Good Morning. Jacob
deGrom talks about the suspended season, Mike’s Mets is not a fan of
simulated games and on this day in Mets’ History, Nolan Ryan
records his first win.
Mike’s
Mets talked about “Mets After Coronavirus” and had this observation: “No
offense to anyone who finds the simulated baseball season some sort of
diversion, I have zero interest in that. I say that as someone who loved and
indulged in countless games of Strat-O-Matic as a kid. While a fall tournament
wouldn't crown a true champion it would be infinitely more fun to watch than
fake baseball. It would be real
baseball.”
Syracuse.com
looked at “Who might have taken the field for the Syracuse Mets’ home opener?”
Left field: Tim
Tebow; Center field: Ryan
Cordell; Right field: Jarrett
Parker; Third base: Eduardo
Nunez; Shortstop: Andres
Gimenez; Second base: Max Moroff;
First base: Matt Adams;
Catcher: Rene
Rivera; Starting pitcher: Corey
Oswalt.
David Groveman Mets 360.com: Mets Minors:
Thomas
Szapucki and the impact prospects. David looks at minor league
players that could possibly make an impact in 2021 including David
Peterson, Andres
Gimenez, and Kevin
Smith.
NY
Post: How Mets are using technology to connect with their players. This past off-season the Mets hired R.
L’Heureux Lewis-McCoy, an associate professor of sociology of education at NYU,
to conduct “classes with Mets staff members on how to best communicate with the
group of (primarily) millennials that comprises the franchise’s most important
asset: Its playing talent.”
Centerfield
Maz: Remembering Mets History: (2000) Mike Piazza
Has A Career High Five Hit Night. Friday April 14th 2000.
Centerfield
Maz: Remembering Mets History (1972): Mets Remember Gil Hodges-
Yogi
Berra's Managerial Debut & Shea Wecome Rusty Staub,
Saturday April 15th, 1972.
MLB.COM:
deGrom on baseball prime, family time and more. “We miss the game as much as the biggest
fans,” deGrom said. “That’s why we play this. We want to be out there competing
in front of the fans. That’s what we do this for. I just hope that everybody
stays safe, and hopefully things get back to normal and we’re back out there
doing what we love, and competing in front of the best fans in baseball.”
NY
Post: Mets’ Jacob deGrom is aware of daunting task ahead of him. At
the age of 31, Mets ace Jacob
deGrom knows the clock is ticking on his so-far brilliant career and
the suspended season, due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, isn’t helping.
NY
Daily News: When he’s not checking in with Mets pitchers on Zoom these days,
Jeremy
Hefner takes the hard math problems and comes up with the
recreational activities.
You Tube: Tom Seaver
talks about his 4/13/67 Major League Baseball debut in the second game of the
1967 season as the Mets faced the Pittsburgh Pirates at Shea Stadium.
Call
to the Pen: If MLB plays the season divided into Cactus and Grapefruit Leagues,
you can start throwing dirt on the Miami Marlins and New York Mets hopes for
2020. The Grapefruit League East is slated to feature the Washington
Nationals, Houston Astros, New York Mets, St. Louis Cardinals, Miami Marlins.
Steve
Contursi Reflections On Baseball thinks the division would play out like this:
Mets, Nationals, Cardinals, Astros, Marlins.
Metsmerized
Online: Mets One Year Wonders: Moises Alou’s
Streak Sets Franchise Record. “While the [2007] Mets collapsed that September,
Alou’s incredible hitting shouldn’t be forgotten. From Aug. 23 to Sept. 26,
Alou slashed .403/.455/.588 with four home runs and 17 RBI. He recorded a hit in
30 straight games, setting the franchise record.”
Mets.com:
Mets' Top 5 third basemen: DiComo's take. 1) David
Wright; 2) Howard
Johnson; 3) Robin
Ventura; 4) Wayne
Garrett; 5) Hubie
Brooks.
Forbs:
New Willie Mays Book Gives Much Insight To His Life And Times. The
new book is entitled “24: Life Stories and Lessons From the Say Hey Kid.” John
Shea, long-time baseball writer at the San Francisco Chronicle co-authored the
book along with Mays.
