Good morning, Jordany
Valdespin gets a mention in the Blast From The Past, the Players Association rejects MLB's 2020 draft proposal, Happy Birthday Erasmo
Ramirez, Live Baseball is underway in Taiwan, and the Wilpons may be able to borrow more from MLB.
Forbes:
Wilpons Could Get Help In Sale Of Mets From Increase In MLB Debt. “Sources
speculate that the Mets could have the ability to borrow another $20 million or
so from the league. Not a ton of money, but arguably enough to make it a lot
easier for them to ride out the storm and sell when the sport’s economics are
better or more predictable.”
METS LINKS:
Tim Boyle
Rising Apple: Biggest New York Mets trades that took place in the month of May. Willie Mays
– May 11, 1972; Mike Piazza
– May 22, 1998; Matt Harvey
– May 8, 2018;
Mike’s Mets talks about the Robinson
Cano trade in The One
that Got Away, Part 2.
Kyle
Newman: MLB’s ‘divisions’ plan would make life easier for New York Mets,
Yankees. “The reigning NL East
champion Atlanta Braves would be replaced with the Pittsburgh Pirates. That
would mean the East division would have four of the bottom seven teams in MLB
from 2019. Considering that each team is going to play each other at least 12
times in the upcoming season, that would mean the Mets and Yankees would each
play 48 games against some of the worst teams in baseball.”
NJ.com:
MLB rumors: Predicting East division order of finish in latest realignment idea
| Yankees? Mets? Phillies? 1. Yankees; 2. Nationals; 3. Rays; 4. Phillies; 5.
Mets; 6. Red Sox; 7. Blue Jays; 8. Marlins; 9. Pirates; 10. Orioles.
SNY.TV:
Beyond the Booth: Gary Cohen on what Mets and Yankees being in same division
would mean for rivalry. “Some believe that placing the Mets and Yankees
together in a regular season grouping would detract from the passion of the
rivalry. I disagree. You only have to look at the NHL, and the ongoing
rivalries of the Rangers, Islanders and Devils, to see that division grouping
for those local rivals only enhances the competition among fan bases.”
Metsmerized.com:
MMO Top 5 Prospects: Vientos Powers Third Basemen. Their picks for top 5 Mets 3B Prospects: No.
5 Will
Toffey; No. 4 Jose
Peroza; No. 3 Jaylen
Palmer; No. 2 Brett
Baty; No. 1 Mark
Vientos.
Real glad they mentioned Jose Peroza, liked him a lot last
year in Brooklyn. I
had Mark Vientos and Jose Peroza both on the St, Lucie Roster this year.
MLB.com: Which
of these 5-tool Supermen is the best? MLB.com ask 5 different reporters to
design the ultimate player tools from 5 different players. One had Jeff McNeil
for his hit tool.
Ken
Davidoff NY Post: Yoenis Cespedes deal actually was worth it for Mets. The
Mets have done plenty wrong in their history. Obtaining and retaining Yoenis
Cespedes, in part because of the rough times, still feels so very
right.
Faith
And Fear in Flushing: With & Without Donn
Clendenon.
Mets.com:
NL East notebook: The best eye at the plate for each NL East team. For the Mets, a no brainer, Brandon
Nimmo.
Last
Word on Baseball: Greatest New York Mets From Around the World. United
States: Tom Seaver;
Dominican Republic: Jose Reyes;
Puerto Rico: Carlos
Beltran; Panama: Ruben
Tejada to name a few.
MLB LINKS:
Yahoo
Sports: Umpires reach deal with MLB for coronavirus-shortened season, take 30
percent pay cut.
CBS
Sports.com: Indians pitcher Emmanuel
Clase, acquired in Corey
Kluber trade, gets suspended for positive PED test.
ESPN
Sports: Tim Kurkjian Baseball Fix: Rickey
Henderson, 'I am the greatest of all time' and the speech he was supposed
to read.
Minor League Links:
Losing Thor.
10
MLB Teams Whose Business Initiatives Face Coronavirus Hurdles. “Mets: So …
this is probably not an optimal moment to be selling your sports franchise. The
Wilpon family is pressing ahead with an effort to strike a new deal after their
prior one broke down (at the worst possible time).”
Asian Baseball:
Yesterday in the CPBL
Chinatrust Brothers 10 Rakuten Monkeys 8 in Extra Innings (Line Score).
Uni Lions 15 Fubon Guardians 5 (Line Score).
