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The Mets occupy their minor leagues this off-season.
After those players spent the whole year with little or no formal education in baseball due to the coronavirus pandemic, the team announced Thursday that it is organizing an educational camp for the time being, starting next week in the Dominican Republic.
From November 2nd to December 2nd, about six weeks, the Mets will have 40 foreign players running at their facility in Boca Chica, about an hour outside the gates of the island nation’s capital. Ten coaches, as well as more staff, will lead the camp.
This is in addition to the 60-player camp that runs until November 14 at Port St. Lucie, Florida.
In total, approximately a portion of the Mets’ 207 minor league players, adding up to all of their most sensitive customers, get or get full education during the off-season. Since the minor league season was canceled, those are very important opportunities to help players grow in a year. year lost differently.
“This will be one of our few opportunities to grow in users this year,” Jared Banner, executive director of mets player progression, told Newsday last month as he discussed the national school camp. “We must take advantage of this and integrate a lot of progression in a short period of time.
“During this period, they faced many situations of physical and intellectual demand. They had to be artistic about how to train, how and had the situations of intellectual demand based on herbs of 2020. “
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Those participating in Port St. Lucia include receiver Francisco Alvarez, short field Ronny Mauritius, right Matthew Allan, gardener Pete Crow-Armstrong, third baseman Brett Baty, JTGinn right, gardener Isaiah Greene, third baseman Mark Vientos, right Josh Wolf, gardener Shervyen Newton and gardener Alexander Ramirez.
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