This year’s All-Star game was broadcast on Fox. The network tried a few innovations during the broadcast, however, the game drew record-low television ratings. The mid-summer classic, according to an article in The Athletic drew 7.5 million viewers, down 10% from the game’s 2021 audience. The home run derby on Monday drew 6.8 million viewers. Baseball’s All-Star game...
Last year, the Braves were the surprise team in baseball winning the NL East by an eight game margin over the Nationals. This is a young talented group who has the talent to not only win the division again next year but also go on a run like the Greg Maddux-Tom Glavine-John Smoltz Braves teams. Freddie Freeman has become an MVP caliber player. Josh Donaldson has won an MVP and has the sixth...
Former Mets ace Matt Harvey will look to regroup as a reliever, as he will be available out of the bullpen beginning Tuesday night in St. Louis. Harvey, 29, went 0-2 with a 6.00 ERA over four starts for New York this season before he was bounced from the rotation. It’s been a rapid decline for the artist formerly known as The Dark Knight, who has endured Tommy John surgery and a procedure...
** This interview was conducted with Josh Smoker in early January, prior to him being designated for assignment on January 26.** When Josh Smoker made his major league debut with the New York Mets back on August 19, 2016, at the age of 27, he knew how difficult the road had been to make it there. Smoker, a former supplemental first-round pick of the Washington Nationals back in 2007, overcame...
Jacob deGrom, P Player Data: Age: 29, B/T: L/R, Free Agency: 2021 2017 Primary Stats: 31 GS, 201.1 IP, 15-10, 3.53 ERA, 3.50 FIP, 239 K, 1.187 WHIP, 5.0 WAR 2018 Salary: $9.2 million (projected) Grade: A- 2017 Review: Jacob deGrom was the one mainstay in the pitching rotation this season and one of the few bright spots on a team that was decimated by injuries and hobbled to a 70-92 record. For...
I’m not one to bitch and moan about player injuries because let’s face it, all teams have to endure them, it’s just the way it is. I’m sure the Washington Nationals weren’t drowning in their own tears when they lost Trea Turner, Bryce Harper, Max Scherzer and Stephen Strasburg for large chunks of this season. Instead they overcame any adversity and continued inching...
As I do every time this year, I mailed in my official Hall of Fame ballot. To grow up loving baseball and to vote for the Hall of Fame is a tremendous thrill for me even after all these years. It is also a responsibility I take very seriously, which is why I don’t understand the rationale of some of my colleagues who use their vote as a political statement. If you don’t want to vote, then...
Updated by Mitch Petanick on May 17, 2013 Adam Rubin has reported that Zack Wheeler is scheduled to start throwing again today, and is back with the team in Las Vegas. He was placed on the seven day DL, retroactive to his last start. He will rejoin the rotation next Wednesday when the team is in Iowa. Wheeler received a cortisone shot last Wednesday after being diagnosed with inflammation of the...
Please don’t hold my pessimism against me. Usually I’m a “glass is half-full” kind of guy, but the 2010 Mets are essentially relying on the same starting rotation they had last year as it’s been painfully told and shown to us all winter long. Johan Santana, Mike Pelfrey, John Maine, Oliver Perez and perhaps either Nelson Figueroa or Jon Niese, are going to round out the staff. It’s a...
As we get closer to going into full gear for Spring Training, every Met fan has to wonder what will become of our quest for 2010. I am under the belief that we will be competitive despite how things look outwardly with on the field personnel and the much bandied about organizational stuff. Multiple media reports speculate that the Mets are done spending, as if to imply that the well is...
Adam Rubin of the Daily News, reports that according to an inside source, John Smoltz could choose not pitching over pitching for the Mets. An insider tells the Daily News he believes the 42-year-old Smoltz could follow the route Pedro Martinez went last season — wait and sign mid-season. That could give Smoltz a better opportunity to be at full strength late in the regular season and for...
Update 1/26 3:00 pm Ken Rosenthal of Fox Sports reports the obvious via Twitter, Mets’ next target, after losing Sheets, looks to be Smoltz. They have not been aggressive on Garland, according to a source. Adam Rubin also reported that the Mets were engaged in aggressive dialogue this morning even before the Sheets signing went down. Update 1/25 3:30 pm: According to Adam Rubin (Welcome...
