Your Wednesday morning dose of Mets and Major League Baseball news, notes, and links.
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The Mets lost to the Padres once again, officially losing the series in San Diego. Manaea had a nice start, going five innings and only giving up one run while striking out four. But it was another case of the bullpen blowing the game for them. José Buttó gave up five runs in 1.2 innings to pick up the loss. Starling Marte drove in the only Mets run of the game, bring Baty home on a sacrifice fly. But it was another anemic night for the Mets offense, with only four hits for the team, with Vientos collecting half of those hits.
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Juan Soto was removed from tonight’s game with a right foot contusion after fouling a ball off his foot.
X-rays came back negative on Soto’s foot, and he remains day-to-day.
The Mets came within dollars of maxing out their draft bonus pool overage.
Anthony DiComo examined some potential big splashes for the Mets at the trade deadline.
The Mets optioned Huascar Brazobán and re-signed Chris Devenski to a major league contract.
While Brazobán was sent down now, the Mets are keeping him as a part of their plans and hope the move will provide them flexibility to fix problems beyond the trade deadline.
The Mets remain in the hunt for Luis Robert Jr. and Luisangel Acuña has been discussed a piece in a potential trade.
Jesse Winker remains sidelined from any baseball activity.
Around the National League East
The Braves were out-slugged by the Royals 9-6. Recent Atlanta addition Erick Fedde gave up four runs in 4.2 innings including a home run to Vinnie Pasquantino.
The bigger loss of the night for Atlanta was Ronald Acuña Jr. being removed from the game with right achilles tightness, headed for an injured list stint.
The Phillies beat the White Sox 6-3, thanks to home runs from Kyle Schwarber and Brandon Marsh.
The Marlins shut out the Cardinals in a 5-0 victory. Sandy Alcantara threw five scoreless innings with four strikeouts in what have been his final start for the Marlins.
The Nationals fell to the Astros 7-4. Mike Soroka gave up two runs in 3.1 innings, but Andry Lara put the game out of reach, giving up four runs in less than two innings.
Around Major League Baseball
Jim Callis gave a few updates of the draft bonus pool spending. Which teams have historically spent everything, the rules of overage spending, and each teams total for this year.
The Kansas City Royals designated Rich Hill for assignment.
The Orioles traded reliever Seranthony Dominguez to the Blue Jays.
Eugenio Suárez had both a MRI and a CT scan on his hand and both came back negative for a break.
Yesterday at Amazin’ Avenue
A Pod of Their Own returned with a new episode.
Linus Lawrence profiled potential Mets trade target Luis Robert Jr.
Steve Sypa delivered this weeks Mets Minor League Players of the Week.
This Date in Mets History
135 years ago today, original Mets manager Casey Stengel was born.