Your Monday morning dose of New York Mets and MLB news, notes, and links.
Meet the Mets
For Mets fans and many others, even supporting the losers makes you a winner.
No matter which team wins the World Series, some Old Friends are in line for World Series rings.
Around the National League East
Tim Hyers, the Braves’ newly-minted hitting coach, spoke of the changes he has in mind for his first season running the offensive show.
Around Major League Baseball
You won’t be shocked to find out that the Dodgers plan on being involved in the Juan Soto sweepstakes.
In the present day, the Dodgers are banking on Shohei Ohtani to be healthy and available to take on Juan Soto’s Yankees in Game Three tonight.
Ohtani even took some pain-free swings at Yankee Stadium yesterday afternoon.
After the first game of the series, Kirk Gibson is happy to pass the Iconic Dodger World Series Homer Torch to Freddie Freeman.
With 13.44 million viewers, the second game of this year’s World Series was the most watched since the 2018 edition of the fall classic.
Aaron Judge knows he’s been a non-factor in the series and naturally would like to correct that sooner than later.
It’s not an exaggeration to say the Yankees have backed themselves into a do-or-die corner as the series is back in New York.
Three years deep into his time as Yankees third base coach, Luis Rojas is happy, but he’d never say no to another shot at the manager’s seat.
In the White Sox managerial hunt, things are coming to a close as Clayton McCullough and A.J. Ellis were both told that they are out of the running.
This Date in Mets History
On this date in 1961, workers broke ground on what would become Shea Stadium.