For a prospect as lauded as Andres Gimenez, his path to the major leagues is relatively unclear. A natural shortstop, the Mets aren’t going to move on from the incumbent at the position, fellow under-25 darling Amed Rosario, anytime soon. While Gimenez has also seen time at second base

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A lot has been said over the last six years about how it made no sense to bring the Mets Triple-A affiliate to Las Vegas. The logistics and just sheer inconvenience of having the Mets farmhands most likely to be called up stashed away out west were not great.

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The Mets announced Tuesday morning that they had trimmed their major league Spring Training roster by making 13 cuts, most notably optioning Chris Flexen, Franklyn Kilome, and Drew Gagnon. While Flexen and Gagnon made three appearances each over the first week of exhibition games, Kilome was notably absent as he

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In Pete Alonso‘s first two at-bats of Spring Training, he hit a home run and a double. It seemed those two hits were the beginning of something special, and regardless of service time, Alonso was going to force his way onto the Opening Day roster. After that double, Alonso

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The new and revamped Mets front office has supplemented and rebuilt their minor league coaching staffs to aid in their vision of player development. As we saw with Endy Chavez being hired to serve as an assitant coach to Edgardo Alfonzo‘s staff in Brooklyn, the short season staffs are

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The Mets have completed their first week of Spring Training games in 2019. Here are some of the more notable performances amongst the fringe roster players thus far. Included in the stat lines is opponent quality, an important contextual measure that aggregates the levels that the player’s opponents played

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Mets middle infielder Luis Guillorme had a rough rookie season with the team. While receiving sporadic at-bats and playing time, he’d struggle at the plate hitting .209/.284/.239 (53 wRC+). This left Guillorme something to prove in 2019. Guillorme has noticeably put work in this offseason. So far this Spring,

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The New York Mets have agreed to a minor league deal with outfielder Carlos Gomez. Much like we saw in 2015, the re-acquisition of Gomez is pending a physical. That said, the expectation is Wilmer Flores will continue to be an ex-Met and this deal will get done. MMO’s

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Growing up, New York Mets pitching prospect and Washington native Conner O’Neil played baseball with his brother Spencer, two years his senior. They both loved baseball from an early age, but Conner describes Spencer as always being the more talented one. At Southridge High School in Kennwick, Washington, Spencer, a left-handed

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With the injuries to Jed Lowrie and Todd Frazier coupled with the reports T.J. Rivera is still struggling in his attempt to return from Tommy John surgery, the door is wide open for J.D. Davis to impress the Mets. In fact, depending on how things play out, Davis may

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