It wasn’t the best of starts for Noah Syndergaard on Saturday, but the big righty battled his way back to what will be a no decision once the same comes to a conclusion.  Tacoma, who has seen Syndergaard already once this season, got to him immediately making all wonder

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Updated – 9:50 PM Eric Campbell was supposed to start in place of Lucas Duda at first base in Saturdays game, but about an hour before game time, Duda was ready to go, so Terry Collins went with his veteran player instead. But Campbell still got his opportunity to

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Wilmer Flores was the starting Mets shortstop Friday night in the Citi Field opener of a three game series with the Phillies.  Like all Met fans, I’m hoping Flores proves he can handle the defensive rigors of playing the position and his bat lives up to the huge upside

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Kevin Plawecki ended the month of April batting just .250, with no home runs and three runs batted in. But the first week in May he has started to hit and it shows as he is batting .393 (11 for 28) and has a seven game hit streak. In

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Wilmer Flores, back with the Mets, started at shortstop on Friday against the Phillies and this may be the start of a permanent fix.  No one really knows how Flores will handle shortstop, but if Friday is any indication, than he should be just fine. You have to give

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LAS VEGAS 6, SALT LAKE 3 The Las Vegas 51’s use six pitchers to complete the series sweep against the Salt Lake Bees 6-3.  Rafael Montero started the game and didn’t allow a hit through his body of work.  The problem though was his pitch count which was up

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After a hot week in Savannah, Gavin Cecchini joins the list of Mets Prospects that have reached Baseball America’s hot sheet, after last week’s appearances by Brandon Nimmo and Noah Syndergaard. After a torrid week full of extra-base hits, Cecchini torched the competition and has put himself into a

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Dominic Smith has come alive in the South Atlantic League and in a big way, by continuing to hit the cover off the ball. In Thursday’s Sand Gnats 5-3 win against the West Virginia Power, Smith continued his hot hitting with another multi-hit game and finished the night 2

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The folks over at Baseball Prospectus have recently starting rolling out a wonderful series of articles titled Eyewitness Accounts. When a scout over at BP sits on a game they’ll publish their scouting reports on some of the more interesting names they saw. Yesterday BP scout Jeff Moore published

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LAS VEGAS 16, SALT LAKE 4 Vegas had their hitting shoes during Thursday night’s game against the Bees as they banged out 21 hits and ran 16 runs across the plate to swat the Bees. Logan Verrett started the game and tossed five innings, giving up four runs on

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