Carlos Mendoza has proven to be a hands-on manager

Most teams and managers give lip service to playing their entire roster. And every team does that with their pitchers but how many do with their hitters? Friday night, all 30 teams played and eight teams did not make a hitting or defensive change to their starters. Assuming that’s a normal day this time of [...]

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Gut Reaction: Mets 5, Angels 1 (8/2/24)

It was a successful Mets debut for Paul Blackburn, who put a bunch of runners on base but came out mostly unscathed. The Mets had a bunch of hits and wound up with a 5-1 win over the Angels to start out their 10-game road trip Friday night in Anaheim. Blackburn gave up six hits, [...]

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