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• Francisco Alvarez set for rehab assignment quicker than expected in promising Mets sign

Francisco Alvarez appears to be making a speedy recovery from surgery to repair a torn right meniscus he suffered May 12....2026
• NL Week 11 Strategy-May 30, 2026
In The Field OF Jung Hoo Lee was activated off the 10-day IL on Friday. Lee was hitting .283 with 3 HR, 22 R, 17 RBI, and 0 SB in 198 PA. 3B Nick Gonzales was removed from Thursday's game early due to left knee discomfort. He fouled a ball off his left knee on Wednesday. He was back in the lineup on Friday. SS Konnor Griffin was not in the Pirates lineup on Thursday due to forearm soreness. It is...2026
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• Mets' Alvarez tears meniscus as IL woes continue
Francisco Alvarez will undergo surgery for a meniscus tear in his right knee, with Mets manager Carlos Alvarez hoping his catcher can return in six to eight weeks....2026
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• Francisco Alvarez has meniscus tear in right knee; no timetable for return
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• Francisco Alvarez heads to IL as Mets’ injury problems worsen

The Mets can't catch a break....2026
• Mets Place Francisco Alvarez On Injured List Due To Meniscus Tear
The Mets announced Wednesday that catcher Francisco Alvarez has been placed on the 10-day injured list due to a torn meniscus in his right knee. Fellow catcher Hayden Senger has been recalled from Triple-A Syracuse in a corresponding move. He’ll split time behind the dish with Luis Torrens while Alvarez is out. Alvarez exited yesterday’s […]...2026
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• Francisco Alvarez set for rehab assignment quicker than expected in promising Mets sign
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• Mets' Alvarez tears meniscus as IL woes continue
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• Francisco Alvarez heads to IL as Mets’ injury problems worsen
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• Alvarez's knee injury dampens Mets' blowout win
Mets catcher Francisco Alvarez is scheduled to undergo an MRI after leaving Tuesday's 10-2 win with a right knee injury....2026
• Francisco Alvarez exits game early in latest Mets injury concern

The hits keep coming for the Mets -- and the good kind....2026
• Some sets that I used to love, part 1

I went out to get some groceries for making dinner yesterday and popped over to Target for a couple of extras, so let's zip down to the card aisle, too. It was filled with baseball product. Just about everything really, in multiple forms. Too bad I can't get into much of it. But for old-time's sake, I picked up a rack pack of two sets that I used to love. Man, I really did love Sta...2026
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• Preseason Prep - March 20, 2026
Francisco Alvarez (C-NYM) had a tumultuous 2025 season as a fractured hamate bone suffered in March delayed his season debut before he was demoted to Triple-A and sustained a sprained UCL in his right thumb after his return to the majors. Nevertheless, Alvarez performed well while playing through that injury, compiling a .276 average, 8 HR, 21 RBI, and 22 R across 139 PA after rejoining the big cl...2026
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• Future watch

Twelve years ago I wrote a post about the return of the Topps Future Star(s) label and my lack of appreciation for it when Topps first broke it out in the late 1980s (although it used "Future Stars" to describe its three-player prospect cards at the start of the decade). Since first returning in 2014 -- actually its second return as the Future Stars went on hiatus for 1992 and 1993 befo...2026
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• Looking Down the Lists and Also What Happened in 2025- Preseason Prep- February 23, 2026
Spring training games have started. Teams are facing each other. It's still way too early to make any conclusions based on performance in the Grapefruit and Cactus Leagues. It's not too, early, however, to start looking down the rosters for team depth. Everyone knows that Shohei, Aaron Judge, Tarik Skubal, and Paul Skenes are important fantasy assets. What is tough is trying to identify the margi...2026
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• Braves complete sweep of Mets on Ozzie Albies walkoff, 13-10
Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images It was another comeback win for the Braves in the series finale, but this one was markedly different than the first two. In what was rightfully billed to be a pitchers’ duel between Spencer Strider and Justin Verlander, the Braves and Mets combined for eight runs in the first inning and a half of baseball and ultimately 23 runs over 10 innings as Atlanta ...2023
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"Francisco Alvarez hadn’t received an opportunity to compare battle wounds with Francisco Lindor yet, but the Mets catcher welcomes the opportunity."

