12/2/19

John From Albany – Mets Breakfast Links 12/2/2019




MLB Trade Rumors says that the Brewers may make Josh Hader available and that the Mets may be a trade partner. Pointing to an article by The Athletic’s Ken Rosenthal. Reading the post, not much substance tying the two teams together other than “Mets’ GM Brodie Van Wagenen co-represented Hader at CAA before taking over in Flushing”.

Also MLB Trade Rumors a couple of days ago pointed to another Athletic article that tracked payroll trends noting that the Mets “have not kept pace with other big-market spenders (New York was third in payroll over the course of the aughts, but spent the majority of this decade outside the top ten in payroll spending).”

Following up Baltimore’s placing Jonathan Villar on Waivers and Mack’s Mets Open thread on the subject on FridayElite Sports NY thinks Jonathan Villar could be a “sneaky play”.  They compare having him versus Jed Lowrie.  An interesting choice, but given the budget limits the Mets are constraining themselves to, not likely.

Rising Apple says that Seth Lugo to the rotation saves money which is why it will happen. Plus as Mack has been telling me, Seth has requested such a move.

Franchise Sports thinks the Mets should look at Dallas Keuchel.  They say they must sign him if they are serious about contending.

Metsmerized offers some good low cost alternatives that may help the Mets next year.  FYI, Alex Wood, Kevin Pillar, Jarrod Dyson, Robinson Chirinos, and others.


Rising Apple has three Mets transaction predictions for this December: Upgrade backup catcher, trade Dom Smith, get a good bullpen arm.


Faith and Fear in Flushing is running down the top 100 Mets of the 2010 decade.  The first installment are players 91-100.  His recollections of these players like #100, David Aardsma, are amazing. 


Tomorrow is the one year anniversary of the Cano-Diaz trade, Mets 360 takes stock of the trade one year later.  “The Mets were handcuffing their future payroll by agreeing to take on the final five years of Cano, adding a $20 million per year commitment to a player almost guaranteed not to be worth the expenditure over the life of the deal. They also sunk a lot of resources into acquiring a reliever, a position well-known for being very fickle in results from year to year. Finally, they raided their farm system to make the deal happen.” Well said.

Call to the Pen looks at missed Mets Opportunities.  They site recent free agent signings and that the Mets should act quickly to improve the team while they can.



Mike’s Mets Reviews Daniel Zamora’s 2019 season. Personal note – I met Daniel after a Binghamton game in 2018.  Super nice guy.  You never know what will happen but I hope he makes it.  If not, at least he made it to the Majors.  So many in the minors are not even able to say that.  I am sure Mack has hundreds of nice guys he met over the years that never got the call. 


Speaking of Mr. Zamora, in Winter Ball Last night:

Daniel Zamora was the only current Met to see action in a 15-4 Toros win (box). 

Daniel pitched the bottom of the 8th with Toros Del Este leading 15-4.  He walked his first batter, retired the second batter on a line out to left field, struck out the next batter, and ended the inning by getting Seattle Mariners Infielder Tim Beckham to ground out to third.

This winter Daniel Zamora has appeared in 5 games for 3 innings, 4 hits, 1 un-earned run, 2 walks, 3 Ks, 0.00 ERA.

Some Ex-Mets also appeared in the game, Anderson Hernandez played for Estrellas de Oriente going 0 for 1, Jordany Valdespin went 2 for 3 with a walk and 3 RBIs and is now hitting .319 for the winter, and Raul Valdez started for Toros Del Este giving up 4 runs in 6 innings to get the win.

In Australian Baseball, after Sunday’s game where no Mets minor leaguers played, the Auckland Tuatara will now be off until next weekend. 

UltimateMets has this date in Mets History:

Born on this date:
Transactions:

Mets drafted 
Jerry Hinsley from the Pittsburgh Pirates on December 2, 1963.

New York Mets purchased Hawk Taylor from the Milwaukee Braves on December 2, 1963.

Mets drafted Wayne Garrett from the Atlanta Braves on December 2, 1968.

Oakland Athletics drafted Tommie Reynolds from the Mets on December 2, 1968.


New York Mets signed free agent Roger Mason on December 2, 1992.

Cleveland Indians signed Eddie Murray of the New York Mets as a free agent on December 2, 1993.

Arizona Diamondbacks signed Armando Reynoso of the New York Mets as a free agent on December 2, 1998.

Cleveland Indians signed Roberto Hernandez of the New York Mets as a free agent on December 2, 2006.


Los Angeles Angels signed Hisanori Takahashi of the New York Mets as a free agent on December 2, 2010.

Pittsburgh Pirates signed Fernando Nieve of the New York Mets as a free agent on December 2, 2010.

Los Angeles Dodgers signed Chris Capuano of the New York Mets as a free agent on December 2, 2011.

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4 comments:

Mack Ade said...

Wow

Anderson Hernandez is still living the dream.

I really thought he was going to be the next big Mets shortstop back in the day.

He must really love being broke still doing this.

Brian Joura said...

Thank you for the work you put in doing a daily list of links. People think this is an easy column, but it's really not, especially if you're going to link to quality work and also give some comment on the articles. I used to do a weekly links column and stopped it because it was too much work. I can't imagine what it's like doing it daily.

And if there's a Pete Alonso link in tomorrow's Breakfast Links article, I'd encourage you to click on it. Chris did a ton of work putting that together and it'll be well worth your time.

John From Albany said...

Thanks Brian. I will look for the Alonso post.

John From Albany said...

Mack, Anderson is 0 for 24 this winter but he is still plugging away. I thought he was going to be a great 1-2 bunch at the top of the order with Reyes but it never happened.