I will
not be able to comment today due to scheduled surgery.
John
Frascella (Football) (@NFLFrascella) posted at 11:00 PM on Sat, Nov 23, 2024:
Juan Soto
UPDATES:
1. Alex Cohen, the wife of Mets Owner Steve Cohen, is now
Following Juan Soto on Instagram.
2. Juan Soto is now Following Francisco
Lindor, Starling Marte & JD Martinez of
the Mets.
Samuel
Clemente @Samuelclemente
Cardenales
de Lara reports that shortstop and big leaguer Luisángel
Acuña suffered spasms in one of his legs on Friday night due to
dehydration. Therefore, he will be out of the lineup as a precaution.
Buster
Olney @Buster_ESPN
Sources
involved in the Juan Soto talks expect the teams
will begin forwarding offers this week. To date, the process has been about
Soto meeting with teams/club officials, and about those officials getting to
know Soto.
Mike
Mayer @mikemayer22
Carlos Cortes is signing a minor league deal with the Oakland A’s.
Cortes,
27, hit .246/.330/.456 with 16 home runs for the Triple-A Syracuse Mets in
2024.
Josh
Hejka @hedgertronic
A
starting pitcher who needs to throw 100 pitches once every 5 days has higher
volume and volume at peak intensity demands, while a short reliever who needs
to throw back-to-back days has a higher frequency demand.
Knowing
the requirements of your role specifically is crucial.
This is a
reason I believe more minor league relievers should throw back-to-backs.
If a
pitcher gets called up and starts throwing 3 out of 4 days in the majors, he
better have experienced a similar stress before if you want him to stay healthy
and continue pitching well.
Jim
Koenigsberger @Jimfrombaseball
"If
the people don't wanna come out to the ballpark, nobody's gonna stop 'em."
Yogi Berra
“You know
what this is? It’s a Polish joke stopper.”
Ted Kluszewski talking about either one of his equally powerful fists.
White Sox
owner Bill Veeck introduced uniforms with the player's last name on the back of
the jersey.
On a road
trip to New York, Kluszewski became the
first player to appear in a game with a misspelled name which had a backwards "z" as well as an
"x" instead of the second "k".
"In
1955, when the Dodgers won their only Championship for Brooklyn, that was more
than just a World Series victory. It was a crowning point for a Borough that had given its heart to the
ballclub & had been disappointed so
many times. I can remember when that game ended in Yankee Stadium. Suddenly, the Bronx was in a
football mode. Fall had arrived. And we went through the Battery Tunnel, came
out on the Brooklyn side and hallelujah
it was like VE Day & VJ Day! I mean there
was dancing in the streets, block parties, stores were closed. That
really stays in your mind and in your heart as well"
Vin Scully
Mack – I was eight year old when this happened and
yet I remember it like it was yesterday. Our house was a Dodger house and my
father, my brother, and I watched this on our old Muntz TV. Sandy, Mom died two
years earlier.
"The
Baker Bowl"
One of
the Phillies' first stadiums, featured 60ft wall in right field. For a number
of years, a huge advertising sign on RF wall read "The Phillies Use Lifebuoy",
a popular brand of soap.
In `36, a
vandal broke in & wrote "and they still stink!" on the ad!
"The
best Major League ballplayer I ever saw was Willie Mays. Ruth beat you with the
bat. Ted Williams beat you with the bat. Joe DiMaggio beat you with the bat,
his glove and his arm. But Willie Mays could beat you with the bat, with power,
his glove, his arm and with the running. He could beat you any way that's
possible."
Buck O`Neil
MLB
Pipeline @MLBPipeline
Here are
the compensation picks each team will get in the 2025 Draft (in the order
listed) if these free agents sign with another team:
Mets: Three
picks at the end of the 4th rounds for Alonso, Manaea, and Severino.
Mack – not a first rounder,
but better than anything.
