The 2024 St. Lucie Mets open the year hoping to move on from their debacle of a 2023 season and return to what they accomplished in 2022: a Florida State League championship. The St. Lucie squad will have their third manager in as many seasons, with former Mets farmhand Yucary De La Cruz set to grab the reigns for his first managerial season. De La Cruz’s staff is led by bench coach Jeremy...
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The 2023 season was a tale of two halves for the Brooklyn Cyclones. They finished as the worst team in their division in the first half of the year before posting the joint best record in their division in the second half of the year. It wasn’t enough to earn them a postseason berth, but the Cyclones enter the 2024 season with a strong roster and clear aspirations. Here is a look at how the...
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After losing their first five games of the season, the New York Mets were determined to flip the script. In the second game of their doubleheader against the Detroit Tigers, the Mets went with Jose Buttó as their starter. Despite being recalled from Triple-A Syracuse on short notice as the team’s 27th man, Buttó set the tone in a major way. He acknowledged the uncertainty surrounding his...
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Christian Scott entered last season with under 100 innings and a middling ERA on his minor league resume. He was discussed in the backend of the Mets’ Top 30 prospects lists and was seen as a likely reliever. Scott made his Triple-A debut on Thursday night in one of the more highly anticipated outings of a Mets minor league pitcher in quite some time. The 24-year-old pitched to a 2.57 ERA...
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Pete Alonso’s game-tying solo home run in the bottom of the ninth inning during the second game of the Mets’ doubleheader with the Detroit Tigers on Thursday broke the team out of an extended scoring slump while simultaneously earning him yet another accolade in his illustrious career up to this point. Alonso’s blast, which came off of his former University of Florida teammate...
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Good morning, Mets fans! After two consecutive days of postponements, the Mets faced the Detroit Tigers in a single-admission doubleheader on Thursday, losing the first game 6-3 in 11 innings. Reliever Michael Tonkin took the loss once again with another shaky performance. However, they bounced back in the second contest, winning 2-1 with Jose Buttó pitching six solid innings of one-run ball....
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