Good morning, Mets fans! Major League Baseball announced the 2024 draft lottery odds Wednesday night, and the Mets came in at 4.3%, the seventh-highest odds in all of MLB. This is the second rendition of the MLB draft lottery following the latest edition of the collective bargaining agreement, where the two sides agreed that the top six picks of the draft will be based on the lottery system....
Good morning Mets fans! The Fall Classic is officially set. On Tuesday night, the Arizona Diamondbacks officially went from barely in the postseason to winning the pennant, defeating the Philadelphia Phillies 4-2 on the road in Game 7 of the NLCS. The Diamondbacks will play the Texas Rangers in the World Series, with the first game set for Friday night in Texas. MLB has announced the schedule...
Good morning, Mets fans! Nathan Eovaldi held the Astros to just two runs and five hits over 6 1/3 innings as the Rangers forced a deciding seventh game with a 9-2 victory. Mitch Garver hit a solo homer, Jonah Heim put the Rangers ahead with a two-run homer, and Adolis García blew the doors off the game with a grand slam in the ninth inning. The Rangers will send Max Scherzer to the mound, while...
Good morning, Mets fans! Wednesday brought another slate of four Wild Card matchups and made sure there would be no games left to play on Thursday, as all four series ended in two-game sweeps. The Texas Rangers, Minnesota Twins, Arizona Diamondbacks, and Philadelphia Phillies all advanced last night, giving themselves off until Saturday by closing out the series early. While it was a day of...
Now that David Stearns has officially been introduced as the Mets’ next President of Baseball Operations, his first task is dealing with a managerial change after he fired Buck Showalter after two seasons at the helm. The presumed favorite for the opening is Brewers manager Craig Counsell, who worked for Stearns in Milwaukee. However, Counsell, who’s contract with the Brewers expires...
Good morning, Mets fans! The Mets’ N.L. East foe, Atlanta Braves, defeated the Astros 7-0 at Minute Maid Park to win the World Series. Jorge Soler got the team on the board with a long three-run home run that left the park. Additionally, former Met Travis d’Arnaud is now a World Series champion. He appeared in the World Series with the Mets in 2015, and six years later, he...
Good morning Mets fans! Michael Mayer reports that the Mets have requested to interview two new candidates for their front office: Twins’ Daniel Adler and Boston’s Raquel Ferreira. Game 3 of the World Series was an incredible pitching duel. The Braves brought a combined no-hitter to the top of the eighth inning, as Ian Anderson, A.J. Minter, and Luke Jackson all combined for seven no-hit...
As the New York Mets’ front office search is in its third week, the last managerial opening in baseball outside of the Mets was filled. Bob Melvin will be the new manager of the San Diego Padres, according to MLB.com’s AJ Cassavell. Melvin was the coach of the Oakland A’s from 2011 until last season, piling up an 853-764 record in the regular season and a 7-13 playoff record....
Good morning, Mets fans! Game 3 of the 2o21 World Series takes place tonight as the Astros and Braves fly to Atlanta with the series tied at one game apiece. Right-hander Luis Garcia takes the ball for the Astros. He has thrown 9.1 innings in the postseason and is 1-1. Ian Anderson will start for the Braves. In three games this postseason Anderson is 1-0 with a 2.25 ERA. First pitch is scheduled...
The Baseball Writers’ Association of America announced their winners of the 2018 American League and National League Managers of the Year Awards on Tuesday night. Full voting results can be found in the preceding links. Brian Snitker won the National League honors, taking the Atlanta Braves from a 72-90, third-place finish in 2017 to a 90-72, NL East-winning campaign in 2018. Snitker, 63,...
Eric Byrnes has never shied away from a challenge. Whether it was learning to control his attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) as a youth, revitalizing his career with the Arizona Diamondbacks after being released by the Baltimore Orioles after the ’05 season, or training for and completing the Western States 100 Mile Endurance Run in under 24 hours, the competitor in him never...
The Diamondbacks will announce the hiring of new manager Chip Hale on Monday, Jon Heyman of CBS Sports has confirmed, and he will receive a two-year contract. He had managed Arizona’s Triple-A affiliate for three seasons and had impressed many in the organization at the time. Before that, Hale served as Bob Melvin’s bench coach with the Athletics from 2012-14, and was formerly the...
