Reactions to MLB’s changes to the Amateur Draft continue to
be in the news.
USA
Today: Agent Scott Boras believes MLB’s new agreement will greatly damage
future draft classes. “It is amazing to me when our nation is in a position
of peril,’’ Boras told USA TODAY Sports, “that one of the attack points always
continues to be the poor drafted players…You’re sending a message to drafted
players you are major league baseball’s step-child. It’s unconscionable to me
for that small amount of money…We’re talking about a whopping $6 million
savings over the whole damn draft.”
Bill
Madden NY Daily News: Future draft prospects get short end of stick in league’s
new coronavirus agreement. Those kids are about to find themselves in
baseball limbo. If they want to play pro baseball this year, they’ll have to
settle for a token $20,000. As one player advisor/rep told me: “The amateur
players are being railroaded. They get to be the only Americans who can be paid
less than the minimum wage.”
Mack
had this take: You know we won't win at this. The Yankees will eat this up.
Is this baseball’s equivalent to running to the toilet paper isle when your
local store opens?
Mike
Vaccaro NY Post: Pete Alonso
lifting spirits everywhere during coronavirus crisis. Mike talked about Pete’s recent video message
that he sent to an 82-year-old
lifelong Mets fan suffering from small-cell cancer and personalized
video to an array of doctors and nurses with this quote from Pete: “I have
an awesome platform to do something great,” Alonso says. “I want to be known as
a great ball player and a great guy. I want to help as many people as I can. I
am in the position to help so many people, it would be a shame if I didn’t use
my platform for good.”
SNY.TV:
Mets 1B Pete Alonso joined former Yankee and current MLB analyst Alex
Rodriguez on the latter's Instagram Live on Sunday to jump into a bunch of
different topics. For example - Pete has been kayaking during self-isolation; Alonso
is also finding more time for another passion of his: cooking; Pete was a big Piazza
fan growing up; Pete knew he made it when... "I think it was the last day
of opening weekend. Anthony
Rendon said, 'Alright, there's no moon league. You're not going to get a
call and go up to Mars. This is it,' "Alonso said.
The
Score: Mets' Alonso tells A-Rod he wants to play until 40, be a good dad.
Matthew
Cerrone of SNY.TV Mets Mailbag: On a potential Matt Harvey
return, prospect Andres
Gimenez, and more. About Matt Harvey
he said – “I would love to see Harvey come home, but in no way can he be
guaranteed a role. He'll need to earn his way into the rotation (or bullpen).
If he could do it, and do it with hunger and focus, it would be an incredible
redemption story and something that would captivate baseball and Mets fans.”
Brian Joura Mets 360: More
historical comps for Amed
Rosario. Brian looked at other shortstops who had at least 1,000 PA in the
majors by their age-23 season, played at least 80% of their games at shortstop
and produced at least a 90 OPS+ in their career to that age. This included Alan
Trammell, Jose Reyes,
Troy
Tulowitzki, and Starlin
Castro.
Metsmerized
Online: Michael
Wacha Embracing Analytics with Some Help From Dad.
Metsmerized
Online: Mets Video Vault: Sept. 8, 2015 at Nationals. Classic game where Mets came back from 7-1
deficit capped off by Kirk
Nieuwenhuis homer off Jonathan
Papelbon.
Centerfieldmaz:
Remembering Mets History (1996) Alex Ochoa
Hits For the Cycle.
Yahoo
Sports: If 2020 season is cancelled, which teams would be hurt the most? Dodgers, Reds and Phillies.
Bill
Madden in the NY Daily News: 8 MLB teams that might not mind a
coronavirus-canceled season. Bill goes
into detail about the 8 teams listed – Astros, Giants, Orioles, Marlins,
Rockies, Red Sox, Padres and Pirates.
About the Orioles he notes: “The GM, Mike Elias, who was Jeff Luhnow’s
right-hand man in Houston and right in the middle of the cheating scandal but
never charged, is way over his shoes. One of the new minor league coaches he
hired reportedly had to be moved to the sidelines in spring training, when he
couldn’t hit fungoes and, in attempting to throw batting practice, threw a
bunch of pitches in the dirt before hitting the batter in the head. Ah, those
analytics guys who never played the game. But at least there was that spirited
competition in which the analytical hitting coaches were rewarding the hitters
who hit the highest pop-ups. Ah, those uppercut swings.”
NBC
Sports Chicago: “Two Cubs employees test positive for COVID-19. The two employees
attended the same March 8 training session…One is recovering at home; the other
hospitalized receiving treatment, the team said.”
USA
Today: Longtime Athletics minor league coach, manager Webster Garrison hospitalized
with coronavirus.
USA
Today: Former MLB All-Star Jim Edmonds
hospitalized, tested for coronavirus.
NY
Post: Mike Francesa eyes sports utopia when coronavirus abates. “Think of
the positives of this, none of these leagues are going away,” Francesa, 66,
said in a clip captured by the
Big Lead. “Baseball is going to come back, football is hopefully going to
start untouched. Basketball and hockey are going to figure out how to finish
their seasons… it’s going to happen. The Majors are going to get played in
tennis and golf. You’re going to have the Masters, you’re going to have the
U.S. Open, you’re going to have the PGA and the British Open. All these events,
when we come out of this, whenever the date is we come out of this, all these
events are going to get jammed into a couple of months, where we are going to
have sports Shangri-La.”
