Happy
Birthday Ken Singleton, the MLB Draft starts tonight at 7, and the players propose an 89 game season.
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Jeff Passan ESPN.com: Sources: MLBPA set to propose 89-game season and expanded playoffs. It would bring the sides closer to a potential deal because it is 25 games fewer than the union's latest proposal of 114 games at full pro rata, sources told ESPN.
Initial reax from ownership source following players latest proposal: “We’re nowhere.”— Jon Heyman (@JonHeyman) June 10, 2020
Mike
Puma NY Post: Mets could snag top-end pitcher in this 2020 MLB Draft. “In a
nutshell, the Mets own the No. 19 pick in the first round. It’s a draft loaded
with starting pitching, a fact that should excite general manager Brodie Van
Wagenen and his lieutenants as they attempt to restock a low-rated farm system
desperate for an infusion of talent.”
NY
Post: Potential Mets buyers Josh Harris and David Blitzer have turbulent
ownership history. “In the 13 years
before they bought the 76ers, the team had made the playoffs nine times; in
nine years since, the 76ers have made three postseason appearances. And in the
25 years before they bought the Devils, the team had made the playoffs 21
times, including five trips to the Stanley Cup; in the seven years since, the
Devils have been to the postseason just once.”
Faith
and Fear in Flushing: “The Baby Faced Killer”. Jason Fry continues “A Met for All Seasons”
with David
Cone.
12Up.com:
4 Greatest Pete Alonso
Highlights to Celebrate Anniversary of Mets Drafting Him. 4. The First Dinger; 3.
Home Run Derby Winner; 2. Breaking the Mets Single-Season Record; 1. No. 53.
Amazing
Avenue: 2020 MLB Draft: Back to the Future. Eight of the thirteen prep
players selected by the Mets in the 2017 MLB Draft signed with the team. How
have those other five done?
Amazing
Avenue: 2020 Mets Draft: An introduction to Major League Baseball’s draft. The
amateur draft is right around the corner. Where will the Mets be selecting, and
just how will the process work this season?
SNY.TV
(MetsBlog): Teams in Korea, Japan looking at possibly signing former Mets ace Matt
Harvey: report. Matt Harvey
has made it clear that he still wants to pitch.
John Fox Mets 360.com:
Lenny
Dykstra is an equal opportunity jerk.
YouTube:
New York Mets Videos - Funny Locker Room Stories from David
Wright, Keith
Hernandez and Others.
12Up.com:
4 Worst Angel Hernandez Calls We've Ever Seen. The safe call in the
Mets-Braves game from 1999 is included.
This game epitomized the Mets/Braves rivalry in the late ‘90s (and reminds you that Angel Hernandez has ALWAYS been terrible). pic.twitter.com/Oe4zJ3sunM— Mets Lineups (@MetsLineups) December 22, 2018
12UP.com: Here's What a Legitimate Season Proposal From
MLB Owners to Players Should Look Like.
“Though the perfect July 4 start date is no longer feasible, something
like 82 games could still work…25% could be deferred over the next few year to
higher-income seasons, presumably when fans are allowed back inside stadiums
and revenue becomes stable again.”
12up.com:
3 MLB Teams Most Helped by Expanded Playoffs in 2020: 1. Red Sox; 2. Brewers;
3. Angels.
MLB
Trade Rumors: Ryan
O’Rourke Announces Retirement.
Bucs vs Mets, Shea Stadium-16mm Unedited-(Part 1)-From the Flagstaff Films Baseball home movie archive pic.twitter.com/xGmo0UhL7P— Flagstaff Films (@flagstafffilms) June 6, 2020
Bucs vs Mets, Shea Stadium-16mm Unedited-(Part 2)-From the Flagstaff Films Baseball home movie archive pic.twitter.com/4IJQf3EV5B— Flagstaff Films (@flagstafffilms) June 6, 2020
Grinding! Harol Gonzalez putting in work from home. 💪 (via @HarolGonzalez45’s Instagram) pic.twitter.com/CiCsS828LS— Mets Farm Report (@MetsFarmReport) June 9, 2020
👀 Gimenez putting in work at the @Mets facility in Port St. Lucie. 💪 (via @andresgimenez’s Instagram) pic.twitter.com/I4EDR961Mg— Mets Farm Report (@MetsFarmReport) June 8, 2020
(Yonhap
Interview) Baseball writer-turned-professor sees 'great potential' for KBO's
international growth. Thomas St. John, a former baseball journalist and now
a university professor in Seoul teaching the history of South Korean baseball.
Aaron
Altherr is back in CF today for the NC Dinos (Box
Score).
2020/06/10 #GuardiansLive @ @CTBC_Brothers— Fubon Guardians (@FubonGuardians) June 10, 2020
The Guardians are ready to take on the red-hot Brothers as they send Mike Loree to the mound to face José de Paula in the opening game of this weekday two-game series! Watch the game live right here!#ItsTimehttps://t.co/Dcz7z2iXEa
Mack’s
Blast from the Past: 6-10-10: Mets WAR, Matt Harvey,
Matt den
Dekker, Blake
Forsythe... and Cory
Vaughn.
Today is June 10
Born on this date:
- Ken Singleton (1947)
Died on this date:
- Lindsey Nelson (1995)
Transactions:
New York Mets purchased Bob Shaw from the San Francisco Giants on June 10, 1966.
New York Mets traded Jack Hamilton to the California Angels for Nick Willhite on June 10, 1967.
New York Mets signed free agent Doug Sisk on June 10, 1980.
