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Good morning, Mets fans!
Today, the Washington Nationals will battle Zack Wheeler at First Data Field. Wheeler pitched a three-inning, five-run clunker against Washington in his last appearance. The game will be shown on SNY and 710WOR at 6:10 P.M.
The Mets were off yesterday, however there were a couple of prominent players that took part in a minor-league game.
Michael Conforto is seemingly recovered from last year’s shoulder surgery as he struck a couple of home runs off two of the Mets top prospects, David Peterson and Daniel Zamora.
“It’s not so much about the shoulder anymore. It’s getting up, hitting, going out to the field, standing out there, go make some plays then come back and hit again,” Conforto told Fred Kerber of the New York Post.
Jacob deGrom started the game and the minor-leaguers had no chance against him. Mets coaches wanted him to throw 15 pitches in the first inning; he had to pitch against five batters to reach that threshold. When the coaches asked him to work on pitching out of the stretch and placed runners on base in the second inning, he casually picked two of them off.
Latest Mets news
Mike Rosenbaum of MLB.com published a Q&A with the aforementioned Peterson.
Rosenbaum also looked at the standouts at the Mets Minor League camp.
Former Met Dario Alvarez was claimed by the Mariners off waivers from the Cubs.
Fangraphs predicted that the Mets have a 42.4% chance to make the playoffs and 1.2% chance to win the World Series. That may seem low, but hey, Ya Gotta Believe!
Tim Healey of Newsday detailed how a carjacking nearly a decade ago led to Luis Guillorme‘s gifted hand-to-eye coordination.
Latest News in the MLB
The Orioles finalized their four-year, 57-million-dollar deal with their new staff ace, Alex Cobb.
The Rays signed Curt Casali to a minor-league contract.
Despite a .107 spring batting average and a 27.00 ERA, Shohei Ohtani will begin the 2018 regular season on the Angels’s major league roster.
Top prospect A.J. Puk was shut down with over injury concerns with his biceps, but Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle reports it’s just soreness that will subside in a couple of days.
Latest NL East news
The Phillies traded away Eliezer Alvarez to the Rangers.
Joaquin Benoit was diagnosed with a forearm strain and will not crack the Nationals’s Opening Day bullpen.
The Phillies released LHP Fernando Abad.
Nationals second baseman Daniel Murphy is unlikely to be ready for Opening Day.
Latest on MMO
Tim Ryder believes 2018 is a make-or-break year for Juan Lagares.
John Sheridan and Michael Mayer answers the MMO mailbag.
Ryder is enamored with Wilmer Flores‘s spring.
Josh Finkelstein advocates for both Rafael Montero and Hansel Robles to be nowhere close to the Mets Opening Day roster.
On this Date in Mets History
Birthdays: Ike Davis(31), Danny Boitano (65), Cory Lidle(46), Joe Smith(35)
The Mets pitched their first no-hitter on this date 53 years ago when Gary Kroll and Gordie Richardson combined to blank the Pirates for nine innings, though it was in a spring training game.
Let’s Go Mets!
