The Mets are assigning value to available free-agent pitchers. While continuing their intense pursuit of Japanese free agent phenom Yoshinobu Yamamoto, the Mets may prioritize left-hander Jordan Montgomery over fellow domestic free agents Eduardo Rodriguez and Blake Snell to fill high-end roles. Montgomery, 30, was 4-2 with a 2.79 ERA in 67.2 innings over 11 starts for Texas after being acquired...
After months of speculation and years of pining, the Mets hired David Stearns to be their first President of Baseball Operations, according to Andy Martino of SNY. The five-year, $50 million contract ties him with the Dodgers’ Andrew Friedman for the highest-paid candidate in this role at $10 million a year. In Stearns, the Mets get one of the best baseball minds of the century who led the...
There are several different decisions general manager Billy Eppler and the New York Mets organization will need to make in the coming weeks and months. One part of that decision-making process will be what to do with the team’s own free agents. In total, the Mets have nine MLB free agents and seven of their own players with options they will have to make/await decisions on. One of those...
Brandon Nimmo Position: CF Bats/Throws: L/L Age: 29 (3/17/1993) 2022 Traditional Stats: 151 G, 673 PA, .274/.367/.433, 16 HR, 63 RBI, 10.6 BB%, 17.2 SO% 2022 Advanced Stats: 134 wRC+, 5.4 fWAR, 5.0 bWAR, .317 BABIP, .159 ISO, 40% HardHit Rundown In the 2011 MLB draft, the Mets decided to take a chance on a high-upside outfielder from Cheyenne, Wyoming, named Brandon Nimmo. As Wyoming is one of...
During his introductory press conference, Steve Cohen made a note that the Mets, his newly minted purchase, will not only go full bore in trying to win but to also live up to the expectation that a major market team should spend like a major market team. Cohen stated confidently that “this is a major market team and it should have a budget commensurate with that.” Cohen and the Mets...
Well, well, well. We finally have stuff to talk about here. After six weeks of rumors and lull in actual activity, the Mets hired a general manager, lost a player people widely expected them to keep and added a bundle of minor-leaguers to their 40-man roster. It was so busy, Luis Rojas getting hired by the Yankees as their third-base coach basically got swept under the rug. Let’s talk it...
Mets General Manager Billy Eppler joined owner Steve Cohen and team president Sandy Alderson virtually from his home in California to meet and speak to the New York media for the first time. Eppler joins the Mets after five years as Los Angeles Angels GM and having already spent a decade in New York with the Yankees organization. Here are five takeaways from Eppler’s inaugural press...
The Mets’ offseason kept chugging along this week, highlighted by the GM Meetings in California. Though no signing or trades came during the meetings, there was plenty of bulletin-board material with regards to comments from Sandy Alderson to rumors abound. GM Meetings The GM meetings were this week from Tuesday to Thursday, and Sandy Alderson brought Ian Levin, Bryn Alderson and others to...
The 2021 league year officially came to a close when the Atlanta Braves won the World Series. (The Mets are now the only NL East team to not win a World Series in the 21st century.) With that came a drove of news in terms of player personnel as the 2022 league years gets under way, as well as some routine disappointments with regards to the Mets’ front office search. Let’s look at...
We’re now a month into the Mets’ offseason, and they still don’t have a primary decision maker in place for the front office (the only team in baseball without one) nor a manager (just one of two teams without one). It’s not like they’re not trying, though, which makes the process even more cumbersome. Let’s look at what’s gone on this week. More Denials...
Throughout this winter, the MMO staff will be discussing whether various players on the New York Mets’ roster should remain with the club for 2022 or get traded elsewhere. The first player up was Edwin Diaz. Now we will discuss outfielder/first baseman Dominic Smith. Patrick Glynn Says: Hold Dominic Smith So I think first what we need to decide is: what Dom Smith is the team going to get moving...
