NEW YORK -- With their first pick in the 2026 Major League Baseball Draft, the Mets took a college pitcher they can dream on. With their second, they selected a similar type of hitter. Making their second selection at No. 92 overall, the Mets found significant value in outfielder Aiden

NEW YORK -- The ball kicked up toward the heel of Francisco Lindor’s glove, and as the shortstop turned to retrieve it -- to salvage something from this play, this inning, this game, this month, this first half of the season -- he tripped and fell. Splayed out on the

NEW YORK -- Second baseman Marcus Semien continues to progress rapidly in his rehab from a left hip flexor strain, beginning a Minor League rehab assignment on Sunday and homering in his third plate appearance. Due in large part to the All-Star break, however, Semien’s return is not imminent. How

NEW YORK -- If it’s velocity you’re after, Carson Wiggins is your man. Wiggins, whom the Mets selected 27th overall in the Major League Baseball Draft on Saturday, hit 102 mph on the radar gun last year as a 20-year-old. He’s following in his brother Jaxon’s footsteps as one of

NEW YORK -- If calling his own pitches helped Freddy Peralta’s conviction, it didn’t help his control. Calling his own pitches for the second consecutive start on Saturday, Peralta walked five batters, including two to lead off innings, while allowing two runs in a 4-0 loss to the Red Sox

NEW YORK -- Mark Vientos’ disappointing season took another downturn when he was placed on the 10-day injured list on Friday after he fractured his right hand during the Mets’ 7-3 victory over the Royals at Citi Field on Thursday afternoon. Clearly in pain upon being struck on the right

NEW YORK -- When Mets interim manager Andy Green broke into the big leagues as a player in 2004, he shared his first clubhouse with 40-year-old Randy Johnson and 36-year-old Roberto Alomar, two future Hall of Famers nearing the ends of their careers. Twelve years later, in his first year

NEW YORK -- The Mets’ bullpen carousel continued Thursday with the addition of right-hander Dan Hammer, an electric arm with deep-seated control issues. Hammer, a 28-year-old whom the Mets signed to a Minor League contract in March, throws in the upper 90s but walked 17 batters over 20 1/3 innings

NEW YORK -- A.J. Ewing hit the first leadoff home run of his career on Wednesday. If the Mets have their way, it will be the first of many. That’s not to say Ewing is or ever will be a classic power hitter. He’s not, and probably won’t be. But

NEW YORK -- What seemed like just a poor outing for Austin Warren turned out to have been caused by injury. A night after Warren gave up five runs in a 16-12 loss to the Royals, the Mets placed him on the injured list with a right forearm strain. An

NEW YORK -- As the old expression goes, errors love company. The Royals committed three of them on the same play in the first inning Tuesday at Citi Field, allowing Carson Benge to race around the basepaths on a play that netted three runs for the Mets in a 16-12

NEW YORK -- Jorge Polanco, the Mets’ $40 million offseason signing who has battled Achilles issues since Spring Training and been on the injured list since April, made his long-awaited return Tuesday to open New York's three-game series against the Royals at Citi Field. Polanco slotted sixth in the lineup

NEW YORK -- It was just two years ago that Mets vice president of amateur scouting Kris Gross used the first pick of his tenure on Carson Benge, a two-way college player who has since become a key part of the Mets’ hope for the future. Already in the Majors,

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ATLANTA -- Nolan McLean's latest start did not begin swimmingly. It ended up in a much better place. McLean allowed three first-inning runs to the Braves at Truist Park on Sunday, putting the Mets in an early hole. But beginning with a double play to end that inning, McLean retired

ATLANTA -- It is July, which means it’s Trade Deadline season. Asked about the Deadline shortly after the firing of manager Carlos Mendoza earlier this month, president of baseball operations David Stearns responded that he hasn’t thought about it at all. At the time, that made sense. Stearns has been

ATLANTA -- At the precise moment Juan Soto learned he had been voted a National League All-Star starter, he was leading the circuit with a .971 OPS. That would be impressive in any context. That Soto was doing it for one of the worst teams in the NL encapsulates, in

ATLANTA -- This was not exactly what the Mets had in mind for Kodai Senga heading into the season. When the Truist Park bullpen door swung open in the sixth inning Friday and Senga came jogging through, it represented the sum of nearly three years of false starts and frustrations

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TORONTO -- In theory, Freddy Peralta is the Mets’ most valuable Trade Deadline asset -- a two-time All-Star smack in the middle of his physical prime, with three months left on his contract with a last-place team that loathes handing out long-term deals to pitchers. In reality, Peralta has been

TORONTO -- When Francisco Alvarez tore his right meniscus back in May, Mets officials bemoaned the fact that, yet again, Alvarez would not enjoy a long, uninterrupted runway to try to make good on his prospect potential. Yet Alvarez returned to the Mets in about half the time those team

TORONTO -- For better and for worse, Nolan McLean has had about as uneven a season as any starting pitcher in baseball. Some nights, McLean is sharp, flashing the form that made him a Rookie of the Year favorite coming into this season. Other nights, he is confoundingly hittable. Tuesday

TORONTO -- Luis Robert Jr., a key Mets offseason acquisition who has been sidelined since late April, is finally making tangible progress from a lumbar spine disc herniation. Robert began a Minor League rehab assignment Tuesday with Triple-A Syracuse, playing five innings in center field and finishing 1-for-2 with a

TORONTO -- For those wondering how things are going for the 2026 Mets: In less than three hours on Monday, Juan Soto and A.J. Ewing misplayed a ball into an inside-the-park home run; Francisco Lindor chastised himself on the field after committing a costly fielding error; Ronny Mauricio accidentally struck