Before they head out to Miami on Tuesday, the Mets played an intrasquad game on Monday at Clover Park. Kodai Senga pitched five scoreless innings for one of the squads and looked how he has all spring: locked in and ready for the regular season. Senga struck out seven in five innings of work on Monday, including three straight strikeouts in the first inning to start the game. .@kodaisenga...
Francisco Lindor created one of the bigger moments of the game in the New York Mets’ 4-4 tie with the St. Louis Cardinals Saturday night. The switch-hitting shortstop hit a two-run home run off Cardinals minor league pitcher Logan Gragg in the bottom of the sixth inning, pulling the Mets back within two. Lindor would finish the game going 1-for-3, taking his average up to .314 in spring...
Francisco Álvarez may be the Mets’ future behind the plate, but at least one New York catcher made a case to keep him in the minors a bit longer. Baseball Savant, the website that houses metrics and insights from MLB’s Statcast technology, introduced a new catcher blocking leaderboard. The stat tracks a catcher’s proficiency in preventing wild pitches (WP) and passed balls (PB)...
A spring for the youth, many of the Mets young stars are attempting to make their names known in hopes of cracking the major league roster or making a strong enough impression that they’ll be considered the next man up when the time comes calling. Brett Baty, one of the young stars the team boasts, started off strong by powering a home run to dead center field in his first spring game....
If any Mets fans are concerned about Max Scherzer’s contract opt-out following the 2023 season, they can breathe a little more easily for the moment. Unlike Jacob deGrom, who repeatedly emphasized his intention to opt out of his contract following last season, Scherzer made it clear that his approach is different. Speaking to SNY about his opt-out clause following the second year of his...
The Athletic’s Keith Law released his list of the top 20 Mets prospects heading into the 2023 season. Law was very kind in his opening statement about the depth they’ve been able to build in the minor leagues after a certain GM did so much to gut the system. For trading away as much talent as the Mets have in the past four years, they still have a pretty robust farm system thanks to...
Edwin Díaz is now the highest-paid reliever in baseball, after signing a five-year, $102 million deal to remain with the Mets. It’s also the largest for a reliever in MLB history. Diaz will make $20.4 million per year, surpassing the White Sox’s Liam Hendricks previous record-setting mark of $18 million per year. In order to get here, all Díaz had to do was be himself. The Mets...
“We’ll see what happens” were Aaron Judge’s parting words on a quote that made the rounds through the MLB community on Monday afternoon. Judge, speaking on his upcoming free agency and specifically his desire to return to the Yankees, said: “I’ve been clear about that since I first wore the pinstripes. But we couldn’t get something done before spring training and now I’m a free agent and...
The Mets played a sim game at 11 a.m. on Monday at Clover Park, with the bulk of the pitchers being big leaguers. The position players on the lineup card were all minor leaguers, but guys like Pete Alonso and James McCann also took multiple at-bats. Alonso and McCann had good days at the plate, though Francisco Álvarez stood out again. The 20-year-old catcher prospect had two doubles in the...
