The Mets roster is missing a fourth outfielder right now. Last season, manager Buck Showalter enjoyed the ability to get a player off their feet for a day by rotating in a defense-first outfielder. The first half of the 2022 season saw outfielder Travis Jankowski appear in 43 games with 17 starts. The Mets used Ender Inciarte as a defensive replacement in 11 games. Trade deadline acquisition...
The top starting pitcher on the open market this winter, Trevor Bauer, pulled a Lebron James mini on Friday, by announcing via his YouTube channel that he is taking his talents to Los Angeles to join the Dodgers. The Mets offered Bauer more money to try and entice him away from the West Coast, but the California native and UCLA product had his heart set on a homecoming. While Bauer would have...
With Trevor Bauer officially a Los Angeles Dodger, the Mets will now seek other ways to round out their rotation. In addition, they can now turn their attention, and money, to filling other roster needs. One of those roster needs is a strong defensive center fielder. According to Ken Davidoff and Joel Sherman of the New York Post, the Mets may intensify their efforts to bring Jackie Bradley Jr....
In the latest episode of Simply Amazin’, Tim is joined by Stacast guru Mike Petriello of MLB.com to discuss what’s happening in Flushing this offseason and around the league. Mike shares his thoughts on Mets center field target Jackie Bradley Jr., as well as how the team stands up in a tough division after missing out on some major free agent targets. Trevor Bauer’s expected...
Earlier this offseason, the New York Mets installed former 2000s staple Tony Tarasco as the team’s first-base coach with a separate focus on improving the Mets’ baserunning and outfield defense. Needless to say, there is plenty of room for improvement in both areas for this team. Let’s focus on the basepaths. Last season, per FanGraphs’ baserunning metric BsR (an...
And the train keeps moving… After missing out on free-agent center fielder George Springer to the Toronto Blue Jays, the New York Mets have reportedly turned their attention to defensive specialist and former Red Sox’ center-man Jackie Bradley Jr. According to Jon Heyman of MLB Network, the Mets have Bradley “on their radar”, listing the Phillies, Red Sox, Astros, and the...
The offseason had been going very well for the Mets. They came under new ownership, added bullpen depth, a catcher, starting pitching depth, and an all star shortstop. This week, things turned a bit, with the firing of GM Jared Porter, and one of the Mets targets for center field, George Springer, signing with the Blue Jays. With spring training less than a month away, the Mets need to figure...
The New York Mets have had one of the busier offseasons in Major League Baseball under the first year of the Steve Cohen era in Queens. While Cohen has the ability to outspend any other team and does not necessarily need to worry about the luxury tax threshold, Cohen is not planning on simply overspending to sign all the top free agents. “As a fan they want me to sign everybody tomorrow, but is...
Would you order Doritos at a fine French restaurant? That’s a loaded question, isn’t it? Would a fine French restaurant even serve Doritos? If it did, would it still be fine? For one, Doritos have a made-up English/Spanish name, so who knows what the French would call them. But for another, what customer would want that? If you’re the kind of person coming to a fine French restaurant, you...
If the New York Mets have interest in adding free-agent All-Star and Connecticut native George Springer to their outfield this winter, they’d better get in line. It would also be prudent to have a contingency plan in place. But first things first. Per Shi Davidi of Sportsnet Canada, the Toronto Blue Jays have “progressed beyond just talking” with the 31-year-old former Astros...
The Boston Red Sox will promote bench coach Ron Roenicke to interim manager according to Alex Speier of The Boston Globe. Speier added that it is possible and perhaps very likely that Roenicke’s interim label is dropped once MLB completes its investigation. However, in the meantime he will retain that title heading into spring training. Roenicke will replace Alex Cora, whom the Red Sox...
