About

Welcome to Rising Apple, the New York Mets news and opinion site brought to you by the FanSided Network. Rising Apple is dedicated to providing top-notch Mets news and original content. This site also serves as a community for like-minded fans to come together and catch up on the latest happenings as well as discuss their passion about the Mets! Rising Apple is comprised of an editorial team that creates content as they closely follow their favorite team. The site covers everything from news and rumors, including roster moves, injuries, trades, industry buzz and analysis, using reputable sources such as Baseball-Reference, Baseball Savant, MLB.com and more. All article submissions from the Rising Apple writers are reviewed by the Site Expert and/or FanSided's full-time editorial team. Any updates or corrections to articles after publication are communicated via an editor's note. FanSided is owned and operated by Minute Media, whose other brands also include Sports Illustrated, The Players' Tribune, 90min and Mental Floss.

Meet The Team

Adrian Cervantes

Adrian Cervantes is a baseball fanatic who currently resides in Nashville, Tennessee. Adrian is a huge baseball stats nerd with a passion for New York Mets baseball. Adrian is also a proud alum of the University of South Florida and Belmont University.

@nashvilleadrian

Alan Karmin

Alan Karmin is an award-winning journalist and author. Born in Brooklyn, New York he spent most of his life growing up in the New Jersey suburbs. While attending the University of Miami, Alan honed his craft covering the Yankees during spring trainings in Fort Lauderdale for a local NBC affiliate, as well as the Associated Press and UPI. He broadcasted baseball games for the University of Miami, and spring training games for the Baltimore Orioles and Montreal Expos.

Josue De Jesus

Baseball content creator through the analysis of advanced metrics. A fan of sports and the world of fantasy baseball, but above all a passionate fan of the New York Mets.

@josuedjr

John Flynn

John Flynn is a contributor at Rising Apple since April 2022 and is the host of the weekly Hooked on Sports podcast. A graduate of King's College in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., he contributed to most of its media outlets, such as its paper "The Crown," the WRKC 88.5 FM radio station as program director and talk show host, and in the closed-circuit KC-TV TV studio. On Twitter, you'll find him tweeting about sports games and news, particularly about the New York Mets and the New York Giants, election stuff, and live-tweeting his favorite TV show, "The Bachelor" and other franchise-related shows. So he must ask, "Will you accept my writing?"

@JohnFlynn97

Katrina Stebbins

Katrina Stebbins has been an MLB Staff Writer since October 2023, after spending a year and a half as a video editor at the MLB Network. She covers the Dodgers and, as a proud Michigan Wolverine, the Tigers for the FanSided Network, with a particular fondness for opinionated takedowns. Outside of baseball, she enjoys movies, F1, theater, and hanging out with her cat.

Tim Boyle

Tim Boyle has been the Site Expert for Rising Apple since 2018. He has written for Yahoo Sports, Fansided, and several other outlets since 2013.

@BaseballBoyle

Terrence Jordan

Terrence Jordan covers college basketball, Major League Baseball, and the NFL for Fansided. A lifelong fan of the Mets, Bears, and Tar Heels, he grew up in New York and graduated from UNC. He has never been in a fight, but would change that to protect Roy Williams, Justin Fields, or Pete Alonso.

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