Cam Maron: He Wants To Be Like Mike

Adam Rubin of ESPN New York, had a nice piece on Mets catching prospect Camden Maron. The Long Island native grew up a big Mets fan who rooted hard for Mike Piazza. “Piazza was my guy. I used to love watching him. I liked watching Jose Reyes, too, when I was younger. When he was coming up, he was always exciting. David [Wright] came up around the same time as well. I remember ’99 and 2000 a lot....

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Dykstra’s Homer Not Enough In B-Mets 5-2 Loss

After an off day on Monday, the Binghamton Mets travelled to Manchester, New Hampshire for game one of a three game series against the Fisher Cats on Tuesday night.  The B-Mets were unfortunately on the losing end of the decision, dropping game one by a score of 5-2. Jeff Kaplan relieved Germen in the sixth, and over the next one and two thirds innings allowed only one hit and kept New Hampshire...

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Mets Drop Tough One To Reds Via Walkoff, 3-0

The Mets (55-61) lost to the Reds (70-46) by the score of 3-0 tonight at the Great American Ball Park. I know that not everybody out there is a fan of a good pitching duel and games like these can be boring. As much as I found myself frustrated tonight, it was a pretty good game all around, and our offense just could not pull through in the clutch. Chris Young was the designated starter for this...

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Hansel Robles Named NYPL Player of the Week

The third Mets prospect to take home top pitcher honors this week, Robles carried a perfect game into the eighth inning on Friday night but didn’t get the win. The right-hander, who turns 22 Monday retired the first 23 batters he faced before yielding a two-out single in the eighth. Unfortunately, his Cyclones went their first eight innings without a hit but collected two in the ninth to...

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Who’s Hot, Who’s Not – Upper Minors

Welcome to the second edition of Who’s Hot, Who’s Not – Upper Minors. Today we take a look once again at the hottest and coldest players from St. Lucie, Binghamton, and Buffalo. Who’s Hot Alonzo Harris LF, St. Lucie – Harris is making a name for himself with an incredible stretch for St. Lucie. Harris is hitting .419 over his last ten games with two home runs and...

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Decision On Dickey Looms Large Too After This Season

According to Andy McCullough of the Star Ledger, R.A. Dickey and the Mets discussed a short-term extension into at least 2014 earlier this season, people with knowledge of the talks have said. The team elected to wait and observe Dickey during the course of the season. The cost of waiting always seems to burn the Mets lately, and now Dickey will have to be paid commensurate with becoming...

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