Mets should give Brett Baty another chance at 3B

Entering this offseason, the New York Mets have question marks at several positions. One of them is third base. In 2023, the Mets had little production from the third base side. Whether it was Eduardo Escobar, Brett Baty, Mark Vientos or Ronny Mauricio, the Mets did not get much from any of them offensively and [...]

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Mets prove they really were at the Winter Meetings with some Rule 5 action

Unlike the rest of the Winter Meetings, the Mets actually were active in the Rule 5 Draft. They selected a pitcher from the Rangers only to turn around and send him to the Red Sox. In return, the Mets received LHP Ryan Ammons, a 2023 draft pick from Clemson, who has yet to pitch professionally. [...]

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Mets roll snake eyes and fail to land a top-six pick

The suspense ended quickly for the Mets in the draft lottery Tuesday evening. There were three teams that exceeded the second luxury tax threshold and would drop 10 spots in the draft if they didn’t finish in the top six. Along with the Mets, the Padres and the Yankees needed the ping pong balls to [...]

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No moves yet for the Mets but David Stearns sheds light on third base

It was a slow first day at the Winter Meetings for the Mets, at least in terms of player acquisitions. News came out that they were one of two teams after former Nationals pitcher Erick Fedde, who was mediocre at best for the Nationals before going to the KBO and putting up a fantastic year, [...]

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Mets have work to accomplish during the Winter Meetings

It’s December in New York and so that means the Hot Stove is heating up. Major League Baseball’s Winter Meeting is convening once again and when baseball executives meet, they can’t help themselves from doing deals. The hottest two players on the free agent front are Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto: Where will they land? [...]

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The Mets and their recent struggles getting and keeping homegrown IFA stars

You hear a lot of reasons why the Mets haven’t had more success thru the years. These range from cheap owners, to GMs with questionable roster decisions to incompetent managers. But there’s one thing that flies under the radar. And that’s that the club is considerably below average in grabbing young talent from the international [...]

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Lack of offense doomed the Mets in the 2015 World Series

The New York Mets reached the World Series in 2015 behind their dominant pitching staff, but ultimately fell short to the Kansas City Royals in five games. While the Mets' pitching was certainly a strength throughout the postseason, their lack of offense was the primary reason they were unable to bring home the championship. During [...]

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Remembering George Foster on his 75th birthday

Today is George Foster’s 75th birthday. Mets fans of a certain age view Foster as a poster boy in the case for being wary about getting guys on the wrong side of 30. It certainly looked like a slam-dunk move when the Mets acquired Foster before the start of the 1982 season. But it certainly [...]

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Mets return to dumpster diving with Luis Severino signing

I took my bag into a grocer's store The price is higher than the time before Old man asked me why is it more Dumpster diving is more expensive than it used to be. To get a pitcher with a 6.65 ERA and 1.646 WHIP in 89.1 IP last year, the Mets had to pay [...]

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Mets Minors: Offseason deep dive on Luisangel Acuna

Biography: The most famous thing about Luisangel Acuna will instantly be his relation to Ronald Acuna Jr. His older brother is one of the absolute best players in all of baseball and it’s possible that he could become an impact player in his own right. The scouting does not indicate that the younger Acuna will [...]

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