Gut Reaction: Reds 5, Mets 4 (4/29/19)

Jesse Winker jumped on a first pitch fastball from Edwin Diaz for a go-ahead solo home run in the top of the 9th, and the Reds’ bullpen was able to close the game out providing 5.1 scoreless innings. The Reds got off to an early start in this series opener with four runs in the [...]

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Mets Minors: The unsung prospect, Harol Gonzalez

We talk about Woods Richardson, Szapucki, Kay and Peterson often enough.  These are the starting pitchers who are supposed to make impacts at the major league level and who, based on their draft or previous successes, are supposed to be the best pitchers.  Which means that few people will ever talk about Harol Gonzalez. At [...]

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Monday catch-all thread (4/29/19)

Baseball-Reference has this nice visual component to their site where if you go to a team page, they display thumbnails of the top 12 players on the team in bWAR. In addition to livening up the pages that normally just have text, it informs, too. Viewing the 2019 Mets, we see something that no one [...]

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