Tonight, San Diego hosts Major League Baseball’s 87th All-Star Game, and three Mets will be at the festivities alongside skipper Terry Collins and his coaching staff. Noah Syndergaard and Yoenis Cespedes were both replaced due to injury, but Collins has said Jeurys Familia will be ready to close out the game. And, of course, there will […]
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Previous April Standouts and Noah Syndergaard’s Future
When the Mets were in the World Series last year against the Royals, Noah Syndergaard was merely their Game 3 starter. As Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller noted on the “Effectively Wild” podcast, that fact is incredible to consider at this point (with all due respect to Matt Harvey and Jacob deGrom); “Thor” has certainly […]
Celebrating The Golden Anniversary Of The Tom Seaver Signing
“In 1966, I was in Long Beach, California with the Cleveland Indians, and we were playing the Cubbies. On that day, they were asking me to share a locker with this kid. There were six Hall of Famers: Ernie Banks, Ferguson Jenkins, Ron Santo, Billy Williams, Cubs manager Leo Durocher, and the kid who threw […]