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3 reasons Bobby Jones’ NY Mets one-hitter was especially sweetOn October 8, 2000, Bobby Jones took the mound for the New York Mets against the San Francisco Giants. After dropping Game 1 of the series, the Mets won the nex

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Jazz Chisholm Landing Spots📍FA fits for All-Star 2B with Yankees stint likely over 📲

2 NY Mets offseason targets becoming more desirable in the MLB playoffs, 2 now less soThe New York Mets are likely keeping a watchful eye on how some of their potential offseason targets are performing in the postseason this year. It's always imp

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🚨MLB Proposes Less GamesReturn of 154-game season. Opponent selection in postseason. Full MLB proposal to MLBPA here 📲

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Best Fits for Michael King and Casey Mize ⚾Why the Mets should look to sign one of San Diego's free agents ➡️

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2026 Minor League Season Review: Binghamton Rumble PoniesReviewing the 2026 Binghamton Rumble Ponies season.

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Elephant Rumblings: GM List Grows With Four New CandidatesMLB news roundup

MLB playoff results aren’t giving NY Mets owner Steve Cohen incentive to spendFive teams are still alive with one of the Divisional Series left to settle. The Cleveland Guardians and Chicago White Sox play Game 4 in their best of 5 on Thu

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Mets Morning News: The remaining playoff teams get whittled downYour Thursday morning dose of Mets and Major League Baseball news, notes, and links.

What the NY Mets should do with these complicated arbitration-eligible cases Arbitration-eligibility will bump up the salaries of several New York Mets players. How to handle them is easy for some, less so for others. Francisco Alvarez,

Division Series Recap 🍿Yankees, Padres and Braves all eliminated. Tap to catch up on all the action 📲

AL and NLDS Overreactions 🗣️Can anyone beat the Dodgers? Time to trade Acuña Jr.? 📲

MLB Lays Out Lockout PlansNew details emerge on 34-page memo with team owners and high-ranking execs (The Athletic)

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Qualifying offer penalty can quickly eliminate NY Mets' Tarik Skubal backup planI Stand Alone was a 2002 song by the rock band Godsmack featured in the film The Scorpion King. The song hardly stands alone as their lone hit or even above som

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These MLB teams could use potential NY Mets free agent Bo Bichette at 3 different positionsBo Bichette doesn’t sound like he’s in any rush to opt-out of his New York Mets contract. This hasn’t made speculation about the offseason any easier. His choic

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Elephant Rumblings: Division Series and AFL UpdatesMLB News Roundup

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2026 Minor League Season Review: Brooklyn CyclonesReviewing the 2026 Brooklyn Cyclones season.

MLB Postseason Buzz 🗣️

😬 Yankees defensive struggles ♨️ Padres-Brewers drama 📳 LIVE with insider Jon Heyman

Predicting the Outcome for Each Team's Top Free Agent 🔮How the Athletics will decide to keep or let go of their most coveted available player ➡️

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Mets Morning News: Partial coaching staff shakeupYour Wednesday morning dose of Mets and Major League Baseball news, notes, and links.

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The most important reason the NY Mets needed to move on from hitting coach Jeff AlbertThe New York Mets aren’t overhauling the coaching staff, but will have at least three changes. The most significant was deciding Jeff Albert would no longer be

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Mets announce coaching changes, moving on from Albert, Barnes, and MahoneyYour best source for quality New York Mets news, rumors, analysis, stats and scores from the fan perspective.

The one where the NY Mets season ends with a single-game strikeout recordWith nothing to play for but pride and some padded stats to end the season, David Cone stepped on the mound on October 6, 1991, with a 3-0 lead. A leadoff tripl

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Build a World Series Champ 🎮Tap to play. Share your record in the comments ⬇️

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The greatest MLB player from every stateBaseball is America’s pastime for a reason. It remains the one sport kids play from a young age and remain active in through high school in many cases. There ar

Naming a 1969 NLCS MVP after the NY Mets defeat the BravesLong ago, there was no Championship Series MVP Award handed out. The National League didn’t introduce the honor until 1977 with the American League oddly behind

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How every MLB owner made their fortune, from Stan Kroenke to Steve CohenMLB owners are worth billions of dollars. This is nothing new. While most are in the business of private equity or even gain net worth courtesy of their team al

