NEW YORK -- With negotiations intensifying three days before Monday’s 6 p.m. ET Trade Deadline, the Mets scratched right-hander Freddy Peralta from his scheduled start against the Marlins about five hours prior to first pitch. “That doesn’t mean something is going to materialize tonight,” interim manager Andy Green said. “But

NEW YORK -- For four seasons, Benny Agbayani was a fan favorite in Flushing, a playoff hero who resonated with so many around Shea Stadium. A quarter-century after parting ways with Agbayani, the Mets have acquired his 19-year-old son.

MINNEAPOLIS – Hours after their most thrilling win of the season, the Twins made a significant addition to their roster. In a late-night deal on Thursday, not long after the team arrived in Seattle for a weekend series against the Mariners, Minnesota began addressing its biggest need with a trade

NEW YORK -- Shortly after recording five key outs in the Mets’ 4-2 victory over the Marlins on Thursday at Citi Field, Brooks Raley sat in the dugout and reflected on his four years in the organization. At some point between now and 6 p.m. ET on Monday, Raley knows

NEW YORK -- Two Mets starting pitchers enter this weekend in limbo. One will likely make his next start. The other one probably won’t. Unless he is traded before 7:10 p.m. ET on Friday, Freddy Peralta will pitch against the Marlins that night, according to interim manager Andy Green. The

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NEW YORK -- Luke Weaver has been traded twice in his career, once at the Deadline. He has been designated for assignment multiple times, released once. He has played for seven different teams and gone through free agency on more than one occasion. Players throughout baseball so frequently refer to

NEW YORK -- Clay Holmes appears primed for a return to Major League action. The only question is whether his next start will be with the Mets, or someone else.

NEW YORK – Tuesday’s game between the Mets and Braves has been postponed due to heavy rain in the forecast. It will be made up as part of a split doubleheader Wednesday, with start times at 1:10 and 7:10 p.m. ET. Though little rain fell over Queens on Tuesday morning,

NEW YORK -- Triple-A Syracuse Mets manager Dick Scott has taken a leave of absence to address his health following a kidney cancer diagnosis, the team announced Tuesday. Scott recently underwent surgery “and is on his way to a full recovery,” the team said in a statement. Scott added in

NEW YORK -- The Mets are in last place. Following what team officials expect to be a comprehensive Trade Deadline selloff, they figure to remain in or around the basement for the rest of this season. Juan Soto is injured, currently taking things week-to-week with his strained left calf. Soto

NEW YORK -- With a steady rain soaking Citi Field in the fifth inning of a 14-3 win over the Braves on Monday, cleanup hitter Luis Robert Jr. stepped to the plate and pulled a two-strike, 111.7 mph single into left field. Robert now has four of the 12 hardest-hit

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NEW YORK -- With barely a week until the Aug. 3 Trade Deadline, scouts were trawling around Citi Field on Sunday, hoping to sharpen their evaluations of Mets players before what will potentially be one of the more comprehensive sell-offs in franchise history. Those scouts were not disappointed, as Freddy

NEW YORK -- The Mets’ nightmare season continued on Saturday with unwelcome news from an MRI tube, which revealed that Juan Soto has a Grade 2 strain of his left calf and will miss significant time. The team placed him on the 10-day injured list prior to Saturday’s 4-3 loss

NEW YORK -- David Stearns, the man in charge of one of the most intriguing caches of talent available at this year’s Trade Deadline, camped behind a Citi Field podium on Friday afternoon and ruled out almost nothing. “We’re sitting here nine, 10 days out from the Deadline,” Stearns said,

NEW YORK -- Mets outfielder Juan Soto, who has been nursing a nagging left calf injury for more than a week, exited Friday’s 4-2 loss to the Dodgers in the sixth inning due to continued left calf soreness that could land him back on the injured list. Soto will go

NEW YORK -- Over roughly the last two calendar months, from May 26 through the start of Friday’s play, 63 Major League pitchers had thrown at least 50 innings. Of that group, Nolan McLean ranked sixth in ERA (2.08) during that stretch. Yoshinobu Yamamoto was 10th (2.43). Consider it notable,

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PHILADELPHIA -- Early Saturday evening, Francisco Lindor stood in front of a press conference screen in the visiting clubhouse at Citizens Bank Park, answering for his mistakes. Lindor had not only committed an error for a third consecutive game, but he had gone nine straight plate appearances without reaching base.

PHILADELPHIA -- Less than a month ago, Nolan McLean’s ERA was north of 4.00, raising questions about his true ceiling in the Mets' rotation. He did not record a scoreless outing until the final day of June.

PHILADELPHIA -- Due to rain in the New York area on Saturday, Mets starter Clay Holmes did not make his scheduled rehab outing for High-A Brooklyn. That news came to the chagrin of multiple rival clubs, who had dispatched scouts to Coney Island to monitor Holmes’ rehab from a fractured

PHILADELPHIA -- Mets outfielder Juan Soto exited Thursday’s 4-1 win over the Phillies in the eighth inning due to left calf soreness, but the issue appears insignificant and Soto does not expect to miss additional time. Shortly after the game, Soto said he plans to return to the lineup on

PHILADELPHIA -- Francisco Alvarez hit two home runs for the Mets in a 4-1 win over the Phillies on Thursday at Citizens Bank Park, placing him in the Top 10 among Major League catchers despite an injury-shortened season. Brett Baty clubbed one of his own, continuing his hot hitting from

PHILADELPHIA -- The Mets welcomed second baseman Marcus Semien back from the injured list in their first game back from the All-Star break on Thursday, though Semien was not in the starting lineup for the team’s series opener against the Phillies at Citizens Bank Park. Instead, Semien rode the bench