2/8/22

Mets News and Breakfast Links 2/8/2022

 

Photo by Trevor Williams via twitter

Good Morning.  Baseball Lockout - Day 68. Keith Law ranks the Mets Minors at 21; MLB Owners Meeting gets underway in Orlando Florida, and MLB stops drug testing due to the Lockout.

Section Links: Mets Links, MLB Links, and This Day in Mets History.

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Keith Law of The Athletic ranked Baseball's Minor League Systems.  The Mets came in 21st down from 19th last year.  Keith called the system "Top-Heavy" with 4 players in the top 100 - "but a series of trades - some ill advised - has badly depleted the system despite a decade of extremely productive drafts and some big hits on the international side" (subscription required).  


Danny Abriano SNY.TV: Why Mets shouldn't trade Jeff McNeil this offseason. Danny sees Jeff's biggest problems last year were related to a team wide inability to hit the fastball and thinks that unless they plan to make a big offensive addition, the Mets should keep McNeil.

SNY.TV: Max Scherzer preparing for first Mets season amid lockout: 'I’m ramping up to go' 'I’d rather just get out there and build my arm up and be ready at any point in time'.

Rising Apple: Why the Mets will miss Aaron Loup - "his ability to limit home runs and hard contact".

Mets360.com: Connecting the lawsuit of Brian Flores versus the NFL and the on-going MLB lockout. (Subscription required)

Syracuse Mets.com: Nine of the Most Significant Black Players in Syracuse Baseball History.  Choo-Choo Coleman makes the list when Syracuse was the Mets Farm team in 1962.

Faith and Fear in Flushing Greg Prince discusses his new Podcast venture "National League Town" in "Let Me Whisper In Your Ear"

Prime Time Sports Talk has their Top 5 Mets Prospects: 1. C. Francisco Alvarez, 2. RHP Matthew Allan; 3. Inf/OF Mark Vientos; 4. 3B/OF Brett Baty and 5. SS Ronnie Mauricio. 

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AP Sports: MLB, players stop drug testing during lockout. "Testing for steroids was halted for the first time in nearly 20 years due to the expiration of the sport’s drug agreement between management and the players’ association, two people familiar with the sport’s Joint Drug Program told The Associated Press."

New York Times: As Baseball Fights Over the Short Term, Long-Term Problems Loom. Points include: "Take the starting pitcher. He’s the guy who draws you to the ballpark, the TV, the gambling app. He’s disappearing, and that’s a major problem. In 2011, there were 39 pitchers who worked 200 innings. A decade later, there were four....Baseball achieved two dubious records last season: longest average game time (3 hours 11 minutes) and most pitchers used per team (4.43 per game, tied with 2020). The average time between balls in play was about four minutes. Teams averaged nearly nine strikeouts per game, while stolen bases (0.46 per game) plunged to a 50-year low."







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Today in Mets History Per Ultimatemets.com: 

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New York Mets signed free agent Rey Ordonez on February 8, 1994.

New York Mets signed free agent Rich Rodriguez on February 8, 2000.

New York Mets signed free agent Justin Hampson on February 8, 2011.

San Francisco Giants signed Elmer Dessens of the New York Mets as a free agent on February 8, 2011.

New York Mets signed free agent Brandon Lyon of the Toronto Blue Jays on February 8, 2013.

Arizona Diamondbacks signed Tyler Clippard of the New York Mets as a free agent on February 8, 2016.

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2010 - The Leones del Escogido, representing the Dominican League, win the 2010 Caribbean Series with a 7 - 4 victory over the Leones del Caracas of the Venezuelan League in La Asunción, Nueva Esparta, Venezuela. Escogido finishes the tournament with a 5-1 record and Mets OF prospect Fernando Martinez is named the Series' MVP after hitting .348 with 2 homers and 4 RBI. It is Escogido's third Caribbean championship and first since 1990.



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3 comments:

Tom Brennan said...

Glad to see Reese made $475,000 yesterday.

I wonder how those 1911 .400+ hitters would do in today's game. No coaching, just let them do their thing. Would they hit .300? They never had to face Jake deGrom or Craig Kimbrel in his prime or Josh Hader.

Lots and lots of stuff here.

I saw the article on Trout not being # 1 outfielder any more. Fantasy ball guys have him 6th. 3 guys in the Mets' division (Soto, Acuna, Harper) higher. NO 2021 METS in the top 20 OF list, so Houston, we have a problem. We seem to have gone a long way to fixing it as all 3 fantasy graders have Starling Marte at # 9.


February 8, 2022 at 7:21 AM
John From Albany said...

Trout can slip all he wants on the Fantasy Lists - I will take him. He has been hurt lately so that is why he has dropped. Of course, the Mets seem to get guys on the back end of their career. I'd still take him in a heartbeat though the Angels won't give him up.

February 8, 2022 at 7:48 AM
Tom Brennan said...

When fully healthy, Mike = Mickey.

February 8, 2022 at 8:00 AM

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