Phil
Mushnick NY Post: TV bills are the same even without games. MLB and
DirectTV, knowing they have no games to provide, have nonetheless sent notices
to last season’s subscribers informing them they they’ve been unilaterally
renewed and billed — in the neighborhood of $125 for this season, same as last
season — for this season’s unknown but abridged out-of-market package.
Bob
Raissman NY Daily News: Will baseball limit who can broadcast the games when
and if the season starts? For safety sake, and as a precaution, Major
League Baseball may want to limit the broadcast crews working games. Yankees
Entertainment & Sports Network Bombers analyst Ken Singleton, on a recent
edition of WFAN’s “Moose & Maggie Show,” said several scenarios have been
discussed, including one where fans in the visiting team market would only get
the hometown feed of baseball games. For example, YES voices would not travel
to Chicago to work a Yankees-White Sox game. They would work the game from the
YES studio.
NBC
Sports Chicago: Baseball America names Cubs’ Miguel
Amaya as breakthrough catching prospect.
Mack’s
Blast From The Past comes from 3-29-18 – Gary
McDonald – Goodbye Rusty.
Belated
Birthdays for 3/29:
- Tommy Holmes (1917)
- Billy Beane (1962)
- Eric Gunderson (1966)
- Alex Ochoa (1972)
- Scott Atchison (1976)
Died on this date:
- Rusty Staub (2018)
Transactions:
New York Mets traded J. C. Martin to the Chicago Cubs for Randy Bobb on March 29, 1970.
New York Mets traded Leo Foster to the Boston Red Sox for Jim Burton on March 29, 1978.
New York Mets released Lenny Randle on March 29, 1979.
New York Mets traded Jody Johnston and Steve Walker to the Los Angeles Dodgers for Mark Bradley on March 29, 1983.
New York Mets traded Juan Acevedo to the St. Louis Cardinals for Rigo Beltran on March 29, 1998.
New York Mets released Joe Orsulak on March 29, 1998.
New York Mets released Rich Rodriguez on March 29, 2001.
New York Mets signed free agent Kelly Stinnett on March 29, 2005.
New York Mets traded Eddie Kunz to the San Diego Padres for Allan Dykstra on March 29, 2011.
Born 3/30:
- Terry Bross (1966)
Transactions:
New York Mets traded Bill Denehy and Dean Chance to the Detroit Tigers for Jerry Robertson on March 30, 1971.
New York Mets released Jesus Alou on March 30, 1976.
New York Mets traded Benny Ayala to the St. Louis Cardinals for Doug Clarey on March 30, 1977.
New York Mets traded Ken Reed and Gene Autry to the Chicago White Sox for Randy Niemann on March 30, 1985.
New York Mets traded Terry Bross to the San Diego Padres for Craig Bullock on March 30, 1992.
New York Mets traded Steve Long to the Florida Marlins for Robert Person on March 30, 1994.
New York Mets traded Anthony Young and Ottis Smith to the Chicago Cubs for Jose Vizcaino on March 30, 1994.
New York Mets traded Endy Chavez to the Kansas City Royals for Mike Curry on March 30, 2001.
New York Mets claimed Wilson Valdez on waivers from the Chicago White Sox on March 30, 2005.
New York Mets signed
free agent Ken Takahashi on March 30, 2009.
New York Mets claimed Manny Acosta on waivers from the Atlanta Braves on March 30, 2010.
New York Mets released Danny Herrera on March 30, 2013.
New York Mets traded Cory Mazzoni to the San Diego Padres for Alex Torres on March 30, 2015.
New York Mets traded Matt den Dekker to the Washington Nationals for Jerry Blevins on March 30, 2015.
2001
|
Choosing to end his career as a
member of a World Champion team, 36 year-old Dwight
Gooden announces his retirement from baseball. 'Doc,' who compiles a
194-112 record in 16 seasons playing for the Mets, Yankees, Indians, Astros,
and Devil Rays, will remain on the Bronx Bombers' payroll and will have a
position within the organization.
|
2003
|
Major League baseball returns to
Brooklyn for a day when the Mets appear at KeySpan Park, the Coney Island
home of the short-season single-A Cyclones, for the team's final preseason
workout. Although the practice session is rained out, fans enjoy meeting the
players and collecting autographs, with the profits made from beverage and
other sales being donated to charities in the NYC area serving children.
|
2000 - At the Tokyo
Dome, the New York Mets defeat the Chicago
Cubs in 11 innings, 5 - 1, on Benny Agbayani's pinch-hit grand
slam. Rey Ordóñez commits an error
in the game, ending his major league record streak of 101 consecutive errorless
games at shortstop. With a swipe of second base, Rickey Henderson joins Ted Williams as the only major league players to steal a base in four different decades.
2001 - The New York Mets' #3 prospect, Brian Cole, aged 22,
is killed when the SUV he is driving home to Mississippi from spring training
flips over. Cole, who stole 69 bases the previous year, was voted the
organization's player of the year in 2000.
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Wow.
ReplyDeleteBrian Cole was killed today.
Was it really 19 years ago?
He would have been it all.
I think MLB & MLBPA should agree that they will play baseball in front of empty stadiums or will we never see baseball in 2020 or maybe even 2021 depending o how fast they can come up with a vaccine. Even with a vaccine people will die just a lot less hopefully. People die every year from the flu now.
ReplyDeleteI read an article that said if all the baseball players were to come down with the flu they would do very well because they are young and very healthy. The only ones you would need to protect is the managers, coaches and trainers. Use social distancing in these cases.
Sports in the USA has to start up again for the mental health of the public
Raw
ReplyDeleteI would love you to add this comment to the FWIW post I just put up.