Winter ball updates below and more on Yoenis
Cespedes.
Some of the best bloggers in the business looked at the Yoenis
Cespedes Boar story.
Mets 360 had a story
about Edwin Diaz and Bold Predictions. “Here’s a bold prediction. Edwin Diaz
will be better next year. The peripheral stats support that. An expectation
that he won’t be better is just pessimistic. He was literally the worst closer
in baseball last year. He could just be average and that would be significantly
better.”
Mets 360 also had an
in depth analysis of “The root of Wilson Ramos’ struggles and how to plan for
2020.” Way too much data to quickly
summarize but here is the final “takeaway” – “Utilizing the exaggerated results
of most of the Mets pitchers between the two catchers makes it a strong
possibility to have the 26th man be a catcher and have Nido
take over late in games to help the bullpen’s results, and let Nido
catch Syndergaard.”
Amazing
Avenue continued to run down the top 25 Mets Prospects with number 21
– Dedniel
Nunez and number 20 - Adrian
Hernandez.
The
Daily News says the “Mets need J.D. Davis to follow in J.D. Martinez’s
footsteps.” The article notes how both players saw better results after
adjusting their swings.
Rising
Apple says why the Mets bullpen is not the best in baseball: “…there are
holes left. There are questions about the ability of far too many of these guys
to declare it the best around.”
Empire
Sports Media asked if Robinson Cano is capable of bouncing back. “He needs to work in strengthening his legs
muscles, among other things. However, if the New York Mets can have a healthy Cano,
good things are in store.”
213
Miles from Shea is looking at their 2019 projections for each Mets player and
comparing it to the actual 2019 results.
Yesterday they looked at Brandon
Nimmo’s projection vs. result.
Reflections
on Baseball talked about the Mets lack of situational hitting in 2019. Great points including the following Mets
ranks out of the 15 National League Teams from the Baseball Reference Website: Grounded
into double plays (2nd most); Productive
outs make (Successful advancement of a runner) (12th); Percentage of baserunners
who scored (10th); Runner advanced with none out and a runner on second (dead
last); Runners left on base (4th most); Strikeouts (11th most).
Yahoo.com
on the status of the lawsuit from a group of minor league players suing Major
League Baseball over alleged illegally low wages. “MLB had sought to
prevent a 2014 lawsuit brought by minor league baseball players seeking minimum
wage and overtime pay from proceeding as a class action, but the Ninth Circuit
court in San Francisco has denied the league’s request.”
Per MLB Trade Rumors, The
Nationals resigned Asdrubal Cabrera.
Last night in the Puerto Rican
Winter League and in the Dominican League, no current Mets saw action. Here are some notable ex-Mets that did:
In the Dominican, the Aguilas
Cibaenas beat the Leones
del Escogido 7-5 (box).
In that game, Carlos
Gomez played center field and went 1 for 4, with an RBI and a walk.
Cesar
Puello went 0 for 3 with a walk and 2 strikeouts.
Jonathan
Niese started for the Aguilas
Cibaenas going 5 innings giving up 3 runs on 7 hits with 3 walks and
3 strikeouts.
2019 Syracuse Mets Pitcher Arquimedes
Caminero went one scoreless inning giving up one hit and recorded one
strikeout.
In the other game, the Toros
Del Este beat the Tigres
del Licey 2-1 (box).
Jordany
Valdespin played right field and went 0-3 with a walk and a run
scored.
Ramon E. Ramirez
recorded the save pitching the ninth but it was not easy. The pitcher the Mets obtained in the Angel Pagan
trade to the Giants gave up three singles to load the bases then balked in a
run before striking out the final batter of the game. In all, Ramon gave up 3 hits, one run, a
balk, and two strikeouts.
In Puerto Rico, just one ex-Met was in action as Juan
Centeno caught, went 0 for 3 with a walk and a run scored as the Cangrejeros
de Santurce beat the Atenienses
de Manati 8-6 (box).
