
Michael Conforto has chance at biggest payday among Mets’ free agents: Sherman
NY Post
Michael Conforto was back hitting third Wednesday night, and the Mets scored one more run against the Braves (seven) than they had in their previous four games and more than in any game in two weeks.
That owed much to ineffective Atlanta starter Kyle Wright. But the Mets are more right when their most accomplished lefty bat is in a prime slot. He returned, with two hits and a walk, to a team that, despite leading the NL East, is still averaging the majors’ second-fewest runs per game. So the ideal marriage for this player and club is that Conforto hit like he did while starring in the abbreviated 2020 season for the roughly half a schedule that remains in 2021, pushing the Mets to a division title and himself to free-agent riches.
Cade Cunningham, almost inarguably the best player in the East this season, is likely out for the remainder of the regular season. That’s the word out of Detroit following the depressing news that Cunningham punctured a lung when he took a knee to his side Tuesday from Washington’s Tre Johnson while chasing a loose ball.

Wednesday was another positive day at Yankees camp. For the first time since March 6, 2025 — an outing in which he knew “something wasn’t right,” which began a weeks-long saga that ended on the operating table for Tommy John surgery — Gerrit Cole was back on a mound and facing hitters in game action.











