Good morning, Mets fans! Trey Mancini of the Orioles and Buster Posey of the Giants earned the Comeback Player of the Year award in their respective leagues on Monday. Mancini posted a .255 batting average in 2021 after missing the 2020 season due to treatment of his stage three colon cancer.Posey earned his seventh All-Star appearance this past season after sitting out the 2020 season as his...
For the second consecutive game it was a walk-off at Fenway for the Boston Red Sox, sending the favored Tampa Bay Rays back to Florida with another bout of postseason sorrow. Sox starter Eduardo Rodriguez redeemed his ALDS Game 1 early exit loss with five innings of two runs on three hits, striking out six without a walk. He won a 17-pitch battle over Austin Meadows in the top of the third...
MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred addressed the media on Sunday and touched on several topics including the buzzers allegedly used by the Houston Astros to steal signs, the investigation of the 2018 Boston Red Sox among other things. Here’s what we learned from Manfred’s press conference: Houston Astros Buzzer Use In 2019 World Series Manfred said it remains unclear if the Astros used...
The Boston Red Sox will promote bench coach Ron Roenicke to interim manager according to Alex Speier of The Boston Globe. Speier added that it is possible and perhaps very likely that Roenicke’s interim label is dropped once MLB completes its investigation. However, in the meantime he will retain that title heading into spring training. Roenicke will replace Alex Cora, whom the Red Sox...
The New York Mets officially began spring training on Monday and kicked off their 59th MLB season. As with every year, the phrase “Hope springs eternal” from Alexander Pope’s “An Essay on Man” echos in the background of all 30 MLB clubhouses. Yet in the end, only 10 teams will make the playoffs at the end of September. A month later only one team will stand as World...
MMO Fan Shot by Matt Dorritie And just like that, Carlos Beltran’s tenure as manager of the New York Mets is over before it began. Beltrán’s dismissal should not come as any great surprise. His name was one of the first linked to the Astros sign-stealing scandal when the story first broke, and he was the only player named in Commissioner Robert Manfred’s report detailing the league’s findings...
The Mets have announced that they mutually agreed to part ways with manager Carlos Beltran. This comes after many rumors and speculation over his status and involvement in the latest cheating scandal, and follows the firings of Jeff Luhnow and AJ Hinch as well as the mutual parting between Alex Cora and the Red Sox. Below is a statement from Mets COO Jeff Wilpon and Mets Executive Vice President...
Jessica Mendoza became the first Mets employee to comment on the Astros sign-stealing scandal on Thursday when she appeared on the Golic and Wingo Show. Mendoza, special assistant to Mets’ GM Brodie Van Wagenen, called out whistleblower Mike Fiers during the interview, “to go public with it and call them out and start all of this, it’s hard to swallow.” The Mets hired Mendoza...
The findings from Major League Baseball’s investigations of the Houston Astros’ 2017 cheating allegations have already resulted in two managers losing their jobs, and as fate has so drawn it up, a bomb has fallen in the Mets’ lap with their own skipper. The fallout surrounding the infamous camera-trashcan relay system (we’ll call it that for now) began surely...
Mets fans, sports media, and anyone who enjoys sports – today is about Mike Piazza. Let’s not take that away from him. Everyone has been talking about the cheating scandal since punishment was announced on Monday. During these past few days, two managers involved in the scandal, AJ Hinch and Alex Cora, have been fired by their organizations. Is Carlos Beltran next? He shouldn’t...
Alex Cora received his punishment from the Red Sox in his involvement with the Astros sign-stealing scandal. The question still remains: will Mets manager Carlos Beltran face discipline as well? Latest Mets News Former Met D.J. Carrasco has joined the Syracuse Mets as their pitching coach. In an interview on SiriusXM, Jeff McNeil said that he thinks the 2020 Mets can reach the playoffs. Latest...
Following Major League Baseball’s levying of penalties against the Houston Astros on Monday, Boston Red Sox manager Alex Cora — Houston’s bench coach during their 2017 World Series championship season and heavily implicated in MLB’s report on the team’s sign-stealing scandal — became the next domino to fall in this unprecedented saga on Tuesday evening. As per a team...
