Gut Reaction: Mets 3, Diamondbacks 1 (9/9/19)

Pete Alonso hit two homers to back seven strong innings from Jacob deGrom, leading the Mets to a 3-1 win over the Diamondbacks in Citi Field Monday night. With the win, the Mets moved to within a game-and-a-half of the D’Backs in the Wild Card race. After yesterday’s demoralizing pitching effort, it was more of [...]

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Mets Minors: 2019 top 50 prospects (41-50)

Each year I write up a Top 50 list but in most years I'm spending a few weeks scrambling to put my thoughts in order to make sure I am listing everyone who deserves to be listed and not listing anyone (cough cough... Tim Tebow) that shouldn't be.  In 2019 I did something different.  I [...]

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Monday catch-all thread (9/9/19)

In his last two starts with Wilson Ramos as his catcher, Noah Syndergaard has 8 IP and 13 ER. Those are two of his last three games. In the middle of those three, Rene Rivera was behind the plate and Syndergaard threw seven shutout innings. The Mets have something that works with Syndergaard throwing to [...]

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