Mets Minors: Chris Flexen leads second wave of pitching prospects

This season is destined to be something of a disappointment.  Noah Syndergaard, Matt Harvey, Steven Matz and Zack Wheeler again spend time on the DL and the Mets need a major win streak to pull back to .500 baseball.  With Harvey’s Met tenure drawing to a close it’s time to look at some of the [...]

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Gut Reaction: Mets 8, Giants 2- 6/25/17

The Mets completed a three-game road sweep with an 8-2 victory over the fellow 2017 disappointment San Francisco Giants. And the win came courtesy of two very unlikely heroes - Rafael Montero who pitched nearly six solid innings, and backup catcher catcher Rene Rivera who slugged not one, but two home runs. Montero went 5.2 innings, [...]

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Rafael Montero and the Last Chance Saloon

This week on the podcast, when asked to make an unlikely prediction, Gotham Baseball’s Mark Healey said that Rafael Montero was going to be a useful pitcher. Sunday, Montero gets yet another chance to show his stuff. We can’t really call it his last chance, because at this point the only thing to garner more [...]

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Gut Reaction: Mets 5, Giants 2 (6/24/17)

For Jacob deGrom, tonight was yet another start where he proved he is the best pitcher in the Mets rotation. He posted another solid outing, going eight strong innings with seven strikeouts and allowing one earned run. He simply controlled the game from the mound, and his only slip up was a solo shot allowed [...]

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Asdrubal Cabrera’s whirlwind day ends on a high note

Friday was an eventful day for Asdrubal Cabrera. He was activated from the disabled list, informed that he was no longer going to play shortstop, publicly asked for a trade and then finished the day with a three-hit game – and was semi-robbed of another hit – and had a nice game-ending fielding play at [...]

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Gut Reaction: Mets 11, Giants 4 (6/23/17)

The Mets were quite happy to leave L.A. and they brought their bats with them as they ventured north to San Francisco, beating the Giants 11-4 in a game that was not that close. The Mets pounded out 20 hits, with five different players getting three hits, including Asdrubal Cabrera, who made headlines earlier in [...]

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Now can Mets fans give up? Hell no!

Nine days ago Mets fans had a glimmer of optimism. Three key players had returned from the disabled list and we won a series against the defending world champs, following taking three out of four from the Braves on the road. That seems like ages ago as we've since gotten punched in the face by [...]

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Gut Reaction: Dodgers 6, Mets 3 (6/22/17)

As the Mets hoped to salvage a game in the four game series, they sent out Steven Matz against a struggling Hyun-Jin Ryu. As he did yesterday, Curtis Granderson started things off he wring to lead off the game.it was his 20th Mets leadoff homerun for the all-time Mets record. It stayed rather uneventful until [...]

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