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Mets President David Stearns on Firing Carlos Mendoza: 'Change Is Needed Right Now'

[ad_1] Carlos Mendoza is out. Just like Pete Alonso, Edwin Diaz, Brandon Nimmo and Jeff McNeil. Last year's coaching staff, too. And maybe a few more quality players by the Aug. 3 trade deadline. Freddy Peralta? Clay Holmes? In the past eight months, president of baseball operations David Stearns has remodeled the reeling New York Mets to a degree that probably seemed unthinkable on June 12, 2025. On that date,
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What’s Next After Mets Fire Carlos Mendoza At Halfway Point Of Season

[ad_1] NEW YORK – This was inevitable. It just happened several months too late. On Friday morning, the Mets fired manager Carlos Mendoza and replaced him with interim manager Andy Green. The Mets are 34-47, last place in the NL East, 15 games behind first place, and 9 1/2 games behind a wild card spot with seven teams in front of them. Green, the Mets’ current farm director and former
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Rays Have Team No-Hitter Broken Up In 9th Inning In Blowout Win Over Royals

[ad_1] Junior Caminero hit three home runs and drove in six runs, Victor Mesa Jr. added a three-run homer and three pitchers combined for 8 1/3 no-hit innings to lead the Tampa Bay Rays to a 13-2 victory against the Kansas City Royals on Thursday. Opener Casey Legumina retired the first four batters before Ian Seymour (4-1) took over in the second inning. The pair combined to retire the first
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Last Night In Baseball: Phillies Blow It Twice, Then Play Awe-Worthy 9th To Win

[ad_1] There is always baseball happening — almost too much baseball for one person to follow themselves. Don't worry, we're here to help you by figuring out what you missed but shouldn't have. Here are all the best moments from last night in Major League Baseball: If you, as a Phillies fan, turned the Phillies-Nationals game off in disgust after Philadelphia gave up the lead in the eighth, then you
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2026 MLB All-Star Team Picks: Full 32-Player Rosters For American & National Leagues

[ad_1] Obviously, every MLB All-Star Game is filled with star players. However, the 2026 MLB All-Star Game might feature the greatest collection of pitchers that a league has ever assembled. Nine starting pitchers in the National League have a sub-3.00 ERA entering Tuesday's slate (among pitchers with enough innings to qualify), and that doesn't include the likes of Shohei Ohtani (1.47 ERA), Kyle Harrison (2.50 ERA) and Zack Wheeler (2.11
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2026 MLB All-Star Ballot Second Update: Clement Leads AL, Ohtani Leads All

[ad_1] The Blue Jays' Ernie Clement has surged to the top of the American League in the second update of the 2026 MLB All-Star ballot, overtaking the Angels' Mike Trout, the Yankees' Aaron Judge and the Astros' Yordan Alvarez, who led the AL in the first update. Clement now has 2,054,130 votes, the second-highest total of any player in either league and a lead of nearly 80,000 over Alvarez in
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White Sox Stop Nine-Game Bronx Skid With Andrew Benintendi’s Pinch-Hit Grand Slam

[ad_1] Andrew Benintendi launched a pinch-hit grand slam off Camilo Doval in the eighth inning Thursday night and the Chicago White Sox ended a nine-game losing streak at Yankee Stadium with a 5-1 victory over New York. Benintendi batted for Randal Grichuk and was Chicago’s third pinch hitter of the inning. He snapped a 1-all tie by driving Doval’s first pitch, a 100 mph sinker, into the right-center seats. It
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Last Night In Baseball: The Athletics And Angels Had A Wild Friday Night

[ad_1] There is always baseball happening — almost too much baseball for one person to follow themselves. Don't worry, we're here to help you by figuring out what you missed but shouldn't have. Here are all the best moments from last night in Major League Baseball: The Athletics and Angels had one wild Friday night. Through three innings, the A’s were already up 4-0, but that’s when Los Angeles began
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MLB Owners Propose Banning High School Signings, Adding An International Draft

[ad_1] Baseball owners proposed banning high school players from signing with major-league teams, raising the age for international amateurs and slashing the money spent on signing bonuses in negotiations for a new collective bargaining agreement Thursday. The amateur draft for players residing in the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico would be cut from 20 rounds to 12 beginning in 2027 under the proposal Major League Baseball made during a bargaining