Happy Birthday Rico Brogna and Doug Flynn, we have video highlights from Taiwan Baseball, and the Mets almost traded Zack Wheeler to the Yankees?
SNY.TV: Mets had agreed upon deal to send Zack Wheeler to Yankees at trade deadline. According to SNY's Andy Martino, the Mets and Yankees had a tentative agreement in place last July that would have sent Wheeler to the Bronx. However, concerns about the medicals of another player squashed the deal.
12up.com: Yankees and Mets Reportedly Discussed Jeurys Familia Trade Last Year for Some Sick Reason.
Brian Joura Mets 360.com: Forget running
computer simulations, where are the player updates? Among other
things Brian wants to know How’s Brandon
Nimmo’s neck or Jeff McNeil’s
wrist? They both played well in Grapefruit League action but neck injuries are
no small matter and wrist injuries have a way of lingering longer than
expected.
Ken
Davidoff NY Post: Where ‘the great’ Shea Stadium ranks among dead MLB ballparks. Ken thinks #5: 1. Tiger Stadium; 2: Yankee
Stadium; 3. Memorial Stadium in Baltimore; 4. Metrodome; 5. Shea Stadium.
CBS
Sports: Handing out MLB Sophomore of the Year awards for the last five seasons
-- and predicting 2020 winners.
Jacob
deGrom’s 2015 season named one of the best sophomore seasons and Pete Alonso
is listed as the current Top candidate to have a great sophomore year.
Empire
Sports Media: Under Appreciated New York Mets: Fernando
Tatis. Tatis played in 258 games over 3 seasons with New York,
hitting .279 with 21 home runs.
Brent
Axe Syracuse.com: Syracuse Mets Opening Day will have to wait due to
coronavirus. “That is the strangest opening day ever for me,"
Syracuse Mets GM Jason Smorol said. "It’s unfortunate, but it’s the right
thing to do as we all get through this together. That feeling at the ballpark
when you open those gates. They come in and everybody is just so excited that
baseball season is starting. Spring is coming, summer is coming and we’re out
of that winter doldrum. Getting to see so many faces that you haven’t seen all
winter long. That’s what I’m going to miss.”
You can see simulated Syracuse Mets games at https://www.twitch.tv/syracusemets/.
MLB News:
NY
Post: Retired players being hurt by baseball’s coronavirus hiatus. “My
living is baseball camps, clinics, appearances at the ballpark. Everything is
baseball,” Dwight Gooden said. “Everything’s on hold. I’ve got seven kids, six
grandkids and two ex-wives. They don’t want to hear that. They just want to
know where their check is.”
Yahoo
Baseball Podcast discusses: Who had the worse failed baseball career:
Michael Jordan or Tim
Tebow?
Austin
Jackson Open To MLB Return. “Jackson
struggled badly in his last action in the majors [2018], turning in a
collective .245/.299/.326 output over 375 plate appearances with the Giants and
Mets. But he was quite productive in 2017, when he slashed .318/.387/.482 for
the Indians.”
Does
Baseball Have Its Next Zobrist?
MLB Trade Rumors likes Jeff McNeil
as the next “Swiss Army Knife.”
The
Angels Found A Dominant Reliever On Waivers. More than half the
league passed on Hansel
Robles after the Mets designated the right-hander for assignment and
ran him through waivers back in 2018.
Asian Baseball:
Per Twitter:
Strong #CPBL debut from the CTBC Brothers' Esmil
Rogers last night (last pitched in MLB for the Yankees). Rogers gave
up 1 earned run across 7 innings and struck out 11. Closer look at
Esmil Rogers' 128kph changeup. The Brothers won 6-1.
You can
see the full April 17 Broadcast of the #FubonGuardians vs #RakutenMonkeys at this
link. Twitter
video of Right Fielder Malo Ipong makes an incredible diving catch!
From the
Onion: Taiwanese Robot Baseball Fan Ejected For Yelling Slurs At Pitch Camera
https://bit.ly/2ynfg53.
“Look at this defunct, malware-infected piece of scrap. You call that a strike?
