7/10/20

John From Albany – Mets Breakfast Links 7/10/2020


Good Morning. Happy Birthday to Bob Bailor, the Mets play an intrasquad game, the 2021 schedule is released and at least 5 bidders submit bids for the Mets.  

Section Links: Mets Links, MLB Links, Minor League Links, Asian Baseball Links, and This Day in Mets History.

Mets Links:

NY Post: Steve Cohen puts in $2B bid on Mets, Alex Rodriguez-Jennifer Lopez still in hunt.

Sportico: METS SALE: AT LEAST FIVE BIDDERS INCLUDE COHEN, HARRIS AND A-ROD GROUP.

Elite Sports NY: New York Mets sale: C.K. McWhorter attempting to join the bidding. McWhorter, the CEO of CTRL USA, is just 30 years old.






Mets.com: Notes: Cookie club won't crumble; Yo goes yard. Jeff McNeil is going to eat postgame cookies this season, even if he has to do it alone.

NY Post: Robinson Cano misses another day of Mets’ spring training 2.0.

NY Post: Mets’ Jeff McNeil makes batting title, run at .400 feel possible. “It would be nice,” Jeff McNeil said. “I know I had a really good first half of the year last year, so hopefully can do it again, got 60 games to go out there and get as many hits as possible. Hopefully by the end of the year, it is .400, but we’ll see. My goal right now is just to get on base as much as I can for the guys behind me.”

NY Post: Mets’ Michael Wacha threw in parking lot during coronavirus break. “There was the park where he met Robert Gsellman on occasion that was between Port St. Lucie and where Gsellman was in Jupiter…’A ranger would kick us off the field and we said, ‘Where are we supposed to throw?’  Michael Wacha said Thursday.  Told the field was off limits, they asked if they could use the parking lot, so that’s what they did.”

Mike Vaccaro NY Post: Bidding in Mets sale makes this rare chance finally feel real. “The next opening to own a New York baseball team isn’t scheduled to arrive until sometime around 2048 or so, using history as our guide. Make the bids good ones, kids. You aren’t likely to get another shot for quite a while.”

Mike’s Mets: Nutmeg Can Barely Contain Her Excitement. “I've had to drop out of the bidding, as I was told a four-figure offer just wasn't going to cut it.” 

NY Post: Jimmy Kimmel producing 30 For 30 ESPN documentary on 1986 Mets.

NY Post: Mets players expect travel during pandemic to be ‘crazy’. “I know they want us in the [hotel] room as much as possible, away from the general public,’’ McNeil said. “I know when I’m on the road, I’m gonna be in my hotel most of the time, relaxing.”

Elliot Teichman 213 Miles From Shea updated his 2020 projections for the 60 game schedule. Part 1 included Pete Alonso hitting 16 homers vs. the 44 projected in a full season with projections also for Robinson Cano, Yoenis Céspedes, Michael Conforto and J.D. Davis.  Part 2 featured projections for Jake Marisnick, Jeff McNeil, Brandon Nimmo, Wilson Ramos, Amed Rosario and Dominic Smith.  

Brian Joura Mets 360: Drew Smith, Jacob Rhame and the 2017 deadline deal righty relievers.  Brian looks back at the 2017 deals that brought the Mets Drew Smith, Jacob Rhame and others with salary relief.

MLB.com: Prospects we wanted to see in Futures Game.  For the Mets - Ronny Mauricio: “Signed by the Mets for $2.1 million in July 2017, Mauricio spent his entire age-18 campaign in the Class A South Atlantic League, batting .268/.307/.378 in a circuit where the average player was 3.5 years his senior. It’s all about projection with Mauricio, who still has plenty of room to grow into his 6-foot-3, 166-pound frame, and evaluators expect his future strength gains to translate to above-average game power.”

Here’s the latest from Mets Baseball Cards Like They Ought To Be:   


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You Tube Mets Videos: Best of Alonso and Conforto - 2019 Season.


MLB LINKS:

Forbes.com: MLB Owners Will Look For Ways To Recover Millions In Lost Revenue. Writer Bernie Pleskoff thinks the owners will consider Expansion and Legalized Gambling.

USA Today:  One (weird) week down, two to go: MLB's 'mad dash' to opening day.

Yahoo Sports: Athletics' All-Star Matt Chapman says empty ballparks could be key to their success: 'We're used to it'.

Yahoo Sports: Joe West, MLB's coronavirus conspiracy theory umpire, should sit out 2020 season.

ESPN.com: Angels' Anthony Rendon wants music over 'dumb' piped-in fan noise.

ESPN.com: Discipline in a pandemic might be the ultimate competitive advantage in MLB.

AP News: The California Community College Athletic Association is moving all sports, even football, to the spring.

AP News: New extra-inning format stirs debate as teams plot strategy.

AP News: Baseball players get a peek at playing without fans.

Reflections On Baseball: MLB Short Season: On Why Pitchers Will Dominate Hitters. “Pitchers can throw against a barn or a backstop, retrieve the balls and do it all over again. Hitters need someone to throw the ball to them, and it’s quite that simple.”

MLB.com has “virtual backgrounds” of Major League Parks that you can download.

