Good morning, Mets fans! Talks surrounding the Carlos Correa contract took a brief pause for Christmas, but Jon Heyman of the New York Post reports that the Mets and Correa are both motivated to get a deal done. The two sides were said to be "working on things" on Saturday and there appears to be
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If humidity were a baseball team, it just went from getting shutout for 20 straight innings to putting up a 15 spot in the first inning.
• All right. So, it was fine for last night to take the fun that we were given in the form of Anthony Rizzo pitching and striking out Freddie Freeman, but when you reset things for the team as a whole – especially after another laugher of a blowout loss – it’s got a rough feeling about it. The Cubs are up to 20 straight scoreless innings, there isn’t a great reason to believe the boom-or-bust (at best) offense is going to change, two of the should-be reliable starters in the rotation are falling apart, and the bullpen is going through that “sorting” process where you’re seeing some ugly performances. There’s still so much individual talent on the roster that a great run remains possible, but this is the kind of bad stretch that – depending on what comes next – tells you a lot about the plans ahead. As we’ve discussed, wi