Good Saturday morning.
The Puerto Rican Clemente League opened last night with some
former Mets farm hands showing up. Sam
Haggerty played last night in the Dominican.
We will get to those in a bit.
Thanks to the original
Breakfast Links star, Mack, for sending me lots of links.
The Sign Stealing controversy will not go away.
The
NY Post has what Mets told Carlos Beltran about it. General manager Brodie
Van Wagenen has told Beltran the Mets will let MLB handle the electronic
sign-stealing scandal involving the 2017 Astros and Beltran, industry sources
told The Post on Friday.
North
Jersey.com has Joe Torre’s take on it.
Joe Torre as MLB’s chief baseball officer, oversees major-league
operations, on-field operations, on-field discipline and umpiring. But to be
clear, the former legendary manager, said “the other side of the office” is
handling the Houston case. He is not part of it, but said the news “is
disturbing to me.”
MLB.com
has Van Wagenen’s 3 pitching plans. Fill Wheeler’s spot from within, keep
Thor, Diaz is critical.
Speaking of Diaz, Metsmerized
has the 2019 Edwin Diaz Report Card.
Mike’s
Mets reviewed Tim Peterson. (He was
pitching this winter in the Dominican league but I have not seen him lately.)
MLB
Trade Rumors talks about MLB tweaking the Injured List Rule for pitchers. Hitters
will continue to have a ten-day minimum injury-list placement. Pitchers,
however, will go back to the prior 15-day placement if the rule is finalized.
Yahoo
Sports has the requiem for a LOOGY. Spearheaded by Commissioner Rob Manfred,
the coming rule in baseball will require pitchers to face a minimum of three
batters in an appearance or to pitch until the conclusion of the half-inning.
The
Mets Police talks about the Mets have yet to pay their share of the new arena
for the Islanders.
Baseball
America looks at all the Minor League Park Factors. Here is how the Mets’ parks did:
Team
|
Runs
|
%tile
|
HR
|
%tile
|
BABIP
|
%tile
|
Syracuse
|
1.011
|
74%
|
0.960
|
85%
|
0.991
|
65%
|
Binghamton
|
0.961
|
11%
|
0.943
|
48%
|
0.999
|
22%
|
St. Lucie
|
1.007
|
20%
|
1.065
|
21%
|
1.020
|
51%
|
Columbia
|
0.899
|
9%
|
0.853
|
20%
|
0.954
|
11%
|
Brooklyn
|
0.983
|
23%
|
0.932
|
13%
|
0.986
|
8%
|
Kingsport
|
1.023
|
88%
|
1.076
|
67%
|
1.045
|
94%
|
Mets
Minors talked about Andrés
Giménez and the relievers in the Arizona Fall League.
In Winter Ball Last night:
Sam
Haggerty had a tough
game, going 0 for 4 with three strikeouts.
If the Gameday cast is correct, they were all 3 pitch – 3 swinging
strike at bats. At least he is getting
some reps in. In 2 games so far Sam is 1
for 8 with a stolen base for a .125 average.
The
Liga de Beisbol Profesional Roberto Clemente got underway in Puerto Rico
last night. I did not see any current
Mets or Mets minor leaguers on the team, however, Ryan
O’Rourke formerly of the Syracuse Mets went 3 innings giving up one run in
one game and Hector
Santiago, also formerly of Syracuse, went 5 innings, no hits, no runs to
get the win in the other game.
UltimateMets has
this date in Mets History:
Born on this date:
- Harry Chiti (1932)
- Don Hahn (1948)
- Leon Brown (1949)
- Dwight Gooden (1964)
- Mark Corey (1974)
- Juan Centeno (1989)
New York Mets signed free agent Kevin Mitchell on November 16, 1980.
New York Mets signed free agent Scott Rice on November 16, 2012.
Finally, the Mack Mets Blast from the past from 10 years ago November 2009 – WARNING DO NOT READ WITH COFFEE IN MOUTH!
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Check out https://sportspyder.com/mlb/new-york-mets/news.
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5 comments:
I don't remember wriing that post 10 years ago. Must have stole it from someone.
My psts back then were as popular as yours are... No comments.
Don't worry.
The word will go out
People will get into their car and... Err...I'll stop now.
Mack, reading your post from 2009 was the most I laughed in a long time.
That's a very long, impressive set of links, John. It'll provide a lot of interesting reading. Thankd. 👍
More Obligatory and Often Useless (Anon) Comments
I was truly sorry to see that the NYM and Zachary Wheeler were not able to reach a mutually agreeable contract. Zachary may not be the numero uno starter on the current free agent list, but he is definitely the number three starter and close enough to the Strasburg and Cole level to easily be in that conversation.
I can understand Zachary's position, with this being his last shot at the proverbial "gold ring" in his career. And yes he has to go for it right now.
I could see Zachary maybe heading off to either the LAA, NYY, Atlanta (he's from Georgia), Houston (if Cole moves on)or Washington (if Strasburg were to move on, although I doubt he will actually). My hunch would probably be the Atlanta Braves because they do have the salary cap room available, and he is a Georgia homegrown son with undeniably fabulous pitching skills that they would most desire.
As far as the NYM go, it is obviously about the remaining sal/cap room now. If they cannot remove substantial salary from their current roster, then Zachary is unfortunately gone and I will miss him.
I do not agree with trying to make either Gsellman or Lugo into a starter again. We have seen that already. I might instead be enticed to see how either lefty starters David Peterson or Kevin Smith does in ST though. It wouldn't hurt anything. To me Marcus Stroman is a really good five starter, but not yet in the one thru three starter mode.
If Zachary has to go, I might then consider SP Michael Pineda with a physical and then a fitness program to help him avoid future injuries. His stat sheet is quite impressive all around I thought. He would be a decent enough third starter. And then Matz and either Stroman on the re-sign, or the kid I like from the Bosox' Pawtucket team named Daniel McGrath. Two solid young lefties would not hurt having here.
The key to the 2020 starting NYM rotation might be not over-estimating (once again) the 4 and 5 starter roles that are currently in house. The NYM lose a lot of ground here during the season. We have seen both Robert Gsellman and Seth Lugo here and starting prior. But both right now are valued relievers n this team's bull pen. Sometimes, it is better not to mess with or fix things that are not in any way broken, as this is. LGM!
I think that signing a Michael Pineda for the three starter slot is viable, then move quickly to targeting in on a third baseman (my pick of course being Bobby Dalbec from Boston, check his stats). I might figure having Jeff McNeil starting at his natural position of second base four games each week, mainly because having Robinson Cano starting six straight games a week there could be pushing things a little bit. With McNeil's athleticism and skills Jeff could sub-in either at left or right fields. Robinson could easily play two games at second base (subbing in for Jeff) there.
Jeff could play his fifth game of the week in a corner outfield position subbing-in there. This team could greatly use more subbing in since it will achieve a playoff berth in 2020. Robinson could then play one game on either third or first base subbing in. Cano would then get four games starting each week, Jeff five, and Robinson would be available for PH off the bench the rest of the games he does not start.
Whew!
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