New York Mets vs. Pittsburgh Pirates - April 16, 2024

Pirates fans get one last insult after watching playoff hopes dieThe Pittsburgh Pirates are officially out of the postseason race. But apparently, that wasn't painful enough. After the Pirates swept the Kansas City Royals ove

A piece of advice we want the next NY Mets voices to give David StearnsNew York Mets owner Steve Cohen made it clear to the team's broadcast booth in a recent interview that the organization intends on bringing in some new voices t

Paul Skenes revives tired WBC excuse after Pirates season slips awayThe Pittsburgh Pirates didn’t miss the postseason because of one player, one stretch or one bad decision. But if you’re making a list of reasons why a team that

NY Mets rookie Nick Morabito has an important series coming up vs. RangersNew York Mets rookie Nick Morabito is getting a chance to show the team he belongs on next year’s Opening Day roster as the fourth/fifth outfielder. A role vaca

Rafael Flores Jr.’s colorful quote captures why Pirates trust him in big momentsRafael Flores Jr. might have delivered the best explanation possible for why the Pittsburgh Pirates have grown so comfortable putting him in important situation

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New MLB Playoff Predictions 🔮No seeds locked in yet. Projecting the bracket with 1 week to go 📲

Pirates offense just embarrassed the Steelers in the funniest possible wayFor years, Pittsburgh sports fans have been able to count on at least one thing: If one of the city’s teams was going to have trouble scoring, it was probably g

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Skenes Blames WBC for VelocityPirates ace feels tournament is 'root' of drop this season (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

How one Red Sox loss may have changed NY Mets history foreverWhat did the Boston Red Sox have to do with the New York Mets in 1982? Years away from facing each other in the World Series, we have to first go to the standin

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MLB Power Rankings Entering Final Week 🔢Where the Mets stand as they finish out the season ➡️

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Mets Morning News: Leaving HomeYour Monday morning dose of Mets and Major League Baseball news, notes, and links.

Howie Rose retirement ceremony is final victim of continuous NY Mets error in 2026In the final series of the New York Mets season, the attention turned to celebrating Carlos Beltran on Saturday and Howie Rose on Sunday. Well, sort of. Beltran

Pirates bullpen collapse made their 2026 playoff miss feel inevitableThere will be plenty of blame to go around when the Pittsburgh Pirates begin dissecting why a season that carried legitimate postseason expectations will end wi

NY Mets Monday Morning GM: 3 offseason trades we’re still waiting to see the benefit ofThe New York Mets had an incredibly active offseason with some trades already fully defined at least in terms of what the Amazins received. There’s nothing more

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Pirates Braxton Ashcraft injury has no structural damageThe Bucs got some good injury news over the weekend.

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Pirates’ playoff elimination makes Brandon Lowe decision their first major test of 2027 ambitionThe Pittsburgh Pirates can officially stop pretending there is anything left to play for in 2026 beyond pride, development and perhaps finally finishing with a

Mets can’t hang with Phillies in gloomy lossA long, disappointing season is almost over for New York.

Royals vs. Pirates (09/20/2026)

Full highlights from Pittsburgh Pirates' 4-3 win vs. Kansas City Royals 🎥

Phillies vs. Mets (09/20/2026)

Full highlights from Philadelphia Phillies' 7-2 win vs. New York Mets 🎥

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Kansas City Royals vs. Pittsburgh Pirates: Michael Wacha vs. Lake BacharThe Pirates are at PNC Park looking to grab a win today.

Mets postpone Howie Rose retirement ceremony to 2027We’ll have to wait until next year to give the voice of the Mets a proper sendoff.

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Underrated NY Mets prospect can be the Pete Alonso replacement we're waiting forReplacing Pete Alonso has been a topic discussed by New York Mets fans for practically an entire trip around the sun. Upon signing with the Baltimore Orioles, D

Mets Morning News: No. 15 in the rafters, Benge makes history, Howie puts it in the booksYour Sunday morning dose of New York Mets and MLB news, notes, and links.

