Joe Pantorno/amNew York - Mets DFA Darin Ruf, Tim Locastro to make Opening Day roster -
The New York Mets’ Darin Ruf experiment is officially over — and it couldn’t have gone much worse.
As first reported by Joel Sherman of the New York Post on Monday, the Mets opted to cut ties with the 36-year-old designated hitter after a miserable spring followed a disastrous three months in Queens following his acquisition from the San Francisco Giants at the trade deadline.
In hopes of creating a DH platoon with Daniel Vogelbach — a left-handed bat who does well against right-handed pitching — Ruf failed to live up to his track record of feasting off left-handed pitching, batting just .152 (10-for-66) with no home runs and seven RBI across 28 games for the club.
New York gave up four players in the deal, most notably veteran JD Davis who couldn’t run away with the team’s DH job that prompted GM Billy Eppler to acquire Vogelbach and Ruf last summer. The Mets also gave up left-handed pitcher Thomas Szapucki, and other pitching prospects Nick Zwack and Carson Seymour.
6 comments:
Washed up. Adios. Very bad trade needed to be addressed.
If he clears waivers, I'd still offer him a minor league deal, to give him a chance at redemption.
I would not dance this dance again.
Horrible trade.
Yes, it has been awful. But right now, the alternative RH DH is Pham, whose career record is worse than Ruf's.
Ruf is done…fork, please.
I have comments on the trade tomorrow.
I see Vientos getting called back real soon to become RHDH and backup 1B
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