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Latest Mets News
According to an article from WCBS 880 on Radio.com, the New York Mets donated 100,000 face masks to the MTA. Mets COO Jeff Wilpon commented on the act of kindness saying, “Providing masks is our way of saying thank you to these brave individuals for all they are doing during the pandemic.”
An article from Crain’s New York Business talked about how Noah Syndergaard is being sued for not paying rent for his $27K apartment in NYC. His move-in date was supposed to be on March 20 but given the pandemic hindering the baseball season from starting, he never actually moved in after signing the lease. Syndergaard declined to make any of the payments because he never officially moved in.
Former Mets beat reporter Marc Carig Tweeted a baseball fan’s response to an article he shared where the fan mentioned that he does not know the names of some very talented and important players around baseball today like Jeff McNeil, Jose Altuve, Christian Yelich and Joey Votto, to which McNeil responded that he is used to not being recognized. His response included a referral to a picture of his name on the Jumbotron next to a picture of Jacob deGrom‘s face, captioning the Tweet “@MarcCarig It’s okay, I’m getting pretty used to it.”
Latest MLB News
Evan Drellich of the Athletic reported on Friday that Major League Baseball is planning to deliver their new economic proposal to the MLBPA on Tuesday.
Jayson Stark of the Athletic spoke with Bob Costas, Joey Votto, Terry Francona, Steve Hirdt, and John Thorn about the possible 82-game MLB season. They discussed how valid they see this truncated season considering how different it is from that of a normal MLB season.
The Milwaukee Brewers have stated that their operations staff will remain employed for the entirety of 2020. Their employees will not be furloughed and only the top executives will be receiving pay cuts. Ken Rosenthal reported this on Twitter.
Zach Plesac, right-hander for the Cleveland Indians, hired CAA Sports to represent him.
Latest NL East News
Betelhem Ashame of MLB wrote about the best fielders in the NL East with the help of each team’s corresponding beat reporter. Each NL East beat reporter pleaded their case for which player they believe is the best defender on their team.
Latest on MMO
Tim Ryder posted his latest Simply Amazin’ Podcast with former Mets reliever Dennis Cook.
Joe D talked about one of the greatest acquisitions in Mets history, where the Mets traded for star catcher Mike Piazza.
Mathew Brownstein interviewed six-time all-star, Moises Alou in an MMO Exclusive interview.
Matt Mancuso did a Statcast breakdown of Mets outfielder Michael Conforto.
On This Date in Mets History
Happy Birthday to Vic Black (32), Ricky Gutierrez (49), Pepe Mangual (68), and Butch Metzger (68)!
2004: Kazuo Matsui surpasses Tommie Agee‘s 1969 team record and sets a franchise mark with his fifth leadoff home run of the season. Matsui became the first Mets player to accomplish this feat in consecutive games.
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