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It’s not Steve Cohen’s fault his interview failed to make NY Mets fans enthusiasticSteve Cohen made a rare appearance during the Saturday telecast. September 19th should have been a good date to shrink a playoff magic number. Instead, the disc

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Trade Ideas for Every Team 💡1 Move each squad wishes they could make this season

Mets Daily Prospect Report, 9/20/25: Smith saves SyracuseCatch up on all the Mets prospects in yesterday’s minor league action!

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3 NY Mets players who can be the next Jared Young and have a much better year twoThe next Jared Young? Let’s confirm what’s meant there. Becoming the next Jared Young doesn’t mean being a guy who had success overseas and came stateside, whil

Royals vs. Pirates (09/19/2026)

Full highlights from Pittsburgh Pirates' 6-5 win vs. Kansas City Royals 🎥

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Mets crush Phillies as Carson Benge sets Mets rookie hit recordThe Mets continue to be a rock in Philly’s shoe while Benge makes history.

Phillies vs. Mets (09/19/2026)

Full highlights from New York Mets' 10-3 win vs. Philadelphia Phillies 🎥

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Kansas City Royals vs. Pittsburgh Pirates: Noah Cameron vs. Bubba ChandlerThe Pirates are at PNC Park looking to grab a win today.

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Henry Davis helped shape Pirates future even if his own is running outHenry Davis has spent the past few years proving he can be a major-league catcher. The question now is whether he’s done enough to remain the Pittsburgh Pirates

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Beltrán Open to Managing 👀Mets legend won't rule out interviewing for manager position 🎥

Where's the best place for the NY Mets to bat Carson Benge? He doesn't seem to careCarson Benge felt like a leadoff hitter type. Although he began the year hitting in the bottom of the lineup for the New York Mets, he managed to ascend despite

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Brandon Lowe's openness to a Pirates extension means nothing given team's stingy historyThe Pittsburgh Pirates just had another door open to them after Brandon Lowe's comments on a extension. However, them walking through is, at best, uncertain.

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Minor League POY For Every Team 🏆B/R's top prospect performers of MiLB season for every squad ➡️

A unique trait shared by the worst NY Mets team of all-time and one of their bestThe 1962 New York Mets and the 2000 club don’t get brought up in the same breath because if you’re going to talk about them both, you’re probably rattling off t

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Mets Morning News: Mets receive good news on Jared Young, then snap losing streakYour Saturday morning dose of New York Mets and MLB news, notes, and links.

A NY Mets roster competition brewing in the final days of the 2026 seasonCompetitions for the 2027 New York Mets roster aren’t really underway. We’re more in the tryout phase of players competing against themselves. One competition,

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Mets Daily Prospect Report, 9/19/25:Catch up on all the Mets prospects in yesterday’s minor league action!

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Breaking down the Pirates' prospects and potential breakouts on Arizona Fall League rostersThe Pittsburgh Pirates’ season might be winding down, but there will still be plenty of meaningful baseball for the organization to follow this fall. Pittsburgh

Pete Alonso teammate, former top 100 prospect might be the answer the NY Mets needThe New York Mets have holes to fill, pieces to move around, and questions to answer this offseason. The first, which is out of their control, is the fate of Bo

The Mets slug their way over the Phillies behind Zac ThorntonOh no, the Phillies lost! That’s so sad…

Royals vs. Pirates (09/18/2026)

Full highlights from Pittsburgh Pirates' 8-5 win vs. Kansas City Royals 🎥

Braxton Ashcraft shutdown comes with one huge silver lining for PiratesThe Pittsburgh Pirates almost certainly won't see Braxton Ashcraft pitch again this season. Considering how important the right-hander has become to Pittsburgh'

Livvy Dunne Claps Back at Fan ✋Influencer defends BF Paul Skenes with 'South Park' meme after troll comment

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Kansas City Royals vs. Pittsburgh Pirates: Randy Dobnak vs. Paul SkenesThe Pirates are at PNC Park looking to grab a win today.

Mets recall Ronny Mauricio, place Jared Young on 7-day concussion ILThe news is not unexpected, but thankfully Jared Young seems to have avoided the worst in his scary injury.

