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Max Scherzer returned Monday to Citi Field as a member of the Texas Rangers, still mystified as to how the New York Mets’ season, which began with championship hopes for a team with the largest payroll in major league history, unspooled to the point that he was part of a trade-deadline selloff. “That’s a billion-dollar question, because if you could answer that question, I think everybody would want to tell you how you actually win here at the major league level,” Scherzer said in the Ra...

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Max Scherzer's wife, Erica, was one of the main drivers behind Scherzer's decision to accept a trade from the Mets to the Rangers.

Shohei Ohtani will continue to swing the bat until he’ s told not to, or until he decides he can’ t. Mike Trout, however, will not be active this weekend when the Los Angeles Angels face the Mets in a three-game set at Citi Field. Ohtani, their two-way superstar, tore his ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow in the first game of a doubleheader against the Cincinnati...

Ohtani would transform any lineup, including New York's.

There is some good news for Mets fans ahead of a nine-game homestand that will begin Friday against the Los Angeles Angels: Shohei Ohtani may be able to play. Ohtani will continue to DH while seeking treatment options that may help him avoid his second Tommy John surgery, according to the Orange County Register’ s Jeff Fletcher and ESPN’ s Alden Gonzalez.

Ohtani and the Angels have not yet decided if he will undergo a second Tommy John surgery, but either way, it drastically impacts what he could earn this winter as a free agent.

Jett Williams has a few more levels to master, but the prospect is on his way to introducing his apt name to the world. The New York Mets’ No. 3 prospect, according to MLB Pipeline, might be their most electric.

The Yankees and Mets have to forget about this season and start planning and building for a productive future.

Ohtani and the Angels have not yet decided if he will undergo a second Tommy John surgery, but either way, it drastically impacts what he could earn this winter as a free agent.