Growing up, Jett Williams heard the detractors who questioned his abilities on the baseball field due to his height. Instead of letting that define him, Williams, who’s listed at five-foot-eight, used that as motivation to prove them wrong. Selected by the New York Mets in the first round of the 2022 Draft (14th overall) out of Rockwall-Heath High School in Heath, Texas, Williams has gotten off...
All in all, it’s been a quiet winter around baseball. With many team’s suffering revenue losses from the shortened 2020 season and having no fans in attendance, clubs are erring on the side of frugality this offseason. So far, we’ve seen teams non-tender or designate players for assignment that otherwise may not have been during previous winters, and a majority of the top free...
The Mets (15-20) travel to Baltimore to take on Brandon Hyde’s Orioles (15-19) in a two-game series beginning Tuesday night at 7:35 pm. The teams will tangle Wednesday afternoon at 4:05 pm to wrap up the brief series. Looking at the teams’ records, it’s obvious that this is not quite a rematch of the 1969 World Series. However, with expanded playoffs in 2020, both teams are...
New York Mets general manager Brodie Van Wagenen gave starting backstop Wilson Ramos a vote of confidence from the GM Meetings in Scottsdale, Arizona last week, insisting that the Mets “have a starting catcher in [Ramos]”, adding, “We expect to go into the season with [Ramos] as our guy.” While handing out Thanksgiving turkeys with the Mets in Elmhurst, Queens on...
