Morning Briefing: Spring Breakout Games Begin

Good morning, Mets fans!

The third annual Spring Breakout games begin on Thursday. The Mets’ prospects play on Thursday at Clover Park hosting the Rays’ prospects with a 7:10 p.m. ET start. The game is on MLB tv, MLB dot com, MLB app, MLB Network and SNY.

The big league team is also in action on Thursday against the Astros in West Palm Beach at 6:05 p.m. ET. Kodai Senga gets. No SNY/WPIX, but the last time the Mets played on the road against the Astros, Houston did a stream right on their site. Be on the lookout for that.

Here is the Mets’ updated roster for the breakout game:

Pitchers

• Juan Arnaud, RHP
• Hoss Brewer, RHP
• Nicolas Carreño, LHP
• Saul García, RHP
• Cristofer Gómez, RHP
• Douglas Orellana, RHP
• Jonathan Santucci, LHP
• Ben Simon, RHP
• Jack Wenninger, RHP

Position Players

• Daiverson Gutierrez, C
• Chris Suero C, 1B, OF
• Julio Zayas, C
• Yunior Amparo, UTIL
• Ryan Clifford, 1B/OF
• Randy Guzman, OF/1B
• Yonatan Henriquez, UTIL
• Antonio Jimenez, SS
• Elian Peña, SS
• Jacob Reimer, 3B/1B
• D’Andre Smith, 2B/OF
• Marco Vargas, INF
• Mitch Voit, INF
• A.J. Ewing, 2b/OF
• Nick Morabito, OF
• Eli Serrano III, OF

Mets News

Our own Chris Bello was at Citi Field on Wednesday for the annual What’s New event. You can follow the food photos here. Our friends at Chiddy’s included. The Mets also announced some alternate ways to get to Citi Field, including shuttles. There’s also a new and improved beer list for 2026. Finally, here’s the article trying to cover as much as we can of the new stuff for Citi Field.

You can also ride a vintage train to the Mets’ Opener.

Former Mets Al Leiter and Neil Walker will join Matt Vasgersian on the call for Pirates vs. Mets Opening Day game on NBC and Peacock.

Francisco Alvarez told Mike Puma of the New York Post that he would like to play for Team Venezuela in the next WBC.

MLB News

Former outfielder Kevin Kiermaier is joining MLB Network as an on-air analyst.

Latest on MMO

Chris Bello wrote about his experience at Citi Field.

Bo Bichette is heating up.

Sean Manaea was successful with low velo in his last start.

This Date in Mets History

2012: Mets owners Fred Wilpon and Saul Katz agree to pay $162 million into a trust fund to victims of the Bernie Madoff fraud scheme.

Born on this Date: Richie Ashburn (1927) José Buttó (1998), Mike Vasil (2000)

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