Mack’s
Blast From The Past comes from April 14, 2012. R.I.P. - 12-yr.old Eric Lederman. “A 12-year-old sports fanatic has died in
Illinois after being hit in the neck by a baseball while warming up for a game
this week…leaving his local community in shock.”
Born on this date:
- Mark Bomback (1953)
- Kyle Farnsworth (1976)
- Samuel
Taveras (1989) DSL Coach
- Zak
Whalin (1995)
- Tommy Holmes (2008)
New York Mets sold Duke Snider to the San Francisco Giants on April 14, 1964.
New York Mets released Grant Roberts on April 14, 2005.
1976
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On the north side of Chicago, Dave
Kingman launches a homer down the left field line that hits a
house 530 feet from home plate. The Cubs, as well as the home, survive the
right-fielder's blast, defeating the Mets in the Wrigley Field contest, 6-5.
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2001
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The Reds beat Al Leiter
and the Mets, 1-0, to set the modern National League mark for not being shut
out by an opponent, scoring in their 175th consecutive game. Ironically, the
record-breaking contest comes against the last team and pitcher to blank the
franchise, a 5-0 defeat at Cinergy Field in a playoff game to determine the
NL Wild Card.
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2006
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At the Mets Team Store beginning today through the April
17 tax deadline, fans can have their taxes done for free by Gilman Ciocia.
The Shea TAX-TEAM will also prepare an automatic extension for those who are
not ready to file.
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1968: At the Astrodome, New York Mets pitcher Nolan Ryan
earns the first of his 324 major league victories. The 21-year-old right-hander
hurls six and two-thirds innings of three-hit, shutout baseball to lead the Mets
over the Houston Astros, 4 - 0. Danny
Frisella takes the save in 2 1/3 innings of relief. Tommie Agee
goes 2 for 3 with two runs and Art Shamsky
2 for 3 with two RBI. Larry
Dierker is the losing pitcher.
1976 - In the 6th inning of today's 6 - 5 loss
to Chicago, the Mets' Dave
Kingman hits what will become widely regarded as the longest home
run ever hit in Wrigley Field, estimated at 600 feet in many of the next day's
press accounts, with the putative "paper of record" going as high as
630. Some cold water is applied to these claims by longtime Cubs' broadcaster
Jack Brickhouse, speaking in 1982 with Paul Susman of Baseball Digest:
"Brickhouse revealed that the ball was greatly helped by a strong wind of
about 35 miles per hour. Brickhouse estimated Kingman's blast in reality went
about 500 feet." To be fair to Kingman, the Cubs' own scoresheet for this
game estimates "530 to 550 feet," which in conjunction with
researcher Bill Jenkinson's assertion of 530 feet as the distance between home
plate and the point of obstruction, would suggest a typo or simple misreading
as the culprit in the inflated Times estimate.
1999: John Franco
strikes out the side in the 9th inning of the New York Mets' 4 - 1 win over the
Florida Marlins, becoming the second relief pitcher in major league history to
reach 400 career saves.
2001: By scoring in their 175th consecutive
game, the Cincinnati Reds set a modern National League record for not being
shut out by an opponent. Coincidentally, to break the record, Cincinnati beats Al Leiter
and the New York Mets, 1 - 0, the last pitcher and team to shut out the
franchise.
2011: The Rockies complete a four-game sweep of
the Mets by taking both ends of a doubleheader at Citi Field, 5 - 4 and 9 - 4. Troy Tulowitzki
leads Colorado's offense by homering in all four games and going 10 for 16 with
8 RBI in the series.
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5 comments:
Jake’s first big HOF obstacle was the Mets’ stubborn refusal to score for him or protect his leads. Now, COVID. I wonder how future HOF voters will factor in starts lost due to the dread virus.
Zack Whalin was born in 1005? I didn't know they had baseball in the time of the Vikings.:)
Seeing Mike Baxter's name gives me an idea. How about something on Mets who were from the area. Guys like Mike Jorgensen, Ed Glynn, etc.
Bob W.
Thanks Bob. 1005 was a fat finger mistake. He was born in 1995.
Like your Mets from the area idea. Betances was born in Manhattan as was current Mets minor league Pitcher Pedro Pavano.
Selling The Duke to the dreaded Giants was the ultimate insult.
Also, Shawon Dunston who played briefly for the Mets in 1999. Was from Brooklyn.
Bob W.
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