Morning Briefing: Ready or Not, Here Comes Rosario!

Good Morning, Mets fans! Tonight the New York Mets will take on the Colorado Rockies in the mile high city at 8:10 p.m. Steven Matz will start for New York and will be opposed by Jeff Hoffman.

Latest Mets News

Yesterday was a busy day for the Mets. The Mets acquired RHP’s Jamie Callahan and Gerson Bautista as well as RHP Stephen Nogosek in exchange for Addison Reed. Callahan will report to Triple-A while Nogosek and Bautista will report to A+.

Perhaps the biggest news of the day was Sandy Alderson announcing what everyone has been waiting for: the Mets are calling up Amed Rosario. Rosario is slashing .328/.367/.466 in Las Vegas this season. Rosario’s teammate Dominic Smith will also be up soon according to Alderson.

With Addison Reed now a member of the Boston Red Sox, AJ Ramos will take the reigns of Mets closer until Jeurys Familia returns at the end of the season.

Latest NL East News

Mark Zuckerman of MASN covered the move the Nationals made to get Brandon Kintzler.

Mark Bowman of MLB.com writes about the August deadline.

Jose Fernandez would have turned 25-years-old yesterday. Clark Spencer of the Miami Herald writes about what the Fernandez family did to commemorate him.

Ryan Lawrence of Philly Voice sized up the Phillies trade deadline.