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Key numbers suggest the Mets are a solid team offensively, despite their mediocre scoring output. Start with an on-base percentage of .350 that ranked second in the major leagues as Thursday’s play began, 117 hits (second in the majors) and .261 batting average (third in the majors). And yet the Mets were averaging just 3.92 …
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WASHINGTON — The battle between 2016 Cy Young award-winners ended with one injured and the other in control. If you guessed Rick Porcello as the injured, given the Mets’ health misfortunes this week and Max Scherzer’s ability to dominate, wrong answer. In the kind of performance the team envisioned when it gave Porcello a one-year …
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The Mets have produced a better-than .500 record just three times in the past 11 seasons. On each occasion they were mediocre or worse for much of the schedule, then were among the majors’ best teams down the stretch. This year is pretty much all stretch. By late July or early August of 2015, 2016 …
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ATLANTA — Yoenis Cespedes opting out removes a potential big bat from the Mets lineup, but there are plenty of candidates to fill his DH role. Maybe a preview of the Mets’ plan was on display in Sunday’s 4-0 loss to the Braves in which J.D. Davis started at DH and Dominic Smith in left …
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It’s not clear yet whether someone in a New York baseball uniform will kneel during the pregame playing of the national anthem. What stands clear right now, however, is Aaron Judge’s support of anyone who wants to do that. “That’s the beauty of America, is freedom of speech,” Judge said Tuesday after the Yankees completed …
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You ask, we answer. The Post is fielding questions from readers about New York’s biggest pro sports teams and getting our beat writers to answer them in a series of regularly published mailbags. In today’s installment: the Mets. If they are going to try to squeeze as many games as possible into this season (doubleheaders, …
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Baseball may be delayed indefinitely, but Marcus Stroman’s competitive juices are not. The Mets pitcher has signed up for a virtual beer pong tournament — sports in the time of coronavirus — and has picked teammate Dominic Smith to be his partner. Stroman’s friend Mike Seander, the rapper formerly known as Mike Stud who now …
Key numbers suggest the Mets are a solid team offensively, despite their mediocre scoring output. Start with an on-base percentage of .350 that ranked second in the major leagues as Thursday’s play began, 117 hits (second in the majors) and .261 batting average (third in the majors). And yet the Mets were averaging just 3.92 …