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Elephant Rumblings: Johnson Undergoes Surgery; Back To The NL PlayoffsMLB news roundup

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Ranking MLB's Top 50 Rookies 🔢Where the Mets' first-year players stand among the best in the league 📲

MLB insider took unnecessary shot at the NY Mets during early Yankees defensive messAs if there wasn’t already a reason to believe members of the media are out to get the New York Mets, one tweet (are we still calling them that?) from MLB insid

3 NY Mets players who shouldn't have a starting job anymore in 2027The New York Mets have now missed the postseason in back-to-back years and president of baseball operations David Stearns must turn things around in a hurry if

NY Mets prospect Ryan Lambert had more than control problems in 2026Ryan Lambert was supposed to be a candidate to join the New York Mets bullpen in 2026. He never did. His 1.62 ERA in 2025 feels like ages ago. In 2026, his 25.2

Freddy Peralta isn't the only pitcher raising NY Mets coaching questions, decisionsIf you haven’t heard of the name Ray Kerr, it probably means you’ve checked out of the MLB postseason. The journeyman reliever has now started two games for the

Players Worse Than You Think 😖Analyzing which names were massive disappointments this year 📲

Every Playoff Team's October X-Factor ❌Each squad's key to crushing the MLB postseason

Realistic Offseason Trade Ideas 💡6 deals that would make sense this offseason 📲

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Elephant Rumblings: AFL Begins; Still Waiting For A GMMLB news roundup

2026 Minor League Season Review: Florida/Dominican Republic Complex TeamsReviewing the 2026 Florida Complex League/Dominican Summer League seasons.

A more appropriate mantra for the NY Mets after David Stearns retires run preventionHeading into last offseason, David Stearns' mantra was run prevention. After the New York Mets finished the 2026 season 74-88 and in last place in the NL East,

Latest Free Agent Rumors 👂Predictions with offseason looming 📲

Mets Morning News: The Opposite of Dog DaysYour Monday morning dose of Mets and Major League Baseball news, notes, and links.

NY Mets Monday Morning GM: The mistake with the Freddy Peralta tradeFreddy Peralta starts Game 2 for the Tampa Bay Rays on Monday against the New York Yankees. A much different pitcher than he was with the New York Mets this yea

John Franco might be one of the most underrated playoff performers in NY Mets historyWhen we think of John Franco, we think of hold-your-breath saves. Nobody saved more for the New York Mets. And yet, for all of those years he spent compiling sa

Upcoming Braves free agent is a realistic NY Mets target, here's his biggest problemOne of the silver linings of the New York Mets' 2026 season was the development of the club's young starting pitchers. Nolan McLean met and exceeded all expecta

Mets Morning News: “Everything changed when I got traded”Your Sunday morning dose of New York Mets and MLB news, notes, and links.

Top 5 NY Mets prospects acquired at the trade deadline ranked by excitement levelThe New York Mets added a lot of new faces to the farm system at the trade deadline. Where they ranked gave fans the first idea of exactly how good they can bec

MLB Division Series Game 1 Recap 🎬Results, top highlights and more from every matchup Saturday 📲

NY Mets trade target has a David Stearns, Andy Green, and Derek Falvey connectionBaseball isn’t a sport where coaches or executives tend to start a brand new life in a new city. They take what or who they know with them. The trifecta of Davi

Marcus Semien won’t stop NY Mets from a Ketel Marte trade, these other players mightIt definitely doesn’t look like the Arizona Diamondbacks are all that interested in keeping Ketel Marte around. A distraction more than a superstar these days,

Mets Morning News: Carson Benge makes his caseYour Saturday morning dose of New York Mets and MLB news, notes, and links.

3 players or teams inadvertently helping to justify the path the current NY Mets pathLiving through the 2026 New York Mets season was on nobody’s bucket list. A masterclass in underachievement, it’s going to be remembered as a transitional seaso

The wild NY Mets win that put them one step closer to the playoffsOctober 3 is remembered most by New York Mets fans as the day Pete Alonso brought them back from the dead in the 2024 NLWC round. More than two decades earlier,

Mets Player Meter: Pitchers, September 14-27A quick review of how the Mets’ pitchers fared in the final couple of weeks of the season.

