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After the conclusion of the 2020 season, the Mets were an important lesson in building actual pitching depth. The team featured some of the worst starting pitching in baseball last year largely due to their lack of depth and complete unpreparedness for injuries. This is after they had gone into the year touting their starting depth and patting themselves on the back for the job they did building it just because they happened to have six starting pitchers on the major league roster instead of the requisite five. This was common belief the Mets frequently championed during the Wilpon Era; that the organizational pitching depth beyond the major league roster was immaterial as long as they had that coveted sixth starter.
MLB Trade Rumors
The latest international signings involving former big leaguers:
The CTBC Brothers of Taiwan’s Chinese Professional Baseball League are nearing an agreement with right-hander
Gabriel Ynoa, reports Daniel Kim of ESPN (Twitter link). The 27-year-old saw action in parts of three big league seasons with the Mets and Orioles, tossing a career-high 110.2 innings for Baltimore in 2019. Ynoa has a career 5.39 ERA and a matching FIP in his big league time. He spent last season with the Yakult Swallows of Nippon Professional Baseball but posted only a 10.13 ERA in 24 innings at Japan’s highest level.
The CPBL’s Wei Chuan Dragons announced the signings of right-handers
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The Mets finally have a new general manager (Jared Porter), and we d like to say, It s time to get started, except they ve
So while this isn t exactly going to be a Porter solo show, he s clearly joining a team that s looking to be aggressive in an attempt to get back into the National League East race they ve been largely absent from over the past four seasons.
What are they going to do? What
should they do? (Aside from invest in player development and analytics, which, while extremely important, should be par for the course at this point. Anyway, they re on that. Innovation comes in a lot of different ways,” Porter said. “I think the most clear way in baseball is a continued investment into research and development through technology. )