Mets News Archive

The Mets announced on Friday afternoon that they’ve activated right-handed reliever Robert Gsellman from the injured list, optioned left-handed reliever Daniel Zamora to their alternate training site, and added infielder Luis Carpio to their 60-player pool. Gsellman started the 2020 shortened season on the IL with right triceps tightness. The 27-year-old had a 4.66 ERA

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On Thursday, the Mets announced the 30-man roster they will begin the season with. The team has yet to announce the three-player taxi squad. The roster seems to indicate that RHP Corey Oswalt will take Marcus Stroman‘s spot in the starting rotation after Stroman was placed on the injured

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According to Michael Mayer of MMO, the New York Mets are adding three pitchers to their 60-player pool. Right-handed pitchers Jordan Humphreys and Matt Blackham and left-handed pitcher Stephen Gonsalves have been added and bring the Mets player pool to 54 players. Humphreys, who missed most of the 2018 and 2019 season on the injured list. He had

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According to Ben Badler of Baseball America, the New York Mets have signed international free agent pitcher Richard Brito, 21, to a contract. Per Badler’s article: “By conventional signing standards in Latin America […], Brito is a relatively late developer, but he’s the same age as the college juniors

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The Mets have announced the names of the 45 players that will comprise their initial player pool for the truncated 2020 season. The group includes 34 members of the 40-man roster (Noah Syndergaard was placed on the 45-day injured list as he recovers from Tommy John surgery) and 11

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According to MLB Pipeline the Mets have signed their first-round pick from this year’s amateur draft, outfielder Pete Crow-Armstrong. The prep bat agreed to sign for the full slot value for the 19th overall pick, so $3.359 million will be docked from the Mets’ total bonus pool. “I know

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In the second round of Major League Baseball’s amateur player draft, the Mets have selected J.T. Ginn, a RHP from Mississippi State University. Ginn is a right-handed starting pitcher, who has been regarded highly on multiple prospect pundits. Baseball America has him as the 23rd highest prospect while MLB.com

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The Mets selected high school outfielder Pete Crow-Armstrong with their first pick, 19th overall, in the 2020 MLB Draft on Wednesday. The pre-draft rankings had the California teenager as high as 10 (The Athletic) and as low as 25 (Fangraphs). Crow-Armstrong is the third consecutive high school bat taken

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Thursday was a rough one for Major League Baseball with multiple teams releasing a significant amount of minor leaguers. Jeff Passan of ESPN reports that there could be upwards of 1,000 minor leaguers released over the week. The Mets released 39 players on Thursday according to Mike Mayer of

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Since last week, Major League Baseball has been engaged in a variety of discussions with stakeholders to identify ways to blunt the wide-ranging impact of the national emergency resulting from the global coronavirus pandemic. As those conversations continue, MLB is announcing today a league-wide initiative that will create a

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