ABS Challenge Success Rate 📈How every MLB team did in first season with system 📲

3 'True Contenders' for SkubalMets, Dodgers and Tigers are believed by insiders to be top teams to land ace (ESPN)

MLB Divisional Round Picks 🔮Predicting winners in postseason's next round 📲

Luis Arraez Landing Spots 📍The best fits for Philly's star second baseman 📲

4 of the 8 times the NY Mets were no-hit came under the same circumstanceThe New York Mets have been no-hit 8 times in the team’s history, first in 1962 against Sandy Koufax and most recently against the Washington Nationals with Max

MLB Rules Out Grand Teton GameRob Manfred won't pursue idea after doing 'due diligence' (The Athletic)

NY Mets trade deadline is looking more lopsided one round into the MLB playoffsThere was plenty of movement for the New York Mets at this summer’s trade deadline. After one round of the MLB playoffs, not many are left standing. Freddy Pera

Mets Morning News: Phillies eliminated by BravesYour Friday morning dose of Mets and Major League Baseball news, notes, and links.

Every MLB Team's Biggest Surprise and Disappointment ⚾Breaking down notable highlights and lowlights of the Athletics' 2026 season 📲

This Day in NY Mets History: The most unique starting pitcher performanceWhen it comes to New York Mets history, there seems to be a line in the sand between pre-1969 and after. From 1962 through 1968, the team was never expected to

The first MLB team the NY Mets should call about a Ronny Mauricio tradeRonny Mauricio ended his 2026 season on a high after getting buried for a good portion of the year. Mauricio’s best opportunity to impress the New York Mets cam

Kevin Gausman, Shota Imanaga's Top Suitors 🛬Where Cubs' top SP free agents could end up signing ➡️

Every pitch Nolan McLean threw for the NY Mets in 2026 vs. how they did in 2025Nolan McLean had a very different approach on the mound in 2026 compared to 2025. For a variety of reasons, he didn’t rely on the same 6 pitches he threw in his

Mets Morning News: Mets face offseason questionsYour Thursday morning dose of Mets and Major League Baseball news, notes, and links.

Quick Cubs playoff exit is giving the NY Mets reverse Pete Crow-Armstrong deja vuThe Chicago Cubs battled to the bitter end for MLB playoff seeding, eventually settling for fifth. This led to a best of 3 series against the San Diego Padres o

Final NY Mets free agent grade for the A.J. Minter signingSigned for two years and $22 million with the second half of the contract being a player option, A.J. Minter had a brief stint with the New York Mets that’ll en

Wild Card Game 2 Slate Recap ✍️3 out of 4 matchups officially set. Results and top highlights from each Wednesday game 📲

Mets Player Meter: Position Players, September 14-27A quick review of how the Mets’ position players fared in the final couple of weeks of the season.

Derek Falvey's track record can help NY Mets fill a gap David Stearns hasn'tJust before their disappointing season came to an end, the New York Mets took care of a couple important points of business. That included a long-term extension

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30 incredible MLB teams that somehow didn’t win the World SeriesPart of what makes MLB great is that the best team doesn't always win. Baseball has a way of making greatness feel meaningless in October. A team can dominate

MLB Postseason Buzz 👂

🎯 Wild Card picks 👀 Manager situations 📳 LIVE with insider Jon Heyman

5 Teams That Can Dethrone the DodgersAnalyzing which squads have the best chance to beat reigning champions 📲

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The 30 greatest one-season wonders in MLB historyWhat makes players like Mike Trout, Aaron Judge and Shohei Ohtani (to name a few) really stick out is their ability to be truly elite year after year. Putting t

Mets Morning News: Wild Card winsYour Wednesday morning dose of Mets and Major League Baseball news, notes, and links.

Appreciating an iconic NY Mets moment that tends to get overshadowedSeptember 30, 2024, was a day where the New York Mets managed to clinch a playoff berth on the final day of the MLB regular season. They weren’t even supposed t

Wild Card Game 1 Slate Recap ✍️Results and top highlights from all of Tuesday's matchups 📲

Liam Hendriks Retires

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Liam Hendriks has announced his retirement. In 14 Major League seasons with six teams, Hendriks made 490 appearances, was a 3-time All-Star, and a 2-time winner of the Mariano Rivera Reliever of the Year award. Perhaps his greatest achievement was his inspirational comeback

Ranking Postseason Starting Lineups 🔢Where the top offenses stand going into October ➡️

Breaking NewsA's outfielder Zack Gelof sues Tigers for damages after right knee slammed into Comerica Park fence (AP)

A Guide to the 2026 MLB Postseason12 teams are set to compete for a World Series victory. Who are you rooting for?

