Hamilton Bennett was granted his requested release today by the Mets. Bennett has pitched for Double-A Binghamton this year to the tune of a 3.38 ERA over 16 innings. The 26-year old reliever has pitched between 50-60 innings per year between 2011-2013, and may have been discouraged by the amount of playing
Adam Rubin of ESPN reports that Rafael Montero has thrown live batting practice and is due to enter a game this week. This will be the first time Montero pitches since suffering a left oblique strain on June 14th and leaving the Vegas game after only five pitches. Prior to
Brian Burgamy, Kyle Johnson and right-handed pitchers Cody Satterwhite and Jon Velasquez have been selected to represent the B-Mets in the Eastern League All-Star Game. Burgamy,33, who is in his first season with the Mets organization, is batting .258, with 45 runs, 18 doubles, 14 home runs, and 52 RBI’s in 275 at bats. Johnson,
Game two of the three game series between the Savannah Sand Gnats and the Augusta GreenJackets was played in front of 1,476 fans Tuesday morning at Grayson Stadium. Savannah was trying for a record of 12 straight wins but came up short and lost to Augusta 6-4. Leading off the second
The Mets came out firing on all cylinders on Tuesday night at Citi Field, as they scored five runs in the first three innings to quickly go up on the Braves 5-0, behind a hitting attack lead by the surging Curtis Granderson, who launched his 14th dinger on the
Las Vegas 51’s catcher Kevin Plawecki and right handed pitcher Noah Syndergaard have been selected to represent Team USA in the Futures Game on Sunday, July 13 at Target Field in Minnesota. Plawecki, who started out with Binghamton (AA) before being promoted to Vegas (AAA) is batting a combined .306, with
After losing Matt Bowman and Greg Peavey to Las Vegas, Pedro Lopez got some much needed pitching help as Cory Mazzoni returned from injury to join the Binghamton Met starting rotation. Mazzoni worked five innings, allowing three runs and picking up his first win of the season, as the
I think it is safe to say that Curtis Granderson has been one of the most offensively productive players in the league since April 29th. All Mets fans remember the slow start that Granderson got off too, which drew comparisons to Jason Bay from the harshly critical and often