The Tampa Bays Rays Wednesday traded their long time third baseman Evan Longoria to the San Francisco Giants, according to Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times. According to Jeff Passan of Yahoo, the Rays are receiving prospects Christian Arroyo, Matt Krook and Stephen Woods and outfielder Denard Span in return. The 32-year-old has spent the entirety of his 10-year big league career with the Rays...
The New York Mets were defeated by the San Francisco Giants by a score of 3-0 Wednesday night at Citi Field. The Mets season is over, and the Giants will advance and face the Chicago Cubs in the NLDS. Pitching: Unhittable. Incredible. Norse god-like. Phenomenal. All are words that describe Noah Syndergaard’s outing tonight. Thor tossed 7.0 dominant innings, allowing only 2 hits while...
Eduardo Nunez has been left off the San Francisco Giants Wild Card Game roster with a hamstring injury. On the season, Nunez was hitting .288/.325/.432 with 24 doubles, four triples, 16 homers, 67 RBI, and 40 stolen bases. With Nunez off the roster, the Giants are now without their biggest stolen base threat. For the most part, the Giants are a team without a lot of team speed. After Nunez,...
For those of you – and I know there’s a lot of you – holding out hope that the Mets were still in the hunt for free agent outfielder Denard Span despite the signing of Alejandro De Aza, here’s some sobering news for you… According to Mike Puma of the New York Post, the Mets have no plans to watch Denard Span next week in Tampa, Florida where he’ll be holding a...
Here’s the latest on some of the Mets’ top free agent targets this offseason. Jon Heyman of CBS Sports is reporting that the Mets are looking hard at Ben Zobrist.The Mets have been connected to him since the offseason began, but they will have to compete with a lot of teams in order to sign him. Heyman says that there could be as many as 20 teams interested and that the St.Louis...
Fate may have dealt the Washington Nationals a fatal blow on Thursday night when leadoff man Denard Span went on the disabled list with inflammation in his left hip. The Nats may have beaten the Padres by a score of 4-2 last night to remain 6.5 games behind the Mets, but it was a costly win to be sure. The Nationals were counting on Span to give the team a boost as they tried to catch the Mets...
With a divisional opponent like the Nationals coming to town for a four-game showdown, the Mets have an opportunity to really silence those early season fluke theorists and all-around doubters. Starting with reigning rookie of the year Jacob deGrom going up against Stephen Strasburg, the Mets will look to take advantage of Citi Field’s extensive confines and keep bats like Bryce Harper,...
The Mets (57-65) lost to the Nationals (66-53) by a score of 4-1 on Thursday night at Citi Field. Dillon Gee got the start for the Mets and was decent, but got punished for his mistakes. Gee left one out over the plate to Adam LaRoche in the 1st and had a pitch cut out into the middle of the plate against Bryce Harper in the 4th, and both National Sluggers took him deep for a 2-run shot. Dillon...
It’s only been six games for Juan Lagares who is working on his bat in the Dominican Winter League, but so far the early results have been incredible for the young center fielder. Last night, Lagares went 3-for-4 with two RBI and two stolen bases to raise his average to .375 for the season with a .777 OPS. The Dominican native has hit in six straight games for Las Aguilas and has eleven...
Gary Cohen: Why would Francisco throw at Jayson Werth? Ron Darling: Because he’s a fool, that’s why. The New York Mets brought back Frank Francisco from oblivion this season because their bullpen was depleted, but also in the off chance somebody might be desperate enough to trade for him. After his despicable display Thursday afternoon at Citi Field, any team wanting him would not...
Spoiler Alert: This game was really, really ugly. Let’s get right to it… The Nationals got off to a quick start off of Carlos Torres when Denard Span and Ryan Zimmerman hit back-to-back jacks to lead off the game. Torres would settle down, but just for a while. After a quiet second, the Nats struck again in the third when Jayson Werth took the first pitch he saw to left center for a...
What a difference a few hours makes. Matt Harvey toed the rubber and allowed no earned runs in eight innings tonight, but as we’ve come to expect, the run support was not there and the Mets dropped a heartbreaker 2-1. The game was quiet for three innings, but Josh Satin got it going in the top of the fourth when he drove a double to the opposite field. John Buck followed with a double of...