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"The Mets announced today that they’ve optioned catcher Francisco Alvarez to Triple-A."

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"Francisco Alvarez flied out for the second out, and Stratton seemed close to getting out of the inning."

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"Part of the reason the game was so bad is because he didn’t really buckle down: after blowing a 3-0 lead by allowing a five-run inning that featured a grooved pitch on which Nimmo crushed a grand slam, Strider stayed in and allowed a walk-aided sixth run in the third, and then a two-run homer to Francisco Alvarez in the fourth."

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"Mets To Promote Francisco Alvarez"

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"Francisco Alvarez, Ronny Mauricio and Brett Baty, MLB."

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"The Mets have added two of their top prospects to their 60-man player pool, as the team announced that catcher Francisco Alvarez and right-hander Matthew Allan will head to the alternate training site in Brooklyn."

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"7 million deal with catcher Francisco Alvarez, ranked Number 13 on MLB."

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• Preseason Prep-February 21, 2026
Around the League Jack Leiter-Rangers-SP Jack Leiter finished with a 3.86 ERA and 1.28 WHIP across 151.2 IP at the major league level. He showed average skills (22% K, 10% BB, and 4.43 SIERA). Leiter continues to show plus stuff but lacks the control/command to make the jump that many have expected since he was drafted out of Vanderbilt. Diving deeper into Leiter's season is important because ...2026
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• Tuesday Rockpile: Put Hunter Goodman in the Home Run Derby (and the All-Star Game)

Photo by G Fiume/Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Tuesday, June 24, 2025 All credit for the idea goes to Jason Collette: Hunter Goodman to the ASG as a player & for the HR derby or we riot.— Jason Collette (@jasoncollette.bsky.social) 2025-06-18T00:39:00.266Z But, yes, absolutely. And I’m here to explain why, first by making his case for the All-Star Game (because he’...2025
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• Outside The Confines: The next generation

Photo by Jay Biggerstaff/Getty Images Players today are better than ever. LSU wins the Men’s College World Series. More on the Rafael Devers trade and other news from around MLB. Good morning. For all of you yelling at the kids to get off your lawn, J.J. Cooper has five reasons why players today are better than those of the past. If you want more evidence, Brewers rookie Jacob Misiorows...2025
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• 2024 Braves Season in Review: Ramon Laureano

Photo by Todd Kirkland/MLB Photos via Getty Images Laureano was a scrapheap addition who did wonders for the Braves’ battered outfield and even wrested a starting role from others in the process. In a season where so many things went wrong for the Atlanta Braves, there may not have been a more pleasant and unexpected surprise on the offensive side of the ball than Ramon Laureano. It’s prob...2024
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• Brewers season ends in heartbreaking 4-2 loss to Mets

Benny Sieu-Imagn Images Milwaukee comes up two outs short as Williams loses it in ninth Box Score The Milwaukee Brewers and New York Mets met this evening in a winner-take-all elimination game, the only game three of any of the Wild Card series. It was a game that non-partisan fans will surely call a classic, a pitcher’s duel between unlikely forces (the rookie Tobias Myers and the 35-year...2024
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• Travis d’Arnaud starts at catcher for Game 1 of Braves-Mets doubleheader

Brett Davis-Imagn Images So basically, they’re going with their usual lineup for the biggest game of the season. We’ve got lineups for the first of what will surely be a doubleheader that both sets of Atlanta Braves and New York Mets fans won’t forget for a long time, yet. As you would imagine for the Braves, they haven’t made any serious changes heading into this final day of the season ...2024
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• The offense failed to score runs despite a great performance from Adrian Houser

