Per
Mack’s Mets yesterday Carlos
Beltran stepped down as Mets Manager.
The
NY Post had some of the reactions from Big-Name Mets figures like Keith
Hernandez: “Everybody, calm down,” Hernandez wrote (on Twiter). “This
current crisis is unfortunate to the nth degree, but not insurmountable. We
have a solid team, good core of young everyday players, mixed with veterans,
and a solid rotation. They have great camaraderie, spirit, a will to win, and
they’re hungry.”
Per
MLB Trade Rumors: “Beltran will not receive any of the approximately $3MM
owed to him over the course of his three-year deal with the Mets, the New York
Post’s Ken Davidoff reports. The team
has instead made a $200K donation to Beltran’s charitable foundation.”
Metstradamus
weighed in with “Once it became about image, perception, and distraction,
Beltran was done. Because his bosses care about perception to a fault. And if
they feel that the perception and the optics are bad, they’re going to do
something about it because they just don’t want to deal with it. Beltran
probably didn’t want to deal with it either. He would have had enough agita
managing the Mets and working for Jeffy and Brodie without this hanging over
his head.”
Per
Sports Illustrated: Mets coach Luis Rojas is an internal candidate to
replace Beltrán for New York's vacancy. (Ken Rosenthal, The Athletic); ESPN
analyst and former catcher Eduardo Pérez is among the top candidates for the
managerial position. (Anthony DiComo, MLB.com).
Per
Larry Brown Sports: Mets ‘doubtful’ to consider Terry Collins for manager.
Deehsa
Thosar in the NY Daily News also noted that Hensley “Meulens, 52, would
also make sense in the manager role…hired this offseason to become Beltran’s
bench coach…he’d lend more experience managing than someone like Rojas would”.
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On to other Mets news:
Mets 360 had a 2020 projection
for Jacob
deGrom. Brian Joura as always has lots of great insight including this
about Jacob’s first nine starts last year: “n those first nine games, deGrom
threw to three different catchers. Wilson
Ramos caught him five times, Tomas Nido
three times and Travis
d’Arnaud once. In the three starts with Nido, deGrom allowed just 1 ER in
21 IP. When he threw to either Ramos or d’Arnaud, he allowed 22 ER in 31 IP.”
However, Carlos
Gomez was in action last night in the Dominican Republic, as the the
Aguilas
Cibaenas beat the Leones
del Escogido 9-5 (box).
Carlos
Gomez went 2 for 4, 2 RBIs, a double, and a run scored.
Cesar
Puello went 2 for 4 with an RBI and a walk.
Dario
Alvarez pitched 2/3 of an inning with a strickout.
Not the best night in Puerto Rico for Ryan
O’Rourke, the 2019 NY and Syracuse Met and Syracuse Met went 4.1
innings and gave up 5 runs, 6 hits, 3 walks, 1 HR with 3 strikeouts as the Cangrejeros
de Santurce lost to the Indios
de Mayaguez 9-2 (box).
One minor league free agent that the Mets recently signed, Johneshwy
Fargas, saw action this winter in the Mexican Pacific League. In 32 games and 116 at-bats, the 24 year old hit
.207, 2 HR, 13 RBIs, 5 walks, 32 Ks, 8 stolen bases, 6 caught stealing.
Mack’s
Blast From the Past comes from January 2012: Mack looked at Val
(Valentino) Pascucci, 2013 Free Agents, and more.
UltimateMets has the date
in Mets History:
Born on
this date:
- Don Zimmer (1931)
- Chili Davis (1960)
- Dario Alvarez (1989)
Transactions:
New York Mets selected Roy Staiger in first round (24th pick overall) of free agent draft on January 17, 1970.
New York Mets selected Roy Staiger in first round (24th pick overall) of free agent draft on January 17, 1970.
New York Mets selected Kevin Elster in second round of free
agent draft on January 17, 1984.
New York Mets signed
free agent Rafael Santana on January 17, 1984.
New York Mets traded Kelly Stinnett to the Milwaukee Brewers for Cory Lidle on January 17, 1996.
Pittsburgh Pirates signed Jeff D'Amico of the New York
Mets as a free agent on January 17, 2003.
New York Mets signed
free agent Chris Young of the San Diego Padres on January 17, 2011.
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5 comments:
The analysis on deGrom’s effectiveness and his catchers is a small sample and there could be many reasons.
Keith has exactly the right outlook on the Beltrán thing. The Mets need to win, with or without him. Put it past them, move on.
Ruben Tejada signs minor league deal with Blue Jays.
It is nice to see a Hobie comment from 2011.
One my first long standing readers.
It's great that people are cognizant of small samples. But you still have to know when to use it.
There are things that are descriptive - they tell you what happened without any meaning beyond, you know, what happened. On August 10, Luis Guillorme hit a home run. If you say that, you're not making any claims on what Guillorme will do in the future. Pointing out that Guillorme homered on August 10 is not something that a correct response is "small sample." In an anal retentive way, it's certainly true. August 10 is a small sample. But it's not the correct usage of the term.
If someone says that Luis Guillorme homered on August 10 and it's a sign that he will start hitting more home runs in the future, then you're saying what happened on August 10 is not descriptive, it's predictive. Then saying "small sample" would be correct.
Pointing out that when someone besides Nido caught deGrom in his first nine starts that JDG allowed 22 ER in 31 IP is descriptive. It's telling you what happened.
If you RTFA you'll see that it goes on to say what deGrom did the rest of the year, which was outstanding. It also points out that Ramos caught him the majority of the time moving forward. There was no attempt to make what happened in the first nine starts predictive.
Finally, thank you, John, for linking our work.
My pleasure Brian. Lots of great information on your site.
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