We continue the minors season in review series today with this year’s biggest disappointments from the Mets organization. Reese Havens, 2B This year was probably Reese Havens‘ last real shot with the Mets organization. At 25 going on 26, Havens has been unable to stay healthy his entire career. This year, he was finally able …
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The minor league season is over. St. Lucie and Brooklyn were both eliminated from the playoffs in their respective leagues last week. So we’re going to take a closer look over the net couple of days at this season in Mets minor league baseball. We start with the three biggest surprises. Michael Fulmer, SP The …
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Tonight at 7:10, the Mets begin a three-game series at home against the first place Washington Nationals. The Nationals are currently 86-54, giving them an MLB-best .614 winning percentage and a 5.5 game lead over Atlanta. They have continued to play well, and after hitting a bit of a cold stretch towrds the end of August, …
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Yesterday, the Nationals finally decided to pull the plug on Stephen Strasburg‘s 2012 season. This is coming just after what would’ve been his last home start of the season on Friday night in which he struggled and was pulled after only three innings. The Nationals have been saying that they were going to do this …
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Yesterday, Andy McCullough of the Star-Ledger wrote a piece about Jon Niese, talking about how valuable a trade chip he will be in the offseason and how the Mets should consider flipping Niese for an outfielder after the season: Another executive rated Niese as “pretty close” to Cahill, a middle-of-the-rotation starter now with Arizona. Niese, …
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Rosters expanded to 40 players September 1 and the Mets have now taken full advantage. After calling up Collin McHugh, Mike Nickeas, and Zach Lutz earlier this week, they called up six other players for today’s game in St. Louis. Here is a more in-depth breakdown of the players called up, why they’re here, and …
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