Don Kelly accidentally highlighted Henry Davis' biggest problem with attempted complimentHenry Davis hit his 10th home run of the season Thursday, and if you've watched Davis hit for any length of time, you can probably picture it without even seein

Mets 1B Has Memory LossJared Young doing 'as good as expected' after leaving Thursday's game on stretcher due to a collision

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Three young players that could be stars next season for PiratesThe Bucs have some good young talent.

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An easy way David Stearns can help appease fed up NY Mets fansNew York Mets fans got an ugly reminder of David Stearns's worst tendencies when Pete Alonso crushed his 300th career home run at what used to be his home ballp

Pirates suddenly have an exciting Rafael Flores Jr. problem to solveA year ago, Rafael Flores Jr. was nothing more than an intriguing name in the David Bednar trade. He could hit; that much was fairly clear. Whether he could cat

Paul Skenes Trade Ideas 💡Which New York team offers better package for Pirates ace? 📲

Mets Morning News: “He is showing really good signs right now”Your Friday morning dose of Mets and Major League Baseball news, notes, and links.

Ranking Every Team's Best Rookie in 2026 🔢Where Esmerlyn Valdez stands among standout first-year players ➡️

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NY Mets fans were disgusted with Ken Rosenthal's reaction to the Jared Young injuryIt sounds like Jared Young avoided the worst of it. The absolutely brutal injury suffered in the middle of the game between the New York Mets and Philadelphia P

Mets Daily Prospect Report, 9/18/25: Jefferson Rojas stays hotCatch up on all the Mets prospects in yesterday’s minor league action!

Pirates keep rewriting the rules to justify Ben Cherington's jobA year ago, the Pittsburgh Pirates made the standard perfectly clear: “The goal is to make the playoffs in 2026. Period. Full stop." That's what president Travi

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1 reason the NY Mets should hire David Ross, 1 reason they shouldn’tShould the Mets replace Andy Green with his old boss?

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Pirates send three top prospects to Arizona Fall LeagueThree young Bucs are heading to the desert!

Mets loss is dwarfed by scary collision between McLean and YoungThe offense was shut out, again negating a solid pitching performance. It didn’t matter as much after the sixth inning.

Pirates may never have a better chance to extend Oneil Cruz than they do right nowFor years, the Pittsburgh Pirates have been waiting for Oneil Cruz to emerge as a cornerstone to build around. After last season's massive step back, it seemed

Pirates’ franchise home run record makes another October absence sting even moreThe Pittsburgh Pirates spent much of last offseason trying to fix the most obvious flaw on their roster: They needed power. They needed more legitimate threats

Brewers vs. Pirates (09/17/2026)

Full highlights from Pittsburgh Pirates' 7-4 win vs. Milwaukee Brewers 🎥

Andy Green is doing something unique with a hostile NY Mets fanbaseThe New York Mets have been on blast all week with the return of Pete Alonso being the focal point of the discussion. When to cheer, when to boo, and the true t

Maybe the NY Mets did successfully replace Jeff McNeil, just a little too closelyForget Pete Alonso for a moment, maybe longer. Jeff McNeil is the former New York Mets player the team actually had a plan to replace. They may have done it too

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Milwaukee Brewers vs. Pittsburgh Pirates: Kyle Harrison vs. Wilber DotelThe Pirates are at PNC Park looking to grab a win today.

Mets close out 2026 home schedule against PhilliesThe Mets have four games left at Citi Field this year.

Pirates’ September surge just eliminated Bob Nutting’s favorite offseason excuseBob Nutting handed Pittsburgh the measuring stick back in April. He said the Pirates should expect to chase the postseason and play important games down the str

Mets Morning News: Alonso’s Orioles complete sweep of MetsYour Thursday morning dose of Mets and Major League Baseball news, notes, and links.

NY Mets owner Steve Cohen snuffs latest David Stearns criticism but chose ironic wordYou know that scene in Airplane! when everyone lines up to shake the terrified woman? This is kind of what it has been like for David Stearns this week. The ret

Mets Daily Prospect Report, 9/16/26: Jefferson RojasCatch up on all the Mets prospects in yesterday’s minor league action!