Minor League Baseball:


Asian Baseball:

Yesterday in Japan:

Yakult Swallows 8 Chunichi Dragons 6 Nori Aoki 1 for 1 as a pinch hitter (Box Score).

Today’s Yakult game was postponed.

Here is the Japan Baseball Scoreboard.

Yesterday in the KBO:

NC Dinos 8 SK Wyverns 2 Aaron Altherr 0 for 4, 1 run, 1 BB, 1 RBI (Box Score).

Aaron Altherr is back in CF for today’s game (Box Score).

Kia Tigers 10 KT Wiz 4 Drew Gagnon 4.1 innings, 7 hits, 3 runs, 3 BBs, 4 Ks (Box Score).

Chris Flexen is on the mound this morning for Doosan (Box Score).

Here is KBO’s Scoreboard.

Yesterday at Mack’s Mets:

John From Albany - Liking the Runner-On-Second Rule.

Mike's Mets - A Step Forward By Matz Would Be Huge.

Metstradamus - The Alternate Universe: Mets at Yankees 7-8-2020.

Mack’s Blast from the Past: Mets Minor League Report – July 10, 2014: Binghamton (55-37) blasts Portland (59 - 33) 13-3. Steven Matz: (W, 2-1) 5.1 IP, 3 R, 4 H, BB, 5 K; Jack Leathersich: 1.2 IP, 0 R, H, 0 BB, 3 K; Chase Huchingson: 1.0 IP, 0 R, 2 H, 0 BB, K; Cody Satterwhite: 1.0 IP, 0 R, 0 H, 0 BB, 3 K; Darrell Ceciliani: 2-5, 3B, 2 RBI, 2 R; Red hot Travis Taijeron: 2-4, HR, 2B, BB, 4 RBI, 2 R. (Four HRs in four games for Travis. In his last 10 games, Taijeron slashed .361/.452/.833 for an OPS of .1.286.)

Today in Mets History Per Ultimatemets.com:

Born on this date:
Transactions:

 New York Mets traded Brian Bohanon to the Los Angeles Dodgers for Greg McMichael on July 10, 1998.

New York Mets traded Ryan Church to the Atlanta Braves for Jeff Francoeur on July 10, 2009.

National Pastime.com: 

1984
At San Francisco's Candlestick Park, Dodger southpaw Fernando Valenzuela and Mets rookie Dwight Gooden combine to strike out six consecutive American League All-Stars on the 50th anniversary of Carl Hubbell's memorable 1934 Midsummer Classic performance of setting down five future Hall of Famers on strikes. Dwight Gooden, at the age of 19, becomes the youngest player ever to participate in an All-Star Game.
Baseball Reference:

1969 - The Cubs score five runs in the 5th inning to beat the Mets, 6 - 2, behind Bill Hands. The win halts the Mets' seven-game win streak and leaves the New Yorkers in 2nd place by four games.

1998 - The Mets trade P Brian Bohanon to the Dodgers in exchange for P Greg McMichael. In the team's game today, Benny Agbayani makes his major league debut, pinch-running in the 9th inning of an 8 - 8 game. He slips trying to steal and gets run down. Another Met runner is doubled off second base in the 10th and the Expos win, 9 - 8.

1999 - Matt Franco's two-out pinch-hit single off Mariano Rivera in the bottom of the 9th drives home two runs and gives the Mets a 9 - 8 win over the Yankees in a thrilling interleague battle. By doing so, the Mets end the Yankees' streak of 124 consecutive victories when leading after eight innings.

2009: The New York Mets deal Ryan Church to Atlanta for Jeff Francoeur in a trade of starting right fielders whose recent struggles have landed them on the bench.

Centerfield Maz:  Remembering Mets History: (1973) Mets Battle Cry "You Gotta Believe" is Born.

On this date in 1971 - Tug McGraw struck out nine Padres, establishing a Mets mark for most strikeouts in a game by a Mets reliever.

You tube:

Yankees at Mets 7 10 99 several newsclips. The Matt Franco Vs. Mariano walk-off game via news highlights.



7/10/13: Zack Wheeler, in his first career start against the Giants, allowed just one run over seven as the Mets cruised to the 7-2 win.



7/10/15: Syndergaard's gem lifts Mets past D-backs.


Jarred Kelenic Mets - First Home Run for Kingsport Mets 7-10-2018.



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1 comment:

Tom Brennan said...

Being sarcastic, I feel much more of a rivalry with Baltimore than with the Yanks, so I wish we had 6 against the Os and 2 against the Yanks, and not the other way around in 2021, which fittingly is SCHEDULED to open on April Fools Day (unless that holiday is changed, too).

Tell Anthony Rendon that piped-in crowd noise is for us, the TV fans. Not for them. Not dumb.

Jeff McNeil, I think the all time record is season batting .424, so please hit .425. Of course, when they hit .424, 82 MPH was probably considered a good heater.

I still believe Yo is a monster right now, until proven otherwise. Some want it to be proven to them. C'mon - be wide-eyed fan...Take a chance NOW...get on the socially distanced Monster Train.

July 10, 2020 at 6:51 AM

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