AAA Fisher
AA TBD
A+ Santos
A Colon
FCL Acuna
19-year-old Jose Acuna making the start for the FCL Mets today. He's off to a fantastic start to his 2022. His 2.04 FIP is 6th in the organization, and his 12.41 K/9 is 18th (Pitchers with 10+ innings pitched)
Sort of Wilmer Flores-like. There is a human element to athletes some of us sometimes don't consider (or care about) - and I'm not grandstanding or claiming I do, just sharing an observation.
Jose was in tears when he was forced by Mets to Marlins.. similarly an all time Mets great and fan favorite the way Freeman was for the Braves.
Oh yikes.. I thought you were just being sly with the TBD, but I guess it really was TBD..
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was in tears at the press conference in Atlanta when the Dodgers visited last week.
Sort of Wilmer Flores-like. There is a human element to athletes some of us sometimes don't consider (or care about) - and I'm not grandstanding or claiming I do, just sharing an observation.
Jose was in tears when he was forced by Mets to Marlins.. similarly an all time Mets great and fan favorite the way Freeman was for the Braves.
2 main differences which make the Braves situation more strange, of course, being that he just won a WS and they went and signed the most similar player they could find for almost as much money. It's not like the Mets went out and traded for/signed Elvis Andrus or Erick Aybar or something..
He hasn't been called up, has he? Might not be a bad move to call him up for Plummer.
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Inciarte has a locker at Citi Field. He has jersey No. 22.
He hasn't been called up, has he? Might not be a bad move to call him up for Plummer.
Looks like Plummer will be going down for him (he's being activated, corresponding move hasn't been revealed)
Also- not great for the Mets-
Buster Olney
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About the starting pitcher trade market: the perception of some of the execs involved is that any team interested in starting pitching from OAK (Montas) or the Reds (Castillo, Mahle) needs prospect-laden proposals. Neither of those teams have to move money.
Also- not great for the Mets-
Buster Olney
@Buster_ESPN
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About the starting pitcher trade market: the perception of some of the execs involved is that any team interested in starting pitching from OAK (Montas) or the Reds (Castillo, Mahle) needs prospect-laden proposals. Neither of those teams have to move money.
they may not "have to" but they almost definitely will. just trying to diffuse the pre-text.
A new piece of the collective bargaining agreement executed this winter guaranteed amateur players 75 percent of their slot bonus in the MLB Draft. Only players designated as “Top 300” prospects were eligible for that guarantee, so long as they took Major League Baseball’s pre-draft physical. The clause was added to the new CBA to help protect amateur players from being used as pawns for teams to either save money or procure future draft picks awarded to them after failing to sign their draft picks. Some have referred to this new clause as the “Kumar Rocker Rule”, though Rocker never submitted a pre-draft physical in 2021. The New York Mets eventually drafted him in the first round and failed to sign him after he “failed” his physical.
As things currently stand, more than 100 players designated as “Top 300” players in the 2022 MLB Draft will still be able to negotiate deals with teams under that 75 percent guarantee. According to sources, most of the players who elected to forego the physical were older players who lack leverage to return to school and improve their draft stock for 2023.
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Correction: Trevor May (stress reaction on right humerus) says his follow up CT Scan is scheduled for Thursday and as long as that comes back clean, he will begin bullpen/mound work this weekend
He’s eyeing live hitters by All Star Break and rehab assignment shortly afterward
@AnthonyDiComo
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Roster move: The Mets have activated outfielder Ender Inciarte and optioned Nick Plummer to Triple-A Syracuse.
To clear 40-man space, the team designated pitcher Locke St. John for assignment.
Not a guy you want throw out there in a playoff game under any circumstances.
Not a guy you want throw out there in a playoff game under any circumstances.
He had major chemo three years ago. Muscles lose endurance. Probably why Cleveland traded him after the short 60 game season in 2020.
this is what I've been saying.
Everyone wanted Andrew Chafin, then people freaked he went to Detroit. Then we all find out he was suffering from a serious groin strain and is just now pitching in games.
