Mets News and Morning Links - 9/1/2023

 


Good Morning.  Happy Birthday Luis RojasDavid West, and Derek Wallace. Mets make front office changes, Baty and Butto expected to join Mauricio in Queens today, Binghamton with a 1-0 1 hit win, Syracuse and St. Lucie fall, Brooklyn splits.

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Mets Links: 

NY Post: Mets fire two top lieutenants in front-office shakeup. "Kevin Howard, the organization’s director of player development, and Jeff Lebow, the director of pro player evaluation, are no longer with the Mets, a source confirmed."

Syracuse.com: Strike zone to get bigger for Syracuse Mets, Triple-A. "MLB estimated the change will restore about a half-inch to the top of the strike zone from this year’s reduction...The pitch clock will be set at 17 seconds at all times, instead of 14 seconds with the bases empty and 19 seconds with runners on base. In the clock’s first use in the major leagues this year, it has been set at 15 seconds with no runners and 20 seconds with runners."

Larry Brooks NY Post: Mets, Steve Cohen can’t afford to make this Pete Alonso contract folly.  Talking about Pete's contract status Larry concludes: "It is imperative Cohen and the Mets do their utmost to ensure that Alonso remains a people pleaser in Queens for the foreseeable future. That means beyond 2024"

National League East Detailed Standings
Rk Tm W L W-L% GB Strk
1Atlanta Braves8845.662--W 4
2Philadelphia Phillies7459.55614.0L 1
3Miami Marlins6767.50021.5W 1
4Washington Nationals6273.45927.0L 2
5New York Mets6173.45527.5W 1
Average7063.526
Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Original Table
Generated 9/1/2023.

Today's Game:

Mariners (76-57) @ Mets (61-73), 7:10 pm

NYM: Kodai Senga (#34, 30, RHP, 10-7, 3.17)

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NY Post:

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Yahoo Sports/Mets:

Metsmerized:
Amazing Avenue:
Faith and Fear in Flushing:
Mets360:
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Kiner's Korner:
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Minor League Baseball:

Syracuse:

Binghamton Rumble Ponies:

Brooklyn Cyclones:

St. Lucie Mets:

For the complete Mets Minor League statistics click here.

MLB and NL East Links:

Here is yesterday's MLB Scoreboard.

MLB.com:

MLB News

Celebrate April Fools' Day with these 10 classic baseball pranks

The first cycle of 2025 season belongs to ... a catcher!

MLB.TV is back for 2025 -- new local packages available as well

Behind Glasnow's dominance, Dodgers match LA best with 6-0 start

'It’s more the player than the bat' on Elly's big night with 'Torpedo'

Memorable first win for Hart, one of 2020's 'Lost Boys'

The pros and cons of using a 'Torpedo' bat

Now available for 2025 season: At Bat Premium + MLB Network

Crochet, Red Sox agree to terms on 6-year, $170 million extension (source)

MLB Trade Rumors:

MLB Trade Rumors

Red Sox, Garrett Crochet Agree To Six-Year Extension

Jurickson Profar Receives 80-Game PED Suspension

Joshua Palacios Elects Free Agency

Offseason In Review: Boston Red Sox

Pirates Acquire Alexander Canario

Braves Place Reynaldo López On IL Due To Shoulder Inflammation

Rockies Outright Sam Hilliard

Tigers Place Gleyber Torres On Injured List

Poll: Who Will Win The AL West?

Yankees Re-Sign Dominic Smith To Minor League Deal

Braves Acquire Stuart Fairchild

Angels Acquire Jake Eder, Designate Michael Petersen For Assignment

White Sox Outright Dominic Fletcher

White Sox Re-Sign Dan Altavilla To Minor League Deal

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Yahoo Sports:

MLB Baseball News, Scores, Standings, Rumors, Fantasy Games

A's open season at Sutter Health Park in Sacramento, give up 18 runs in blowout loss to Cubs

Tyler Glasnow dominates as Dodgers tie franchise mark for best L.A. start

Elly De La Cruz cranks 2 HRs, posts 7 RBI, all while using a 'torpedo bat' for the first time

Mets Notes: Torpedo bats ‘nothing new,’ Francisco Lindor back with club after birth of son

