Tag: stolen bases

Healthy Marte Firing On All Cylinders To Start Year

We’re just two games into the 2023 MLB season, but Starling Marte has already teased tantalizing signs of operating at the full peak of his powers for the New York Mets. There were some concerns over whether or not Marte would be at full tilt come Opening Day after undergoing core surgery during the offseason. However, those fears have quickly been eradicated. Through the first two games...

MLB Sees Surge In Stolen Bases On Opening Day

It seems as though at least one of Major League Baseball’s rule changes is already having the desired impact. We’re a day into the 2023 MLB season and Opening Day 2023 was both a success for the Mets, and for the game of baseball overall. There was action galore and a lot of that action was to be found on the base paths. While the introduction of the pitch clock attracted the most...

Mets Worst Free-Agent Signing No. 10: Roger Cedeño

  This offseason, we’ve been looking at the Mets’ history with free agency. We began with the team’s best signings. Now we’re saving the worst for last. At No. 10 is an outfielder whose second act with New York was nothing like his first.  The Mets have not been averse to reunions. Rarely has it worked out. José Reyes, Jeromy Bernitz, Kevin McReynolds are just a few...

Hall of Famer Lou Brock Dies at Age 81

This week was a difficult one in baseball with the passing of two legends. First it was the face of the New York Mets franchise, Tom Seaver, who passed on Monday. On Sunday, Hall of Famer and St. Louis Cardinals legend Lou Brock passed away at age 81. A 19-year career, bunches of stolen bases (938 in total), over 3,000 hits, and a .293 career batting average were just some of the many career...

Marlins Trade For Starling Marte, Deal Jonathan Villar to the Blue Jays

The Marlins are looking to make a run at the playoffs this year and are acquiring an All-Star to try to bolster their chances. The Athletic’s Ken Rosenthal reports that Miami has traded for Arizona Diamondbacks outfielder Starling Marte. Marte was traded from the Pittsburgh Pirates to the Diamondbacks in the offseason and has now been moved again within the National League. The 31-year-old...

Top Five Third Basemen Campaigns in Mets History

There is no position in the field of play in baseball that has had less consistency, less continuity and is less of a constant than that of third base for the New York Mets. From Ed Charles to Charlie Neal to Charley Smith, the Mets third base bag has been a merry-go-round, populated by no less than 172 different players who have manned third base in Mets history for at least one game. Yet, with...

Remembering Mets Prospect Brian Cole

On March 30 in 2001, Mets’ prospect Brian Cole tragically passed away in a car accident. Here’s a post by Joe D. from 2016 remembering the potential star.  So one of my writers sent me a link to Baseball America asking me to check out last week’s Ask BA feature. A reader posed the following question to  J.J. Cooper: “Who are the best prospects such as Grant Desme who never made MLB...

Mets Outfielder Johneshwy Fargas Hits For Cycle

Mets center fielder Johneshwy Fargas hit a home run in the top of the eighth inning on Thursday against the Cardinals to tie the game at 7-7. It also finished off the cycle for the speedster. Fargas hit an RBI triple in the second inning, doubled in the fourth, and singled in the sixth inning. He went 4-for-4 with two RBIs, two runs scored, and stole his third base of the spring. Fargas, 25, was...

Mets Designate Sam Haggerty For Assignment

  Infielder Sam Haggerty has been designated for assignment by the Mets in order to make space on the 40-man roster for Dellin Betances. Haggerty, 25, received a September call-up last season after slashing .271/.376/.387 with 23 stolen bases across three minor league levels. He only received four plate appearances in the major leagues and although he scored two runs, he didn’t...

Mets All-Decade Team: The 2000s

  By Tim Ryder  The 2000s saw a little bit of everything here in Queens. The New York Mets were, for a time, the best team in baseball — heck, the decade started off with a World Series berth. They were also the laughingstock of the game for a while, too. Ebbs and flows, right? Shea Stadium saw its gates pulled down for the final time in 2008, but the three years leading up to that...

Andres Gimenez, Ali Sanchez With Multi-Hit Games in AFL Action

Mets shortstop prospect Andres Gimenez is having a great showing in the Arizona Fall League with his bat and glove, that continued on Wednesday night with another multi-hit game. Gimenez, 21, went 2-for-5 as the Scottsdale Scorpions leadoff man, it was the fifth time in six games he’s had multiple hits. His .358 average ranks third in the AFL and his .970 OPS ranks third as well. In 17...

Mets Announce Minor League Award Winners

The New York Mets have announced their 2019 Minor League Awards. They represent some of the best players in the Mets farm system, and much to look forward to in the next couple years. Hitter of the Year: Mark Vientos (3B) 19-year-old infielder Mark Vientos earned his Hitter of the Year honors by slashing .255/.300/.411 with a 105 wRC+ in 111 games for Single-A Columbia. He knocked 27 doubles and...

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