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Joel
Sherman NY Post: MLB 2020 season threatened by utter compensation nonsense.
“They can’t do it. Right? There is no way — regardless of both the historic and
current bad blood — that MLB and the Players Association are going to shut down
the game this year over player compensation. That would be so
shoot-yourself-in-the-brain, assure-the-negative-first-line-in-your obituary
stupid that not even these two hostile sides can navigate there.”
Mike’s Mets
also had “Flash in the Pan, Part 2” talking about Mike Jacobs,
Kris
Benson, and Doug
Mientkiewicz.
Mike
Puma NY Post: Steven Matz needs to stay focused as his Mets spotlight grows.
“You take the first inning out and his numbers are a lot better, but he’s
streaky,” the former team official said. “But he’s a tremendous athlete.
Everybody talks about Noah
Syndergaard being a hard worker, Steven Matz
is right there with him, he works just as hard.”
CBS
Sports: Jacob deGrom is on a run that could send him to the Hall of Fame -- but
he needs it to continue in 2020. The shorter the 2020 season, the more Jacob
deGrom's Hall of Fame candidacy is hindered.
SNY.TV:
Mets' Pete Alonso
says he 'can almost sniff the season'.
SNY.TV:
Mets' Noah
Syndergaard on 2021 season: 'I fully intend to be ready for next
Opening Day'.
NY
Post: Jake
Marisnick gives defensive upgrade the Mets sorely need.
Rising Apple:
Mets 2020 Draft: Why a five-round draft is bad news for New York. “…picking
up some sleeper pick in the later rounds was a key part of New York’s plan for
long term success, and unfortunately, now that those rounds have been
eliminated this could have a long-lasting effect on the Mets. For example, key
players for the Mets last season like Jeff McNeil
(12th round), Seth Lugo
(34th round), and Robert
Gsellman (13th round) were all selected after this years draft cut
off was set…”
Elite
Sports NY: Mets should keep an eye on Odrisamer Despaigne this season. “While
this is just his first season in Korea, Odrisamer
Despaigne, 33, will likely attract a ton of attention from many MLB teams
in 2020.”
Rising
Apple: Can Marcus
Stroman really snatch the Cy Young from Jacob
deGrom?
Metsmerized
Online: I’m Scared For MLB’s Future. “If they have the game’s best interest
at heart, then why cut down a draft that we know produces some of the game’s
best talent (Jacob deGrom, Jeff McNeil, and Mike Piazza to name a few) in the
late rounds, down to only five?”
Metsmerized
Online: Metsmerizing Moves: Mets Acquire Keith
Hernandez.
Remembering
Mets History (1982): Rusty Staub's
Walk Off Pinch Hit HR, May 9, 1982.
CBS
Sports: MLB coronavirus antibody study results: Less than 1 percent of
participants test positive. MLB employees participated in the large study
starting last month.
SNY.TV:
Mets, Yankees employees among highest positive rates in MLB coronavirus test:
report. Of the 5,603 employees tested, only 60 positive cases were found. “According
to The Athletic, it was the Angels employees that had the highest rate in this
test that is the largest of its kind to date. However, the Mets and Yankees
followed, though Bhattacharya said the rates recorded were lower than counties
in which they play.”
CBS
Sports: MLB plan for 2020 season to include approximately 80 games and expanded
playoffs, report says. The DH will be used in both leagues in order to
spare pitchers from additional fatigue and wear and tear.
AP
News: If games resume, athletes will ‘need to know when to peak’. “For
players, the difference between merely working out and playing games will be a
significant jump and experts say things shouldn’t be rushed.”
Yahoo
Sports: Cardinals' Andrew
Miller: MLB players want 'guaranteed safety' before returning.
Yahoo
Sports: ESPN leaks Trevor
Bauer's phone number in a 'massive screw up,' but Bauer turns it into
something good.
CBS
Sports: Agent rips MLB's deal to cut the draft to five rounds, calls it
'self-inflicted sabotage'. “Jeff Berry, co-head
of CAA Baseball: ‘Particularly given the negligible economic impact to
what's already a cheap acquisition cost, this approach is grossly shortsighted.
To drastically reduce opportunity and talent and talent pools, it stunts growth
and diversity at all levels and is really a self-inflicted sabotage of the
long-term health and popularity of the game.’”
Daily
Camera.com: Saunders: MLB’s five-round draft is another blow for minor-league
baseball. Big-league owners want savings now in the wake of the coronavirus
pandemic.
Poughkeepsie
Journal: Hudson Valley Renegades release comprehensive safety guidelines for
upcoming season. Cashless payments, Limited
tickets sold for each game, Increased sanitation, Temperature checks for all
employees and interns, to name a few.
Baseball
Mexico: Former Rockies All-Star Vinny Castilla was formally fired last week as
manager of the Mexican Pacific League Naranjeros. Also, “Playing dates for
the 2021 Caribbean Series in Mazatlan have been tentatively set Sunday, January
31 and Saturday, February 6 next winter.”
The
Korea Herald: For love of the game: with KBO on ESPN, American fans happy to
watch live baseball.
LG Twins 10 NC Dinos 8 (Box
Score). Aaron
Altherr played CF and went 1 for 4.
Here
is the KBO scoreboard for yesterday. No KBO games today.