Mets' David Peterson ‘solid’ in nine-strikeout 2025 season debut

Pete Alonso's grand slam product of Mets' 'team quality at-bats' against Marlins

Diamondbacks at Yankees Prediction: Odds, expert picks, starting pitchers, trends and stats for April 1

Shower 'mishap' sidelines Freddie Freeman; Dodgers 'interested' in torpedo bats

Dodgers’ Freddie Freeman misses win over Braves after slipping in shower at home, injuring ankle

Mets' bats break out with seven-run fifth in 10-4 beatdown of Marlins

ESPN:

www.espn.com - MLB

An MIT-educated professor, the New York Yankees and the bat that could be changing baseball

With torpedo bat, De La Cruz has 7 RBIs for Reds

Kelly 1st to hit for March cycle, ends Cubs' drought

CBS Sports:

CBSSports.com Headlines

Carson Kelly hits for cycle, becomes first Cubs player to accomplish feat in more than 30 years

Dodgers' Freddie Freeman aggravates surgically repaired ankle in shower 'mishap,' considered day to day

Reds' Elly De La Cruz has career night, including 436-foot moonshot homer, in blowout win over Rangers


FanGraphs:

FanGraphs Baseball

Crafty and Mindful, Bowden Francis Is a More Serene Version of Max Scherzer

Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat – 3/31/25

Full Speed Ahead for Aaron Judge and the Yankees

Jordan Montgomery May Be Done as a Diamondback, But Brandon Pfaadt Is Sticking Around

Post-Spring Training Top 100 Prospects Update

How the 2025 Opening Day Rosters Were Built

Sunday Notes: Toronto’s Alan Roden Is Looking For More Ideal Launch Angles

Effectively Wild Episode 2302: Opening Delay and the 2025 Team Fun Draft

The Name’s Bonding, Team Bonding: National League

We Are Invincible, We Are Already Dead

Braves.com:

Braves News

After rough day and 0-5 start, Braves 'just got to move forward'

López (shoulder) placed on IL; Elder recalled

MLB.TV is back for 2025 -- new local packages available as well

Marlins.com:

Marlins News

What can McCullough, Marlins learn from decisive inning?

Meet the man behind the revolutionary 'Torpedo' bats

MLB.TV is back for 2025 -- new local packages available as well

Phillies.com:

Phillies News

'Sixth Man' Sosa steps up again as Phils rally in home opener

New for 2025 -- PHILLIES.TV -- stream games in the Phillies territory

Wheeler makes '25 home debut against Rockies

Nationals.com:

Nationals News

Soroka (right biceps cramp) dodges injury scare in Nats debut

Young returns to where he notched 1st hit

MLB.TV is back for 2025 -- new local packages available as well

Today in Mets History Per Ultimatemets.com: 

Born on this date:

Transactions:

New York Mets traded Rod Gaspar to the San Diego Padres for Ron Herbel on September 1, 1970.

New York Mets traded Kyle Kessel to the Detroit Tigers for C. J. Nitkowski on September 1, 2001.

New York Mets signed free agent Alay Soler on September 1, 2004.

New York Mets signed free agent Aaron Harang on September 1, 2013.

Seattle Mariners claimed Walker Lockett of the New York Mets on waivers on September 1, 2020.


1963Tim Harkness cracks a 2-run game-ending homer in the 16th to give the Mets a 6 - 4 win over the Braves. It is Harkness's 2nd homer of the game.

1975Mets ace Tom Seaver shuts out the Pirates, 3 - 0, and reaches 200 strikeouts for a major league-record 8th straight season.

1985 - The visiting New York Mets edge San Francisco‚ 4 - 3, with Keith Hernandez's 2-run homer climaxing a 3-run 9th inning. Doug Sisk‚ in relief of Ed Lynch‚ is the winning pitcher. In the 5th‚ Lynch lines to right field and is thrown out 9-3 by RF Joel Youngblood. It's the National League's second 9-3 putout in 2 months.

2004The Marlins edge the Mets‚ 5 - 4. Armando Benitez gets the save in relief. It is his 10th save of the year against New York for a new Major League record for saves against a club in a year.

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