Big news in Mets land was just announced on Twitter via Ken Rosenthal: Among players accepting 50-game suspensions: #Rangers’ Cruz, #Tigers’ Peralta, #Phlllies’ Bastardo, #Mets’ Valdespin, #Padres’ Cabrera. — Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) August 5, 2013 Up until right now, there had been no other indication that Jordany Valdespin was mentioned on the Biogenesis [...]
For Mets lefty, Darin Gorski, it’s 2011 all over again. That… is very much a good thing. In 2011 Gorski emerged from seemingly nowhere as a possible diamond in the rough. He posted a 2.08 ERA and had the K/9 of pitchers who were well above his prospect stock. Gorski is 25 going on 26 [...]
When the Mets traded Shawn Estes to the Cincinnati Reds for Pedro Feliciano, Elvin Andujar and two Players to be Named Later (Raul Gonzalez and Brady Clark) during the August of 2002, you’d have to have been crazy to think that that deal would impact Mets history (and their future) in the way that it [...]