Paul Sewald entered spring training with a chip on his shoulder. After pitching to a 3.29 ERA in 56 games with the Las Vegas 51s in 2016, Sewald had hoped that his impressive stats in the hitters’ paradise – otherwise known as the Pacific Coast League -would warrant a major league call-up. The phone never rang for Sewald. Instead, he posted career highs in games (56), innings pitched...
Tonight I am joined by Russ Langer, the Las Vegas 51s play-by-play voice, to talk about the development of Amed Rosario and Dominic Smith. Russ also gives me some sleepers for the Mets bullpen, how Pedro Lopez has fared his first year managing in Triple-A and why Frank Viola makes such an impact on the 51s pitchers. I think you will find Russ’ comments very interesting, especially when it...
As the Mets, a team with World Series aspirations in April, drift further and further out of contention, speculation surrounding Terry Collins’ job security as manager continues to grow. His in-game decision making has become increasingly suspect this season, and the fact that the Mets aren’t winning hasn’t masked those poor decisions as it did the past two years. It still...
Sacramento 4, Las Vegas (59-46) 2 Tyler Pill moved back into the rotation pitching 4 innings giving up two runs on six hits (2 HR’s) with three strikeouts. Chase Huchingson followed with two scoreless innings lowering his ERA with Las Vegas to 1.33 20.1 innings but he has walked 15 in that span. Danny Muno was 2-4 with a run scored out of the leadoff spot and played second base with...
“In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explode, and every sunset is different.” – John Steinbeck, The World of Our Discontent In Binghamton over the last two seasons, the popularity of baseball has exploded as Pedro Lopez and his B-Mets have hit their stride putting together a run of winning baseball that earned back-to-back playoff appearances and an Eastern League...
Binghamton manager Pedro Lopez told Lynn Worthy of the Press and Sun Bulletin that outfielder Brandon Nimmo is on his way to the team’s minor league complex in Port St. Lucie to begin rehabbing his left knee. Nimmo was diagnosed with a sprained ACL in his knee which he injured last week while running out an infield single. Lopez said Nimmo is expected to miss four to six weeks. The Mets’...
Any discussion about the Binghamton Mets 2014 Eastern League Championship should start with B-Met manager Pedro Lopez. After setting a franchise record for regular season wins and taking the Eastern League’s regular season championship then falling in the first round of the championship playoffs in 2013, Lopez got a taste of championship baseball and was hungry for more. Adding to Lopez’s...
On Thursday, the New York Mets added RHP Hansel Robles to the 40-Man Roster so that he would be protected from the Rule 5 Draft in December. Since then, we’ve had quite a few readers ask us about him in the comment threads and via email. Here’s something our Binghamton beat writer, John Bernhardt, wrote about Robles a few weeks ago. It will give you a glimpse into this exciting...
For the nearly 6,000 baseball fans who packed Binghamton’s NYSEG Stadium, Friday night was about lasting memories as the Binghamton Mets edged Richmond, 2-1, to become the 2014 champions of the Eastern League. The Eastern League title was the first for Binghamton in two decades. There was the memory of Brandon Nimmo’s ground ball through the pitcher’s mound that looked like a certain double...
Last August the Mets sent catcher John Buck and outfielder Marlon Byrd to the Pittsburgh Pirates for reliever Vic Black and second baseman Dilson Herrera, a trade that benefited both sides with the Pirates getting the best of Byrd in their playoff run and the Mets working Black into their bullpen plans and Herrera into their future infield plans. Even though Black has made his impact known...
The Florida State League and the South Atlantic League announced the rosters for their respective All Star games and the Mets are well represented in each game. In the FSL, the St. Lucie Mets will send infielders T.J. Rivera and Dilson Herrera, outfielder Brandon Nimmo, catcher Cam Maron, and pitchers Randy Fontanez, Matt Koch, and Steven Matz. The South will face the North in the All Star Game...
(Photo by David Conde, Metsmerized Online) I just read a fascinating column by the new Mets beat writer for The Record, Matt Ehalt, who you may remember from ESPN New York last Summer. Ehalt profiles Noah Syndergaard and delves into some of the things we seldom hear about him and also peppers his piece with some interesting quotes from Pedro Lopez, Sandy Alderson and J.P. Ricciardi who explains...
