Former Mets center fielder Juan Lagares announced his retirement from baseball on Thursday. Lagares played in 10 seasons in the major leagues, eight of which came with the Mets. While his MLB playing days ended in 2022, he played in the Dominican Winter League in each of the last four years. Lagares signed with the Mets as an international free agent in 2006. While he was originally a shortstop,...
Sunday night, Rawlings announced the 2025 Gold Glove winners. The New York Mets had two finalists, those being catcher Luis Torrens and starting pitcher David Peterson. Each were named a finalist on October 15. At catcher, San Francisco Giants backstop Patrick Bailey got the nod. It was well deserved as Bailey turned in a sensational season behind the plate. He ranked in the 100th percentile in...
Good morning, Mets fans! Tuesday night’s loss to the Red Sox in Boston marked the Mets’ first three-game losing streak of the season and pushed them a game and a half back of the Phillies for the division lead. After only scoring 10 runs in their last seven games, New York put half that run total up in Wednesday night’s win against Boston. Brett Baty drove in three runs from...
Good morning, Mets fans! What a win! The Mets looked lifeless for the first eight innings of the rubber game against the Blue Jays on Wednesday afternoon, going into the ninth with no hits. However, Bowden Francis, who was looking to complete his no-hit bid, was rudely greeted by the potential NL MVP Francisco Lindor. Lindor ripped a fastball into the right field bleachers to tie the game at one...
After their upset of the 2000 Mets, the 2019 Mets took on the 2006 Mets—perhaps the best Mets team this century—in the latest Mets Madness series. The ’19 team, managed by Allison Waxman, looked on their way to another shocking series win, but David Wright and the ’06 Mets, managed by myself, turned their real-life Game 7 woes around. The ’06 Mets ultimately took the series in...
Los Tigres del Licey and Las Águilas Cibaeñas come to Citi Field for the Titans of the Caribbean, the first ever Dominican Winter League Series.
Good morning, Mets fans! As the Carlos Mendoza era is ushered into New York, a former New York Mets manager will continue to have a role with the organization. Carlos Beltrán will serve as a special assistant in the new regime, new president of baseball operations David Stearns said in an interview with Andy Martino. Beltrán enjoyed a stint that lasted more than six years in Queens between...
Tylor Megill battled through 3 1/3 innings in his first start since May 11 before giving way to David Peterson on Friday night. The towering righty walked one, struck out four and allowed five hits and two runs, both of which came on a two-run homer by Brandon Marsh. Megill’s lone clean inning came in the bottom of the first, in which we struck out former Met Juan Lagares. Megill ran into...
Over the span of a few hours on Black Friday last November, the New York Mets completely remade their outfield by signing Mark Canha and Starling Marte to join Brandon Nimmo. And, as it turns out, they may not be done supplementing to this part of the roster once the lockout ends sometime this century. With all the innings he’s logged in center field, it was easy to assume Marte would man...
With the 2021 Mets reeling after a 1-6 road trip, low-lighted by being swept in a series by the Phillies, who passed the Mets and moved into first place, this may be a good time to think about a positive memory from the not-too-distant past. Let’s wind the clock back two years to August 9, 2019. The Mets had begun their phoenix-like rise from the ashes. They had won six in a row and 14 of...
On Wednesday, the New York Mets added depth and a load of experience with the additions of Juan Lagares and Brian Dozier. The Lagares news was first reported by Deesha Thosar of the N.Y. Daily News while Anthony DiComo of MLB.com was first with the Dozier signing. Moments after the signings, the Mets announced they have released Melky Cabrera and Gordon Beckham per DiComo. Lagares and Dozier...
Despite focus centered on whether or not the league will even have a 2020 season, it doesn’t hurt to look ahead to what might be in 2021. In 2019, the Mets’ center field job was held down for the most part by Brandon Nimmo (when not injured) and the combination of Michael Conforto and Juan Lagares when Nimmo was down for the count. Nimmo has proven solid at the position, as his...
