Good Morning, Happy Birthday Steve Phillips, Nelson
Figueroa, and Connor
Wollersheim, and Art Howe is released from the Hospital.
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Yahoo
Sports: Former major league manager and infielder Art Howe was released from a
Houston hospital Sunday after a stay in intensive care because of the
coronavirus. ''Relief, back in my own bedroom. It's just sweet,'' the
73-year-old Howe said. ''It was a long five days or so. I'm finally feeling a
little bit better. Still not able to eat real good, taste buds are giving me a
hard time. It's just nice to be back home and hopefully continue to progress.''
Mike’s
Mets had two pieces on the MLB’s plans to restart in “It Ain't
Going to Be Easy” and “The
Obstacles in Our Way”.
Mets360.com: Jerry
Krause and the New York Mets connection. Writer Dalton Allison notes that
Jerry Krause was one of the main White Sox executives that pushed to pick Tom Seaver
off the Mets before the start of the 1984 season.
Brian Joura
Mets360.com: Mets hitters and under the radar fluke numbers. Brian looks at David
Wright, Lance
Johnson, Bernard
Gilkey and others with stats that only Brian can.
Mike
Puma NY Post: Dominic
Smith may have stumbled onto his greatest Mets strength. “Smith, 24,
had a .282/.355/.525 slash line with 11 homers and 25 RBIs in 177 at-bats last
season. Some of his best swings came off the bench — he posted a 1.002 OPS in
games he didn’t start.
Metsmerized
Online: MMO Top 5 Prospects: Shortstop.
No 5. William
Lugo, No. 4 Wilmer
Reyes, No. 3 Shervyen
Newton, No. 2 Andres
Gimenez, No. 1 Ronny
Mauricio. About Wilmer Reyes they say: “In leading the Cyclones to
their first ever championship, Reyes was among the league leaders in multiple
categories. His aggressive contact-first approach leads to very few walks, yet
in 2019 his results showed an ability to find the holes in the defense while
constantly getting the bat on the ball. He cut his strikeout percentage almost
in half from 2018 (30.8% to 16.8%) and showed some power, hitting a career-high
five home runs. Reyes also won over a lot of evaluators with his defensive
showing. Having a strong arm capable of making any throw from anywhere on the
field tends to do that.”
AP
News: New MLB rules: shower at home, don’t spit, Mr Met stay away. “Team
personnel will be banned from eating at restaurants on road trips. Even the
Phillie Phantic and Mr. Met will be missing, banned from the field along with
all other team mascots…Teams will be allowed to have 50 players each under the
plan, with the number active for each game still be negotiated.”
Ken
Davidoff: MLB’s proposed coronavirus rules could compromise quality of the game. Ken runs down the rules including “Shutting
down the stadium’s amenities…closing off of the saunas, steam rooms,
hydrotherapy pools and cryotherapy chambers as well as discouraging the usage
of indoor batting cages…If they can’t manage their bodies to the extent to
which they have become accustomed, will we see an increase in injuries?”
No games in Korea or Taiwan today.
Yesterday it was NC Dinos 11 SK 5. Aaron Altherr
2 for 5 with 2 RBIs and a run scored. (Box
score). Aaron is hitting .205 in 11 games, 34 Abs, 7 hits, 1 HR, 4
RBI, 2 SB, 11K’s, 1BB.
Chris
Flexen, 2 games, 2-0, 3.75 ERA, 12 innings, 13 hits, 5 runs (all earned), 2
BB, 12 Ks, 1.250 WHIP.
Drew
Gagnon, 2 games, 0-2, 6.10 ERA, 10.1 innings, 12 hits, 8 runs, 7 earned, 3
BB, 14 Ks, 1.452 WHIP.
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— Rob Friedman (@PitchingNinja) May 17, 2020
WHAT A PLAY!!
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The @CTBC_Brothers infield executes the perfect play to catch the double-steal by the #UniLions! The call was later confirmed by video replay.#CPBL #CPBLwithFans #BaseballwithFans #Livebaseball pic.twitter.com/GukVEJStHK
Mack
– Draft News – Brian Van Belle, Jesse Franklin, Dillon Dingler, Clayton Beeter,
Markevian Hence.
Mack’s
Blast From The Past: Mack Ade – Morning Report – 5-18-13. Mack looked at
players that could have an impact in 2014 including: 2B-1B – Wilmer
Flores – AAA: .265/.317/.429/.746,3-HR, 25-RBI, 5-E; C – Travis
d’Arnaud – (DL) - AAA: .250/.429/.472/.901, 1-HR 8-RBI, 1-E; SP – Zack
Wheeler – AAA – 8-ST, 2-1, 3.74, 1.34, 43.1-IP, 47-K, 18-BB.
Born May 17:
- Dick Smith (1939)
- David
Roseboom
(1992)
Transactions:
New York Mets released Yogi Berra on May 17, 1965.
New York Mets released Raul Gonzalez on May 17, 2004.
New York Mets released Frank Catalanotto on May 17, 2010.
Houston Astros signed Kyle Farnsworth of the New
York Mets as a free agent on May 17, 2014.
Born on this date:
- Steve Phillips (1963)
- Nelson Figueroa (1974)
- Connor
Wollersheim (1997)
1992 - Bruce Hurst of the San Diego Padres pitches
a one-hit, 3 - 0 shutout against the New York Mets and Dwight Gooden. The only
hit is a single by the recently-acquired Chico Walker.
2011: Five different games end in shutouts
today. ESPN.com: Jonathan
Niese pitched seven sharp innings and Justin
Turner added to his surprising tear with a two-run double that sent New
York to a 3-0 victory over the light-hitting Washington Nationals on Wednesday
night. (Box Score).
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5 comments:
Great news about Mr. Howe.
Already gave my birthday blessings to Nelson this morning. Suck a great guy and a loss to SNY.
First think I would do if I owned the Mets waiting for permission when players can be negotiated with... revamp SNY... dump Cerrone and Martino... return Bob Ojeda to after game commentary and build new noon hour show with Nelly and Kevin Kernan as co-hosts.
Lastly, name The Fonz as bench coach.
Great ideas for SNY Mack. Instead of firing Cerrone, I would suggest that they give us more Matt. Since he merged with SNY he has not blogged as much. That was what made the site good to begin with.
I see that the Florida Summer College league plans on playing this summer. Players are to report in Mid June. So it looks like we might have some baseball in the states even if the MLB does not play.
Howe about that??!! Put that one in the Win Column.
Smith could break out this year...he is still 24. Last year, Alonso was 25, JD Davis was 26. What did the latter two do at age 24?
It's good to hear Art got released from the hospital
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