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The key to being a good manager, according to Jim Leyland, is being sure to put your players in a position to succeed. One of the keys to preventing runs is doing a good job of having your pitching and defense work together. The biggest key for the Mets will be in not giving away [...]
Rick Porcello had a New York debut to forget, as he allowed 7 R in 2+ IP, digging the Mets a hole they could not get out of, as the Braves took the series with a 14-1 win Sunday night. We can hope that it was just a fluke outing for Porcello but neither his [...]
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We have our first major test of trying to play baseball in the time of Covid. Craig Mish @CraigMish With caution and restrictions on names and testing, the best I can do is tell you the Marlins will likely be without at least three of their position players and one of their pitchers in the [...]
Before the first game of the 2020 season, Keith Hernandez speculated that the hitters would be ahead of the pitchers. Then the first game the Mets won, 2-1 and the second game was 2-2 before the Mickey Mouse rules of extra innings added four more runs to the final ledger. But is that because the [...]
Edwin Diaz made a winner out of those who had "Game 2" in the pool predicting when he would blow his first save of the season, as he failed to close out a lead. The Braves tacked on more with the dreadful new extra inning rules and emerged with a 5-3 win Saturday. After a [...]
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It might be slightly hyperbolic to call 2020 a hellscape, but the good news is that baseball is officially back to return some sense of normalcy to our everyday lives. Despite feeling like we're in the opening montage of a post-apocalyptic movie, baseball provides a welcome reprieve from the onslaught of seemingly endless bad news. [...]
The weirdest, most unpredictable MLB season to date got underway in what has become a traditional way, with the Mets starting the year with a win, as they shut out the Braves, 1-0, Friday afternoon in Citi Field. The Mets are now 39-12 in their last 51 Opening Day games. It was a day game [...]
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In typical 2020 fashion, baseball is now really weird. There are cardboard cutouts of fans in the stands at Citi Field. Yoenis Cespedes is finally playing...as a DH. There's a phantom runner on second base to start extra innings. Some ball parks are piping in recorded crowd noise. Relievers now have to face a minimum [...]