With the first World Series game between the Texas Rangers and the Arizona Diamondbacks set to get underway, let’s take a look at the former Mets who will be playing for either team Arizona Diamondbacks Miguel Castro Miguel Castro found his way to the Mets via an August 31, 2020, trade. Castro would go on to pitch the 2020 and 2021 seasons for the Mets, notching a 3.52 ERA with 91...
Before the season, the New York Mets had to answer the question of who would be their left-handed arm out of the bullpen. The question got so large New York decided to make a trade with the New York Yankees to bring in Joely Rodríguez. The team also signed former Met, Chasen Shreve, to a minor league contract. After a strong spring training, Shreve made the Mets’ roster. Shreve started the...
[tps_title][/tps_title] Back on April 3rd a trade was made between the two New York teams as they swapped relievers. It certainly caught many off guard as the Mets acquired left-hander Joely Rodríguez in exchange for right-handed, hard-thrower Miguel Castro. The Mets evidently didn’t see Chasen Shreve as enough to fulfill the left-handed reliever role that was vacated after Aaron Loup...
Just when you thought this week in Mets Land couldn’t get any odder, the Mets and Yankees have made a trade. The two teams have exchanged relievers, with Miguel Castro heading from Flushing to the Bronx, and lefty Joely Rodriguez coming back to the Mets in the deal. The Mets originally acquired Castro from the Baltimore Orioles during the 2020 season, and he seemed to be able to get his...
The Mets played a sim game at 11 a.m. on Monday at Clover Park, with the bulk of the pitchers being big leaguers. The position players on the lineup card were all minor leaguers, but guys like Pete Alonso and James McCann also took multiple at-bats. Alonso and McCann had good days at the plate, though Francisco Álvarez stood out again. The 20-year-old catcher prospect had two doubles in the...
The New York Mets’ second spring training game of the season certainly did not go as well as the first. The St. Louis Cardinals jumped on David Peterson with two early home runs at Clover Park in Port St. Lucie, FL. They held the lead throughout in a game where each team featured lineups littered with mostly everyday starters and emerged victorious, 6-4. Interestingly enough, the...
Monday is MLB’s self-imposed deadline to strike a deal for a new Collective Bargaining Agreement so the 2022 regular season can begin as scheduled on March 31st. After a week of meeting every day in Florida, the chances of that happening are looking slim, no matter what some league insiders are reporting. There are still a few hours left to get a deal done before the proverbial buzzer, so...
As the New York Mets entered the 2021 All-Star break, many of us were excited to be watching a first-place team take the field each night. Their 48-40 first-half record was a direct result from a 17-9 performance in May. During the month of April, though? What they did was a lot less awe-inspiring. Through the first month of the regular season, the Mets fought with a number of postponements on...
Player Data: Age: 26 (12/24/1994), B/T: R/R Primary Stats: 69 G, 70.1 IP, 3-4, 3.45 ERA, 1.294 WHIP, 77 K, 1.79 SO/BB Advanced Stats: 0.6 bWAR, 0.1 fWAR, 116 ERA+, 4.21 xERA, 4.36 FIP, xFIP 4.48, 25.4 K%, 14.2 BB% 2021 salary: $509,500 Grade: B- 2021 Review In his first full season as a Met, Miguel Castro showed flashes of the electricity he can bring when he’s on the mound, but also has...
As a transplanted New Yorker, it was a bittersweet weekend of baseball in light of the September 11th tributes from Citi Field, Ground Zero, and across the pond to Buckingham Palace. Watching the subway series in the borough where I broke my baseball cherry, made me nostalgic, and neurotic – because the worst feeling for a Mets fan – is losing to the rivaled Yankees. After blowing a...
With just over one month remaining in the regular season, the New York Mets currently find themselves looking up in the standings, and if they’re going to have any chance at making a late push for a playoff spot, they’ll need the majority of their roster to perform effectively down the stretch. For the most part, the bullpen has excelled throughout this season and has kept this team...
The Mets got swept by the Phillies this weekend. It wasn’t all that fun, so let’s just get right into some silver linings before we look at downward trends for the team that now sits at just a game above .500 at 56-55. 3 Up Taijuan Walker’s Getting… Better So, the downside is, Taijuan Walker still gave up three home runs Sunday, inflating his second half home run count to...
