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Photo by Rich Schultz/Getty Images Your New Year’s Eve dose of New York Mets and MLB news, notes, and links. Meet the Mets The Mets continue to target Rōki Sasaki, whose agent says market size is not a factor in his decision. Sasaki will start eliminating some teams soon, but his agent also didn’t rule out the possibility of more initial meetings. A decision is likely … [Read more...] about Mets Morning News for December 31, 2024

Photo by Scott Cunningham/Getty Images Your Monday morning dose of New York Mets and MLB news, notes, and links. Meet the Mets Nobody is playing baseball at Citi Field in the last days of 2024, but they are playing Minecraft. Around the National League East President Jimmy Carter’s hometown Atlanta Braves marked the news of his death at 100 with a statement and well … [Read more...] about Mets Morning News for December 30, 2024

Photo by Nick Cammett/Diamond Images via Getty Images The 32-year-old is still on the free agent market. With the calendar set to turn to 2025 in just a couple of days, the Mets could still use some help in their bullpen ahead of the upcoming season. And Jakob Junis, who declined his side of a mutual option for the 2025 season to become a free agent, could be a useful … [Read more...] about Free agent profile: Jakob Junis

Photo credit should read ROMEO GACAD/AFP via Getty Images The final product might look fairly standard, but a lot goes into the ranking system. The goal of a prospect list is simple: Identify the best players and rank them in an ordinal fashion. It sounds simple on the surface, but “identify[ing] the best players and rank[ing] them” is anything but. The annual Amazin’ … [Read more...] about What goes into making a prospect list?

Photo by Rob Leiter/MLB Photos via Getty Images Your Sunday morning dose of New York Mets and MLB news, notes, and links. Meet the Mets Though the fit between Pete Alonso and the Mets is obvious, the sticking point is still the length of the contract, writes Will Sammon of The Athletic. Before Teoscar Hernández ultimately re-upped with the Dodgers for three years and … [Read more...] about Mets Morning News for December 29, 2024