Adrian Houser pitched a gem against the Mets after being released by the team last year. | Al Bello/Getty Images The White Sox fall, 2-1, in the opener Despite a great performance from Adrian Houser, the offense couldn’t muster up enough runs, and late-inning hits from the Mets gave the home club the opener win over the White Sox, 2-1 The hit king, Chase Meidroth, started the game with a w...2025
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• 2024 Braves Season in Review: Ramon Laureano
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• Braves NL Wild Card Report: September 28

Photo by Chris Coduto/Getty Images The Braves came away with a big day on Friday, setting themselves in prime position for the playoffs The Atlanta Braves couldn’t have asked for a better day on Friday, getting a huge win over the Royals while taking a huge leap in the standings thanks to losses from the Mets and Diamondbacks. The Braves hold the tiebreaker over both squads, putting them i...2024
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• Braves NL Wild Card Report: September 22

Photo by Mary DeCicco/MLB Photos via Getty Images An Acuña is currently helping an NL East team get into the Postseason. It’s not Ronald and it’s not the Braves, though. For what feels like the umpteenth time in this NL Wild Card race for the Atlanta Braves, it was one step forward but two steps back. Atlanta got the job done against the Marlins but unfortunately, everybody else in the rac...2024
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• Don't Forget about Francisco Alvarez - September 22, 2024
Francisco Alvarez (C-NYM) went 2-4 with a homer and 3 RBI against the Phillies on Saturday. The 22 year-old backstop has underwhelmed in 2024, in large part because of a torn ligament in his thumb that kept him out of action for nearly two months. Through 324 PA, Alvarez is batting .238 with 11 dingers, 44 RBI, and 36 runs scored, with a slightly above-average 103 wRC+. While his 25% strikeout rat...2024
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• Braves NL Wild Card Report: September 20

Photo by Dustin Satloff/Getty Images At least the Braves still won? Let’s start off with some good news, shall we? The Atlanta Braves absolutely smacked the Cincinnati Reds on their way out of Ohio in order to win their series. That was awesome! Yesterday’s game was really fun to watch, which was a real and true relief since usually easy wins for the Braves seem to coincide with someone ge...2024
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• Braves NL Wild Card Race Report: September 18

Photo by Dylan Buell/Getty Images Atlanta’s choke job pushes them further back Tuesday’s action wasn’t a total loss for the Atlanta Braves, with three of the four teams in the wild card picture taking losses, but their unfortunate late-inning collapse now looms large with such small margins. The Mets kept rolling, lengthening the Braves chase to earn a spot back into the playoff picture. C...2024
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• Mets’ Francisco Alvarez reveals intimate wedding to Nahomi Rojas

Congratulations are in order for Mets catcher Francisco Alvarez and his partner Nahomi Rojas....2026
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• The offense failed to score runs despite a great performance from Adrian Houser
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• Braves News: Jesse Chavez returns, Back to winning, more

Photo by Matthew Grimes Jr./Atlanta Braves/Getty Images Atlanta Braves news and notes from Wednesday The Braves took advantage of their homestand to find their footing and win some games. Much credit has to go to Bryce Elder for finally putting together an outing that both gave the Braves some real innings and a chance to win, although with only 2 strikeouts and 3 walks, let’s just say we ...2025
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• Francisco Alvarez takes a tipped ball right to the beans in spring training

BASEBALL IS BACK! Spring training is a time to iron out things for MLB teams, and in the case of Mets catcher Francisco Alvarez: Perhaps time to think about ordering a new cup. The Mets and Red Sox faced off in Spring Training on Monday afternoon and Paul Blackburn was developing his rapport with Alvarez when a pitch got tipped by Alex Bregman and rocketed right into the catcher’s bean bag. It’s...2025
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• 2024 Braves Season in Review: Ramon Laureano
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• Brewers season ends in heartbreaking 4-2 loss to Mets
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• Braves bullpen picks an awful time to collapse in 8-7 loss to Mets