Mets Prospect Report Card: SeptemberHow did the Mets’ top prospects grade out for the month of September?

5 most pleasant NY Mets surprises of the 2026 season rankedThe New York Mets' 2026 season is officially over as they failed to come close to meeting lofty expectations. Despite having a massive payroll, the Mets missed

The former Mets in the 2026 postseasonThe 2020 Mets’ two best position players, best reliever, best rookie, and first-round draft pick.

Mets Morning News: Wild Card Round beginsYour Tuesday morning dose of New York Mets and MLB news, notes, and links.

Today in NY Mets history fans got the ultimate playoff teaseSeptember 29, 2007, was no day of infamy for the New York Mets. That was a day later. Game 161 of the 2007 season was anything but a disaster. On a Saturday aft

Stearns on Letting Pete WalkMets president revisits decision on not bringing back Alonso

Nolan McLean and Juan Soto nominated for 2026 All-MLB TeamYou can help vote two Mets onto the All-MLB team.

Thanks for joining us for the Mets’ 2026 seasonThanks, everybody!

Tyler Wade Retires

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Tyler Wade has announced his retirement on Instagram. Congrats to one of the great dudes in the game

ABS Increased MLB Game Times ➕Average time to play nine innings up nearly 4 minutes from last year (AP)

Monday Stat Party: 300, 20-20, 25Lindor, Benge, and Ewing sneak in milestones before the curtain falls.

MLB Playoff Predictions 🔮Round-by-round picks with bracket set 📲

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Grading Christian Scott’s NY Mets season and 3 things we’d like to see him improveChristian Scott's season came to an unceremonious end this week, as the New York Mets placed him on the injured list with knee inflammation following his final

Projecting the Mets’ 40-man rosterA look at where the Mets’ roster looks ahead of the impending free agency season.

MLB Draft Lottery 2027 OddsSee them here 📲

Mets Morning News: End of the LineYour Monday morning dose of Mets and Major League Baseball news, notes, and links.

Final Regular Season Power Rankings 📊How the Mets finished out the year 📲

Last Day of Regular Season 🔥Phillies grab final Wild Card spot. Astros take AL West. Full recap here 📲

Playoff Field Finalized ♨️Standings after Phillies clinch, Astros win division 📲

🚨 MLB Playoff Bracket SET 🔒😱 Astros on wrong end of history 🔔 Phillies taking on Braves 📲 Recap of final day

Astros vs. Athletics (09/27/2026)

Full highlights from Houston Astros' 9-0 win vs. Oakland Athletics 🎥

Lindor gets his milestone as the Mets limp out of 2026Lindor hit his 300th home run but the Mets lost the final game of the 2026 season.

Mets vs. Nationals (09/27/2026)

Full highlights from Washington Nationals' 6-4 win vs. New York Mets 🎥

Mets place Jonathan Pintaro on IL, recall Jefry YanIt’s the final bullpen churn move of the season.

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What a realistic NY Mets starting rotation depth chart for 2027 looks likeIn what was a lost season in 2026, the New York Mets had three starting pitchers emerge as future key pieces of their rotation: Nolan McLean, Christian Scott an

Mets Morning News: The end is hereYour Saturday morning dose of New York Mets and MLB news, notes, and links.

Biggest Winners/Losers of MLB Season 📊8 players and teams that have stood out this season for good and bad 📲

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Potential last flash from Ronny Mauricio confirms only one detail about his NY Mets fateIn game 161 of the 2024 season, Francisco Lindor hit a home run in Atlanta which helped seal a playoff berth for the New York Mets. Ronny Mauricio doubled the h

Astros vs. Athletics (09/26/2026)

Full highlights from Houston Astros' 13-2 win vs. Oakland Athletics 🎥

Saturday's Lineup 📋

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A.J. Ewing’s home run give Mets win over Nationals, Tong finishes strongThe Mets won the penultimate game of their season.

Mets vs. Nationals (09/26/2026)

Full highlights from New York Mets' 7-1 win vs. Washington Nationals 🎥