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Mets chief operating officer Jeff Wilpon may not need Jacob deGrom or Noah Syndergaard to bring a championship to New York this year. The Wilpon-owned New York Excelsior have been a juggernaut during the inaugural season of the Overwatch League, and people around the league are praising the Wilpons for their management of the video game club. Continue to Article

July 16, 2018 10:54:am EST

Mets COO Jeff Wilpon may not need Jacob deGrom or Noah Syndergaard to bring a championship to New York this year. The Wilpon-owned New York Excelsior have been a juggernaut during the inaugural season of the Overwatch League, and people around the league are praising the Wilpons for their management of the video game club. Continue to Article

July 16, 2018 2:38:am EST

FILE - In this June 27, 2018, file photo, New York Mets chief operating officer Jeff Wilpon, center, talks with Michael Conforto and No. 1 draft pick Jerred Kelenic, left, before the team's baseball game against the Pittsburgh Pirates in New York. Wilpon won’t need Jacob deGrom or Noah Syndergaard to bring a championship to New York this year. Though Wilpon is hardly a hardcore gamer, he and his family are showing a magic touch in the world of esports. The Wilpon-owned New York Excelsior have been a juggernaut during the inaugural season of the Overwatch League, and the Wilpons are being praised for their leadership of the video game club. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, File) The Associated Press Continue to Article

July 16, 2018 2:38:am EST

Two years ago at this time, the Yankees took a look at where they were, where they wanted to be, and who they were relying on to get them there, and came to a difficult conclusion: That it was time to tear the building down to its foundation and start over again. Within two weeks of the 2016 All-Star Game, they had dumped Aroldis Chapman, Andrew Miller, Ivan Nova, and Carlos Beltran, and began greasing the skids for the departure of Alex Rodriguez, who by mid-August was in a reluctant forced retirement. In return, the Yankees stockpiled talent -- Gleyber Torres, Clint Frazier, Justus Sheffield, Billy McKinney, Ben Heller – and decided to throw youngsters like Aaron Judge, Gary Sanchez, Greg Bird and Tyler Austin into the deep end of the pool to see if they could swim. Continue to Article

July 16, 2018 1:00:am EST

WASHINGTON — Peter Alonso’s surge just went national. Global, even. For every Mets fan who has suffered through this fiasco of a first half, a tonic arrived Sunday at Nationals Park, in the form of Alonso. This guy. Wow. OK, it was the exhibition Futures Game, and given that a total of eight balls left the yard, you could suspect whether someone specially juiced this batch (of balls, not players). Nevertheless, the first-base prospect Alonso swatted about as majestic a homer as you’ll ever see to help the U.S. Team post a 10-6 victory over the World Team, and he matched it with colorful quotes that would pass him for a modern-day, watered-down Reggie Jackson. In short: How soon can the 23-year-old Continue to Article

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