New York Mets rookie ace Nolan McLean got an opportunity to perform on the biggest stage of his career with Team USA during the 2026 World Baseball Classic.
Thursday, March 19, 2026 • 6:05 PM CACTI Park of the Palm Beaches • West Palm Beach, FL RHP Kodai Senga (0-0, 3.18) vs. LHP Peter Lambert (1-0, 1.00) The Mets emerge from their off day with the final stretch of spring training games until Opening Day!
The New York Mets have a reloaded, new‑look roster prepared for the 2026 MLB season, built around their two biggest superstars: shortstop Francisco Lindor and outfielder Juan Soto.
Opening Day is just one week away for the New York Mets. The Mets open up the regular season at home at Citi Field against the Pittsburgh Pirates on Thursday, March 26.
As Spring Training opens for 2026, all 30 teams have high hopes and big questions. These are the storylines to follow for each team heading into Opening Day.
The Mets announced a series of roster cuts today. Most notably, infielder Ronny Mauricio has been optioned to Triple-A Syracuse. They also optioned right-hander Joey Gerber while non-roster pitchers Brandon Waddell and Mike Baumann were reassigned to minor league camp.
Longtime New York Mets radio host Howie Rose announced his intention to retire at the end of this season. The 72-year-old sports personality cited age and family as the main reasons for his decision.
There has been much debate throughout spring training about who will make the opening day as the opening day right fielder, with the leading candidates likely being Carson Benge and Mike Tauchman.
When the New York Mets signed Bo Bichette during the winter, their plan was to shift him from shortstop to third base. However, it appears the team wants to keep Bichette acclimated at his old position as a contingency plan.
We are now just one week from Opening Day, and there are still many unanswered questions about what the 2026 New York Mets will look like to start the year.
The 2026 MLB season is right around the corner, and it is never too early to start thinking about how it might unfold. Seemingly, every year, we have a decent handle on who should contend and who is likely to struggle, which makes looking ahead to the trade deadline inevitable.
To start off our Top 50 Mets prospects for 2026 we looked at a few arms who could potentially help the Mets this season in the 50-46 group and then the 45-41 group focused mostly on young talent from the Dominican Summer League.
The New York Mets have now played 64 seasons as a franchise, going back to their inaugural 1962 campaign. There are 64 teams in March Madness, the NCAA’s annual single-elimination tournament.
Howie Rose has been a broadcaster with the New York Mets since 1987. But now, Rose is preparing for his swan song. The voice of Mets radio has announced that the 2026 season will mark his final year in the booth, in a video posted on the team’s X, formerly Twitter account.
A fixture of New York Mets broadcasting will be calling it a career after this season. Mets radio play-by-play announcer Howie Rose announced today that he will retire following the 2026 season, after over 30 years of calling Mets games in multiple capacities.
The following article "Mets radio voice Howie Rose to retire after 2026 season" originally appeared on Sports Media Watch. Longtime New York Mets play-by-play voice Howie Rose has announced that the 2026 MLB season will be his last in the radio booth.
Mets broadcaster and Mets Hall of Fame inductee Howie Rose will retire after the 2026 season. He has called Mets games as the play-by-play man since 1995 and, in recent years, has had to cut back his workload due to health issues.
In the 2024 edition of the Baseball Prospectus annual, Francisco Lindor was referred to as “the steady centerpiece of a historically chaotic franchise.” As the calendar inches closer to Opening Day two years later, that is perhaps even more true now than it was then.
The leash just got shorter in Queens. After a late-season collapse turned the tide fast on what once looked like a playoff-bound run, the New York Mets are heading into 2026 with more questions than answers.
Mark Vientos has had an awful Spring Training for the Mets up to this point. In eight games, Vientos has one hit in 25 at-bats, leading to a .040 batting average.
With almost seven days out until Opening Day, Sean Manaea‘s velocity on his fastball has been alarming. Just one season removed from a down year, this is not what anyone envisioned.
The roster squeeze is real, and the New York Mets aren’t hiding from it. Spring training has turned into a legit proving ground, with production forcing tough calls.
Team USA is one win away from clinching its second World Baseball Classic title in the history of the tournament, and it will be New York Mets rookie Nolan McLean who will get the start, Bob Nightengale of USA Today reports.
The New York Mets come into 2026 favored to win just as many games they were favored to last season, 90.5. However, last season, the Mets failed to even reach the NL Wild Card after a 45-24 start turned into a terrible year.