Also, no games in Taiwan today. In the CBPL yesterday it was the Uni lions 10 Fubon Guardians
2 (Line
Score).
Rakuten Monkeys 5 CTBC Brothers 4 (Line Score).
Mack’s Blast
From The Past May 11, 2012: Baseball America Mock Draft v1.0. Baseball America had the Mets picking GAVIN
CECCHINI at #12. Pretty good
guess.
Born May 10:
- Jim Hickman (1937)
- Pete Schourek (1969)
- Craig Brazell (1980)
- Adonis
Uceta (1994)
Transactions:
New York Mets signed free agent Tom Sturdivant on May 10, 1964.
New York Mets traded Larry
Elliot to the Kansas City
Athletics for Ed
Charles on May 10, 1967.
New York Mets purchased Bob
Johnson and John Miller from the Baltimore
Orioles on May 10, 1967.
New York Mets traded Jason Felice to the Minnesota Twins for Bill
Latham on May 10, 1987.
Minnesota
Twins claimed Adam
Wilk of the New York Mets on waivers on May 10,
2017.
Born today May 11:
- Jerry Martin (1949)
- Walt Terrell (1958)
- Ryder
Ryan
(1995)
Transactions:
New York Mets purchased Chuck Hiller from the San Francisco Giants on May 11, 1965.
New
York Mets traded Charlie
Williams to the San Francisco
Giants for Willie
Mays on May 11, 1972.
New
York Mets traded Ricky Nelson to the Cleveland
Indians for Don
Schulze on May 11, 1987.
Pittsburgh
Pirates claimed Mark
Dewey of the New York Mets on waivers on May 11,
1993.
New
York Mets traded Mike
Remlinger to the Cincinnati Reds for Cobi Cradle on May 11, 1995.
1972
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The cash-strapped Giants, after
promising the club would never trade him, send Willie Mays to New York, the
city where he began his Hall of Fame career in 1951, for right-hander Charlie
Williams and $50,000 cash. San Francisco owner Horace Stoneham, who could not
guarantee his aging superstar an income after the outfielder retired,
extracts a promise from the Mets that they will pay the 'Say Hey Kid' $50,000
a year for the ten years after the future Hall of Famer stops playing.
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1996
|
On 'John Franco Day,' the New York
veteran reliever is ejected from the game, along with eight other players, as
the result of participating in a fifth-inning bench-clearing brawl at Shea
Stadium. Prior to the game the Mets celebrated their closer's recent 300th
career save, but his unavailability in the ninth leads to three hurlers
combining to give up the tying runs in the team's eventual 7-6 walk-off
victory over Chicago.
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1998
|
Striking out 13 Diamondbacks,
Cubs' Kerry Wood sets a major league record for strikeouts in consecutive
games with 33 in two games. The previous record for strikeouts (32) in two
starts was held by Luis Tiant (1968 - Indians), Nolan Ryan (1974 - Angels),
Dwight Gooden (1984 - Mets), and Randy Johnson (1997 - Mariners).
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1999
|
For the first time this century,
two starting major league pitchers share the same name as the Rockies
southpaw Bobby M. Jones bests right hander Bobby J. Jones and the Mets.
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2008
|
At Shea Stadium, a 13-minute delay
occurs in the beginning of the ninth of the Mets' 8-3 victory over the Reds,
when David Ross bats out of order, making an out in Corey Patterson's place
in the lineup. The very confused umpires eventually make the correct call,
telling Ross to bat again, now with one out, without his teammate having an
opportunity to come to the plate.
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2012
|
The Mets play their 8,000th game
in franchise history, dropping a 6-5 decision in Miami when closer Frank
Francisco allows the tying and winning runs to score in the bottom of the
ninth inning. During the thousand game span, the Amazins have compiled a
515-485 record, with third baseman David Wright being the team's top home run
hitter and run producer with 143 round-trippers and 595 RBIs.
|
1972 - Tom
Seaver wins his 100th game in a 2 - 1 New
York Mets victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Mets also acquire veteran
outfielder Willie Mays from the San Francisco Giants for pitcher Charlie Williams and $50,000.
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3 comments:
Regarding Gavin Glenn Christopher Joseph Cecchini...
In my book, he easily goes down as the worst draft pick of the 21st century. It isn't just about what we wound up with, but who we lost with that draft pick.
The Mets were poised to pick pitcher Lucas Giolito until that last minute look at him in Queens (in the batting cage) right before the draft.
Mack - your revelation makes the pick even more interesting. You wonder if the Mets chose Gavin based on the Baseball America write up? Also, so many great SS in that draft - Mets took one of the few who didn't stick.
Mack, that Cecchini pick made zero sense. Let's say you draft a high skills guy (great speed, great power) and he flops. Happens. But Cecchini was a 2nd or 3rd round talent, with no high skills.
Boy, that Great John Franco article - he sure was great.
I liked Joel Sherman's idea on player compensation - because the players' careers in most cases are very finite, and for owners, this is hopefully just a one year meteor strike then back to normal for the decades to come. His pay proposal makes sense from a cash flow perspective.
Also, if owners have to borrow for a period of time, they can probably get extraordinarily low rates, and a dollar of interest saved is a dollar earned.
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