Entering the 2020 offseason, one of the biggest priorities the New York Mets needed to address was their vacancy at the catching position. The club was in clear need of upgrading defensively behind the plate, as Wilson Ramos recorded a combined DRS of -12 from 2019-20 (127th out of 134 catchers) while posting the second-worst FRM (FanGraphs’ framing metric) among 19 catchers who caught a...
According to Mike Puma of the New York Post, the New York Mets have been in touch with former Marlins and Braves skipper, Fredi Gonzalez, regarding their vacant bench coach position. Gonzalez, 55, spent nearly four seasons at the helm of the Florida Marlins (2007 to June 2010), going 276-279 and winning the 2008 Sporting News Manager of the Year Award following the Marlins’ 84-77 campaign...
Mets GM Brodie Van Wagenen tweeted out a congratulatory picture of Carlos Beltrán signing his contract to be manager of the Mets. The problem was that the photo also included a notebook with the name Jerry Narron on it (unearthed by our own Jacob Resnick). Brodie would delete the original tweet and send it again after cropping the paper with Narron’s name out of it. Tim Healey of Newsday...
