Good Morning, Happy Birthday Bobby Valentine, Jeff McNeil
responds to yesterday’s NY Post article, and MLB and the Players start
negotiations.
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and This Day in Mets History.
Joel
Sherman NY Post: MLB doesn’t make economic proposal in lengthy union meeting.
?The sides met for 90 minutes, broke, then continued for another hour, with MLB
focusing heavily on the protocols for how it believes it could keep the players
and support staff safe and healthy should they return to a second spring
training in about a month.”
NY
Post: MLB-union reopening talks: Seven key questions answered. “Q: Wait, let’s go back to that mention of
government officials and their safety/health mandates. Could these heated,
high-stakes discussions turn out to be moot? Could this wind up being the
baseball equivalent of a high school debate club? A: You’d better believe it,
sister.”
Mets Links:MLB’s position is that it will lose more money if they play games without fans and pay prorated salaries than if they don’t play at all. Thus, owners are saying they will not pay pro-rated salaries.— Jon Heyman (@JonHeyman) May 13, 2020
Yesterday I linked to Mike
Puma’s article in NY Post: which said that Jeff McNeil
could get in the way of his own Mets stardom which included how “He really
punishes himself when he struggles and he doesn’t even try to hide it.”
Jeff McNeil
tweeted his reply: “I’ve been hard on myself ever since I started
playing baseball. What athlete isn’t hard on themselves when they fail? I’m not
ok with failure but it drives me to do better. My frustration is definitely not
getting in the way of my future success, it makes me the player that I am.”
Pete Alonso
also chimed in
with this tweet: “You’re an all-star your first full year in the
league. You will also compete to win a batting title every year. How you
approach the game clearly works and will continue to work for you. It doesn’t
matter what other people think. If it ain’t broke.....”
Gotham
Sports Network: The ripple-effects of a possible shortened season for the New
York Mets. Writer Jordan
Zides notes how the Mets are impacted by the loss of a year of Jacob
deGrom at his peak, losing a year of eligibility for Noah
Syndergaard and Steven Matz
and the pending free agency of Marcus
Stroman.
Mike
Puma NY Post: Mets catcher Tomas Nido
being held back by hitting woes. “He
will probably be a guy that plays 10 or 11 years in the big leagues just
because he can catch and throw,” a National League executive said. “He just
hasn’t made any offensive adjustments, and it’s swing first and then deal with
everything later.” Mike
did not mention how Nido hired Lorenzo Gardmendia and his team Gradum Baseball
— based in Florida — to help him rework his swing and increase his plate
production.
John Fox Mets 360.com: The 1962 Mets were
bad, but were not the worst ever.
John argues that as the best players were fighting WWII, the 46-108,
1945 Philadelphia Phillies were a worse team.
WFAN.com:
7 National League Teams That Could Benefit Most From a Universal DH.
“This is the lineup that, in my opinion, would benefit most from the
implementation of this rule. Pete Alonso
and J.D. Davis
are phenomenal hitters..While Davis is one piece that could occupy that
position, aging veterans like Yoenis
Cespedes and Robinson
Cano are much easier guys to envision in that space…Another player
who is likely praying for the inclusion of the DH is Dominic
Smith.
NY
Post: This is where the postseason legend of Daniel
Murphy exploded. Writer Dan
Martin looks back of Game 5 of the 2015 NLDS vs. the Dodgers.
Rising
Apple: Mets Trade History: Getting burned by the Expos in the David Segui deal.
Writer Tim Boyle feels that “Segui was an accomplished hitter the Mets seemed
to let go of a little too early.”
Rising
Apple: Yoenis
Cespedes is the biggest winner if the NL gets the DH.
Mets.com:
Mets' Top 5 right fielders: DiComo's take. 1. Darryl
Strawberry, 1983-90; 2. Michael
Conforto, 2015-present; 3. Rusty Staub,
1972-75, 1981-85; 4. Ron Swoboda,
1965-70; 5. Curtis
Granderson, 2014-17.
Empire
Sports Media: Why Does Brandon
Nimmo Get Used as Trade Bait?
Jacob
Resnick Metsmerized Online: Unsung Offensive Heroes of the 2015 World Series
Run. Jacob credits Lucas Duda,
Curtis
Granderson, Travis
d’Arnaud, and Michael
Cuddyer.
Metsmerized
Online: Metsmerizing Moves: Asdrubal
Cabrera Provided Offensive Boost. “In 2016…The switch-hitter slashed
.280/.336/.474 in 141 games. His 23 home runs were tied for third on the team
and his 62 RBI’s were second only to Cespedes.”
Amazin'
Avenue: Memorable Mets Game: 2015 NLDS, Game 3. Granderson 3 run
double and Cespedes 3 run homer lead Mets to 13-7 win.
Faith
and Fear in Flushing’s Jason Fry looks at Todd
Hundley’s 1996 season in “Our First Baseball Husband.”
SNY.TV:
After an ugly day for baseball, some MLB agents want a softer tone.
Not every agent agrees with Scott Boras' interpretation of the prior agreement.
"He does not speak for all of us," one prominent agent said of Boras'
aggressive public stance.
CBS
Sports: 2010 MLB Redraft: Bryce
Harper, Manny
Machado still top-three picks, but neither goes No. 1. Mike Axisa suggests the Mets take Yasmani
Grandal instead of their actual pick at #7, Matt Harvey.