Pirates somehow turn Brandon Lowe’s historic season into another letdownBrandon Lowe has given the Pittsburgh Pirates almost everything they could have asked for this season. Thirty home runs. Legitimate middle-of-the-order producti

Predicting what the future holds for every NY Mets player currently on the ILFor as poorly as things have gone for the New York Mets this year, they aren’t ending the season with a whole lot of injured guys. The IL isn’t too crowded with

Mets lose game they were never in to begin withThe Mets lost their fourth in a row, capping off a weird three game set against Baltimore.

Alonso Homers AGAIN vs. Mets🍎

Polar Bear goes B2B nights with HR against former squad

Brewers vs. Pirates (09/16/2026)

Full highlights from Milwaukee Brewers' 5-4 win vs. Pittsburgh Pirates 🎥

Brutal Mets x Alonso Stat 🤢Polar Pete haunting former team

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A ball lands in between Francisco Lindor, Juan Soto & Bo Bichette for a double for Christian Encarnacion-Strand

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Milwaukee Brewers vs. Pittsburgh Pirates: Logan Henderson vs. Jared JonesThe Pirates are at PNC Park looking to grab a win today.

We need to hear how these former NY Mets players feel about the Pete Alonso cheeringFans have been eating each other alive on social media over how many of those in attendance for the last two New York Mets games behaved during each Pete Alonso

Stearns Taking Fan Heat 🫣

MLB insider Jon Heyman explains why Mets president is expected to stay amid criticism

A Brandon Lowe Silver Slugger would make Pirates’ biggest 2027 decision painfully obviousBrandon Lowe could very well finish this season holding a Louisville Slugger Silver Slugger Award. If he does, the trophy should arrive at PNC Park along with a

Mets place Stock and Duarte on IL, recall Curry and YanXzavion Curry will start the final game of the Mets’ series against the Orioles tonight

And the award for the worst critique of the NY Mets this week goes to...In all honesty, most people can understand both sides of the argument. Fans are frustrated. Maybe a line was crossed by making it more about Pete Alonso than th

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Source's take on how NY Mets fans treated Jonah Tong shows lingering reality of Pete Alonso situationNew York Mets top prospect Jonah Tong threw six innings and didn't allow an earned run on Monday night against the Baltimore Orioles. But his stellar outing was

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Brewers’ NL Central clinch, PNC Park takeover expose how far Pirates still have to climbMore than an hour after the Milwaukee Brewers beat the Pittsburgh Pirates on Tuesday night, PNC Park belonged to the visitors. The Brewers had already handled t

Dueling offseason mistakes the NY Mets should be prepared to makeOffseason New York Mets mistakes were the hottest topic this week with Pete Alonso coming back to Queens. David Stearns is bound to make more. There’s one he ma

Tony Beasley’s worst Pirates moment shouldn’t erase what makes him effectiveTony Beasley picked a brutal time to have one of his worst moments as the Pittsburgh Pirates’ third base coach. With Pittsburgh trailing the Milwaukee Brewers a

Mets Prez's Job Likely SafeDavid Stearns to lead search for new manager (ESPN)

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Mets Players Call Out Fans 😬Sean Manaea among those confused by cheers for Pete Alonso

Mets Morning News: Roberto Clemente DayYour Wednesday morning dose of Mets and Major League Baseball news, notes, and links.

Pete Alonso did the NY Mets a huge favor by swatting home run number 300He finally did it. Pete Alonso waited until one out in the 9th to hit home run number 300 for his career. The game was suddenly tied and New York Mets fans reac

Mets Fans Give Pete HR Ball 🧡Alonso returns favor with moment they won't forget. Tap to watch 🎥

Mets Daily Prospect Report, 9/16/26: Five games to goCatch up on all the Mets prospects in yesterday’s minor league action!

Mets Player Meter: Pitchers, August 31-September 13A quick review of how the Mets’ pitchers fared in the past couple of weeks.

ESPN blaming Paul Skenes for Pirates’ playoff failure is wildly unfairPaul Skenes has not been Paul Skenes in 2026. That much is fair. Calling him the biggest reason the Pittsburgh Pirates aren't headed to the postseason, however,