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PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — Buck Showalter’s spring training musings often veer between amusing and informative with the non sequitur somewhere in the middle. The pitch clock has been a particular point of fascination this spring and he keeps coming back to one question: What does it mean for beer…

In a world where in which most postgame meals are eaten at the stadium, the 33-year-old has become a rarity in baseball.

The Mets starter is expected to opt-out of his contract and enter free agency.

Smartest play of the year?

ATLANTA — The Mets, the wire-to-almost-wire leaders of the NL East, are on the precipice of having to settle for a wild-card spot.

It seems as though the New York Mets are targets for pitchers in the MLB this season, as they've now been hit a record number of times as their total has reached 106

Well, they don’t call them the dog days of summer for nothing.

NEW YORK — Jeff McNeil ranged far to his right to field Luis Garcia’s potential inning-ending double play ball on the backhand. As the Mets’ second baseman started to transfer the ball to his hand for a flip to second, he dropped it for an error.

The Mets are supposed to be in a brief cakewalk portion of their schedule with the Colorado Rockies between the Yankees earlier this week and next week’s visit by the Dodgers.

It seriously looked like a Mets home game.

PHILADELPHIA — On April 11 at Citizens Bank Park, Phillies’ third baseman Alec Bohm was famously caught on camera telling one of his teammates, “I f---ing hate this place.”