Category: Michael Baron
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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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Trades in baseball are still very possible past the July 31 trade deadline…
Now that the July 31 non-waiver trade deadline has passed, the bulk of the major deals around baseball have more than likely come to a conclusion. However, a player can still be traded beyond the July 31 trade deadline. From the day following the World Series until July 31 the following year, a player may…
Michael Baron
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Mets got the bats they needed, so its time to go for it and win—now
All of this trade talk was fun and entertaining, and in a lot of ways exciting and distracting. But something which has gotten lost in the hoopla of the trade deadline is the Mets just lost two out of three to the floundering San Diego Padres in their home ballpark, pushing them 4 1/2 games out…
Michael Baron
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Why the Mets are willing to trade Zack Wheeler
Clearly, the Mets are willing to trade Wheeler under the right circumstances this summer. Obviously, they were closing to moving him to Milwaukee for Carlos Gomez before that deal fell apart late Wednesday. They were also willing to deal Wheeler to the Rockies for Troy Tulowitzki. Along with Jay Bruce, the common denominator is all three of these players…
Michael Baron
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The Mets lost on Thursday, fairly miserably and fittingly at that…
The 24 hours between the beginning with the second game of a three-game series between the Mets and Padres and the conclusion of the third game in the series was as strange as it was unproductive. It included a player crying on the field, a trade that was done then wasn’t, more than three hours…
Michael Baron
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