You ought to be recycled.”
ESPN:
Japan's baseball league delayed again, no date set for start. Nippon
Professional Baseball's season openers will not take place in May due to the
coronavirus pandemic, with no firm date set for the start.
Mack’s
Blast From The Past: Mack Ade –4-18-12. “You Want
Prime? We Got Prime” Mack looks at the projected Mets starting rotations 2013 –
2016. Plus this great quote: “My
pitching philosophy is simple - keep the ball away from the bat.” - Satchel
Paige.
Born on this date:
- Larry Foss (1936)
- Chuck Taylor (1942)
- Doug Flynn (1951)
- Rico Brogna (1970)
- Brady Clark (1973)
Transactions:
New York Mets traded Felix Perdomo and Steve Ray to the New York Yankees for Tucker Ashford on April 18, 1983.
New
York Mets traded Ike
Davis to the Pittsburgh
Pirates for Zack Thornton and Blake Taylor on April 18, 2014.
1970
|
Denny
Doyle's first-inning single is the only
hit allowed by Nolan Ryan when he blanks the Phillies at Shea Stadium, 7-0. The 23
year-old right-hander ties the Mets' mark established by Jerry
Koosman in 1968 with 15 strikeouts, but Tom Seaver will break the
short-lived record, whiffing 19 Padres later in the week.
|
1970 - Nolan Ryan
strikes out 15 batters and pitches a one-hitter as the New York Mets defeat the
Philadelphia Phillies, 7 - 0, at Shea Stadium. It is the first shutout of
Ryan's career.
2010: One day after playing a marathon 20-inning
contest, the Cardinals' bullpen gets some rest as Adam Wainwright pitches a
complete game for a 5 - 3 win over the Mets. Colby Rasmus and Ryan Ludwick's
homers account for all of St. Louis's runs; Wainwright helps his own cause by
doubling ahead of Ludwick's blast in the 8th. For their part, the Mets
designate 1B Mike Jacobs for assignment before the game in order to call up P
Tobi Stoner from AAA Buffalo. Jacobs has become redundant because of the rapid
development of prospect Ike Davis, who will be called up to the majors
tomorrow. Stoner is the losing pitcher in his only game of the season, in spite
of giving up only one run in 2 1/3 innings of work with the Mets' bullpen also
burnt out from yesterday's game.
2014: Aaron Harang pitches 7 no-hit innings for the
Braves against the Mets, but has to leave the game after having thrown 121
pitches. David Wright hits a two-out single off Luis Avilan in the 8th for the
Mets' only hit as three pitchers combine on a one-hitter in a 6 - 0 win.
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9 comments:
That Nolan Ryan one hitter look back was amazing. First batter singles, no hitter over last 27 outs. 15 Ks and 6 BBs. What was the pitch count?
No Ks over the last 3 innings.
He was just 23...how could you possibly trade him?
In his 8 years with the Angels, he AVERAGED over 300 Ks a season. Back when guys fanned less than they do now.
Tom, I agree. Trade made no sense. First Mets game I went to was a 4-0 complete game shutout over the Cubs by Nolan in 1970.
In the Mets defense, in 1971 Nola set a Mets team record of 116 walks that stands to this day - they traded him the very next winter. Still a lot of Mets fans, myself included, were upset when they traded him before he dominated with the Angels. We saw the potential that the Mets did not.
Montreal made the same huge mistake with another electrifying talent...Randy Johnson.
How far have we fallen?
We now have a Taiwan section in the Breakfast Links.
And KC gave away David Cone for a backup Catcher (Ed Hearn). Keith Hernandez for Neil Allen. John Olerud for Robert Person.
Ya win some, ya lose some.
Thank the Lord for Taiwan. Many great lessons to be learned from them. Japan and Korean news also will be in that section when they start so we can track Chris Flexen and Drew Gagnon.
I don't know if John told you all this but he has a new Twitter follower
Erwin Santana
That makes 3. My Sister, Mack, and Ervin.
She tried to put a spell on me.
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