With no Mets baseball to discuss, let’s take a look back at how the Mets were doing on this date in their NL championship year of 2015. On August 23, 2015, the Mets defeated the Rockies 5-1 in Colorado to complete a three-game sweep, maintaining their lead in the NL East at five games. Logan Verrett pitched eight innings of one-run ball to notch the win, allowing four hits and striking out...
Good morning Mets fans! The Winter Meetings have come and gone and many players remain available in trades and via free agency. Despite already making some moves, Brodie Van Wagenen is still not finished for this offseason. Latest Mets News The Mets selected RHP Kyle Dowdy in the Rule 5 Draft. The last Rule 5 selection that the Mets made who lasted a whole season was Sean Gilmartin who they...
Las Vegas 51s (15-18) 12, Albuquerque Isotopes (17-15) 9 Box Score Dominic Smith 1B: 4 for 5, 2 2B, 3 RBI, 3 R Desmond Jennings RF: 3 for 5, 2B, BB, 2 R Amed Rosario SS: 2 for 6, 3 RBI Brandon Nimmo CF: 2 for 5, 2B, RBI, BB, 3 R The offense came alive early for the 51s, as they scored seven runs on nine hits through two innings Tuesday afternoon. Every one in the starting lineup minus Phillip...
The Washington Nationals barrage of 23 runs broke the Mets modest two-game winning streak, but their biggest loss was the early exit of ace Noah Syndergaard to a possible lateral strain. Syndergaard went from not being able to lift his throwing arm over his head on Thursday, to being tattooed for five runs in one inning on Sunday. And after refusing an MRI for his sore biceps, today’s disastrous...
The Mets and St. Louis Cardinals tied 3-3 at First Data Field in New York’s second to last spring game. Pitching After officially being given a spot in the starting rotation, Robert Gsellman went out and pitched beautifully in his last start of the spring. Gsellman made one mistake, a three run home run to Matt Adams but that was all. He allowed three runs on five hits and struck out six...
The New York Mets bolstered their bullpen on Friday by re-signing both Jerry Blevins and Fernando Salas. The two signings though also create two spots that will need to be freed up on the 40-man roster. Who will be the casualties of these moves? Rafael Montero: Once a prized prospect of the organization, he has had quite the fall from grace over the last few years. Montero has not had much...
After agreeing to re-sign Yoenis Cespedes on November 30, the Mets have made few transactions since. This might have caused an outrage in past off-seasons, but the Mets are contenders now. They are also spending more money than they used to as their total payroll is at $138,435,000. That puts them at the 13th-highest payroll which is a big jump from just a few years ago. While the Mets may not...
Yoenis Cespedes set Citi Field on fire with a walk off homerun in the bottom of the 10th to bring the New York Mets even with the slumping Miami Marlins in the Wild Card standings, just 2.5 games behind the front-running St. Louis Cardinals. Returning to the line-up after missing Sunday’s painful loss, Cespedes and his questionable quad gave the Mets a much needed 2-1 win, proving that a trip...
Last year, the Mets selected Sean Gilmartin from the Minnesota Twins in the Rule 5 Draft, which turned out to be a great pick as he went on to be very effective out of the their bullpen, pitching to a 2.67 ERA and 1.186 WHIP. The Mets weren’t the only team that found success as a record (since rule change in 2006) 10 players (11 possible) stayed with the team that drafted them through the...
