Good morning, Happy Birthday Willie
Mays, Jeff
McNeil joined GKR in the simulated broadcast
booth, and the AP looked at MLB Salaries.
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Mets Links:
SNY.TV:
5 Takeaways from Mets' Jeff McNeil's
MLB The Show appearance, including how he's staying in shape during hiatus. On adding power in Triple A and in second
half of 2019: "I think it just came. I put on a lot of strength, a lot of
size and weight, and I think with that the power numbers jumped. When I went to
Double A in 2018, I wanted to hit with some power. I knew that was the one
thing kind of lacking in my game. Got off to an extremely hot start, hitting
the ball out of the ballpark, and still hit for a high average.”
Mike’s
Mets. It's Always About the Money.
Mike talks about Robinson
Cano, Edwin Diaz,
worrying about the Mets finances, and the COVID-19 epidemic in South
Korea.
Rising
Apple: Mets History Rewritten: Robinson Cano, Edwin Diaz trade never happens.
Already, many would like to redo this trade. Even if it meant having Jay Bruce
whittle away on the bench or made Anthony
Swarzak a member of the bullpen for another year, fans would take back the
deal.
Brian Joura Mets
360.com: Michael
Conforto and the non-pejorative nature of his disappointment.
Mets.com:
Mets’ Top 5 center fielders: DiComo's take. 1. Carlos
Beltrán; 2. Mookie
Wilson; 3. Tommie Agee;
4. Lenny
Dykstra; 5. Lee
Mazzilli.
Mets Focus: Who has
the Most Stolen Bases in a Mets Game? Vince
Coleman and Roger
Cedeño have the most stolen bases in a single Mets game. They both
stole 4 bases in a game. Coleman did it twice, once in 1992 and again in 1993.
Strangely he didn’t get a hit in either game! Cedeño stole 4 bases in a game in
1999.
Mets
Insider Blog: Jeff of All Trades.
“We all know Jeff McNeil
is an All-Star caliber baseball player, whom could have instead played
professional golf, but we found out this week he is a legitimate gamer, too.
McNeil found himself just one win away from advancing to the finals of the MLB
the Show Players League.”
Baseball
Essential: Ready and Waiting. Writer Michael Dittleman explains how Pete Alonso
got a Yankee fan cheering for the Mets.
NY
Post: A lighter Jeurys
Familia is ready to give Mets what they’ve been missing.
Rising
Apple: Mets pitcher Marcus
Stroman proving he’s perfect for this club even without baseball.
Writer Tim Boyle suggests that you “Stop over on Stroman’s Twitter page at any time of the
day and you’ll see what a wonderful leader the man is. This goes for the team
and the city he’ll play baseball in once things get back to normal.”
Metsmerized
Online: Amazin’ Mistakes: Mets Whiff On J.J. Putz
Deal. Author Joe Jackson explains how “The Mets’ trade for Putz was handled
poorly from beginning to end.”
MLB LINKS:
The
Big Lead.com: Keith Law Throws Cold Water on Baseball Restart Rumor.
“There's no proposed date for the MLB season to start. That rumor running
around today is false. Sorry.”
SNY.TV:
MLBPA chief Tony Clark talks potential 2020 season, hopes it can start 'sooner
rather than later'. 'I don't know that there is a definitive plan yet'.
AP
study: MLB average at around $4.4M for 5th year in row. “Following an
offseason when Gerrit Cole, Stephen Strasburg, Anthony Rendon and Christian
Yelich all agreed to $200 million-plus deals, the flattened salary curve is
evidence of a shrinking portion of the pie for baseball’s middle class. The
stagnant stretch is unprecedented since the free-agent era dawned in 1976.”
The
Sporting News: MLB payrolls 2020: Five takeaways from reported salary figures.
The Mets are spending, too — no, really. Long accused of being cheap or broke
or both because of Bernie Madoff, New York's NL club is eighth at an estimated
$174.3 million.
