The Mets can’t chill for 10 freaking hours. Less than a day after stealing Carlos Correa from the Giants, the Mets have traded catcher James McCann to the Baltimore Orioles, according to ESPN’s Jeff Passan. Mark Feinsand said the deal was for a player to be named later. Feinsand says that the player isn’t expected to be a “notable prospect.” The Mets have reportedly...
With the New York Mets currently sitting five games below a .500 winning percentage, general manager Brodie Van Wagenen would’ve likely been forced to sell off some of his team’s assets before the trade deadline. Luckily, the 2020 campaign is far from a normal season, allowing them to become buyers rather than sellers. While a few teams called to ask about the availability of closer...
Good Morning, Mets fans! Welcome to “Summer Camp!” The Mets report to Citi Field for the beginning of training today. Latest Mets News The team announced the signing of Jarred Hughes to their 60-man Player Pool. Steve Cohen will reportedly make another bid for the Mets, according to Laura Goldman. According to Tim Healey of Newsday, the Mets fired 25 employees last week, but this...
Good Morning Mets Fans!! Latest News about the Mets The Mets signed veteran center fielder Rajai Davis to a minor-league deal with an invite to MLB camp. Even though Davis received a minor-league deal, his speed, his position, and his history of mashing lefties make it likely that he’ll end up playing for the big-league club. Tim Britton of The Athletic praised Brodie Van Wagenen’s...
Adam Rubin of ESPN New York reminds us that the player to be named later in the Ike Davis trade with the Pirates will not be announced immediately after the draft. The PTBNL cannot be announced until a year after he signed his first pro contract, not a year after he was drafted. If it does turn out to be Connecticut prep right-hander Neil Kozikowski, which has been widely speculated, he signed...
May 8 A day after Vic Black took over the closing duties from Jeff Walters for Triple-A Las Vegas, the hard-throwing righty struck out the side on Wednesday night and picked up his fourth save of the season. He has now gone four consecutive appearances without issuing a walk and his ERA has improved to 0.68 for the season in 13.1 innings. Fare thee well, Jose Valverde. May 6 I know that one out...
As most, if not all of you know, Ike Davis was traded to the Pittsburgh Pirates on the evening of April 19th. Some of you may also know that the Mets acquired soon to be 26-year old Zach Thornton; a somewhat underwhelming reliever in the Pirates system. Now, what I am certain that none of us know is the name of the second player involved in the deal; the mysterious player-to-be-named-later...
Trading with the enemy is pretty rare – and when I mean the enemy, I’m referring to trading within the division – and the Yankees. You don’t want to be on the bad end of a trade and be burned for years to come when trading with your chief rivals. So what trades have the Mets made with the Enemy over the last 15 years? It’s only happened 19 times and remarkably, it...
The Rule 5 Draft is now concluded and the Mets have selected 25-year old right-hander Seth Rosin from the Phillies organization in the major league phase of the draft. The Phillies surprisingly didn’t protect Seth Rosin who went 9-6 with a 4.33 ERA and 1.22 WHIP last season for Triple-A Reading. However, the turned around and traded Rosin to the Dodgers for a player to be named later according...
Update 8/29, 5:45 PM by Satish Ram The Mets announced earlier on Twitter that Victor Black was the PTBNL in the deal that saw the Mets send Marlon Byrd, John Buck, and cash to the Pirates. This was old news, however, as speculation ran rampant as soon as the trade was announced. The new news, coming via Adam Rubin, is that the Mets are working with a technicality that allows Black to take 72...
Keith Law of ESPN, is reporting that the Mets have sent RHP Pedro Beato to the Boston Red Sox as the player to be named later in the trade they made to acquire catcher Kelly Shoppach. The Mets acquired Beato via the Rule 5 draft in 2010. Beato spent the entire 2011 season on the Major League roster, but lost significant time to the disabled list with a shoulder injury. The young right-hander...
The Phillies have acquired Ty Wigginton from the Colorado Rockies for a player to be named later or cash, according to the Rockies’ official Twitter account. In Wigginton, the Phillies get a decent right-handed bat for the bench who can help fill in for the sidelined Ryan Howard at first base and occasionally spell Placido Polanco at third base. After batting .248 with 22 homers while recording...
