Tim Boyle

Mookie Wilson and Lenny Dykstra were quite a pair. Many similarities on the field, fewer off of it, the pair of New York Mets outfielders didn't always get a chance to play beside each other. While there were many instances when Dykstra started in center field and Wilson in left field, they were often used as a platoon but not such a strict one where either player sat regularly.

The New York Mets are sticking with Kodai Senga on the mound Tuesday night. The Chicago Cubs have opted to rob Japan of two countrymen facing each other. Shota Imanaga has been pushed back.

A 3-run ninth inning wasn't nearly enough for the New York Mets to mount a comeback versus the Chicago Cubs. A 9-6 loss to open the first of four, this is trending toward becoming a series that'll do them in if they drop half of the games.

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The next time we see Kodai Senga pitch for the New York Mets it will be as a relief pitcher . A guy who rarely ever went on 4 days of rest will now need to readjust further and be available on-call.

In a late-night for some, the party's just getting started stunner, the New York Mets found a taker for David Peterson shortly before midnight. David Peterson will join the Chicago Cubs for the final game of their four this week making travel arrangements easy for the longtime Mets pitcher. The longest tenured player on the MLB roster goes to a Cubs team desperate for pitching. They lost Edward Cabrera earlier in the week to injury.

The New York Mets made several roster moves yesterday, one of them being the activation of Francisco Lindor from the IL. Lindor returned for the second game of the doubleheader, slotting in at shortstop and helping the Mets look a little bit more like themselves even without Juan Soto and an early error from him. In addition to him leaving the IL, the Mets have gotten back Ronny Mauricio although

Leave it to Bob Nightengale to misunderstand what the Marcus Semien injury means to the New York Mets. After a two error game and 1 for 8 day at the plate in the doubleheader overall, Semien goes on the IL with a hip flexor strain that Nightengale seems to believe belongs on the list of bad things happening to the team.

Some teams are built through draft picks. The New York Mets seem to prefer to use those first-rounders in trades. While they had successful picks since 2010, there have been 10 trades involving someone from the first round getting dealt to another team.

You were (hopefully) sleeping when the New York Mets traded David Peterson to the Chicago Cubs earlier this week. Occurring after three straight losses to the Cubs and an ugly night full of errors and terrors, it didn't signal the beginning of a sell-off but more so an opportunity to take advantage of a team in need.