The Mets make their first road trip of the spring going to West Palm Beach. Yesterday the Astros B team (split squad road squad) trounced the Mets 10-1. Despite the score, we got to see deGrom for the first time this year (1 run over 2.0 innings), an Alonso double, a failed dive by Tebow, Tebow getting completely robbed and the debut of Wilson Ramos who went 2-2 at the plate.
Mets Lineup
- Jeff McNeil (LF)
- Juan Lagares (CF)
- Michael Conforto (RF)
- Pete Alonso (3B)
- Keon Broxton (DH)
- Andres Gimenez (SS)
- Tomas Nido (C)
- David Thompson (3B)
- Dilson Herrera (2B)
Starting Pitcher – Noah Syndergaard
Noah Syndergaard is coming off a season where he pitched in 25 games posting a 3.03 ERA over 154.1 innings with a 2.80 FIP, 1.212 WHIP (career high) and a 121 ERA+. It feels like forever ago there were rumors of BWV trading Syndergaard for Realmuto or making a package for Syndergaard to go somewhere to make the roster better. Thankfully that never happened and the Mets have kept one of the best 1-2-3 top of the rotations in baseball together.
Things to watch for in no particular order:
- PJ Conlon is listed on the pitching schedule today! After a few of years of dominating in the minors, even with soft stuff, he finally made his major league debut last year. He labored through a few games for the Mets, got picked up by the Dodgers as the Mets tried to reassign him and then ultimately ended up back with the Mets.
- Until the Justin Wilson signing, Daniel Zamora, scheduled to pitch today, was the only lefty on the Mets roster. The Mets have added a lot of NRI lefties to compete against Zamora who hasn’t seen a ton of work in the majors yet.
- Speaking of lefties brought into to compete against Daniel Zamora, we’ll see Luis Avilan who with a strong spring could easily make the roster
- The top of today’s line up (1-4) could very well be a lineup we see this year when Nimmo gets a day off.
- A day after going 0-3 at the plate, Broxton is getting another look at the plate to see if he can get his bat going
