#Jacob deGrom didn’t second guess his early Mets exit

#Jacob deGrom didn’t second guess his early Mets exit

“#Jacob deGrom didn’t second guess his early Mets exit” PHILADELPHIA — Ultimately, the four extra days of rest following the postponements in Washington led manager Luis Rojas to pull his ace early Monday. Jacob deGrom was finished after six shutout innings and 77 pitches against the Phillies. “If that was [last] Thursday and I’m on…

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#Yankees sign Mets castoff Mike Montgomery

#Yankees sign Mets castoff Mike Montgomery

“#Yankees sign Mets castoff Mike Montgomery” The Yankees signed left-handed pitcher Mike Montgomery to a minor league deal Monday, The Post’s Joel Sherman confirmed. The veteran spent spring training with the Mets, giving up five earned runs in 7 ¹/₃ innings — all of those runs coming in his final outing, a 2 ²/₃-inning start….

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#Mets’ Steve Cohen era officially gets underway

#Mets’ Steve Cohen era officially gets underway

“#Mets’ Steve Cohen era officially gets underway” PHILADELPHIA — So if you are a Mets fan, there is a 99.934 percent chance that you belong to a text thread alongside a few of your other true-believer friends. There is actually a 98.4322257 percent chance (according to Elias Sports Bureau) that you belong to more than…

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#‘We’re going to make the playoffs’

#‘We’re going to make the playoffs’

“#‘We’re going to make the playoffs’” PHILADELPHIA — Steve Cohen aims high – reasonably high, though – with his first Mets team. “I’m not going to predict a World Series out of the gate,” the Mets’ new owner said Monday in a Zoom news conference, hours before his club finally kicked off its 2021 season…

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#Mets anxious for Opening Day 2.0

#Mets anxious for Opening Day 2.0

“#Mets anxious for Opening Day 2.0” After hitting the “pause” button last week, it’s finally time for the Mets to press “play” — and the next word is “ball.” Their wild six days of nothingness in Washington concluded Sunday with a team workout. The Mets then boarded buses for a ride to Philadelphia and Opening…

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#How Mets are coping with this COVID-19 layoff

#How Mets are coping with this COVID-19 layoff

“#How Mets are coping with this COVID-19 layoff” There isn’t a silver lining. Luis Rojas was presented the question in multiple forms Saturday, but the Mets manager couldn’t find much good to come from the four-day layoff in which his team was entrenched after MLB postponed the opening series in Washington for safety reasons, with…

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#Mets’ wait to play is so very ‘weird’

#Mets’ wait to play is so very ‘weird’

“#Mets’ wait to play is so very ‘weird’” WASHINGTON — If the term “chillax” didn’t already exist, a clever writer (not me, in other words) would’ve coined it Saturday afternoon at Nationals Park while watching the Mets. For while 28 other major league teams played games that count, and as the Nationals worked to get…

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