Mets News and Morning Links - 3/11/2022


Good Morning.  Happy Birthday Jeremy Hefner.  Lockout over - Opening Day is April 7th.  Free Agency back open. Steve Cohen forgets how to tweet and Mets Prospect Robert Dominguez has surgery.  

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Per Mets.com: MLB Opening Day will be on April 7.  "The Spring Training schedule will be updated in a future announcement; the current schedule will be revised.  Regular season games originally scheduled for March 31 through April 6 will be rescheduled soon."  Mets home opener will be April 15th - Jackie Robinson Day.

MLB.com: Everything you need to know about '22 season - Universal DH, 9 innings double headers, Free Agents, No Rule 5 Draft, and more.

You can also get more details from 90 Percent Mets.

Mets.com: 5 Q's Mets must answer before Opening Day. How much pitching will the Mets still acquire? Pitching Health? Bucks impact? Trades? and Did they do enough to catch the Braves? are discussed.

Mike's Mets expresses his joy that the Lockout has ended in "Winter is Over".

NY Post: Mets’ roster building continues now. "Even with Scherzer’s addition...Mets still need at least one more proven arm to join Jacob deGrom, Taijuan Walker and Carlos Carrasco. Ideally, David Peterson and Tylor Megill would serve as rotation depth. If not Conforto, the Mets could probably use another bat in the lineup. Kyle Schwarber is among the sexiest names on the free-agent market."

NY Post: J.D. Davis says time with Mets may be over: ‘60-40 out of here’. Article contains this quote from J.D. "'Baseball is in a situation of bench players, and something like that, three or four lefties and I’m maybe the only righty, so strategically I could see myself back there, but I don’t know. Anything can happen.'”

Brian Joura Mets360.com: Mets 2022 projections: Pete Alonso.  Brian gives his usual great analysis and for 2022 projects .270/.348/.546, 8.7 BB%, 18.0 K%.

Faith and Fear in Flushing:  Have It Their Way. "Look, pal, you want the baseball or not?”

Mets Daddy: Get A Clue: International Draft Was Always A Red Herring.

Amazing Avenue: The Mets should consider signing Yusei Kikuchi. "While he hasn’t reached expectations, Kikuchi has improved every year in the majors."

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Yahoo Sports: 2022 World Series odds: Dodgers, Astros favorites as lockout ends. "Dodgers currently have the best odds of winning another title with +600 odds...The Houston Astros (+900) and New York Yankees (+1100) are next. After that, the reigning champion Atlanta Braves, Chicago White Sox and New York Mets are tied with +1200 odds."








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New York Mets signed free agent Michael O'Connor on March 11, 2010

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Preston Wilson, the franchise's first 30-30 player, signs a $32 million five-year contract with Florida. The 26 year-old Marlin center fielder, who is the stepson and nephew of former major leaguer Mookie Wilson, was obtained from the Mets in the Mike Piazza deal in 1998.



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