Good Morning. CBS Sports looks at Jeff McNeil’s
power surge last year, there is free baseball streaming of April 2020 baseball
and Jeff Wilpon and Andrew Cuomo talk about opening the season.
Need live baseball? Per Twitter: #CPBL
is providing #free VOD of #RakutenMonkeys first game. You can see it here.
Here
is video of Can you believe it? Chu,
Yu-Hsien's 3 homer game, including a walk off homer in the 12th inning. Robots
go crazy!
Andrew Cuomo and Jeff Wilpon Talk Baseball in NY:
NY
Post: New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday he is hoping baseball can
return soon and made his feelings known to Mets COO Jeff Wilpon. “I said
why can’t we talk about a baseball season with nobody in the stands? Why can’t
you play the game with the players,” Cuomo told his brother Chris on CNN’s
“Cuomo Prime Time” Wednesday. “I think it would be good for the country.”
Adam Rubin
on Twitter: Gov. Cuomo said on news tonight he spoke with Jeff Wilpon.
Cuomo advocated MLB season take place with no one in stands because it would be
good for country to watch. Cuomo said response was that it would require a
reduction in player salaries to offset lack of attendance.
Mets Links:
CBS
Sports.com did an in-depth look at Jeff McNeil to see if his power numbers from
late last year were sustainable. Since
his power came from pulling the ball, they think it is. They also looked at power surge’s from Ji-Man Choi
of Tampa Bay and Tom Murphy
of Seattle.
Centerfield
Maz: Tyler
Bashlor: Mets Relief Pitcher (2018-2020). Born April 16, 1993.
Tim
Boyle Rising Apple: Mets Box Score Flashback: Mike
Hampton’s first win in 2000 on April 15.
CBS
Sports: MLB Mock Draft 2020: Vanderbilt's Austin Martin goes No. 1 to Tigers;
For the Mets at #19 they have them taking Pick: OF Pete Crow-Armstrong,
Harvard-Westlake High School (California) ($3,359,000 slot value).
Syracuse Mets:
The
day a world-famous actress stole the spotlight at Syracuse Chiefs opener.
Jayne Mansfield made an appearance in Syracuse on April 29, 1966.
MLB News:
CBS
Sports: Dr. Fauci: Sports could return this summer without fans in venues.
Fauci also believes that players should be kept in hotels to protect their
health.
NJ.com:
President Trump’s coronavirus sports committee is missing 1 important
perspective. The biggest issue with this particular group of minds:
None is from the area of the country hit the hardest.
CBS
Sports: What active MLB players will make Hall of Fame? “Mike Trout, Miguel
Cabrera, Albert Pujols among locks; Robinson
Cano on the bubble.”
AP News: Baker laments lack of
blacks in MLB on Jackie Robinson Day. “Only 7.7% of big league players
on opening day rosters last year were African American, down from 17% in 1990. [Dusty]
Baker and Dodgers manager Dave Roberts are the only two African American
managers in the majors.”
Largest
Contract In Franchise History For Each MLB Team. For the Mets - David
Wright – 8 years, $138MM.
Signed 12-4-12.
Mack’s
Blast From The Past: Mack Ade – Morning Report – 4-16-13. Among Mack’s musings: “I love spring baseball, much more
than the heat of summer down here in Savannah. That being said, who in God’s
name scheduled a baseball game in either Minneapolis or Denver? Worse than that, schedule it in an un-domed
stadium. What exactly do you do in a stadium like that in Denver? Ice shaking?
Penquin grazing? Nope… baseball. It will
be interesting to see if the majority of the Mets- Colorado games get weathers
out. When would you make them up? On the all-star break? Such an easy mess to
avoid come scheduling day.”
Born on this date:
- Bruce Bochy (1955)
- Fernando Vina (1969)
- Ken Takahashi (1969)
- Tyler Bashlor (1993)
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1964
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Holy Water from the Gowanus Canal,
which passes near Ebbets Field, the Dodgers' old home, and Holy Water from
the Harlem River where it flows past the Polo Grounds, the former longtime
ballpark of the Giants and the Mets' home for the past two seasons is used to
christened Shea Stadium. The ballpark's namesake, Bill Shea, credited with
bringing the National League back to New York, pours the water from two
bottles, blessing the Flushing Meadow structure on the eve of its debut.
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1966
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On the second day of the season,
Jack Fischer gives up just five hits in his complete-game effort, beating
Atlanta at Shea Stadium, 3-1. The win represents the Mets' earliest victory
in franchise history.
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2011; The Mets are swept in a doubleheader for the
second time in three days as they go down, 4 - 2 and 4 - 0, to the Atlanta
Braves. In the second game, Jair Jurrjens throws seven shutout innings in his
return from the disabled list, while Alex Gonzalez is the hero in the opener,
hitting two of the Braves' four solo homers in support of Derek Lowe's
pitching. The Mets have now lost seven in a row.
2013: The Rockies battle the elements to sweep the
Mets in a doubleheader at home. The opener is delayed by two hours as an 8-inch
snowfall has to be removed from the field, with Colorado owner Dick Monfort
pitching in by manning a shovel, and the day concludes when Jordan Pacheco
singles home the winning run in the 10th inning of the second game, for a 9 - 8
win. The Rockies also win the opener, 8 - 4, as the games are played in frigid
conditions and occasional snow flurries. Reporters quip that there are more
snowmen than fans at Coors Field.
2015: Giancarlo Stanton becomes the Marlins
all-time leading home run hitter when he slugs #155 for his career off Dillon
Gee of the Mets. He was tied with Dan Uggla since being hit in the face with a
pitch late in the 2014 season. However, the Mets go on to win, 7 - 5.
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Jed Lowrie is the only Met who looks to be in mid-season form. :)
ReplyDeleteBob W.
Well said Bob.
ReplyDeleteMaybe Wilpon could work on the NYC hospital boat.
ReplyDeletePut him in the engine room. Three days of him working there and the ship will never leave port again.