METS RUMORS & GOSSIP

Even the lone remaining bright spot in the Mets rotation appears consumed by the dog days of a lost season. Jacob deGrom battled to keep his team in Sunday’s game until the seventh inning, but then watched Giancarlo Stanton turn his effort into a second straight forgettable start. Stanton smashed his major league-leading 45th home...

The Mets acquired Jacob Rhame from the Dodgers, the team announced on Sunday, as the player to be named later in the trade that sent Curtis Granderson to Los Angeles late Friday night. He will report to Triple-A Las Vegas.

Lineups for the Mets and Marlins on Sunday, Aug. 20 at Citi Field.

Mets pitcher Matt Harvey will make his third rehab start on Monday for Double-A Binghamton, according to Marc Carig of Newsday on Twitter. Harvey, 28, appeared in two games for Short-A Brooklyn, most recently a three inning stint on Wednesday where he surrendered just one hit and punched out three. The right-hander has been sidelined since mid-June with a stress injury in his pitching...

The Mets parted ways with two more veterans on Saturday in their attempts to “retool” for the 2018 season. Over the last month, the Mets have slowly but surely shipped away its core guys to open the door for the youngsters to show what they’ve got the last month plus of the year. For Amed Rosario and Dominic Smith, it’s almost a lock they will be two of the four starting...

Coming into Spring Training the Mets hoped that the majority of their starts would be handled by seven pitchers. Sure, a handful of other guys would likely get a start here and a start there, since teams usually use 10 or so starters per year. But those depth starters likely wouldn’t get many chances and they likely wouldn’t be very good. So, it probably says at least as much...

Out with the old, in with the new. That’s the Mets mantra going forward as Curtis Granderson and Rene Rivera were the latest veteran casualties to be shipped out of town in less than 24 hours. With a team now almost exclusively comprised of young bloods, the Mets took to the field and snapped their five game skid in support of Rafael Montero on Saturday. “I think my sinker was...

The New York Mets season is long past its expiration date as we near the end of August. At 19 games back of the Washington Nationals in the NL East and 12 games back of a Wild Card spot, the Mets have nearly completed their fire sale which included the departure of guys like Jay Bruce, Lucas Duda, Curtis Granderson and Addison Reed. With just 41 games remaining on the schedule, it...

Kevin Plawecki returned to the majors in a big way Saturday night. NEW YORK -- Mets catcher Kevin Plawecki's eyes were glued to an iPad resting on his lap showing Miami Marlins' batting highlights as he sat around the Mets' locker room prior to Saturday's game. He hadn't been recalled from Triple A Las Vegas for more than five hours and was...

If there is one mistake the Mets could make in what remains of this season, it would be to push Michael Conforto into the leadership breach created by the deconstruction of the roster. For while Conforto has performed more than ably, and in fact wonderfully in filling voids out of his comfort zones in center...

For the first time in his life, Peter Alonso was failing repeatedly, more steam flowing out of his ears with every at-bat. The first baseman for High-A St. Lucie, the Mets’ 10th-ranked prospect according to MLB.com, had broken his hand just a couple games into the season, sat out six weeks and returned — even...

The New York Mets have continued their August fire sale. Since the waiver wire deadline passed, nearly all of the remaining one year contracts have been shipped to other teams. The next two veterans to see themselves leaving the Big Apple are Curtis Granderson and Rene Rivera. It was expected that Sandy Alderson would move Granderson, but less likely for Rivera. The heavy lifting...

Rafael Montero stood in front of his locker dressed in a king-like robe and crown, the reward Mets players designate for the player of the game after wins.

The Mets snapped a five-game losing streak with an 8-1 win over the Marlins in Citi Field Saturday night. The Mets exploded for seven runs in the sixth inning, tallying more runs in one frame than they had in 14 of the 17 previous games this month. Wilmer Flores and Kevin Plawecki each contributed two-run homers in the inning and the Mets were aided by three Marlins errors in...

Limited to just one run through the first 14 innings of the series, the Mets woke up in a big way with a seven-run sixth on Saturday night. Wilmer Flores and Kevin Plawecki each belted two-run homers in the outburst, as the Mets defeated the Marlins, 8-1, at Citi Field.

Lineups for the Mets and Marlins on Saturday, Aug. 19 at Citi Field.

Noah Syndergaard is pouring one out on social media for his fallen comrades.The New York Mets right-hander took to Twitter on Friday to post a tribute to his now-former teammates Curtis Granderson, Lucas Duda, Jay Bruce, and Neil Walker, all of whom were traded away in the last few weeks. Syndergaard also threw in some Napoleon Dynamite GIF action for good measure. Rest assured,...

Curtis Granderson shares his thoughts about being traded by the New York Mets to the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Something strange happened the other night for the Mets. Travis d’Arnaud made his first career start at third base for the team. Although he rotated often with Asdrubal Cabrera, the fact of the matter is that he started there. By doing this, the team could be subtly sending a message that the position is potentially up for grabs for next season. Are the Mets preparing for a David...

Many within the New York Mets organization believed that Juan Lagares would be a key member of the team’s outfield in the years to come following a 2014 season in which he captured an NL Gold Glove and led the Mets with a 5.5 WAR. Less than three years later, Lagares’ lack of production has buried him on the team’s depth chart, and his future with the Mets is in severe doubt...

In the latest edition of We Ask Mets Fans presented by StubHub, New York Mets fans discuss whether they liked the team's deals at the trade deadline or not.

New York Mets GM Sandy Alderson reacts to pitcher Robert Gsellman's comments saying he doesn't care what Alderson says about him.

Aaron Judge doesn’t simply hit home runs. He pounds the baseballs into oblivion. Robert Gsellman and the rest of the New York Mets found that out the hard way on Wednesday.Judge hit a towering home run off of Gsellman in the third inning, breaking a 1-1 tie between the Mets and his New York Yankees. We can guess that the people sitting up there weren’t expecting to be fielding...

New York Mets minor league outfielder and former NFL quarterback Tim Tebow is a fan-favorite across the country. One fan in particular is Grandma Margaret whose grandson Danny Terp met up with Tebow at a baseball game in Tampa Bay.Danny puts Tebow on camera and asks him to say hi to Miss Margaret. The smile on Danny’s grandmother’s face was priceless after the exchange. This...

It’s videos like these that have helped make Tim Tebow a beloved figure. Tebow was signing autographs for fans where his St. Lucie Mets play and received a special request. One fan asked Tebow to give a shoutout to an ailing grandmother, and the former football player more than complied: The best part was seeing the grandmother’s reaction. Tim Tebow really does have special powers...