Category: Op-Ed
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Monday’s trades help back up Mets’ loud offseason words
Actions speak louder than words, and the Mets have talked an awful lot this spring. Throughout spring training, there’s clearly a new attitude and raised expectations with this team, a lot of which have eminated from the coaching staff and players. They’ve even gone as far as to mention – that’s right – the postseason. To…
Rich MacLeod
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The state of the Mets roster, and another roster projection
With just three days before the Mets break camp, the Mets Opening Day roster – and bullpen specifically – became a little clearer on Monday. The bullpen in particular went from having up to four vacancies to basically none in a matter of hours on Monday with the acquisitions of LHP’s Alex Torres and Jerry Blevins. These acquisitions also likely…
Michael Baron
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Lucas Duda’s new approach against lefties is working, so far…
Seemingly every last person in the industry always warns never to take individual results from March or September too seriously in baseball. Games don’t count and the conditions aren’t the same in March, and there are stage-frightened pitchers on the mound and hitters at the plate when rosters expand in September. In large measure that’s fairly accurate, but in certain…
Michael Baron
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Bobby Parnell will likely be ready by mid-April, and that could impact the roster
While the Mets have given a tentative May 1st return date, Bobby Parnell is expected to be activated from the disabled list in mid-April, according to Adam Rubin. Working his way back from Tommy John surgery, Parnell’s velocity is still a work in progress, but this is among the thing he continues to work on…
Rich MacLeod
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Daniel Murphy, the lame duck second baseman…
Daniel Murphy has been a loyal Met every since draft day in June, 2006. He only recently found a home at second base – he has journeyed around the diamond playing left field, third base, first base, doing everything the Mets asked him to do, often looking bad in the process. He has developed into…
Michael Baron
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