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11/15/19

John From Albany - Breakfast Links 11/15/2019





MLB Trade Rumors has this on the Mets and Thor: Mets general manager Brodie Van Wagenen said at the beginning of October that the club’s not going to trade right-hander Noah Syndergaard this offseason. A month and a half later, Van Wagenen hasn’t changed his mind. Teams have called about Syndergaard, but Van Wagenen has rebuffed them, Anthony DiComo of MLB.com reports.


NY Daily News had Brodie’s take on the sign stealing. "I don’t have nearly enough information and I would defer to MLB on any of those questions,” Van Wagenen said Thursday morning before he departed from the GM Meetings.




Joel Sherman says Carlos Beltran makes Astros’ sign-stealing accusations a big Mets problem. “Van Wagenen took a lot of time at Beltran’s introductory press conference going through five tenets of why he hired Beltran, and No. 2 was trustworthiness. Two of his key lieutenants, Allard Baird and Omar Minaya, vouched for Beltran. If it turns out that he was a central figure to this cheating scandal, all of them are going to look ridiculous, especially if Beltran is retroactively suspended, forcing the Mets early in a managerial tenure to wonder if Beltran is viable moving forward.”  (And why did they have to fire Edgardo Alfonzo? You may also want to look at Mack Mets’ 2019 Brooklyn Cyclones recap if you have not already.)





MLB.com has the 30 Top Mets Prospects: 1. RONNY MAURICIO SS; 2 BRETT BATY 3B; 3 ANDRES GIMENEZ SS; 4 MATTHEW ALLAN RHP; 5 FRANCISCO ALVAREZ C; 6 MARK VIENTOS 3B; 7 DAVID PETERSON LHP; 8 SHERVYEN NEWTON INF; 9 JOSH WOLF RHP; 10 FRANKLYN KILOME RHP; 11 KEVIN SMITH LHP; 12 THOMAS SZAPUCKI LHP; 13 JUNIOR SANTOS RHP; 14 DEDNIEL NUNEZ RHP; 15 TONY DIBRELL RHP; 16 RYLEY GILLIAM RHP; 17 ALI SANCHEZ C; 18 FREDDY VALDEZ OF; 19 ALEXANDER RAMIREZ OF; 20 ADRIAN HERNANDEZ OF; 21 CARLOS CORTES 2B; 22 JORDAN HUMPHREYS RHP; 23 STEPHEN GONSALVES LHP; 24 WILL TOFFEY 3B; 25 JAKE MANGUM OF;  26 CHRISTIAN JAMES RHP;  27 PATRICK MAZEIKA C; 28 DESMOND LINDSAY OF; 29 LUIS CARPIO 2B/SS; 30 STEPHEN VILLINES RHP.


Metsminors says Franklyn Kilome’s Tommy John Rehab Progressing Well.  Let’s hope he works out.  The Mets received him in return for sending Asdrubal Cabrera to the Phillies in 2018. 


Mets: Ronny Mauricio, SS (No. 1/MLB No. 80) - A loose, twitchy athlete, Mauricio flashed his five-tool upside last season as an 18-year-old at Class A Columbia, where the teenager impressed evaluators with his abilities at shortstop along with his overall offensive potential as a switch-hitter. He’s likely to lose a step as he grows into his incredibly projectable 6-foot-3, 166-pound frame -- some scouts compare his body type to Alfonso Soriano’s -- but the final product could be a player who hits for both average and power from a premium position.



UltimateMets has This date in Mets History:  New York Mets traded Heath Bell and Royce Ring to the San Diego Padres for Jon Adkins and Ben Johnson on November 15, 2006. 

6 comments:

  1. FYI, No Dominican games last night. We will include the results of the Friday games tomorrow and see which, if any, Mets are playing in Puerto Rico which starts Friday as well.

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  2. I love the depth these posts are reaching.

    A lot of time needed to put these together.

    Hope you are enjoying what you are doing.

    P.S. I am disappointed at the lack of comments so far but all our new stuff goes down this path.

    I can report that the teadership is increasing every morning.

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  3. Thanks Mack. I have been doing this every morning since 1995 or so. I am just sharing my surfing on the web. Also, once April comes we will be the only site to cover the Mets minors and Majors and all game results in one post.

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  4. A big Homer Simpson "D'oh!" from me for not remembering Heath Bell in the reliever series.

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  5. They sure could have used Heath in 2007. He was a one inning closer in AAA with great success but they wanted him as multiple inning middle relief in the majors. It did not go well. In SD he was used as a one inning late relief pitcher and it worked out great. Imagine that.

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  6. Reese - Heath Bell or no Heath Bell, your relief series is great. Tom is correct. It could be a book.

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