Pete Alonso
signs record second year contract, Jacob
deGrom, Dellin
Betances, Jeurys
Familia, Edwin Diaz
all pitch great in a Mets Spring Training game and the Mets score 7 runs the
second day in a row.
Plus today is Darryl
Strawberry’s Birthday!
Sounds like a great day for Mets fans but all anyone will be
talking about is how “NBA
suspends season until further notice after player [Rudy Gobert of the Jazz]
tests positive for the coronavirus” ESPN.com.
Syracuse.com:
Coronavirus forces Ivy League to cancel spring sports including
Syracuse-Cornell lacrosse.
Here is the statement: “The Players Association is in daily
contact with Major League Baseball, and our staffs are conferring regularly
with federal health officials, state and local governments, and infectious
disease experts to develop contingency plans. As circumstances evolve, our
efforts will evolve as well.
“Players want to compete and provide entertainment to fans.
The Association’s focus will remain finding ways to do so in an environment
that protects not just players’ personal health and safety, but also the health
and safety of fans, umpires, ballpark employees, club employees and everyone in
the baseball family.”
SNY.TV:
Amid coronavirus concerns, Mets, Yankees on for now, other MLB teams
considering moving games.
Mets 7 Cardinals 3 (Box)
(Video
Highlights).
Jacob
deGrom started went 4 innings allowing just one run. Jacob recorded
10 straight outs before Matt
Carpenter homered in the fourth.
Jacob’s line: 4 innings, 1 run, 1 hit, 3 K’s. 1.29 ERA.
SNY.TV:
"I feel good, felt really good today," deGrom said Wednesday.
"Like I said, I was able to locate to both sides of the plate. Changeup
was good. Slider -- I threw a couple good ones, couple bad ones, but that's
just something that I'm going to continue to work on in between."
Dellin
Betances, Jeurys
Familia, and Edwin Diaz
followed each throwing a scoreless inning.
Betances just allowing a walk, Familia one walk and a K, Diaz a 1-2-3
seventh.
Kevin
Kernan NY Post: Mets trio could turn a 2019 problem into a 2020 strength.
Brad Brach
gave up a walk and 3 hits including a home run and double and was bailed out of
a bases loaded 2 outs jam by Ryder
Ryan who came in to strike out Harrison
Bader to end the inning.
Jacob Rhame
made his first appearance of the spring working 2/3 of an inning giving up a
run on two walks and a hit before Joe
Zanghi recorded the final out of the game.
Jeff McNeil
(now hitting .462 this spring), Robinson
Cano, and J.D. Davis
each had two hits to lead the Mets offense.
Davis drove in 3 including a two run homer.
SNY.TV:
Mets' J.D. Davis open to position change if needed: 'I'm not a fish out of the
water'
Patrick
Mazeika played 1B late in the game and singled in his only at
bat. Patrick is hitting .417 this spring
with a 1.417 OPS.
SNY.TV:
The Mets are off on Thursday, but they'll be back in action on Friday afternoon
against the Atlanta Braves in North Port, Fla. First pitch is set for 1:05 PM.
More Mets links:
MLB.com:
The Mets have rewarded Pete Alonso's standout rookie season with the largest
salary ever for a second-year player…$652,521…the largest in Major League
history for a player coming off his first season.
Syracuse.com
had the full list of pre-arbitration Mets who signed contracts yesterday including
Jeff McNeil
and Amed
Rosario.
SNY.TV:
RHP Corey
Oswalt was optioned and LHP David
Peterson and RHP Pedro
Payano were reassigned to minor league camp.
John
Harper SNY.TV: Mets' Rick
Porcello on how Red Sox analytics strategy sunk his 2019 season. "They
were telling me I had a high spin rate, that I should use it, but I found out I
can't go up in the zone at 92 (mph) when I'm not making pitches to establish
down. You want to be coachable, so I tried it, but it didn't work for me. I
didn't win a Cy Young by throwing four-seamers."
NY
Post: Mets great David Wright happy with special adviser role.
NY
Post: Mets’ Michael
Conforto ‘feels good’ but return date unknown.
213
Miles from Shea 2020 Conglomerate Mets Projections: Steven Matz:
141.8 Innings pitched, 4.27 ERA; 1.29 WHIP; 8.5 K/9.
Lohud:
To understand NY Mets' Ryan
Cordell, you must look to the high school he represents. “Valley
Christian Academy is not the most aesthetically pleasing high school. VCA does
not have the best facilities and it is not your stereotypical rich Christian
school. Its students, who are not from wealthy backgrounds, understand
everything is earned and nothing is given.”
Mack’s
Blast From The Past comes from 3-12-12 – Mack wished Darryl
Strawberry with a picture of Darryl playing at Compton High.
Born on this date:
- Joe Moock (1944)
- Darryl Strawberry (1962)
- Shawn Gilbert (1965)
- Dave Williams (1979)
- Carlos Muniz (1981)
Transactions:
New York Mets released Alay Soler on March 12, 2007.