Photo by Matthew Grimes Jr./Atlanta Braves/Getty Images Spencer Schwellenbach dominated the Mets again but his relievers let him down in a major way. Despite Spencer Schwellenbach delivering another great performance for the Atlanta Braves against the New York Mets, Atlanta’s bullpen picked the worst possible time during this regular season to deliver one of their worst performances of the...2024
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• Travis d’Arnaud starts at catcher for Game 1 of Braves-Mets doubleheader
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• Simply put: Braves are the best in June 2023
Photo by Rich von Biberstein/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images It was literally the best month for the Braves franchise since the start of the 20th century. I don’t think anyone ever goes back to read any of these monthly recaps, but if one were to do so, the very first part of each would give them a refresher about how the month went relative to expectations. I have a feeling that no one i...2023
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• Braves strike just in time, wipe away Mets in rain-shortened, five-inning game, 4-0
Vincent Carchietta-USA TODAY Sports The Braves made the most of their chances right before play stopped in the top of the sixth, earning a rain-shortened victory. It wasn’t a particularly good night for baseball in Queens, but the Braves nonetheless prevailed in a very rain-shortened contest by a 4-0 score, starting their four-game set against the division rivals off on a soggy-but-still-g...2023
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• Royals balk-off the Mets in extras 7-6
Denny Medley-USA TODAY Sports “We’re where you want to be!” Following their three-game sweep over the first-place Twins, the Royals kept the train moving with walk-off-win in extras, 7-6. Without a win in his last 13 starts, Zack Greinke toed the slab with the hopes of snapping a brutal skid. Though his offense didn’t provide much, the right-hander did more than enough to keep them in the...2023
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• Braves rally from 4-1 deficit to down the Mets 7-5, Michael Harris II leads the way
Photo by Matthew Grimes Jr./Atlanta Braves/Getty Images The long-awaited Michael Harris II breakout game finally happened as the second-year man went 3-4 with a homer to help Braves overcome the Mets 7-5. For the second time in as many games, the Braves overcame an early 4-1 hole to take down Mets, as Michael Harris II the second had arguably his best game of the season in a 7-5 comeback w...2023
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• Mets To Promote Francisco Alvarez
The Mets will promote catching prospect Francisco Álvarez in advance of the team’s pivotal weekend series against the Braves, reports Daniel Álvarez Montes of El ExtraBase (Twitter link). The 20-year-old is one of the sport’s top minor league talents, checking in sixth on Baseball America’s most recent Top 100 list. It’ll be the first major league call…...2022
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• Cubs 4, Mets 2: Marcus Stroman bites the hand that once fed him
David Banks-USA TODAY Sports The righthander had an outstanding outing and timely hitting gave the Cubs another win. Marcus Stroman, who grew up just down the road from Citi Field on New York’s Long Island and who pitched for the Mets for two years, threw perhaps his best game as a Cub against his former team on a chilly, windy Wednesday at Wrigley Field. Stroman became the first Cubs star...2023
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• Braves dance between the raindrops on Mets’ grave in 7-0 win

Photo by Rich Schultz/Getty Images The Braves somehow threw a shutout despite allowing 16 baserunners. Charlie Morton needed a good start. He didn’t get one, but somehow, the Braves didn’t just win — they actively shut out the Mets. Go figure. Meanwhile, the offense did its thing, and the Braves cruised to an easy win against the Mets once again, dancing on their grave, as it were. Serious...2023
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• Mets Expected To Designate Tomas Nido For Assignment
The Mets are expected to designate catcher Tomas Nido for assignment and move to a catching tandem of young Francisco Alvarez and veteran Omar Narvaez, tweets Andy Martino of SNY. Narvaez, who’s been out since early April due to a calf strain, has played six minor league rehab games and has been trending toward a…...2023
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• Mets Finally Kicking McCann Down The Road?
"Hey, yo, long-time listener, first-time caller, this is Jimmy from Dyker Heights. The Mets, guy, are killin' me with the freakin' James McCann, guy. I said to my ma, "Ma, what are the Mets doing, guy, they're throwing away everything they've built this year to have this stunod behind the plate. Why don't they try callin' up what's-his-face Francisco Alvarez. He's the future, right, guy? The right...2022
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• Alvarez's knee injury dampens Mets' blowout win
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• Francisco Alvarez comes through on both sides of ball in Mets’ Opening Day win

