Mets News Archive

According to Adam Rubin of ESPNNewYork.com, the Mets sent RHP Jacob deGrom down to minor league camp. The former ninth round pick had pitched pretty well this spring, posting a 1.23 ERA in 7.1 innings. He struck out seven batters and walked three during that span. However, he entered

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  ESPN released their annual Future Power Rankings (Insider only) today. The panel consisted of Buster Olney, Keith Law and Jim Bowden. Each team is ranked in five categories- Majors (MLB talent), Minors (MiLB talent and depth), Finance, Management, and Mobility (“Do they have a lot of young, cheap

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Brian Costa of the Wall Street Journal recently completed a little experiment, comparing the Florida (Grapefruit League) Spring Training experience with that of the Arizona (Cactus League) Spring Training experience. Costa attempted to see eight Cactus League games in the same time it took his WSJ colleague Stu Woo

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Mets ace Matt Harvey captured the attention of the entire baseball world last season. He was one of the most dominant pitchers in baseball until he suffered a UCL tear that will most likely sideline him for the entire 2014 season. Zack Wheeler hopes to pick up where Harvey

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Lefty pitching prospect Steven Matz pitched very well in his first spring action today. Matz entered the game in the bottom of the fourth inning in relief of starter Daisuke Matsuzaka. He would allow just a single in the inning while striking out two batters– including All-Star catcher Yadier

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Mets shortstop Ruben Tejada was scratched from today’s game versus the Cardinals with tightness in his left hamstring. The injury isn’t considered serious, and the Mets pulled Tejada from the lineup as a precaution. Anthony Seratelli will start in his place. Hopefully this doesn’t turn into something more serious

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Rafael Montero will throw the first pitch of the Mets’ Grapefruit League schedule, on Friday at 1:10 p.m. against the Washington Nationals at Tradition Field. Montero, 23, went a combined 12-7 with a 2.78 ERA in 27 starts between Double-A Binghamton and Triple-A Las Vegas last season. This amazing control artist allowed

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Keith Law of ESPN listed Mets catcher Travis d’Arnaud among his top twenty impact prospects for 2014, but says he is “the archetypal GWH player” — Good When Healthy. D’Arnaud can catch, throw, and hit for power, but has to stay on the field. The Mets don’t have a heavy-use backup on the

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Dustin Lawley, 24, is one of the prospects in big league camp, but after a great 2013 campaign where he hit 25 home runs with 92 RBIs, and was named the Florida State League player of the year, there really hasn’t been much mention of him. Lawley was also

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Update 3:20 pm: Sandy Alderson spoke with ESPNNewYork.com and gave some more information about a tweet from Mike Puma of the NY Post that  he wanted to remain with the Mets as GM for two or three more years. “That was a guess on the part of the writer and the source,”

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