The Mets capped off their most active week of the offseason in a big way, acquiring Freddy Peralta and Tobias Meyers for Jett Williams and Brandon Sproat. It’s likely the last large addition the Mets will make this offseason, but boy it sure is a great way to round things out. Peralta is obviously the […]
From Amazin' Avenue
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Meet the Mets Tim Britton and Will Sammon made their predictions on how the Mets’ roster will look. Brian Murphy explained why Bo Bichette is not new to Carlos Mendoza, despite being new to the Mets’ organization. Four Mets ended up in The Athletic’s Top 100 prospects list, including two guys in the Top 20. […]
From Amazin' Avenue
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Ryan Clifford, a North Carolina native, attended high school at Leesville Road High School, a public school in Raleigh for his freshman and sophomore seasons. It quickly became apparent that he was a big fish in a small pond, as he posted a .526 with 4 home runs over 21 games in his freshman year, […]
From Amazin' Avenue
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After six months of intermittent rumors, the Mets finally completed a trade for Luis Robert. The 28-year-old center fielder heads to Queens in exchange for Luisangel Acuña and Truman Pauley, the Mets’ 12th-round pick in last year’s draft. Robert is under contract for $20M in 2026 with an additional club option for $20M in 2027. […]
From Amazin' Avenue
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Meet the Mets David Stearns is facing the challenge of living up to Steve Cohen’s Dodgers East dream by balancing the hopes of a World Series with the maintenance of one of baseball’s best farm systems. Around the National League East The Washington Post reportedly on their way to shuttering their entire sports department is […]
From Amazin' Avenue
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The New York Mets went into the offseason with the idea of revamping their roster. David Stearns said as much at the end of last year’s disappointing collapse that saw the team go from first place to missing the playoffs over the summer, saying that returning most of the roster “wasn’t the right thing to […]
From Amazin' Avenue
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“We’ve got some financial flexibility now to continue to bring in talent.” Talk about a real knee-slapper. The White Sox GM sure knows how to tell ’em. Chris Getz made that remark after the trade of Luis Robert, Jr. to the Mets, a move that not only forced everybody covering the team to figure out […]
From South Side Sox
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Meet the Mets The Mets signed veteran reliever Craig Kimbrel to a minor league deal with an invite to big league spring training. For his Mets Beat newsletter, Anthony DiComo of MLB.com wrote about how patience paid off for the Mets this offseason. Mike Petriello of MLB.com took a deep dive into whether the Mets […]
From Amazin' Avenue
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The Mets, who are always on the lookout for pitching depth, came to an agreement with Craig Kimbrel Saturday night, according to Jon Heyman. It is a minor league deal for Kimbrel, with an invite to MLB Spring Training. He will make $2.5m in base salary if he does make the team, according to Will […]
From Amazin' Avenue
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After the departures of Edwin Díaz, Ryne Stanek, Tyler Rogers, and Gregory Soto and injuries to Reed Garrett and Dedniel Núñez, the Mets needed to do some work to rebuild their bullpen this offseason. And work has been done. The Mets have added four pieces from outside the organization who will likely fill important roles […]
From Amazin' Avenue
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Meet the Mets SNY broadcasts will look a little different moving forward, as John DeMarsico announced his departure from the network after seventeen years of directing Mets games. The Mets have completely revamped their roster this offseason. Have they succeeded in improving upon the 2025 squad? Carlos Beltrán has a lot to contemplate as he […]
From Amazin' Avenue
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Chicago White SoxSeranthony DomínguezThat’s the news, baby Today on the site, Josh will argue that the Yankees shouldn’t be too comfortable in handing over the leadoff spot to Trent Grisham and should instead seriously consider Ben Rice. Matt will offer up a 68th birthday tribute to former Yankees/Mets reliever Neil Allen, and for our 50 […]
From Pinstripe Alley
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As spring training draws ever nearer, the Mariners have again fortified the group of arms they’ll bring to camp (known around here as The Pitching Pile), acquiring RHP Cooper Criswell from the Mets for cash. Long-tenured sixth (or seventh or eighth) starter Jhonthan Díaz was designated for assignment in a corresponding move. Criswell, 29, was […]
From Lookout Landing
