New York Mets closer Edwin Díaz will be heading to the World Baseball Classic to pitch for Team Puerto Rico next week. Once the tournament begins, if you see Diaz pitch in one of the pool games, you will not see him enter the next game. Díaz was a guest on Foul Territory on Thursday and he mentioned what his workload will be like in the first few games of the WBC: .@SugarDiaz39 says he...
Good morning, Mets fans! On Friday, Clayton Kershaw announced that he will not be participating in the World Baseball Classic after he had originally planned to. Jorge Castillo of the Los Angeles Times reported that Kershaw had to withdraw due to a problem with insurance coverage and that his back injury history was a significant factor. Kershaw called this development “super...
With the World Baseball Classic a little more than a month away, a lot of attention at Port St. Lucie will be on who isn’t at Mets spring training compared to who is once the tournament begins. One player who will be there, at least for right now, is new right-handed pitcher Kodai Senga. Team Japan released its 30-man preliminary roster for the WBC in late January and Senga was not on the list....
Good morning, Mets fans! Team Japan has released its roster for the 2023 World Baseball Classic and it includes major leaguers such as Shohei Ohtani, Yu Darvish, Seiya Suzuki, Lars Nootbaar, amongst others. One notable absence is newly signed Mets pitcher Kodai Senga. Instead of joining Team Japan, Senga prefers to get acclimated to his new team facility in Port St. Lucie and with the Mets, but...
Perspective is everything. And, when it comes to breaking down and assessing the offseason for the New York Mets, perspective is indeed important. Memories can be very short in sports but that shouldn’t be the case with the Mets, despite the disappointing ending to the Carlos Correa saga. Owner Steve Cohen didn’t win that particular battle, but this off-season should still be viewed...
When a team wins 101 games, the assumption is that many things went right. However, when that same team is eliminated in the Wild Card Round of the playoffs with barely a whimper, it’s fair to look back and ask what went wrong. The 2022 Mets were one of the most puzzling enigmas of the last number of seasons. There have been other good teams eliminated in the first round; as recently as...
When you go to watch the Mets play in Port St. Lucie during the month of March you could see a very different infield than the one that will start on Opening Day. First baseman Pete Alonso (USA), second baseman Jeff McNeil (USA), shortstop Francisco Lindor (Puerto Rico), and third baseman Eduardo Escobar (Venezuela) are all expected to play in the 2023 World Baseball Classic. The WBC will return...
Good morning, Mets fans! Mets owner Steve Cohen has spent an unprecedented amount of money this offseason to revamp his ballclub and some owners of other major league teams aren’t happy that he’s flexing his checkbook. Evan Drellich of The Athletic reports that some owners and management of other teams are upset that Cohen has spent the money he has and states that consequences are...
It appears as though the New York Mets are far from done this offseason as they look to add another bat and a reliever, per MMO’s very own Michael Mayer. According to Mayer, the Mets are still looking to bolster and upgrade their roster despite shocking the baseball world in the early hours of Wednesday morning by signing shortstop Carlos Correa to a 12-year, $315 million deal, pending a...
Based on the aggressiveness displayed by the New York Mets front office this offseason, it can be concluded that Steve Cohen is not intimidated by the increase in luxury tax payments that he will have to make. To contextualize what is facetiously called the ‘Steve Cohen Tax,’ other owners in the MLB quickly took notice of Steve Cohen’s abundant spending habits and decided to...
Good morning, Mets fans! A day after it was reported the Giants were pursuing righty Chris Bassitt, Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle reports that the team is in fact not going after the 33-year-old. Bassitt pitched for San Francisco’s Bay Area rivals, the A’s, for six years before getting shipped to the Mets this past spring. Bassitt threw a career-high 181 2/3 innings...
While the MLB Winter Meetings may be in the books, the offseason rolls on and there are still plenty of big names left on the board with a plethora of teams still looking to make a statement and address needs. We at MMO are going to delve right in and round up the latest rumors involving the New York Mets and the rest of MLB for you. Swanson, Braves Not Talking Despite the fact that over $2...