Some past fourth rounders: Ricky Henderson, Ozzie Smith, Jeff Bagwell,
Yadier Molina
The
Athletic @TheAthletic
Roki Sasaki's next team will likely break pre-existing verbal commitments with a
number of Latin American players to sign him, writes Ken Rosenthal. Depriving
those players of life-changing money isn’t right. And baseball should not allow
it to happen.
Joe Doyle @JoeDoyleMiLB
Hope this isn’t the case. Sasaki will make upwards of $30
million annually in sponsors and endorsements immediately. The one-time ~$5
million bonus he can command on the IFA market is a drop in the bucket.
The Mets
have signed RHP Justin Hagenman to a one-year
major league contract.
28-years
old
6-3 205
4 yrs –
302.2-IP, 4.19, 25-7%-K Rate, 7.5%-walk rate.
Swingman in 2024 – 91.2-IP, 4.91, 24.5%, 7.8%
Gave ucp 21-HRs (21.4% per flyball).
Split contract
- $850K in the majors and $225K in the minors.
Low 90s
FB – best pitch is his changeup
Mets 40
now stands at 34.
Mack – Three recent signings (RHP Justin Hagenman
to MLB Deal; UT Donovan Walton, OF Rafael Ortega) are not going to make big
headlines, but they are necessary to do this time of the year. Many of their
minor league players at the AAA level are now free agents and these slots need
to be filled. Who knows? Maybe they can find another OMG guy.
11 comments:
Lots of interesting tidbits. I danced in my living room in October 1986. I'm ready to dance again.
If WIllie Mays didn't lose so many HRs and doubles to the Candlestick wind, his elite greatness would have even been more obvious.
I will follow Soto - on TV - if he becomes a Met.
Hopefully the surgery goes with surgical precision, and you are only on the 7 days minors IL.
Very happy for Carlos Cortes to get a shot at the majors in Oakland. He did not strike out a lot, so he has a decent chance of making the bigs and having some success. But, for the Mets, a busted 3rd round pick, because he never made the bigs for us.
As I take stock of the five teams that have made offers, I brake them down as SNY sort of did two days ago:
Yankees: short porch, Judge is already 31 and will be declining, system is mediocre, love NYC and endorsements but probably not the daily beat of reporters.
Mets: pitcher’s park, Lindor is hitting lead off and Alonso signing means nothing, system is mediocre, love NYC and endorsements but not the daily beat of reporters.
Dodgers: Neutral park, lots of offense, good system, fans are more interested in who is sitting in the crowd and endorsements will be going to Ohtani.
Red Sox: Hitter’s park, great system with four top-25 prospects almost ready, some good offense already, David Ortiz from D.R. showed Beantown can love a stranger so endorsements will be coming.
Blue Jays: good park, no system, Vlad is a free agent next year, hockey town so endorsements will be spotty.
If it was me, it’s pretty obvious where I go if the money were similar, which I expect it to be. He doesn’t need endorsements with almost a billion in revenue, but, who knows? I am going to Boston.
Good luck Mack.
Good luck, Mack.
I am a little to young to remember the '55 Brooklyn Dodgers. What I do remember is my neighbor whose license plate was "MVP 55". At the time he was coaching in LA but was home for the All Star break. He walked down the street and played catch with our son, and had lemonade and cookies afterwards. Johnny Podres and his wife were very private people and rarely visited anyone in the neighbor. But that one day....
Willie Mays was my Dad's favorite player. He said he was the best player he'd ever seen. Hank Aaron was up there too
Good luck Mack...hope for a speedy recovery.
If I had been alive and following baseball through the 50's, I suspect I would have been a Dodgers fan, although I have always thought that Willie Mays was the best all around baseball player ever.
I had 2 thoughts when I read this: "Cardenales de Lara reports that Luisángel Acuña suffered spasms in one of his legs on Friday night due to dehydration. Therefore, he will be out of the lineup as a precaution." First thought? Drink more fluids. Second thought? Thankfully, he did not try to play thru it.
Thinking of you Mack. On Acuna thank God it wasn't his ACL. Anyone hear anything on Mauricio?
Good luck, Mack.
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