him on three separate occasions in May, with very satisfactory...
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The Mets ended their road trip with a 1-0 loss to the Marlins on Wednesday afternoon who completed a sweep of the series with a ninth inning walk-off win. Zack Wheeler started for the Mets and pitched six innings of scoreless baseball, holding the Marlins to just two hits and five walks while striking out seven. Wheeler began to tire in his final inning walking two to leadoff the sixth, inducing...
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The Mets will try and salvage a win this afternoon and avoid a sweep at the hands of the Miami Marlins who improved to 16-4 at home this season. Zack Wheeler (1-3, 5.13 ERA) opposes right-hander Tom Koehler (3-2, 2.41) for the Marlins in Wednesday’s 12:40 PM road-trip finale. Zack Wheeler has four games with six or more strikeouts this year, including a season-high 10 strikeouts on April 25 vs....
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An MMO Fan Shot by Ryan Flanagan Agonizingly documented to the point of nauseam, the Mets situation at shortstop is one that has frustrated Met fans to the point of complete and total state of confusion. It’s is well known, well documented, and proven in the stat line that the two-headed SS platoon the Mets have been utilizing is one that boasts AAA or AAAA+ players at-best. While their gloves...
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Tuesday night was brutal. Depressing. Infuriating. You name the negative emotion, I likely felt it. You likely did too. The first month of the season was a feel good story. But we were not naive enough to forget our team’s shortcomings. No production from SS, strikeouts from our big free agent signing and for some of you, our manager. Through all of this, we still sit here today with a...
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