Mets are making pitchers take notice with their transformational work
NY Post
As Frankie Montas surveyed his options as a free agent, he gave his buddy and fellow free agent Sean Manaea a call.
He had questions about the Mets and Jeremy Hefner.
“How’s the pitching coach? How’s the training staff? How’s everybody?” Montas asked his former rotation mate with the A’s.
“[Manaea] had nothing but good things to say about Jeremy,” Montas said this weekend at “Amazin’ Day.”
In making an unexpected run to the NLCS last season, the Mets hope they have built a foundation for success year after year. With that foundation, they hope, comes a reputation.
In general, players want to play with teams that will pay them (which is where Steve Cohen helps); with whom they will win (last year was a good start); and with whom they will improve.
Hal Steinbrenner admits it’s ‘difficult’ for Yankees, ‘most’ teams to compete with Dodgers’ spending
The owner of the Yankees says most baseball owners cannot financially compete with another ownership group.
This was near the end of a magnificent American life, and he’d been battling lung and prostate cancer for some time, but Pee Wee Reese was absolutely going to get in the car and make the drive from Louisville to Kansas City. The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum was honoring his dear friend Jackie Robinson, and Reese knew that meant seeing so many friends from the old days.
The pity is, at this point, the greatness we are watching in real time is threatened every week to be reduced to a footnote. We are witnesses to history, to the rarest form of extended success in a time of professional sport that’s supposed to be ruled by parity. But every year we have to deal with something else first.