Chinatrust Brothers Vs Rakuten Monkeys seen here:
⚾️｜Wake up guys!!! time for some #Live Taiwan Baseball 🙌🙌🙌— ELEVEN SPORTS TAIWAN (@ElevenSportsTW) May 2, 2020
To baseball fans in USA, starting next week, you can watch #CPBL also on #LIVENOW. https://t.co/bDTRCXAfUP
Fubon Guardians vs UniLions is here:
2020/05/02 #GuardiansLive @ #UniLions— Fubon Guardians (@FubonGuardians) May 2, 2020
The Guardians look to end their losing streak and even the series against the Lions as #12 Kuo-Hao Chiang is set to take on Ryan Feierabend. For our fans outside of Taiwan, watch live here:#ItsTime @ElevenSportsTW https://t.co/4L67oAG4ab
Mack’s
Blast from the Past comes from 5/2/13 – Reese Kaplan - Should Terry Collins
Come Back in 2014? Love what Reese said about Terry’s handling of personal
favorite Jordany
Valdespin. “Jordany
Valdespin has had a large number of big hits to win games for the Mets, has
more baserunning speed than anyone else on the club, yet due to his personality
Collins is “punishing” him by keeping him glued to the bench. Does anyone
remember the stories about what kind of a person Kevin
Mitchell was? What about Hall of
Famer Ty
Cobb? At some point in the interest
of your club you push aside your personal feelings and give the players who
have the greatest potential an opportunity to play.”
Erasmo
Ramirez (1990)
1968
|
Mets hitter Bud Harrelson becomes
the first batter in baseball history to gain a 3-0 ball-strike count
advantage from the on-deck circle when umpire Ed Vargo penalizes Phillies
reliever John Boozer for going to his mouth inside the 18-foot circle of the
mound. Philadelphia manager Gene Mauch, incensed about the ball one call,
orders his pitcher to do it again for ball two, and then again for ball
three, which promptly gets his right-hander and himself thrown out of the
game, a 3-0 loss to New York at Shea Stadium.
|
1983
|
Jose Oquendo makes his major
league debut, grounding into a force out as a pinch-hitter in the ninth
inning of a 3-2 loss to Houston. The 19 year-old rookie shortstop, born on
July 4, 1963, is the first person to play for the Mets who is younger than
the franchise, which started in 1962.
|
2008
|
Jose Reyes is thrown out at home
plate in an unusual attempt to complete the cycle with an inside-the-park
homer. The shortstop's four hits pace the Mets' 7-2 win over the
Diamondbacks, the club's 14th victory in the last 15 games played against
Arizona at Chase Field.
|
1987: After having missed spring training and the first month of the season
because of collusion, Montreal
Expos outfielder Tim
Raines debuts by going 4 for 5, including a 10th-inning grand
slam, in an 11 - 7 win over the New
York Mets.
2010: The Phillies take over first place in the NL
East by beating Mets
ace Johan Santana like a rag doll. Santana gives up 10
runs, including 8 in the 4th inning, which he fails to complete. With the Mets
leading 5 - 3, he issues a two-out bases-loaded walks to his opposite, Jamie Moyer, then Shane Victorino blasts a grand
slam to open the floodgates. Chase Utley adds a two-run shot to chase Santana; Placido Polanco and Ryan Howard had homered earlier against him. The
Phillies win, 11 - 5.
2019: Noah Syndergaard of the Mets
pitches a complete game shutout
and also homers off Tyler Mahle for the game's only run as he defeats the Reds,
1 - 0. The last player to have managed that particular feat had been Bob
Welch, back in 1983.
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I hate to say it, but can you think of one successful major leaguer who previously fanned 135 time in his first 376 plate appearances in rookie ball? Neither can I! And that is Jaylen Palmer. Unless they think he can fan a lot less against much tougher pitching going forward.
ReplyDeleteIn 2012 Joey Gallo struck out 78 times in 260 PA (30%) in Rookie Ball and Low A. In 2013 Joey struck out 172 times - 467 PA (36.8%) in Rookie Ball and the Sally League.
ReplyDeleteIn the lover levels Joey had years where he hit as high as .271 (Palmer has hit .310 and .260 in his two years). However, in 5 MLB seasons Joey Gallo has hit .212. That could be what we see from Jaylen Palmer if he doesn't cut down on the K's. He played 2019 as an 18 year old, and so has time to adjust.
To show how much baseball has changed, in 2002 Steve Phillips offered David Wright to the Blue Jays for Jose Cruz Jr, (luckily the Blue Jays turned him down). Steve did this because David was in the midst of a 114 K season out of 582 PA (19.5%). Today, 19.5% would be celebrated.
If Palmer turns into Joey Gallo, we will all be thrilled. I just think it is very unlikely. I remember Vicente Lupis and Ivan Wilson flamed out in the lower minors due to massive Ks that they couldn’t shake. Both had big power, but...
ReplyDeleteWuilmer Becerra and Cory Vaughn petered out higher, both fanning more as they rose.
Kirk made it, despite Ks, but was ever a marginal player.
Taijeron could never shake it, and was abysmal in his MLB trial run.
And Eric Campbell fanned at a low rate in the minors, but a high rate in the majors.
I was always hopeful for Jeff McNeil because of low Ks and high average. Unless a guy has mammoth power, chances to me are very slim if high Ks in minors.
Good points. That is why I like Patrick Mazeika. Just 248 Ks n 1,801 Minor plate appearances. One of tge top RBI men in the Eastern League too. Yet, no one grabbed him in the rule 5 draft last year. Teams are way too obsessed with power and age. That is why it took Jeff McNeil so long to get to the majors and why, even after he came to the majors and hit in 2018, the Mets still felt the need to go out and trade for $24 m a year Cano and almost included McNeil in the trade.
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