Morning Briefing: Mets Had Interest in Pablo Sandoval

Good morning Mets fans! As we approach Super Bowl weekend, this also means we are inching closer to pitchers and catchers reporting to spring training!

Let’s take a look at what went on around the league on Wednesday!

Latest Mets News

Edgardo Alfonzo was expecting a promotion from the Mets after capturing the league championship as skipper of the Brooklyn Cyclones in 2019. Instead, they fired him, as Mike Puma of The NY Post discussed with the former player and manager.

New Mets manager Luis Rojas discusses his origin starting out at the bottom of the chart within this organization.

New Era released their new “landmark,” hats, which features the statue of liberty and an apple on the Mets cap (yikes).

With spring training around the corner, several Mets players expressed their excitement to get to work.

Latest MLB News

As Jayson Stark of The Athletic reported, Major League baseball announced the hard rule prohibiting teams from carrying more than eight pitchers despite rosters expanding to 26 players in 2020.

The San Francisco Giants are bringing back Pablo Sandoval after the Mets and Phillies showed some interest, says Jon Heyman of MLB Network.

As Jeff Passan of ESPN reported, Cubs third basemen Kris Bryant has lost his grievance against the team claiming an extra year of service.

The MiLB sent a lengthy letter to MLB commissioner Rob Manfred, as JJ Cooper of Baseball America tweeted.

The Brewers have signed pitcher David Phelps to a one-year deal according to Ken Rosenthal and Patrick Mooney of The Athletic.

An Astros fan went back and decoding every “trash can banging,” sequence from the 2017 sign stealing scandal.

Latest NL East News

MLB Trade Rumors released the top spenders list in the National League this off-season with the Mets ranking fourth in the NL East at $24 million this winter.