ESPN.com:
Ranking every World Series in MLB history. Here’s their top 5: #1. 1975: Reds over Red
Sox in seven; #2. 1991: Twins over Braves in seven; #3. 1924: Senators over
Giants in seven; #4. 1986: Mets over Red Sox in seven; #5. 2011: Cardinals over
Rangers in seven; Others: #18. 1973: A's over Mets in seven; #30. 2015: Royals
over Mets in five; #36. 1969: Mets over Orioles in five; #43. 2000: Yankees
over Mets in five.
ESPN.com:
Pedro
Martinez, other MLB players form coalition for coronavirus relief in
Dominican Republic.
Yahoo
sports: After success of 'The Last Dance,' ESPN moves up premiere of three more
documentaries to fill sports void.
“Long Gone Summer,” the story of the 1998 home run chase between Mark
McGwire and Sammy Sosa,
airing on June 14.
MLB.com:
Beginning at 9 a.m. ET and running through 5 p.m. ET on Wednesday,
and then replaying from 5 p.m. ET through 1 a.m. ET that night, MLB.com will
continuously stream 42 of the most memorable half-innings in modern baseball
history -- back-to-back, in succession.
For the Mets this will be Bottom 10, 1986 World Series Game 6: Mookie’s
‘little roller’ caps Mets’ wild comeback; Bottom 8, Sept. 21, 2001: Mike Piazza
lifts NYC with post-9/11 homer.
NJ.com:
MLB Network’s Bob Costas pitches rules changes for 2020 amid coronavirus. "Put in a pitch clock with nobody on
base, have computerized balls and strikes... short of running the bases
clockwise, I think people would accept most anything. Tinker with the
postseason format, go ahead! Throw everything against the wall and see what
sticks.”
MiLB.com:
Did you know? International League edition. Fourteen unique facts about the
Triple-A circuit, one for each team.
Syracuse Mets: Syracuse first fielded a Minor League team in 1934…The
team changed its name to the Mets prior to the 2019 season, and this marked the
first time the team carried the name of its parent club.
An Angels
Error. The Angels inked infielder Zack Cozart
to a three-year, $38MM contract after the 2017 season, but now he surely counts
as one of their least effective big-money signings in recent memory.
Games are underway now in Korea. Aaron Altherr is the only former Met playing today
so far, He got his first hit of the year
and is 1 for 2 (Box
Score).
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Born on this date:
- Willie Mays (1931)
- Mike Kinkade (1973)
- Francisco
Rios
(1995)
Died on this date:
- Pete Gebrian (2005)
Transactions:
New York Mets traded Don Zimmer to the Cincinnati Reds for Bob Miller and Cliff Cook on May 6, 1962.
New York Mets traded Jim
Marshall to the Pittsburgh
Pirates for Vinegar
Bend Mizell on May 6, 1962.
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1994
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The Cubs' 10-1 victory over the
Pirates ends Anthony Young's 27-game losing streak as a starter and snaps
Chicago's record 14-game drought at home. The hard-luck pitcher, who set a
major league record with 27 consecutive losses while pitching for the Mets,
14 in a starting role and 13 as a reliever, had also made 27 consecutive
starts without a win, despite 13 quality starts among those game in which his
teams posted a 4-23 record.
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Vince Coleman was incredible with the Cardinals, decent with the Mets. I think Vince averaged over 100 steals his first 4 seasons.
ReplyDeleteAn old Willie Mays still managed 14 homers and a commendable .352 OBP as a Met. He shoulda never left NY.
$4.4 average MLB salary was a great place to stagnate at.
Vince stole 110 in 1985, 107 in 86, 109 in 87, 81 in 88, 65 in 89, 77 in 90 with the Cards. Then with the Mets, 37 in 91 (just 72 games - age 29), 24 in 92 (just 71 games), 38 in the fire cracker shortened 93 season (92 games).
ReplyDeleteMakes a good case for developing your own speed players and letting them go when they approach 30.
Vince Coleman pulled a hammy running to first early in the 1991 season, and was never quite the same. Classic case of "Mets Disease". Throwing an M80 at Dodgerfans brought an end to his Mets days.
ReplyDeleteBob W.