Mets Minors: Building from the bottom up – Aderlin Rodriguez

Aderlin Rodriguez:  Stats is a vacuum are misleading.  At 20 years of age, hitting 24 HRs in 471 ABs between FSA (Full Season A) and A+ doesn’t sound that impressive.  When you consider that 16 of those HRs came when playing for Savannah (who plays in a power sapping ballpark) or that he isn’t as [...]

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Lutz and Bixler claim Justin Turner is a Svengali

When most of us think of Justin Turner, we think of the fun-loving guy who walks to the plate to the girly pop sounds of “Call Me Maybe” and who likes to deliver shaving cream pies to the faces of unsuspecting teammates when they are being interviewed on TV. But according to minor leaguers Zach [...]

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Mets upcoming opponent primer: San Diego Padres

Citi Field vs San Diego Padres Monday 4/1 1:10 (Opening Day) Edinson Volquez (Third consecutive OD start) vs. Jonathan Niese Wednesday 4/3 7:10 Clayton Richard vs. Matt Harvey Thursday 4/4 1:10 Eric Stults vs. Dillon Gee Projected Starters: 1B #23 R/R Yonder Alonso 2B #9 R/R Jedd Gyorko (Top Padres prospect, making big league debut) [...]

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