This offseason, we’re looking at the Mets’ history with free agency. The first half of our list began with names like Familia, McCann, and Castillo. Next is an infielder who played with the Mets from 2019 to 2020. The word “played” is used very loosely. If someone is on a roster but never gets a hit, was he really on the team? That bit of baseball existentialism was born...
In an article by Ryan Dunleavy of The New York Post, former Met Jed Lowrie said that the organization did not permit him to have surgery on his injured knee. The Mets signed Lowrie to a two-year, $20 million contract prior to the 2019 season. Lowrie had just eight plate appearances in 2019, and none in 2019. The Salem, Oregon native was diagnosed with a knee fat pad impingement during spring...
According to Joe Pantorno of AMNY (he has been all over the Mets sale news), Steve Cohen is expected to “clean house” when he officially becomes the Mets majority owner. Of course, that would start with GM Brodie Van Wagenen. The Mets are a miracle finish away from missing the playoffs in both seasons with him at the helm. The former agent has seen most of his big free agent signings crash...
The 2020 MLB Trade Deadline is set for Monday at 4 p.m. EDT, meaning the New York Mets have a few more hours to decide how they want to address the 2020 season and beyond. The Mets have made some aggressive moves at times during Brodie Van Wagenen’s tenure as general manager, but this is not the time for aggressive moves. The temptation may be there for some aggressive moves. After all,...
The New York Mets made a flurry of roster moves ahead of Sunday’s game in Atlanta, presumably hoping to shake things up amid their ongoing four-game losing streak. Right-hander Jordan Humphreys, designated for assignment earlier this week, was traded to the San Francisco Giants for veteran outfielder Billy Hamilton. Humphreys, 24, missed nearly two full seasons after undergoing Tommy John...
The Mets finally have at least partial clarity to what has kept Jed Lowrie off of a major league field for the better part of two seasons. It’s far from conclusive, but a second opinion revealed what GM Brodie Van Wagenen referred to as ‘PCL laxity,’ or limited strength in the posterior cruciate ligament. “When he wears his larger brace, that pain is mitigated,” Van...
On the eve of Mets’ 2020 Opening Day, their second-year GM Brodie Van Wagenen talked to reports about a variety of different topics. The former agent opened the talks with a statement, “We have a group of players that are excited to start the season, we’re excited, we’ve got cutouts of the fans in the stadium, we’ve got an Opening Day game on national TV, and we are...
Jed Lowrie. The gift that keeps on taking away. At the time of his signing, Jed Lowrie’s two-year, twenty-million-dollar contract represented a nice change in pace for the Mets. Instead of going into the season with a bevy of unanswered depth questions, Lowrie’s signing virtually guaranteed that New York would be all set at the infield. Yet, a year into the deal, it’s evident...
Mets manager Luis Rojas spoke to the media in a presser on Friday, providing updates before the exhibition games against the Yankees this weekend. Rojas is hoping that Yoenis Cespedes will be able to play both games this weekend, and mentioned the possibility that he could DH in one and play the field (likely left) in the other. He also said that Jacob deGrom, who had to end his previous start...
Hope springs eternal, even in mid-summer. The New York Mets began the scrimmage portion of training camp at Citi Field on Thursday, and the two players who stole the show early on probably weren’t who you would have guessed. Jed Lowrie, batting his way back from a laundry list of injuries since signing with the Mets last offseason, notched his first base hit of summer camp with an...
Updated, 7:55 PM, Sunday: Via Anthony DiComo of MLB.com, New York Mets infielder Jed Lowrie spoke to the press regarding his journey back to being healthy on Sunday following staggered group workouts at Citi Field. “I’m confident that I’m going to be able to do whatever is asked of me,” Lowrie said when asked about the restrictions his leg braces, plural, would pose....
New York Mets skipper Luis Rojas spoke to the team’s media corps via video stream on Saturday, touching on a plethora of topics with camp now officially underway. We received updates on Yoenis Cespedes, Jed Lowrie, Marcus Stroman, and Amed Rosario, the acclimation of the newly-signed orange and blue reserves, and the ever-prevalent adjustment period to these unprecedented times. Cespedes...
