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 Friday, Elite 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:
- Jay Kleven (1949)
- Chip Hale (1964)
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 Bobby
Bonilla of the Pittsburgh Pirates on
December 2, 1991 to a $29 million, five-year deal. The
28 year-old highly touted outfielder will hit only .249 during the first year
of his contract for an under-achieving New York club.
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:
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.
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.
Thanks Brian. I will look for the Alonso post.
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.
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