Good morning, Mets fans! Derek Jeter announced on the Super Bowl that he will be joining the FOX Sports baseball team this season. The five-time World Series champion will join his former teammate Alex Rodríguez and fellow Hall of Famer David Ortiz in the FOX studio. Jeter headed a group that bought the Miami Marlins in 2017, but he left his post as the team’s CEO last February. Latest...
Good Morning, Mets fans! Last night, Walker Lockett took the mound in Philadelphia after Jacob deGrom was scratched due to neck stiffness. The Mets came up just short against the Phillies though, by a score of 6-5. Well after the Met game ended last night, Jeff Passan of ESPN reported that a Reds player tested positive for COVID-19. This is likely to cancel Saturday’s game between the Reds...
Major League Baseball and Fox Sports announced on Thursday morning that they’ve signed a broadcast rights extension through the 2028 season. The deal is for seven years, $5.1 billion according to Eric Fisher of Sports Business Journal. Fox will continue to show the All-Star Game, World Series and other playoff games. Fisher also reports that starting in 2022, there will be more games on...
We all have dreams in life. We all strive for something better, something that fulfills us and makes us feel like we truly found the right calling. Whatever the desired goal is, it’s usually an arduous uphill battle to achieve it. No one ever said it would be easy. Hard work, sleepless nights, and, at times, self-doubt creep in and try to deter us from reaching our desired ambitions....
Multiple outlets are reporting that today’s signings of lefty Tom Gorzelanny and righty Fernando Salas by the New York Mets will not stop their pursuit of free agent lefty Jerry Blevins. The Mets bullpen is starting to round out with the only glaring need left being a veteran LOOGY and Blevins held lefties to a .220/.278/.284 slash line in his time with the team. Original Report –...
The re-signing of Yoenis Cespedes is official. Rejoice. There will be a press conference today at 5 PM ET at Citi Field to re-introduce him. Original Report – Nov 29 Ken Rosenthal of Fox Sports is reporting that the Mets have reached an agreement with free agent outfielder Yoenis Cespedes. The deal is for four years and $110 million dollars, a little lower than my $115 million prediction....
According to Ken Rosenthal of Fox Sports, the qualifying offer this offseason will be set at $17.2 million. That figure is up from the $15.8 million QO last year. Rosenthal also notes that the qualifying offer system is expected to stay through the new CBA with some possible adjustments being made to it. The Mets have to decide whether they will extend a qualifying offer to second baseman Neil...
A Major League Baseball source told Bill Shaikin that the appeal filed by Chase Utley will not be heard until Monday, October 19th. Utley was suspended for two games for his take-out slide that resulted in a fractured leg for Ruben Tejada. He appealed the ban immediately, and then turned down an offer by MLB to reduce it to just a one-game suspension. If this is indeed true, it means Utley is...
Jon Morosi of Fox Sports, says that our very own New York Mets have the best outfield in all of baseball right now. Led by the “Yo” show, Yoenis Cespedes has put up such incredibly gaudy numbers that he has put himself into the NL MVP conversation. Cespedes has hit a career-high 35 home runs (tied for eighth in the majors), 17 home runs since joining the Mets on August 1st, tied for...
Ken Rosenthal of Fox Sports reports that the Oakland A’s have shipped starter Scott Kazmir to the Houston Astros for prospects RHP Daniel Mengden and highly regarded catcher Jacob Nottingham. The Astros had made no secret that they were ready to increase payroll to support the team’s playoff run and supplement their elite young talents. Kazmir, who signed a two-year, $22MM deal in...
MLB Insider Jon Heyman of CBS Sports reports, the Cincinnati Reds are making it known that right fielder Jay Bruce is available according to league sources. “The Reds are expected by rivals to become a full-fledged seller in coming days, perhaps shortly after the All-Star Game here, but to this point the one name being heard is Bruce, which is somewhat curious since they have multiple big...
Updated 6:35 PM According to what a team source told Adam Rubin of ESPN New York, the Mets plan to promote left-handed prospect Steven Matz from Triple-A Las Vegas and will use some form of a six-man rotation. Manager Terry Collins declined to confirm the promotion, but the cat’s out of the bag as Matz has already been told that he’ll be joining the rotation. Apparently an...
