Good morning, Mets fans! While Wednesday did not present a lot of news from the baseball world, we did get some updates on interest the remaining free agents are garnering. One of the bigger pieces of news came from Jon Heyman, who said on a Bleacher Report live stream that the Los Angeles Angels are one of the team showing increased interest in Joey Votto. The long-time Reds first baseman is...
Less than a year ago, the Mets were lucky to score 12 runs in a series. On June 9, 2015, the last time the San Francisco Giants came to Citi Field, unheralded Chris Heston tossed a no-hitter. By April 2016, things had definitely changed. Yoenis Céspedes, a trade deadline acquisition who was the catalyst to the 2015 team and re-signed the past off-season, changed the dynamic of the Mets lineup....
Neil Walker, who played in over 1,300 major league games with six different organizations from 2009 through 2020, hopes that one word will accurately sum up his professional career which came to an end when he announced his retirement in April of this year: Grinder. Growing up in the Pittsburgh area idolizing many of the players from the nineties Pirates teams, Walker dreamed of one day putting...
Good Morning, Mets fans! Last night the Mets dominated in a blowout against the Blue Jays scoring 18 runs on 19 hits, getting four-RBI nights from Michael Conforto, Dominic Smith, and Wilson Ramos. Jacob deGrom went six sparkling innings giving up only one earned run on three hits with nine strikeouts; his ERA went down to 1.67 and he got his fourth win of the season. Tonight, Seth Lugo (2-2,...
Ahead of the 2020 season, let’s take a closer look at the Miami Marlins’ free agents and see who may be worth pursuing in the offseason. The Miami Marlins finished their season with a 57-105 record, marking 2019 as the third season in their history with 100 or more losses. They finished the season with 22 shutout games, the most in the big leagues this season. Despite the team’s rough...
The Miami Marlins announced Tuesday morning that they have signed outfielder and former Met Curtis Granderson to a minor league deal with an invitation to Spring Training. Granderson, 38 in March, split last year between the Toronto Blue Jays and Milwaukee Brewers, and hit a combined .242/.351/.431 with 13 homers and 38 RBI. The Illinois native spent three and a half seasons in the Mets...
The Mets and 2B Neil Walker were never able to come to an agreement on a contract extension this offseason. Earlier in the season, Ken Davidoff of the New York Post reported that during the 2016-2017 offseason Walker’s representatives initially rejected a $42 million extension, only to attempt to accept it later on. This afternoon, Steven Marcus of Newsday reported that Walker told him there was...
In recent weeks, the Mets have said they want to have a quick rebuild, they want position players, and they want to get more athletic. That’s ideal but you’re not going to do that by trading rental players like Asdrubal Cabrera and Jose Bautista. As we saw with Jeurys Familia, the rentals won’t get much in return and that is before we factor in the Mets not wanting to eat...
With the absolutely embarrassing lineup the Mets put out yesterday, the Mets did what we all expected them to do — they lost. That loss took the once 11-1 Mets, and it sunk them all the way to 14 games under .500. Perhaps worse than that, the Marlins won last night meaning a Marlins team actively looking to lose games this season has more wins than the Mets. With each passing game, the writing...
Hard throwing righty Gerson Bautista made his major league debut earlier this week with a scoreless inning (struggled on Thursday night though) while Jacob Rhame was up with the New York Mets earlier this season and Jamie Callahan pitched last September. All three of those right-handed relievers were acquired by the Mets during the trade off of veterans last season and another one of those arms...
During the course of the minor league season, we will periodically check-in and assess which Mets prospects have improved their games, and as a result, now see their stocks rising. There are a numbers of factors which will be assessed in deciding which prospects to highlight, including but not limited to on the field production. Position Players Peter Alonso, 1B Level: Binghamton Stats:...
In this week’s version of the mailbag, the questions that mostly arose were the Mets decisions surrounding the right side of the infield. Generally speaking, the questions focused on what the Mets are doing against what the Mets should be doing with some of the more controversial players on this roster: @bigmetsfan1 asks . . . Had the Mets turned down the option on Asdrubal Cabrera, how...
