Winter ball updates below, the Mets come to terms with all 9
arbitration eligible players, and Sam
Haggerty finds a new home.
Per
SNY.TV, the Mets Friday agreed to deals with all of their arbitration eligible
players. Here are the deals: Marcus
Stroman - $12 million, up from $7.4 million in 2019; Edwin Diaz
- $5.1 million, up from $607,425 in 2019; Michael
Conforto - $8 million, up from $4.025 million in 2019; Seth Lugo
- $2 million, he made $591,875 in 2019; Steven Matz
- $5 million, he made $2.625 million in 2019; Brandon
Nimmo - $2.175 million, up from just under $600,000 in 2019; Noah
Syndergaard - $9.7 million, he earned $6 million in 2019; Jake
Marisnick - 3.3125 million deal, he earned $2.212 million in 2019; Robert
Gsellman - $1.225 million, he earned $582,500 in 2019.
MLB
Trade Rumors had the List of National League Players that avoided arbitration
including Jonathan Villar - $8.3M; Padres Reliever Kirby Yates - $7.063M; John
Gant - $1.3M; MLB
Trade Rumors also had how the Dodgers avoided arbitration with Cody Bellinger –
“$11.5MM pact, topping the prior record (Kris Bryant, $10.85MM) for a
first-time arb-eligible player.”
MLB
Trade Rumors listed the American League Players that avoided arbitration
including: Aaron Judge
- $8.5M; Gary
Sanchez - $5M, Hansel
Robles - $3.85M; Rafael
Montero - $785K. Earlier
in the day MLB Trade Rumors had reported on Mookie Betts signing for $27M and
Jackie Bradley singing for $11M.
Reflections
on Baseball said the Yankees were already $50M past the threshold – Luxury Tax
be damned.
Also
per MLB Trade Rumors, the Mariners claim Sam Haggerty on waivers. This
conflicts with an earlier report from MLB Trade Rumors that Sam was released
but either way, he is now off the Mets and on the Mariners.
FANGRAHS had
the top 31 Mets prospects. They had Ronny
Mauricio #1, Andres Gimenez #2, Mark Vientos #3, Brett Baty #4, Matthew Allan
#5, Francisco Alvarez #6, Thomas Szapucki #7, David Peterson #8, Franklyn
Kilome #9, Shervyen Newton #10. Some
other notable names: Walker Lockett #28; Tylor Megill #29.
SNY.TV
reported on Baseball America’s top 10 Mets Prospect list: 1. SS Ronny
Mauricio; 2. C Francisco Alvarez; 3. 3B Brett Baty; 4. RHP Matthew Allan; 5.
INF Andres Gimenez; 6. 3B Mark Vientos; 7. LHP Thomas Szapucki; 8. RHP Josh
Wolf; 9. LHP Kevin Smith; 10. LHP David Peterson.
SNY.TV’s
Joe DeMayo looked at 5 Mets Spring Training invites that can make an impact in
2020: LHP David
Peterson, RHP Ryley
Gilliam, LHP Kevin
Smith, C Patrick
Mazeika, and RHP Matt
Blackham.
Metsmerized
said the Mets should be exploring a trade for the Padres Austin Hedges. Per Tim
Ryder: “A .201/.257/.360 career slash line over five seasons is not good.
His .176/.252/.311 line over 102 games in 2019 is even worse. But once you get
a look at Hedges’ defensive metrics, where his value lies becomes crystal
clear. The 27-year-old finished last season with 20.7 FRM (FanGraphs), 20 runs
via extra strikes, and a 54.1 percent strike rate on all pitches (both via
Statcast), leading MLB by a wide margin in both categories.”
Reds
minor leagues.com looked at three players in the upcoming 2020 draft: Arizona
State first baseman Spencer Torkelson; Georgia Pitcher Emerson Hancock; Right-handed
pitcher Nick Bitsko.
Big night yesterday for Carlos
Gomez in the Dominican Republic.
The two time Met went 3 for 5 with 5 RBIs in the 9-3 Aguilas
Cibaenas win over the Tigres
del Licey 6-0 (box).
Dario
Alvarez pitched two scoreless innings with no hits, no walks, and a strikeout.
Matt
Pobereyko did not record an out his last time out and gave up the
game tying 3 run homer. He was better
last night going one inning giving up one run on one hit.
In the other game, the Toros
Del Este beat the Leones
del Escogido 9-8 in 12 innings (box).
Cesar
Puello went 2 for 5 with a run scored, RBI, walk and 2 strikeouts.
Not the best start for Raul Valdes
as he went 4 innings giving up 5 runs on 7 hits, 2 walks, 5 strikeouts.
Tim
Peterson pitched one inning, giving up 1 run on 2 hits, with one
strikeout.
Ramon E.
Ramirez went three innings giving up just 1 hit and one walk with 3
strikeouts.
In Puerto Rico, the Indios
de Mayaguez beat the Gigantes
de Carolina 2-1 (box). In that game Hector
Santiago threw 7 shutout innings in the loss giving up just 3 hits and 4
walks while striking out 6.
Mack’s
Blast From The Past comes from January 2012: Mack talked about Juan
Lagares, Matt Harvey,
John
Franco, and a historic Mets Payroll from 2011 to 2012 of $52 million.
UltimateMets has the date
in Mets History:
Born on
this date:
- Danny Napoleon (1942)
- Jim McAndrew (1944)
- Dan Norman (1955)
- Manny Acta (1969)
- Rey Ordonez (1971)
- Jermaine Allensworth (1972)
- Stephen Nogosek (1995)
Transactions:
New York Mets selected Jeff McKnight in second round of free agent draft on January 11, 1983.
Texas Rangers signed Pat Mahomes of the New York Mets as
a free agent on January 11, 2001.
New York Mets traded Javier Ochoa to the Cleveland Indians for Tom Martin on January 11, 2001.
New York Mets signed
free agent Joe DePastino on January 11, 2001.
New York Mets signed
free agent Tsuyoshi Shinjo of the San Francisco Giants on January 11,
2003.
New York Mets signed
free agent Carlos Beltran of the Houston Astros on January 11, 2005.
Houston Astros claimed Fernando Martinez of the New
York Mets on waivers on January 11, 2012.
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I forgot how much cutting and pasting I did on the blog back then.
ReplyDeleteMack, you are the original in many ways.
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