5/18/20

John From Albany – Mets Breakfast Links 5/18/2020



Good Morning, Happy Birthday Steve Phillips, Nelson Figueroa, and Connor Wollersheim, and Art Howe is released from the Hospital.


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.''

Mets Links:

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. 


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.”








MLB LINKS:

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?”



Asian Baseball:


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.










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:
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:

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:

Mack Ade said...

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.

John From Albany said...

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.

Raw said...

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.

Tom Brennan said...

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?

Tony said...

It's good to hear Art got released from the hospital