Noah Syndergaard is entering his third season in the majors poised to become the true ace of an extremely deep and talented Mets pitching staff. He is coming off a season in which he went 14 and 9 with a 2.60 ERA with 218 strikeouts and 48 walks allowed. He managed to stay healthy for [...]
You can typically take minor league performances during spring training with a grain of salt. As Sandy Alderson said on the radio this weekend, “Most of the times you have the A’s against the A’s, but sometimes it’s the A’s against the B’s or the B’s against the C’s.” Minor leaguer’s who appear in games [...]
Before Spring Training started, the Mets announced their starting right fielder, taking away one of the few storylines available in Grapefruit League play. By bringing back six guys who were either free agents or had an option, settling or offering arbitration to everyone and not bringing in a new catcher or third baseman, the Mets [...]
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The Mets come into spring training with extremely high hopes of making the postseason for a franchise-record third year in a row. There are several players on the team that has solidified spots on the roster for the upcoming campaign. There are also several players that need to prove themselves this spring in order to [...]
It's been said again and again that spring training numbers don't count, but one number should have leaped off the screen for you last week - 97. As in, 97 mph registered on the Juggs radar gun with Jacob deGrom pitching in his first spring training appearance, and following surgery to relocate the ulnar nerve [...]
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First of a three-part interview. At the link, there's a link to a podcast which has the full interview.
On the radio last week, Howie Rose and Josh Lewin were whiling away a languid spring training game, talking about the imminent arrival of ex-quarterback Tim Tebow in major league camp. They were musing on peoples’ reaction to him even being in Mets mufti – a lot of anger and cynicism coming from a lot [...]
Tim Tebow to DH in this game.
According to the New York Post and other subsequent sources, the Yankees are interested in dealing right-handed batting utility man Rob Refsnyder. Should the Mets be interested in this acquisition? The short answer... probably not. Refsnyder is entering his age 26 season and spent parts of 2015 and 2016 in the Bronx. He has played [...]
Per ESPN’s Jim Bowden, the New York Mets are one of four teams interested in recently released infielder Brett Lawrie. The other interested parties are the Blue Jays, Royals and the Rays. At the start of spring training the New York Mets seemed to have a glut of infielders. With Lucas Duda seemingly healthy, the [...]