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🔮 Jeff Albert, who oversaw major league hitting, and Danny Barnes, the team’s quality assurance coach, will not return next season, the Mets announced Tuesday.
A club source indicated no further changes to the coaching staff are expected.
🔮 The Mets got buried in the first three months of the season, and even a solid post-trade deadline showing couldn’t rescue the team.
🔮 The lefty said his focus this offseason will be building up velocity.
🔮 Bo Bichette knows the first half of this season was played, but maybe for good reason he doesn’t recall many details.
🔮 Citing the flexibility it could give the team next season when Francisco Lindor needs days off, manager Andy Green said Baty has the skill set to handle the position.
🔮 Before Tong’s latest outing, in which he allowed only three hits and one walk, manager Andy Green offered something of a hint that Tong will likely begin next season at Triple-A Syracuse.
🔮 Try it freeBenge may not win NL Rookie of the Year honors, with Cincinnati’s Sal Stewart regarded as the clear frontrunner, but that doesn’t diminish a season in which he’s emerged as a significant piece in the team’s future.
🔮 The Mets shortstop has dealt with at least three significant physical issues over the past calendar year, and maybe they contributed heavily to his worst season statistically.
🔮 “I don’t think anybody could have had higher expectations than what he went out there and did,” manager Andy Green said.
🔮 Rewind to two winters ago, when he signed the richest contract in North American professional sports history, and it wouldn’t have seemed plausible to the All-Star outfielder that his first two seasons with the Mets would end short of the playoffs.
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