Earlier this week, Baseball America released its annual Top 100 prospects list, and the New York Mets had three players appear in the rankings. Mets top prospect catcher Francisco Alvarez (No. 13), third baseman Brett Baty (No. 39) and shortstop Ronny Mauricio (No. 92) all appeared in the rankings. The consensus has been for a [...]
This week the 2021 MLB Lockout completes its third week, and on Monday officially becomes the fourth-longest work stoppage in the league’s history. Only the 1994-95 strike (232 days), 1981 strike (52 days) and 1990 lockout (32 days) stretched on for longer. When things are said and done, this lockout may end up looking up [...]
In 60 years of New York Mets baseball, the team has been known more for its strong pitching rather than hitting. Today, one of the greatest pitchers in team history celebrates a birthday, as Dwight Gooden turns 57 years old. In tribute to Doc’s birthday, let’s take a trip down memory lane at his absolutely [...]
When Steve Cohen bought the Mets last year, he was buying a house that was a fixer-upper. In theory, the good news was that in being by far the wealthiest owner in baseball that he would have deep enough pockets to start throwing money at problems to fix them. Right away he made it clear [...]
After Sunday night’s ugly 14-4 loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers dropping the Mets to just one game over .500 and 2.5-games behind the NL East-leading Atlanta Braves, the season seemingly hangs in the balance in mid-August. Carlos Carrasco was roughed up to the tune of six runs on six hits in only 2.0 innings, [...]
In the fourth inning Sunday’s wild 7-6 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates, Mets utility player Travis Blankenhorn clubbed a pinch-hit three-run home run off JT Brubaker for his first career homer. It was a moment that had to feel especially good for the 24-year-old coming his home state of Pennsylvania. Not only that, but the [...]
The Syracuse Mets are mired in one of the worst stretches for a team in minor league baseball. They have lost 12 consecutive games and 15 of their last 17, four of those on walk-offs. Syracuse is 11-30 and wakes up Monday 18.0 games back in their division, the clunky-named Triple-A East Northeast. The team [...]
The Tampa Bay Rays had an astonishing nine first-round picks in the 2011 MLB Draft. Until Saturday, only four of them have made the major leagues, with Blake Snell being the lone impact player of the group. With the MLB debut of Jake Hager with the Mets on Saturday, that list has now grown to [...]
After a fast start to the 2020 season, we took a look last August at what was different with Mets first baseman and outfielder Dominic Smith. He continued his hot start through the end of the season and even received some down ballot votes for NL MVP, finishing 13th in a breakout season. But this [...]
Last Thursday Major League Baseball announced major rules changes at all four levels of the minor leagues for the 2021 season. They were met to mixed reactions, though many fans came down on the side of being against some of these drastic changes. In case you missed it, the changes are as follows: Triple-A: The [...]
On Wednesday night, the New York Mets announced that minor league outfielder Tim Tebow had retired from his professional baseball career. He played a total of three years in the Mets organization, batting .223/.299/.338, topping out at Triple-A Syracuse. “I loved every minute of the journey, but at this time I feel called in other [...]
February 13, 1920 is one of the most important days in the history of baseball. It was on that day that Andrew “Rube” Foster met at the YMCA on 18th and Vine St. in Kansas City, Missouri with owners of six other black baseball teams and formed the first Negro National League. At its peak, [...]