Baseball America’s Prospect Hot Sheet for the period April 20-26 has Mets top prospect RHP Matt Harvey ranked #6 and 3B Wilmer Flores gets an honorable mention. Regarding Flores BA Writes: For as long as he’s been around, it’s easy to forget that Wilmer Flores is still just a 20-year-old in the high Class A Florida State League. Now playing third base for the Mets, Flores is off to a...
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Buffalo 7, Rochester 3 By Joe DeCaro The frigid cold weather wasn’t very kind to Jeurys Familia who simply had trouble commanding any of his pitches and walked a season and career high seven batters last night. Familia was all over the place and was finally removed after dishing out three walks to start the fourth inning. Surprisingly, he managed to escape with just two runs scored thanks...
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Recap On a night with the undisputed oddest game of the season, including a cycle, an eleven run, four error inning, a runner hit by a ball running to second, a catcher’s interference on a pitch out, a grand slam, and a major league debut, there are a lot to talk about. So let’s start with Pelfrey’s replacement, Chris Schwinden. A rude welcoming to the majors by Colorado. He...
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Mets Starting Lineup Kirk Nieuwenhuis – CF Ruben Tejada – SS Daniel Murphy – 2B David Wright – 3B Lucas Duda – RF Scott Hairston – LF Ike Davis – 1B Josh Thole – C Dillon Gee – RHP Game Preview The Mets will try to put last night’s ugly game behind them today as they take on the Rockies in game two. The positive from last night would be...
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Mets outfielder Scott Hairston has just hit for the cycle tonight in Colorado. He is the 10th Mets player to record a cycle in team history and the first to accomplish the feat since Jose Reyes did it on June 21, 2006 against the Cincinnati Reds. Hairston started things off with a single in the second inning, a home run in the fourth, a triple in the fifth inning and finally a double in...
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Unless you were living under a rock or otherwise incapacitated, it was impossible not to hear about Jose Reyes’ return to Flushing with his last-place Miami Marlins. After an eventful offseason by the Marlins, headlined by the 6-year, $106 million deal that got Reyes in one of those God-awful Miami uniforms, the former Met came back to where it all began these past few days. It was...
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