Morning Briefing: Mets Turn To Flexen Looking To Win Series

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Good Morning Mets Fans!!

Today, Chris Flexen will make his first start if the year in place of Jacob deGrom, who was placed on the IL yesterday. The Mets will look to win their first series since sweeping the Marlins during the first week of April.

Miles Mikolas will take the hill for the Cards. The game is at 2:15 p.m. and can be viewed on WPIX 11 and WBCS 880.

Good News: Vargas had his best start of the season, an encouraging outing in which he only allowed one run

Bad News: Four innings of one-run ball is not a good start for literally any other starter in baseball. Vargas lowered his ERA by four runs before handing the ball off to Seth Lugo to start the fifth inning.

Meanwhile, on the offensive side, the Mets tagged Adam Wainwright for four early runs before knocking him out in the fourth inning. Two innings later, Pete Alonso extended the Mets lead with a 432-foot blast. He’s now the MLB leader in barrels with 14.

Latest Mets News

Stay Calm #PanicCity!! It’s merely an MRI…we hope. Mickey Callaway stunned MetsTwitter and the rest of the baseball world when he reported that deGrom was slated for an MRI after his elbow was barking mad. The Mets eventually placed him on the IL, although they claimed this was only precautionary.

Pete Alonso would participate in the Home Run Derby if given the chance per Tim Healey of Newsday.

Latest News in the MLB

The Diamondbacks acquired Blake Swihart in exchange for minor-league outfielder Marcus Wilson.

Mark Feinsand of MLB.com hears that Gio Gonzalez plans to opt-out of his minor-league deal with the Yankees.

Gonzalez makes a ton of sense for the Mets, whose rotation depth is lacking. Gonzalez also recently hired CAA, Brodie Van Wagenen’s former agency, to represent him.

MLB announced suspensions for Wednesday fight between the White Sox and the Royals. Brad Keller received a five-game suspension while Tim Anderson and Rick Renteria got one-game bans. Anderson, who unleashed a controversial bat flip earlier in the game, was suspended for “language used during the altercation.”

Chris Cotillo of MassLive.com reports that the Red Sox have called up top prospect Michael Chavis. They placed Eduardo Nunez on the IL and DFA’ed Ermaosio Ramirez.

Nicholas Castellanos switched his representation to the Boras Corporation.

Cotillo also tweets out that, due to Greg Bird‘s injury, the Yankees have come to terms with a minor-league deal with Logan Morrison.

Yu Darvish had an inspiring interview with Infield Chatter.

Adam Ottavino (No.0) talked about facing off against Terrance Gore (No.0).