Right after Shohei Ohtani’s historic deal with the Los Angeles Dodgers, the main offseason focus has been on another Japanese star in starter Yoshinobu Yamamoto. Yamamoto is expected to pick a team soon. The New York Mets, New York Yankees and the Dodgers appear be the favorites to sign him. It will be a tight [...]
Are you playing Immaculate Grid over at Baseball-Reference? If not, you owe it to yourself to give it a try. Just go to the B-R home page and there’s a link to the game in the upper left. It’s a daily game, complete with a link to their archives. Thursday’s game is the 256th, so [...]
The New York Mets have yet to make a big splash this offseason. But they have made a flurry of small moves, to improve their depth. One of them, was acquiring reliever Jorge Lopez, to improve their vaunted bullpen. Lopez played for three teams in 2023, with the Minnesota Twins, Miami Marlins and Baltimore Orioles [...]
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News broke that the Mets were going to hire David Stearns on September 12 and his hiring became official on October 2. Stearns did not “officially” fire Buck Showalter because he was still under contract to the Brewers and allegedly had no contact or influence on what happened with the Mets from 9/12 to the [...]
Congratulations to the Yankees on making the trade for Juan Soto. After years of relative belt-tightening under Hal Steinbrenner, this feels like a move his dad would make. At one point, my hope was that the Mets would step up and acquire Soto but it became obvious that wasn’t going to be in the cards. [...]
Entering this offseason, the New York Mets have question marks at several positions. One of them is third base. In 2023, the Mets had little production from the third base side. Whether it was Eduardo Escobar, Brett Baty, Mark Vientos or Ronny Mauricio, the Mets did not get much from any of them offensively and [...]
Unlike the rest of the Winter Meetings, the Mets actually were active in the Rule 5 Draft. They selected a pitcher from the Rangers only to turn around and send him to the Red Sox. In return, the Mets received LHP Ryan Ammons, a 2023 draft pick from Clemson, who has yet to pitch professionally. [...]
The suspense ended quickly for the Mets in the draft lottery Tuesday evening. There were three teams that exceeded the second luxury tax threshold and would drop 10 spots in the draft if they didn’t finish in the top six. Along with the Mets, the Padres and the Yankees needed the ping pong balls to [...]
Some people think that because Steve Cohen is the wealthiest owner in MLB that he will continually run payrolls like he did in 2023. Maybe they’re right. Originally, the plan was to run high payrolls until the point where the farm system started producing players. Are we at that point yet? Is that still the [...]
This is the second time asking this question. The first time came prior to the 2015 season and we came up with 25 that had posted in the previous few months. The rule this time is that the site has had to have published since October 15th. Furthermore, let’s not include online versions of print [...]
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