Both Raisel Iglesias and Kendall Graveman were over payed and wanted to close, Loup didnt want to wait, Melancon and Knebel huge injury risks. I liked Alex Colome alot but he wanted to stay with Min.
So who do we get?
i know many would say graverman wouldn't come here with diaz but cws have Hendriks. so i think signing someone closer capable to a multi-year deal would have been smart given diaz is a FA to be. i'd have opted for mchugh over him all things considered but there's no reason he shouldn't have been a consideration.
more down market corey knebel has been decent and he only got 1/10m.
ryan tepera was another popular name who has been decent, he got 2/14m.
the dodgers signed Hudson for 1 year 7m and he's been very good.
Loup wasn't the best value signing but he was obviously a good fit here and maybe if he stayed that would have continued.
Mychal Givens (1/5m) is another. hell even Brad Hand (1/6m) has been pretty good for Philly.
the bottom line was that they added fewer relievers than they let walk. Loup, Hand, Familia left and just Ottavino came in. If you go purely by the free market values they let like $30m worth of relievers walk and replaced them with Ottavino for $4m and some league minimum guys. Drew Smith and Holderman have been very fortunate developments to this point. and now they are probably going to have to burn some kind of prospect to get a Fulmer/Bard type reliever when they could have just signed McHugh for $5m per year for this year and next.
i think clippard was an early trade in 2015. it may have been early july but it was a few weeks ahead of the deadline.
i know many would say graverman wouldn't come here with diaz but cws have Hendriks. so i think signing someone closer capable to a multi-year deal would have been smart given diaz is a FA to be. i'd have opted for mchugh over him all things considered but there's no reason he shouldn't have been a consideration.
more down market corey knebel has been decent and he only got 1/10m.
ryan tepera was another popular name who has been decent, he got 2/14m.
the dodgers signed Hudson for 1 year 7m and he's been very good.
Loup wasn't the best value signing but he was obviously a good fit here and maybe if he stayed that would have continued.
Mychal Givens (1/5m) is another. hell even Brad Hand (1/6m) has been pretty good for Philly.
the bottom line was that they added fewer relievers than they let walk. Loup, Hand, Familia left and just Ottavino came in. If you go purely by the free market values they let like $30m worth of relievers walk and replaced them with Ottavino for $4m and some league minimum guys. Drew Smith and Holderman have been very fortunate developments to this point. and now they are probably going to have to burn some kind of prospect to get a Fulmer/Bard type reliever when they could have just signed McHugh for $5m per year for this year and next.
Agree on McHugh, but Phillies fans hate Knebel. My cousin, who is one, calls him Corey Not-able. Guess it may be different if he were, say, a 7th inning guy
last year not having to be closer for LAD his ERA was in the 2's with a whip under 1 albeit in a pretty sss. But obviously they were a very good team so he wasn't just pitching meaningless innings for a bad team and he's a former all star, so i can see the risk/reward appeal of signing him.
that's part of what made mchugh so appealing too. the fact that he'd put up a really good season on a 100 win team.
the only real objection i had was doing nothing. i'd have been fine with whoever they thought was best and with whatever the outcome was, relievers are hard to predict. not hard to predict needing to do something later if you do nothing though.
Buck Showalter on Max Scherzer's rehab start tonight: "I was going to send him a ‘Good luck with the Yard Goats,’ but I don’t think he’d take it well. I think I will anyway."
really glad they got buck. his personality is a great fit.
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Tim Healey @timbhealey
Buck Showalter on Max Scherzer's rehab start tonight: "I was going to send him a ‘Good luck with the Yard Goats,’ but I don’t think he’d take it well. I think I will anyway."
really glad they got buck. his personality is a great fit.
Lol. That's hilarious, particularly after Scherzer's Rumble Ponies comment
@JoePantorno
Jacob deGrom threw today. 27 pitches. He felt good. #Mets will see how he feels tomorrow.
Last year he was able to pitch for only three months. So if you figure the same time frame this year, you want him to start for August, September and October.
So end of July is perfect. It will allow him to make ten starts in regular season but is also before the trade deadline in case the worst happens.
The last closer Mets produced was Familia. And apart from Lugo, they really have not turned out relievers over the last decade or more.