Category: Feature Stories
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Lucas Duda was given a choice: produce or sit, and he chose to produce…
Lucas Duda was stuck in such a slumber for most of the last two months, many onlookers wondered if his 2014 season had been nothing more than a fluke. It was a fair question. In 45 games between May 31 and July 18, Duda had produced a .549 OPS with only three home runs and…
Michael Baron
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Now that Yoenis Cespedes is a Met, how will the Mets align their outfield, and infield?
On Friday, the Mets made their most significant trade deadline acquisition perhaps in this century, acquiring OF Yoenis Cespedes from the Tigers in exchange for Michael Fulmer and Luis Cessa. He is unquestionably the big transformational bat the fans and the entire industry has been waiting for the Mets to acquire. But now that he’s here, how will the Mets align and…
Michael Baron
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On Friday, Wilmer Flores delivered in a moment that wasn’t supposed to happen
What an incredible spectrum of emotions that Wilmer Flores and this Mets team has endured in a 48-hour span. On Friday night, on the heels of three standing ovations earlier in the contest, Flores rocketed a walk-off home run over the wall in left field to beat the Washington Nationals in the biggest game of the…
Rich MacLeod
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Rich MacLeod: A tale of glee, woe and confusion from the two strangest days of baseball I’ve ever experienced
What a long, strange trip it’s been–and I’m only talking about the last two days. What’s transpired for the Mets both on, off and in between the field since the start of Wednesday night’s game against the Padres had been a wild and bumpy ride, full of a spectrum of emotions for a much-bewildered fanbase. I…
Rich MacLeod
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Noah Syndergaard had his best outing of the year, again
It seems like Noah Syndergaard is having his best start of the year with regularity these days. He has a 1.28 ERA over his last six starts, allowing a total of six earned runs on only 24 hits with 43 strikeouts in 42 innings over that span. But on Tuesday, Syndergaard did indeed have his best start…
Michael Baron
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