New York Mets signed free agent Eric Gunderson on June 10, 1993.
New York Mets traded Shawn Gilbert to the St. Louis Cardinals for Wayne Kirby on June 10, 1998.
1969
|
The Mets win their 11th consecutive
game, a 9-4 victory over the Giants at Candlestick Park, to establish a
franchise record. Later in the season, the Amazins will also a post a
ten-game (Sept. 6-13) and a nine-game winning streak (Sept. 21-Oct. 1).
|
1966: The Mets' Dick Rusteck makes his first major league start and shuts out the Reds‚ 5 - 0‚ for his only
major-league victory. He'll lose two more decisions this year.; San Francisco sells P Bob Shaw to the Mets.
1983 - Dave Kingman cracks a 2-run 2-out home run in the bottom
of the 17th inning to give the Mets a 4 - 2 win over the Expos. Kingman has 3 RBI in the game.
1986: At Shea Stadium‚ Tim Teufel hits a pinch grand slam in the 11th and the Mets beat the Phillies‚ 8 - 4. Teufel had been 0 for 3 as a pinch hitter.
1996: The Mets defeat the Braves‚ 8 -
3‚ despite 5 hits for Atlanta SS Jeff Blauser. Todd Hundley strokes two homers in going 4 for 4 with 5 RBIs for New
York.
2010: The Mets split a doubleheader
with San Diego as Jon Niese pitches a one-hitter to win the nitecap,
3 - 0. The Padres turn a triple play in the 2nd inning, to no avail, but they win the opener, 4 -
2, behind Mat Latos.
Centerfield
Maz: Remembering Mets History: (6/10/1980) Mets Pat Zachry
vs. Dodgers Ron
Cey Bench Clearing Brawl
Centerfield
Maz: Early Seventies Mets Outfielder (1970-1971): Ken
Singleton. Born 6/10/1947.
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10 comments:
Reading the Post article doesn't make me too keen on the Harris/Blitzer bid to buy the Mets. Sounds like a fire sale would be imminent.
Two sites that I like to follow and are free:
https://www.prospectslive.com/lists/2020/6/4/mlb-draft-data-influenced-big-board
https://www.prospects1500.com/mlb-draft/2020-mlb-draft-top-160-names-to-know/
A little extra info for tonight, if anyone is interested. I’m torn between trying to find a good bat and taking the “sure thing”. Mike Puma made an interesting point that in a time of uncertainty about players, pitchers are a safer investment. Interesting point. Need bats however, but wouldn’t reach for one.
Gus -
This is definitely a power starter draft first... a handful of lefties... a boat load of righties.
Remember one thing.... there is very little room for error in a 5 round draft. Past that, all the free agents picking of a team becomes a popularity contest.
Would Jeff McNeil have signed with the Mets? Jacob deGrom? I don't think so.
You have a chance of signing 2, not 1, back-end starter this year.
Don't blow it.
I get you Mack, but the Cubs bought the arms and developed the bats knowing arms can get hurt easier. The Mets developed the arms and bought the bats, that was more expensive and a starter got hurt four years in a row, losing 20% of your your starting staff. You need to lose two hitter all year to lose that much.
The organization needs to value defense and speed at least at 2B, SS, and CF. They need to stress fundamentals in the minors. That will go a ling way to develop a winning team.
John, definitely! Hopefully, the concepts put forth by BVW last year to develop a model for how every level is taught will help keep a more balanced and fundamentally sound system for each prospect to know their fundamentals and how to think the game properly. It’s amazing how little game awareness some players have. Players should come up knowing how to run the bases, how to steal a base, how to bunt, and how to hit the cutoff. If they don’t know this after four years of minor league ball, the system failed them. This isn’t public school where students are artificially passed and moved up to the next grade, this is a cutthroat industry that needs its employees to be ready to excel. It was sad that Collins complained about the lack of preparation of the young player and Callaway had Ruben Amaro giving base running lessons during the season.
What's worse - the guy that emphasized all that last year and won a Championship, Fonzie, is not longer managing. Fonzie should be in charge of the entire farm system, not an embassador.
As I have said once or twice before: More than the fact that Fonzie won, it was the way he won, how the team played, the emphasis on fundamentals, the emphasis on defense, the emphasis on the running game and the emphasis on manufacturing runs. They scored runs on outs time and time again. Brooklyn was a flat-out exciting team all year.
They hit against the shift. Took extra bases when the shift had players out of position and bases uncovered. Scored from third if the ball got by the catcher. Even when they were thrown out by being a little too aggressive, it was great to watch.
It was the type of baseball that helped the Royals beat the Mets in the 2015 World Series and those Cardinal teams in the 80’s beat the great Mets teams though those 80’s Mets were much more talented on paper.
Oh well.
Just saw on Yahoo:
Former Mets outfielder Claudell Washington has passed away at age 66. I will always remember watching that 3-HR game he had at Dodger Stadium in his brief stint with the Mets.
R.I.P.
That was a great game Bob. The anniversary of the Mets getting him was just a few days ago. Frank Cashen's first Mets trade.
John, everything you said about Alfonzo is perfect. So, why isn’t he managing somewhere? I had read a while back that he wanted to be on the major league staff and was supposed to be interviewed for the main gig with the Mets. I guess he pissed off someone with a “Jim Rigglan to Mike Rizzo-like” demand of some sort and he got whacked. Maybe even Jeff Wilpon himself, but Wilpon has a heart for his former players so I’m thinking it was BVW. Nothing else makes any sense because he was exactly what you want in a manager.
Wally is too, but he opened his mouth...
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