Ottavino spent the past two seasons with the Mets, going 1-7 with a 3.21 ERA and a career-best 12 saves in 66 appearances last year. In early November, he declined a $6.75 million player option for 2024 that included $4 million that would have been paid from 2032-35, reducing the present-day value to an estimated […]
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Continue readingBut the 23-year-old from Farmingville on Long Island didn’t hesitate when asked what he planned to do with the baseballs. “I’m gonna give her both of them,” he said as he gestured to his mother, Christa, who was at the park as part of her birthday celebration. Patrick, wearing a Pete Alonso jersey, said he […]
Continue readingNEW YORK — San Diego Padres reliever Robert Suárez was suspended for 10 games by Major League Baseball on Friday, the sixth pitcher penalized for using banned sticky stuff. The penalty was announced by MLB senior vice president for on-field operations Michael Hill. Suárez appealed the discipline to John McHale Jr., a special assistant to […]
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Continue readingNEW YORK — The retooling Mets defeated the Washington Nationals 5-1 on Friday night, winning their second straight a little less than 24 hours after sending closer David Robertson to Miami for two rookie-ball prospects – signifying a trade deadline selloff. New York opened the season with a record $343 million payroll, and entered Friday […]
Continue reading“We continue to work with the people at Dow Chemical on developing a tacky ball,” commissioner Ron Manfred told the Baseball Writers’ Association of America on Tuesday. “It would literally eliminate all — well, not all — but many of the variables in the current process. It would come out of a sealed foil pouch […]
Continue readingNEW YORK — No team was happier to flip the calendar on Saturday than the New York Mets. Justin Verlander pitched seven steady innings for his first victory in nearly six weeks, and slumping rookie Francisco Alvarez hit the first of three quick homers that powered the struggling Mets to a 4-1 win over the […]
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