6/22/20

John From Albany – Mets Breakfast Links 6/22/2020


Good Morning.  Happy Birthday Ron Hodges.  Rob Manfred tweaks the proposal, and Players delay the vote.


Mets Links:


Faith and Fear in Flushing Shaun Fitzmaurice 1966’s A Met for All Seasons.


Rising Apple: Mets could regret letting Steven Matz leave more than Noah Syndergaard. Writer Tim Boyle makes the case that with Thor’s Tommy John operation, there are no guarantees Thor will be the better pitcher in the future.

Rising Apple: Mets: Vulgar or not, Pete Alonso is exactly what baseball needs.

Rising Apple: How Skip Lockwood reinvented his career as a closer in Flushing.


Metsmerized Online: MMO Exclusive: MLB Pipeline’s Jim Callis Talks Mets’ Draft. About the Mets First Round Draft Pick, Pete Crow-Armstrong Jim Callis said: “Overall, he might be the best high school outfield defender and is a plus runner with the chance to be a plus hitter. His power is a question mark, but I think he could be a 15-20 home run guy. His floor and ceiling are both very high for a player coming out of high school.”


MLB LINKS:


CBS Sports: Rob Manfred offers MLBPA 2021 concessions as MLB players wait to vote on 60-game proposal, per reports. Also on Sunday, commissioner Rob Manfred sent a letter to MLBPA chief Tony Clark offering to remove expanded playoffs and a universal DH (both features of MLB's proposal) for the 2021 season if a 2020 season is not completed, per ESPN's Jeff Passan.



Joel Sherman NY Post: MLB’s best hope is for the silent majority to rise up. One player said, “I’m no expert on the mechanism that is needed, but I do know as a baseball fan and player that we can’t do this (publicly squabble and hurt the product) anymore if we want baseball to be cool in the future. We are doing a major disservice to the next generation and the game.” One agent: “I think there are bullies on both sides and if you privately polled the non-bullies this would be a different negotiation.”



Kevin Kernan Ballnine.com: Lowering the Bar, Lowering the Boom. “Both the owners and the players have forgotten fans pay their salaries. A tipping point is near…The majors had their lowest per game attendance last season since 2003 at 28,198 fans per game and the second lowest rated World Series, an 8.1 rating. Perhaps fans are getting bored seeing all those 42,823 strikeouts last season, another K record, or the 15,895 walks. So that means 58,718 batters went to the plate last season and the ball was not put in play.”





Minor League Baseball:





Baseball Mexico Blog: CHITO RODRIGUEZ URGES LMB TO CANCEL SEASON. A widely-respected Salon de la Fama member with over four decades of Mexican League front office experience is calling on the LMB to cancel the 2020 season due to ongoing uncertainty regarding the Wuhan virus outbreak in Mexico. When asked by writer Angel Villegas last week about the upcoming Mexican League season, Rodriguez was quoted as saying, "cancel it," in Puro Beisbol. "I don't think baseball being played in the LMB is possible this year. The country is immersed in the virus and we don't know when it will be solved." 

Asian Baseball:


Yesterday in Japan:

Chunichi 3 Yakult 0 Nori Aoki went 0 for 4 with 2 runs scored. (Box Score).


Yesterday in the KBO.

NC Dinos 9 Hanwha Eagles 7 Aaron Altherr 1 for 3 with an RBI (Box Score).









Mack’s Blast from the Past: 6/22/2013: Brooklyn 4 - Aberdeen 2. Southpaw Carlos Valdez pitched well in his Cyclones debut, allowing just two runs in five innings of work, but it was RHP Akeel Morris who stole the show. In his second appearance for the Cyclones, Morris was lights out, striking out seven in 3.2 IP allowing only one hit.


Born on this date:
Transactions:

New York Mets traded 
Jack Heidemann to the Milwaukee Brewers for Tom Deidel on June 22, 1976.

New York Mets released Mike Torrez on June 22, 1984.

New York Mets purchased Ed Glynn from the Cleveland Indians on June 22, 1984.



1963 - Philadelphia CF Tony Gonzalez plays his 200th straight errorless game to help rookie Ray Culp beat Roger Craig and the Mets, 2 - 0.

1980 - Claudell Washington hits his first three National League home runs to lead the Mets to a 9 - 6 win at Los Angeles and snap a seven-game losing streak.

1987 - Tom Seaver abandons his comeback attempt with the injury-riddled Mets and retires with a career Win-Loss record of 311-205, an ERA of 2.86, 3,640 strikeouts (3rd on the all-time list behind Nolan Ryan and Steve Carlton), and 61 shutouts (7th).

2009: All-Star centerfielder Carlos Beltran of the New York Mets is placed on the disabled list with a bruised right knee. The ailing Mets still defeat St. Louis, 6 - 4, as Omir Santos goes 4 for 4 to hand Tim Redding his first win for New York.

2017: The Dodgers complete a four-game sweep of the Mets with a 6 - 3 win. Joc Pederson hits a go-ahead home run in the 7th and teammates Enrique Hernandez and Justin Turner also go deep in the win. Over the four games, Los Angeles outscored New York 36-11 and banged 15 homers to move into first place in the NL West.




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3 comments:

Tom Brennan said...

Another in the "time flies" department: Darrell Ceciliani turning 30. Seems like only yesterday that he was drafted.

My father suggested to me, as I rooted for the Mets against Jim Bunning late in the perfect game, that I root for Bunning that day, as he said to me that a perfect game was such a rare thing. I think I still kept rooting for the Mets to come back, though.

Hope all the fathers had a great Fathers Day. You are all Essential.

Let's hope the games go on, with strong precautions against getting Covid. It seems to be weakening - why else is a county like Suffolk, with nearly 2 million people, averaging just 1 Covid death per day and new hospitalizations down to about 10 per day? Why else would NYS's death rate be down 98% from its peak?

Hobie said...

Apologize for being so picky, but that Dodger game film was not on Fathers Day. Went to every one (even yrs in Bklyn) and the never played the Pirates on FD.

Sorry.

Mack Ade said...

I became close with Akeem and his family when he was with the Mets.

His fabulous Mom still follows me on FB.