Francisco Alvarez took hitting ninth in the lineup in stride....2026
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• Francisco Alvarez takes next step on his Mets comeback trail with spring debut set

Observations from Mets spring training on Wednesday....2026
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• Mets’ Francisco Alvarez belts home run in live batting practice session

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• Drake Baldwin, Alex Verdugo return to lineup against Frankie Montas, Mets

Photo by Edward M. Pio Roda/Getty Images Alex Verdug-argh Well, the Braves took a bit to get this lineup out, and I’d rather they have kept it to themselves, since Alex Verdugo is back. Woof. Lining up for game ✌️ in New York!#BravesCountry pic.twitter.com/U5OVMlXfyv— Atlanta Braves (@Braves) June 24, 2025 There’s really not a lot of history between current Braves and Frankie Montas....2025
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• Tuesday Rockpile: Put Hunter Goodman in the Home Run Derby (and the All-Star Game)
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• 2024 NL East Preview: The Braves look to turn regular season success into October results

Jonathan Dyer-USA TODAY Sports The Braves are once again the favorites to win the division but as far as Atlanta is concerned, it’s all about what they do in October. For the past few years, the story of the National League’s Eastern Division has been one that feels very familiar to how it was during the 1990s. While the Atlanta Braves have won the NL East for six straight seasons dating b...2024
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• 2024 Season Preview: New York Mets

Photo by Al Bello/Getty Images Things can’t get worse after a disastrous 2023 season... right? Everything went wrong for the Mets in 2023. Really, it’s been a downward spiral since the club lost a 10.5 game divisional lead to the Braves in the summer months of 2022 and then quickly bowed out in the Wild Card round against the Padres. A real shame. Objectively speaking, there was no reason ...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for December 11, 2023

Photo by Al Bello/Getty Images Here’s what Will Smith might look like in a Royals uniform. Anne Rogers covers the Will Smith signing for the Royals. The Royals view Smith as one option for the back end of the bullpen along with Nick Anderson, whom they acquired in a trade with the Braves last month. Younger right-handers James McArthur and Carlos Hernández also have potential to close game...2023
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• Bird App Recap: Mets 5, White Sox 1
Verlander does what Verlander does, and the Sox lose once again Welcome dear readers, to the delicious Oreo cream of the White Sox series at the Mets. It’s game two if you didn’t catch the reference, and the Sox somehow almost pulled off an amazing comeback last night. Starting lineup for the Sox looks like this, with Touki Toussaint taking the bump for the Pale Hose. Tonight's #WhiteSox start...2023
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• Know Your Enemy: New York Mets
The Mets — the White Sox of New York. We visit the second team in the first city The second team in their city. A perpetually underachieving and essentially unloved ballclub. An ignored fanbase, overshadowed by the media-driven hype around some of the most annoying people in baseball. A team that should have been good having themselves a massively disappointing, injury-ridden, luckless, j...2023
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• Outside The Confines: We were on an (All-Star) break!
Photo by Sam Navarro/Getty Images MLB heads into its last games of the first half. It’s the last Friday before the halfway mark of the season hits. With that in mind, and so-called experts predicting the award winners already, let’s have a little fun and try to predict some of the biggest stories of the second half. I think the Luis Arraez .400 story will go on until at least early Septemb...2023
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