Saturday evening, Major League Baseball announced their first and second All-MLB teams. Back in the beginning of November, three New York Mets were nominated for the award. Those being Francisco Lindor, Kodai Senga, and Pete Alonso. Of them, only Lindor was elected, as he was named to the second team. Lindor was extremely deserving. The 30-year-old posted a .254/.336/.470 slash line good for an...
Good morning, Mets fans! Major League Baseball is introducing a brand new showcase for top prospects around the league to show off their talent, titled “Spring Breakout.” The event will put each organization’s best prospects against each other in a game that will be part of a doubleheader with a regularly scheduled spring training game. MLB is looking to use this as an...
Major League Baseball announced Wednesday that Shohei Ohtani won the AL Most Valuable Player Award, and Ronald Acuña Jr. won the NL Most Valuable Player Award. They both unanimously won their respective awards. Rangers duo Corey Seager and Marcus Semien landed second and third, respectively. The World Series MVP Seager received 24 second-place votes and six third-place votes, while Semien...
Baseball lost a legend on Tuesday. Brooks Robinson, an 18-time All-Star, 16-time Gold Glove recipient, and one of the greatest to ever man the hot corner, died on Tuesday at the age of 86. Robinson won two World Series with the Baltimore Orioles, the only team he ever played for. He was the 1964 Most Valuable Player and was the World Series MVP in 1970, a year where he hit .485 in the playoffs. ...
It might have taken a bit longer than expected, but Jeff McNeil is finally starting to look like his old self at the plate. The reigning National League batting champion has had a rough go of things this season, hitting .253/.330/.332 with 103 hits, four home runs and 37 RBIs through 112 games. In comparison, McNeil finished the 2022 campaign with a .326/.382/.454 with 174 hits in 148 games. He...
It was the most unlikeliest of heroes in an unusual circumstance for the New York Mets (43-50) on Sunday afternoon at Citi Field. Another low-scoring affair saw the Los Angeles Dodgers and Mets go to 10 innings before Luis Guillorme played hero. Guillorme, who was called upon to bunt the free runner over to third base, swung away with two strikes and poked the ball down the first base line. As a...
Entering Friday night, Justin Verlander was in the midst of his most consistent stretch as a Met. The right-hander had allowed just two earned runs in his last 18 innings, and looked to open the second half strong. However, Verlander struggled with his control from the very start, leading the Mets to their eventual 6-0 loss. Verlander threw 23 pitches in the first inning, issuing walks to...
The Mets lost to the Dodgers 5-0 on Tuesday night, facing a vintage Clayton Kershaw who mirrored his greatness from the past. It was his 200th career win for the Dodgers. Meanwhile, Tylor Megill received the start for the Mets, battling through five innings with his usual control issues. The Dodgers wasted no time and struck against Megill in the bottom of the first. Freddie Freeman got the...
For just the second time in franchise history, the National League batting champion will be a New York Met. Jeff McNeil finished 2022 with a .326 average, narrowly topping Freddie Freeman to finish the 2022 season with the best batting average in MLB. McNeil struggled in 2021, hitting just .251 over 140 games after hitting .319 in his first three years in the majors. This season, he returned to...
Early in the season, it seemed that Jeff McNeil had fallen out of the race for the National League batting title. McNeil had a batting average of .208 in July and saw his season average fall from .319 to .294. The Mets second baseman/outfielder persevered the rest of the season and batted .370 from August 1 to October 2 to raise his batting average to an MLB-leading .326. With a slim margin over...
It’s the biggest series of the year for the New York Mets, who are in the midst of a division race for the ages with the Atlanta Braves. However, with five games to go this season, one player on the team finds himself competing for a title of his own: a batting title. Jeff McNeil enters play on Saturday with a .322 batting average, good for second in the National League behind only Freddie...
While the Mets offense has been inconsistent recently, Jeff McNeil has just kept hitting. McNeil continued that trend on Tuesday when he went 2-for-4 in the Mets’ 4-1 loss to the Cubs. That multi-hit game came as the right fielder and third-place hitter as the Mets move him around the lineup in an effort to score more runs. Regardless of where McNeil hits in the lineup or plays in the...
