With Carlos Correa returning to the Minnesota Twins, the question now for the New York Mets is what they should do at third base in 2023. Eduardo Escobar was the 2022 Opening Day third baseman, before being shifted to a platoon with Luis Guillorme, and he seemed to seize the job again in September after hitting .321/385/.596/.982 in both September and October. However, it was obvious that the...
Good morning, Mets fans! The Mets’ priority at this stage of free agency continues to be a fourth outfielder and on Friday, Jon Heyman of the New York Post reported that the Mets are considering signing Tommy Pham for that role. Heyman also mentioned the possibility of Trey Mancini, Adam Duvall, Jurickson Profar, or Tyler Naquin. It was previously reported on Thursday that the Mets had...
MLB Pipeline writer and draft analyst Jim Callis spoke with Metsmerized in a phone interview this week, giving his thoughts on the Mets’ draft class this year. “Like last year, they went big on their first three picks,” Callis told Metsmerized. “I thought Pete Crow-Armstrong was an interesting value at 19 as his stock has been a little up and down.” “He was the best high school player...
Good Morning, Mets fans! Happy Friday! The Mets, along with several other Major League teams, made significant cuts to their minor league systems in preparation for losing multiple minor league teams. Latest Mets News Mets former second round draft pick Andrew Church, who was one of the many minor leaguers released on Thursday, aired his grievances on the Mets organization. Mike Puma of the New...
Good morning, folks! The Mets are sending Jacob deGrom out to the mound to face the Phillies and secure a series victory. Last night, Noah Syndergaard looked good to begin the game but had some issues later on. The offense picked him up though, thanks to big hits from Tomas Nido and Todd Frazier. Latest Mets News David Wright homered in his simulated game today and made some comments on his...
Good morning, Mets fans! If you love pitching duels, make sure to tune in to today’s Mets-Phillies contest. 2015 Cy Young award winner Jake Arrieta (9-7, 3.33 ERA) will face the probable 2018 Cy Young award winner Jacob deGrom (7-7, 1.81 ERA). The game can be viewed on PIX11 and 710WOR at 4:10 p.m. Last night, Aaron Nola out-dueled Noah Syndergaard as the Phillies took the middle game of...
The Major League Baseball draft begins at 7:00 p.m. ET on June 4 with the New York Mets having the No. 6 overall pick. Tim Britton of The Athletic is reporting that the Mets are heavily scouting the SEC Tourament that is currently underway. As Britton points out, Auburn right-hander Casey Mize is playing in the tourney though he still seems like the likely first overall pick to the Detroit...
MLB Pipeline released their annual preseason top 100 prospect list on MLB Network Saturday night, and Mets fans hoping to see one of their own on the list didn’t need to hold their breath long. There were no Mets on the list, which was compiled by Pipeline’s prospect gurus Jim Callis and Jonathan Mayo. It was unreasonable to think there were any shoe-ins to make the list after Baseball America...
The Arizona Fall League came to an end yesterday for Mets prospects as the Scottsdale Scorpions tied the Mesa Solar Sox at 6 and failed to make the playoffs. Leading into the AFL season the big story was former NFL player Tim Tebow being a late add to the Scorpions roster as a Mets representative. Tebow’s fall league career got off to a rough start, going 4 for 32 with 12 strikeouts in his...
The Mets have signed the 31st overall pick Anthony Kay according to Jim Callis, he will receive a $1.1 signing bonus from the Mets which is significantly under the slot value of $1,972,100. It’s believed that there were some elbow issues in the left-hander’s physical which is part of the reason they were able to get the Long Island native $872,000 under slot. UPDATED: 5:17 PM Mets...
Jonathan Mayo of MLB.com ranked the Mets’ Kevin Plawecki as the sixth best catching prospect in baseball, with Blake Swihart of the Red Sox taking the top spot. “The Purdue University product has been on a fast track ever since the Mets took him with the 35th overall pick of the 2012 Draft. Plawecki has excelled at two levels in each of the last two years, playing in the 2014 Futures...
Welcome to my annual player projection series. In this series, I will try to take a swing at estimating how each Met will do in the upcoming season. As the results of last year’s projections will tell you, I won’t be too accurate. So much happens over the course of a baseball season that without access to heavy data, (and the time and programming knowledge to analyze it), that even...