MLB.com:
Let's break MLB stars up into 'Survivor' tribes. For the Mets they suggest Mets
– “Pete Alonso
(physical strength): An engaging personality who set the rookie record last
season with 53 homers and is nicknamed “Polar Bear?” Easy choice.”
NJ.com:
Staten Island Yankees fighting for survival? Crowd trends very telling.
The Staten Island Yanks not only drew among the fewest fans in the league in
each of the last four seasons, but attendance at Richmond County Bank Ballpark
has dropped a whopping 68.69 percent over the last decade, declining from 5,903
per game in 2009 to 1,848 in 2019.
Auburn
Pub.com: Pandemic could change landscape of minor league sports, including
Auburn Doubledays. “Syracuse University sports analytics professor Rodney
Paul is worried about the status of others as the crisis goes on…Some of those
areas that can't afford that level of team because of either population change
or income change in the area or something like that changes to a different
area. But my guess gets to be that the longer this goes out, the fewer of those
minor league teams in total we'll have."
Before camp was suspended @AlyssaRose caught up with @Mets prospect Jeremy Vasquez to discuss his third year in camp. #Mets pic.twitter.com/e1GXg602J4— Mets Farm Report (@MetsFarmReport) May 12, 2020
Yonhap
News: American left-hander pitches gem for 1st win of KBO season. Kiwoom
Heroes' starter Eric
Jokisch held the Samsung Lions to a run -- unearned -- over six strong
innings Tuesday, helping the Heroes to a 3-2 win at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul.
NC Dinos 7 KT Wiz 6 in 10 innings Aaron
Altherr played center and went 1 for 5 (Box
score).
Today’s game is just underweigh with Altherr back in CF (Box
score).
2020/05/13 #GuardiansLive vs. @CTBC_Brothers— Fubon Guardians (@FubonGuardians) May 13, 2020
The Guardians continue this homestand as they welcome the Brothers to Xinzhuang. Righty Bryan Woodall will take the hill, as the Guardians look to take the first game of this weekday two-game series!#ItsTime https://t.co/92MseUZOTz
Trout,
Jeter Lead The Way As TOPPS ‘Project 2020’ Surpasses 232,000 Cards Sold In
First Seven Weeks.
Mack’s
Blast From The Past May 13, 2014: Mets 12, Yankees 7. Daisuke
Matsuzaka pitched 3 2/3 innings relief allowing just 1 run to get
the win.
Born on this date:
- Steve Zabriskie (1947)
- Bobby Valentine (1950)
- Mickey Callaway (1975)
Transactions:
New York Mets released Rickey Henderson on May 13, 2000.
New York Mets signed free agent Rick Ankiel on May 13, 2013.
1970
|
With two outs in the bottom of the
eighth inning at Wrigley Field, Gary
Gentry gives up his only hit, a short
fly hit by Ernie
Banks that outfielder Dave
Marshall gets a glove on, but he cannot
hold on to the ball. The 23 year-old Mets right-hander settles for a one-hit
complete game 4-0 victory over Chicago but could have been the first hurler
in franchise history to throw a no-hit game if official scorer Jim Enright
had ruled differently on the blooper to left field.
|
2000
|
A day after failing to hustle,
turning a likely double into a single, a disgruntled Rickey
Henderson is let go by the Mets. The 41
year-old stolen base leader is batting .219 with no homers and two RBIs at
the time of his release.
|
1972
- Buzz
Capra is the winning pitcher in a 1 - 0 Mets
victory over the San Francisco Giants. Capra's first major league
RBI - a 2nd-inning single scoring Cleon Jones - is the only run of the game.
1980
- Ray
Knight of the Cincinnati
Reds hits two home
runs in the 5th inning - including a grand
slam - to lead the Reds to a 15 - 4 rout of the New
York Mets.
2012:
Another Mother's Day hero is the Marlins' Giancarlo Stanton, swinging a pink bat in support of breast cancer research, who belts a walk-off grand
slam off Manny Acosta of the Mets,
capping a 6-run 9th-inning rally as Miami wins, 8 - 4. And he is not the only
player to accomplish the feat, as the Reds'
Joey
Votto also ends his team's game with a slam, completing a
three-homer.
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McNeil and Alonso nicely put Mike Puma in his place.
ReplyDeleteI read some of your posts on baseball negotiations and considerations, and decided to do a quick article on baseball restarting at 11 AM.
Great Tom. Look forward to it.
ReplyDeleteJohn
ReplyDeleteRegarding Puma, he's one of those Rand Paul type reporters... nothing is ever good.
We do however have to remember that the reporters are running out of things to write about and sour articles like this are written when there are no games to report on.
I've told this story many times before.
The Mets had a table in the clubhouse where all the city sports sections would be displayed every morning to the players.
I would watch these guys kiss up to a player, ask them powder puff questions and the next morning, the player would find some vicious attack on them by said reporter in their rag.
They have earned the disrespect of the players.
Mack - The Puma piece was not that bad but the headline writer made it worse. One of the Mack's Blast from the Past I recently came across dealt with a negative story that Puma wrote about Bartolo Colon and how the players refused to talk to any reporters until Puma left the locker room.
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