Mets News Archive

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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Following a call with the 30 clubs, and after consultation with the Major League Baseball Players Association, Commissioner Robert D. Manfred, Jr. announced on Thursday that Major League Baseball has decided to suspend Spring Training games and to delay the start of the 2020 regular season by at least

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The New York Mets announced on Wednesday afternoon they’ve optioned right-handed pitcher Corey Oswalt to minor league camp and re-assigned left-handed pitcher David Peterson and right-handed pitcher Pedro Payano to minor league camp. Oswalt, 26, pitched well this spring allowing only one earned run in eight innings. In that

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The Mets announced on Friday afternoon they’ve optioned LHP Stephen Gonsalves, LHP Thomas Szapucki, RHP Jordan Humphreys, RHP Franklyn Kilome to minor league camp. They also reassigned RHP Matt Blackham, RHP Nick Rumbelow, RHP Francisco Rios, RHP Stephen Nogosek, C Austin Bossart, David Rodriguez, and OF Tim Tebow to minor league camp. Gonsalves, 25, was having the best camp of the group

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Prospect lists season is just about wrapping up with Keith Law of The Athletic dropped his Top 20 Mets Prospects and MLB.com released their Top 30 Mets prospects for the 2020 season. Law recently released his Top 100 for baseball with four Mets on list; No. 17 SS Ronny

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Mets minor league outfielder Tim Tebow will play for the Philippines in next month’s World Baseball Classic qualifier. Tebow was born in Makati, Philippines, in 1987 before moving to Florida when he was three. The 32-year-old is 1-for-6 with a home run and three walks this spring in Major

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Baseball America put out all of their Top 30 prospect lists on Thursday as they continue to grow their extensive minor league coverage. Before diving into the list, remember that Baseball America ranked the Mets overall system 25th out of 30 teams last week. They have the Mets with

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The Mets managerial carousel has finally come to an end with veteran coach Rich Donnelly reportedly filling the St. Lucie Mets opening, per Tim Healey of Newsday. Donnelly is replacing Chad Kreuter in St. Lucie, who has been named the Triple-A Syracuse Mets manager after Brian Schneider was elevated

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