We haven’t looked at the Venezuela League in a while but
three ex-Mets continue to play.
Wuilmer
Becerra is still in the top ten batting in the league with a .325 Batting Average
with a .393 OBP and .413 SLG with 2 homers and 19 RBIs.
Wilfredo
Tovar was over .300 for a large part of the season. He is now hitting .293, 2 HR, 20 RBIs, .331
OBP, .414 SLG.
Ronny Cedeno
is hitting .230 in 38 games, 135 at bats, 3 HRs, 18 RBIs, .298 OBP, .341 SLG.
In Australia, Gavin
Cecchini has not played since 12/21/19.
He hit .278 in 19 games, 2 HR, 8 RBIs, 18 strikeouts, 2 Stolen Bases,
.303 OBP, .417 SLG.
Mack’s
Blast from the past comes again from January 2011: Mack previewed more players
coming up in the 2011 draft. This
list included a pitcher named Gerrit Cole.
UltimateMets has the date
in Mets History:
Born on this date:
- Charlie Hough (1948)
- Norichika Aoki (1982)
Died on this date:
- Rogers Hornsby (1963)
- Tug McGraw (2004)
- Rick Down (2019)
Transactions:
New York Mets traded Vince Coleman to the Kansas City Royals for Kevin McReynolds on January 5, 1994.
New York Yankees signed Miguel
Cairo of the New York Mets as a free agent on
January 5, 2006.
New York Mets signed free agent David
Newhan of the Baltimore Orioles on
January 5, 2007.
New York Mets traded Corey Coles and Ryan Meyers to
the Chicago Cubs for Angel
Pagan on January 5, 2008.
New York Mets signed free agent Jason
Bay of the Boston Red Sox on
January 5, 2010.
Milwaukee Braves signed Eric
Young of the New York Mets as a free agent on
January 5, 2016.
New York Mets traded Bobby
Wahl, Adam Hill and
Felix Valerio to the Milwaukee Brewers for Keon
Broxton on January 5, 2019.
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6 comments:
Incredible coverage John. Do you sleep?
Thanks Gus. Just love baseball. I would rather follow a Dominican, Australian, or Puerto Rican game on my phone than watch football.
And if I ran the MLB Network, I would be broadcasting these games.
That’s a very good point. I wonder if they feel that they wouldn’t sell enough ads to cover costs? And do these leagues play at night, when people may get home to tune in and see? I’m surprised that they don’t do a little bit during the winter, maybe playoffs only.
Or at least the Caribbean Series that starts in February before Spring Training starts.
The Theoretical
True, the 2020 NY Mets have a lot of one year contracts looming heading into the 2021 season, and with really good players. However, is it not within at least "theoretical reason" to conceivably try and think of a way to acquire Mookie Betts for here now?
Good question and who knows.
Humor me some.
Matz ($5.3 million), Conforto ($9.2 million), and Gimenez ($.583 million), plus $4.0 million cash for Betts ($20.0 million), Chavis ($.583 million), and McGrath (.583 million).
Reasoning behind.
The Red Sox may need another starter to go with Sale, Rodriques, Hernandez, and Price, and Matz costs a lot less than Marcus Stroman would at his $11.8 million salary. Conforto would take over Fenway left or right field, with Gimenez being their heir apparent at second base should Pedroia fail at his comeback bid with the knee thing.
The Red Sox would send to the NYM CF Mookie Betts (with Brandon Nimmo moving over to right field.) They also would get multi-positional utility man Michael Chavis to back up second and third base, and solid young lefty starter Daniel McGrath who would open up in AAA with Tom Szapucki as possible mid-season call-ups and injury insurance starters. (Kevin Smith and David Peterson would be vying for the seventh reliever spot out of camp.)
With Stroman in this trade idea (instead of Matz) the Mets may need to send maybe $7.0 million cash.
Who knows, I just woke up.
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