New York Mets released Alay Soler on March 12, 2007.
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2003
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The
second exhibition season bench-clearing brawl this week occurs when a raging
Mike Piazza charges the mound after being hit by a pitch thrown by Guillermo
Mota, who makes it to the dugout without being caught. The incident may be a
follow-up to a similar event last spring when a shoving match between the two
players resulted when the Mets' All-Star catcher waited for Mota and grabbed
the Dodger reliever by the jersey as he was coming off the field in the
eighth inning of the game.
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Glad to hear that Pete Alonso is getting paid. He needs to be a Met for his whole career.
ReplyDeleteMy college makes the NCAA Tournament for the first time in 19 years, and it may not even be played. :(
So far they plan to play - with no fans. Good Luck Hofstra.
ReplyDeleteCorona is radically changing everything - will we have a season? We'll see.
ReplyDeleteBe a shame - this looks like it will be a great team. Pen is still a question mark, but moved strongly forward yesterday.
My guess is April will be cancelled
ReplyDeleteMLB just pushed Opening Day back two weeks.
ReplyDeleteHard to guess much of anything regarding this.
On the other side...At least Yo', half the NYY, and Justin Pedroia get more time to heal up.
I think NBA is over. MLB? I think you are probably right Mack, May 1st. It just sounds reasonable. Let's hope at least then.
This Coronavirus (COVID19) confounds me some.
ReplyDeleteThere are things within this, that I just do not get.
Like why (gratefully) is it not affecting the elementary age kids like most other flu influenza viruses normally do?
What's its true origin? Is the stuff we are all hearing online regarding the possible Wuhan Bio Laboratories hold any credence or is it just more fake news to add to the fire?
Why is the entire media being so much more repetitive with just scant information, than disseminating with new applicable insights? I understand not trying to freak out the whole country with the dismal inherent within here, but why is there so little new pulp to this story beyond expanding cases worldwide?
Why does the lead CDC person seem so entirely non-emotive? This is now a pandemic. You would think that he'd show something, staring down the nostrils of this potential contagion. I guess that could also be to his own credit too.
Why did President Trump kind of play the Coronavirus down earlier on, although I do totally realize that very few politicians (or really any of us for that matter) have had much of an introduction course to Coronaviruses.
Why is everything being closed down in this country or pushed back (like in sports and regional events) when there are so few cases totaling not even the normal amount of other virus cases we normally get here each winter season and the death total is so low comparatively speaking?
Why are states like Alaska and countries like Greenland exempt from this contagion so far? What does Sarah Palin know that we don't? (We should all move there I think.)
Why are there so few test kits for Coronavirus when it looked like weeks ago something like this was potentially coming?
And (finally) my own personal fav question...Why is Dr. Ben Carson handling HUD when he should probably be the White House spokesperson on this Coronavirus pandemic here in the U.S.? I personally have high regard for Dr. Carson and his ability to calm the tide I find exceedingly amazing. We need this guy upfront now.
Just a few thoughts. Nothing more. Be as you were. Stay well my friends! Pray, even if you don't!
Man, I sure miss the '80's! Especially 1986 you Mets fans! LOL
ReplyDeleteWere simpler times.
Women had big hair and short skirts.
We were escaping the "disco era" finally and with rollerskates on. There were no wars, no killing, no collateral damage. Cheers was still on. Norm!
Remember?
Addition:
ReplyDeleteFound a really insightful website just now. It's www.statnews.com/2020/03/02/coronavirus-drugs-and-vaccines-in-development/
It outlines a number of really good and well known companies that are working on both therapies for the exposed and ill, and then vaccines for those not yet sick.
In summation, it looks to me like they pretty much have the "bases" covered and could be close. One of these companies is taking the healthy antibodies from someone who had SARS in the past and recovered, and then reproducing them for use in current Coronavirus patients. The vaccines of course will take more time.
It's a great read and boning up on this stuff could help us to all stay optimistic and upbeat thru this storm.
There are about a half dozen anti-viral medications out there too that you can look up online. Stay informed as best we all can.
LGM!
I may have expressed this before. If so, please humor me here below.
ReplyDeleteOne of my concerns with this Coronavirus (COVID19) situation is the possibility that instead of this just being one virus (SARS) already identified, it could be two or more viruses attached together. This would present a more complex situation for both researchers to identify, and then finding a true remedy and vaccine that works on it.
But I guess for us NY Mets fans, we get more of the SNY 2015 NY Mets games for awhile. But I liked those games a lot actually, and we win every game that they show. So whose complaining.
A lighter shade of grey.
ReplyDeleteThis morning on WFAN, someone called in and wanted to suggest turning all the MLB players on all the teams into basically cyber digital players, and then have the games go ahead that way. Kind of like video game images.
I found the idea ingenious, in a way. And quite humorous too.
I immediately thought to myself, "It's a good thing that Bartolo isn't still playing because his "cyber self" might be hard to imitate. LOL