Major League Baseball announced Wednesday that Shohei Ohtani won the AL Most Valuable Player Award, and Ronald Acuña Jr. won the NL Most Valuable Player Award. They both unanimously won their respective awards. Rangers duo Corey Seager and Marcus Semien landed second and third, respectively. The World Series MVP Seager received 24 second-place votes and six third-place votes, while Semien...
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The deadline for teams to tender arbitration-eligible players a contract is coming up on Nov. 17 at 8:00 p.m. ET and the New York Mets have to decide on several players. The Mets started the offseason with 16 arbitration-eligible players, but already outrighted OF Rafael Ortega, RHP Elieser Hernández, OF Tim Locastro, C Michael Perez, UT Danny Mendick, and RHP John Curtiss off the 40-man roster...
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What?! Who?! I’m sure that was the reaction of many New York Mets fans (not our informed Metsmerized readers, of course) when they heard the team hired Carlos Mendoza as their new manager. Mendoza’s appointment came as a surprise despite his reported second interview. Few paid much attention to the Yankees’ bench coach amid speculation about Craig Counsell. After...
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As we announced on Wednesday, MMO partnered with Out of the Park Baseball to bring you a 16-team Mets Madness competition that will be simulated over the next few months. The managers of the teams are comprised of MMO writers and editors, one MMO commenter (Mike Lloyd), and we’re currently doing a giveaway on Twitter for the final manager spot (the 2015 team). Each round will be...
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The Athletics hope their new home isn’t a gamble. Major League Baseball owners on Thursday unanimously approved Oakland’s relocation to Las Vegas for the 2028 season. The Athletics will become Major League Baseball’s first Las Vegas franchise and the third major sports franchise in that region, joining the NFL’s Las Vegas Raiders and the NHL’s Las Vegas Golden...
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Carlos Mendoza was introduced on Tuesday as the newest manager of the New York Mets, making a trip across the subway from the Bronx to Queens and trading out the navy blue pinstripes for royal. Mendoza, a member of the New York Yankees staff for the past six seasons, was most recently the bench coach for the Yankees before taking the job with the Mets. A day after being named as the manager of...
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