yoenis cespedes

The true test won’t come until he returns to camp, but with less than a week until pitchers and catchers report to Citi Field, the Mets are bullish on Yoenis Cespedes’ chances of cracking the Opening Day lineup. “I think there is a strong chance he is going to be ready once the 60-game season …

When spring training was suspended in March, the Mets were still trying to configure their rotation and get multiple rehabbing players ready for the season. More than three months later, as they prepare to resume workouts next week — this time at Citi Field with MCU Park in Brooklyn as a potential overflow site — …

The 162-game marathon is headed toward becoming something more than a sprint, but much less of a grueling endurance test. Will it be 80 games? Sixty games? Even fewer? As MLB and the players association try to find common ground that will deliver a season following the layoff from the COVID-19 outbreak, the Mets await …

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. Mets lineup in 2022? Don’t take the easy way out, and have some fun with it.  — …

When the Mets played at Yankee Stadium on July 20, 2018, Asdrubal Cabrera was at second, Matt den Dekker was in center, Jose Bautista at third, Wilmer Flores at first and Devin Mesoraco behind the plate. The designated hitter was Yoenis Cespedes. This was the last time he played a major league game. You might …

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. Why aren’t the Mets going after Joc Pederson? They could reconfigure their entire team around such an …

The Mets were the accidental contenders of 2019. When they tried, they failed. When they surrendered, they succeeded. Brodie Van Wagenen provided the words. In January 2019, before even his first spring training as GM, he assessed the Mets as the NL East favorites and challenged the rest of the division to “come get us.” …

Yoenis Cespedes. The Mets. $111.7 million. Totally worth it. OK, this won’t be the most analytical, 400-level-Econ-class column ever written. This one comes partly from the heart, partly from the contrarian impulses that course through my veins. Yet with the coronavirus shutdown further limiting, if not fully ending, both Cespedes’ time in a Mets uniform …

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. Any update on [Michael] Conforto’s oblique? — @PatCollins63 Conforto is taking regular batting practice and team officials …

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. With Noah [Syndergaard] out all of 2020 and probably at least half of 2021 and probably due …