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Jed Lowrie will open the season where he’s spent most of his time with Mets: on the injured list. The team announced the move Monday, calling the injury “left knee discomfort.” He will see team physician David Altcheck this week to “find out the next step,’’ according to manager Luis Rojas. When pressed, Rojas did …
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Lin-Manuel Miranda isn’t the only one fuming at John Bolton. Filmmaker Kevin Breslin is demanding an apology from President Trump’s former national security adviser, accusing him of mangling a famous quote immortalized by his father, the legendary columnist Jimmy Breslin. In his book “The Room Where It Happened,” Bolton quotes famed catcher Yogi Berra as …
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What if we are asking the wrong question with Robinson Cano? Not where he should bat in the Mets lineup? But if he should bat in the Mets lineup? Hall of Famers such as Carlton Fisk, Sam Rice, Honus Wagner and Carl Yastrzemski had down seasons at an advanced age, then rebounded to have multiple …
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J-Rod might not have the deepest pockets in the chase to buy the Mets, but their group has “more than enough money” to have a shot, according to one of its members. Alex Rodriguez and Jennifer Lopez’s bid in the Mets sale includes investing $225 million to $300 million of their own money, The Athletic …
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The Mets played their second exhibition game of spring training 2.0 on Sunday, and for a second straight night, Robinson Cano hit third. The 37-year-old was in the three-hole more than anywhere else in his first season in Queens and the results were not good, as Cano finished with a .633 OPS in 245 plate …
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Prior to Sunday night’s Mets-Yankees game at Yankee Stadium, the Yankees honored late Post sports photographer Anthony Causi with a moment of silence with his smiling face on the center-field scoreboard. Causi passed away April 12 due to the coronavirus at 48. The Mets and Yankees lined up on the field and in the dugouts …
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Imagine trying to forecast a season when you can’t even, well, forecast a season. Will this major league schedule start, continue, finish? Those are mysteries that dominate 2020 more than who will win a division or an award. But for the purposes of sanity and normalcy, let us go through the exercise and appreciate that …
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The Mets got good and hammered Saturday night at Citi Field, the Yankees handing them a 9-3 loss thanks in large part to a ninth inning that looked an awful lot like the fever dreams that haunted their fans most of last year. It was exactly the kind of game we’ve seen at Citi Field …
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It took longer than most people expected, but baseball was back in New York on Saturday night. And though it was an exhibition game with no fans at Citi Field, that was fine with Pete Alonso. “This is one of the days we were wishing and waiting for during the second offseason,’’ Alonso said before …
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If you could tweet a beanball, it would look like this. Former Mets reliever Jerry Blevins went at Alex Rodriguez without any restraint, leveling the former Yankees great and ESPN announcer for seemingly suggesting MLB adopt a salary cap system. “What a hypocrite @Arod,” he tweeted. “Take your steroids and make your millions THEN tell …