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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Mets left-handed pitching prospect David Peterson met with the media Wednesday afternoon following his Summer Camp outing at Citi Field. Peterson, who spent the 2019 season with Double-A Binghamton, was invited to Spring Training in February as a non-roster invite. He was then invited to Summer Camp once the

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Eric Orze, RHP Ht: 6’3” Wt: 185 DOB: 8/21/97 (22) Bats/Throws: R/R School: University of New Orleans, Louisiana 2020 Stats:  19.2 IP, 22 H, 5 BB, 29 K, 2.75 ERA, 1.37 WHIP Background The final selection of the Mets’ 2020 Draft was Eric Orze, a right-handed pitcher out of the University of New Orleans. Orze’s path to

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For the second year in a row, the Mets were able to draft one of the top amateur arms that had slid out of the first round for various reasons. In 2019, top-20 talent Matthew Allan had teams convinced that no dollar amount would pry him away from a

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The Mets announced on Wednesday that right-handed reliever Jacob Rhame has been claimed off waivers by the Los Angeles Angels. In a corresponding move, 23-year-old right-handed reliever Ryley Gilliam was added to the Mets’ player pool. Their pool now stands at 51 players out of the maximum 60. Rhame

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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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According to multiple reports, Major League Baseball will announce today the official cancellation of the 2020 minor league baseball season. As a result, the season is officially over for the nine Mets affiliates. While this news was widely expected with just over two months remaining in what would have

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On Monday, the Mets officially signed their second round draft pick from the 2020 MLB Draft, J.T. Ginn, a right-handed pitcher out of Mississippi State University. Ginn was the no. 52 overall pick in the 2020 MLB Draft. He was signed for $2.9 million (the value of the no.

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The Mets made a slew of signings on Monday, which was to be somewhat expected given that they only submitted 45 out of 60 potential players in their pool on Sunday. Two of the additions were re-signings of players who the Mets released after the abbreviated spring training in

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