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For the first time since 2022, the White Sox have an official closer. Chicago agreed to a two-year, $20 million deal with reliever Seranthony Domínguez two days after trading Luis Robert Jr. to the Mets for a pair of prospects. No one expected Jerry Reinsdorf to actually use the extra change on a solid free […]
From South Side Sox
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In this episode of the Royals Rundown Podcast, Jeremy “Hokius” Greco breaks down one of the most intriguing moves of the MLB offseason: the New York Mets’ trade for Freddy Peralta. Using the Mets and Brewers as case studies, Jeremy examines how aggressive roster building contrasts with the growing risk aversion among mid-tier teams—including the […]
From Royals Review
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Will Watson inherited athletic genes from his father, Brad, who played football for Puget Sound University, and baseball skill from his stepfather, Pat, who played baseball at Pacific Lutheran University. He attended Burlington Edison High School in Burlington, Washington, where he played varsity baseball for three seasons, as well as basketball and cross-country track. He […]
From Amazin' Avenue
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It’s no secret that the Mets were looking for rotation help this winter. Mets’ starters posted a 4.13 ERA and a 3.95 FIP last season, which doesn’t look so terrible on the surface until you zoom into the latter half of the year. After June 13 (the day after Kodai Senga suffered the injury that […]
From Amazin' Avenue
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It’s no secret that the Mets were looking for rotation help this winter. Mets’ starters posted a 4.13 ERA and a 3.95 FIP last season, which doesn’t look so terrible on the surface until you zoom into the latter half of the year. After June 13 (the day after Kodai Senga suffered the injury that […]
From Amazin' Avenue
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Wednesday was quite a baseball day in New York. The Yankees signed Cody Bellinger back to their squad for $162 million, and the Mets acquired Freddy Peralta from the Brewers in exchange for prospects Jett Williams and Brandon Sproat. This has ramifications for the Red Sox on a few fronts: First, the deal for Bellinger […]
From Over the Monster
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Meet the Mets The Mets made yet another move yesterday, albeit a relatively minor one, as they acquired former top prospect Vidal Bruján from the Twins for cash considerations and designated left-handed reliever Richard Lovelady for assignment. Deesha Thosar writes that the Mets saved their offseason with a pivotal week. Fellow executives see the Mets’ […]
From Amazin' Avenue
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The Mets have acquired utility player Vidal Bruján from the Twins for cash considerations, and to make room for him on their 40-man roster, they’ve also designated left-handed pitcher Richard Lovelady for assignment. Entering his age-28 season, Bruján has struggled pretty mightily at the plate in his major league career despite having been a consensus […]
From Amazin' Avenue
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Episode 46 of the Bleacher Nation Cubs Podcast is officially live!
In this week’s episode, Brett and I talk about the explosion of roster changes the Mets underwent, especially this week. And that includes, of course, a healthy discussion about the Freddy Peralta trade. We keep coming up against this wall wherein we know the trade is a good idea, but can’t bring ourselves to want the Cubs to do something similar.
In the middle of that conversation, we go off on a wide tangent about M...
From Bleacher Nation | Chicago Sports News, Rumors, and a Reasonable Level of Obsession
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Freddy Peralta, one of the Mets’ latest additions in a very busy week, began his professional career in baseball as an international signing with the Mariners out of the Dominican Republic in 2013. Following a solid season in the Dominican Summer League that year, Peralta was promoted to Seattle’s rookie ball affiliate in Arizona for […]
From Amazin' Avenue
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Robert Eckl Sr. and Robert Eckl Jr., Jack Wenninger’s grandfather and uncle, respectively, both played baseball at the University of Wisconsin, but Jack decided to not follow in their footsteps, instead committing to Murray State University after graduating from Cary-Grove Community High School in 2020. Wenninger’s numbers in his freshman season were only pedestrian, posting […]
From Amazin' Avenue
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Writing a primer on a player who it feels like Mets fans simultaneously don’t know very well but also know intimately well in Luis Robert Jr. is an interesting position to be in. The 28-year-old Cuban-born center fielder defected in 2016 and signed with the White Sox the following year, spending his entire career until […]
From Amazin' Avenue
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