Mets Today: Spring Training Starts
Pitchers and catchers report to the Mets’ spring training facility in Port St. Lucie today and another season is underway. It’s a drive-by reporting option. All they have to do is to make GM Sandy...
View ArticleMets Today: Settling In; Remembering Cone
Good morning all. No workouts are scheduled for today at Port St. Lucie, but pitchers will be throwing and there will hitters taking their swings in the covered batting cages. Those who haven’t already...
View ArticleWheeler’s Sore Elbow Illustrates Mets’ Depth
The issues of whether Zack Wheeler is a starter or reliever, or his innings limitations, are moot if the Mets can’t get him on the mound. Here we are, less than a week into spring training, and the...
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What’s The Hurry In Signing Walker?
What’s the hurry? That was the first impression after hearing the Mets and second baseman Neil Walker had preliminary discussions on a possible multi-year contract. WALKER: No hurry? (AP) I hope those...
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DeGrom Continues To Be Sharp
The early returns have been good for Jacob deGrom, who threw four shutout innings in today’s 5-5 tie with Detroit. Coming off surgery on his elbow, deGrom has thrown six scoreless and walk-free innings...
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Are Mets Rushing Wheeler?
Evidently, Mets GM Sandy Alderson didn’t learn much from Matt Harvey’s innings limit fiasco in 2015. That’s what I took from his comments Thursday with the news Zack Wheeler made the Opening Day roster...
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With Offense Humming No Need To Rush Cespedes
With the Mets’ offense humming along, there’s no reason to rush Yoenis Cespedes back from the disabled list, especially since he’s still experiencing soreness in his right quad. Cespedes hit today in...
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Alderson Wrong Again: Mets Do Need More Pitching
Of all of baseball’s many clichés, “you can never have too much pitching,’’ which Mets GM Sandy Alderson, whom his biographer claims in one of the smartest men in the game, refuted today. DE GROM:...
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Timing Of Gonzalez Release Is Bizarre
Not that Adrian Gonzalez was going to turn their season around, but the timing of the Mets releasing the 36-year-old first baseman after Sunday night’s game – even with three strikeouts – seems a...
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Missing David Wright
WRIGHT: Says goodbye. (AP) It was a special night for a special player and an even better person. David Wright’s eyes welled up and his voice cracked as he tried to...
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