10/25/20

John From Albany – Mets News and Breakfast Links 10/25/2020

 


Good Morning. Happy Birthday Pedro Martinez. It's the anniversary of Game 6, Deesha Thosar talks to Darryl Strawberry, Beat Writers want the Mets to get Lindor, and the Rays get wild walk-off WS win.


Section Links: Mets Links, MLB Links, Winter Baseball, and This Day in Mets History.


Mets Links:


Deesha Thosar NY Daily News: Darryl Strawberry opens up about moving past baseball, Steve Cohen buying the Mets, his new life as a pastor ... and Donald Trump. Talking about Steve Cohen Darryl says: “Hopefully it’s a change in a better direction for them because they’ve been in a place where fans are very frustrated, and they want to win, and they want to win now. And it’s really hard when you’re not consistently winning. Especially playing in New York…The Mets haven’t won in over 30-something years. That’s a long time for fans not to be able to celebrate. And Mets fans are great fans when you’re winning.”


Newsday: Francisco Lindor to Mets? Steve Cohen could make it happen. Tim Healey suggests that the Mets employ the same strategy that the Dodgers did obtaining Mookie Betts before he became a free agent.  “In four full major-league seasons, he is a four-time All-Star with two Gold Gloves and two Silver Sluggers. He averaged 30 homers and 20 steals per year during that stretch…The switch hitter from Puerto Rico turns 27 next month.”


NJ.com: Yankees vs. Mets: Who should make bigger trade offer for Indians’ Francisco Lindor? “Cohen needs to make a splash and show the baseball world how serious he is about winning. The Mets need Lindor, and should be the team that makes the biggest offer to land him.”


Joel Sherman NY Post: Justin Turner isn’t Mets’ most haunting castoff ever.  Joel lists the top ten players the Mets gave away.  Nolan Ryan leads the list followed by Jeff Kent, Nelson Cruz with Justin Turner at #4.


Ken Davidoff NY Post: Steve Cohen’s Mets can’t let next Justin Turner get away. Maybe the 2021 Mets, armed with superior brainpower and technology and freed from the Wilpons’ unhelpful supervision, will see the next Turner in their midst and not give up on him so easily. Definitely, however, they must find hidden treasures elsewhere.


Rising Apple: NY Mets bench might look stacked with starting talent in 2021. Signing a player like George Springer could help stack the bench with player like Brandon Nimmo, J.D. Davis, and/or Jeff McNeil.


Brian Joura Mets360.com: Michael Conforto and the BABIP marks of the 2020 Mets.


Metsmerized Online: Will Dellin Betances Return To The Mets Next Season? “Brodie Van Wagenen signed the veteran hurler to a one-year, $10.5 million contract that also included a pair of player options over the next two seasons.”


Metsmerized Online: David Peterson Could Be The Key To The Mets Rotation.


Metsmerized Online: 2020 Mets Report Card: Justin Wilson. Primary Stats: 23 G, 2-1, 19.2 IP, 3.66 ERA, 10.5 K/9, 4.1 BB/9, 1.373 WHIP.


Empire Sports Media: New York Mets Player Evaluations: Catcher Tomas Nido. “Nido’s playing time was sparse as he only appeared in seven games (six starts) over the three weeks he was healthy...The memorable game for Nido came against the Washington Nationals. Nido recorded two home runs and six RBIs, joining an elite group of Mets catchers to pull off the feat.”


MetsMinors.net: Mets Sign Minor League Infielder Mitchell Tolman. Last year [2019], with the Pirates’ Double-A and Triple-A affiliates, the left-handed hitter combined for a .256 batting average, 36 RBIs and six home runs through 128 games.


ICYMI Yesterday at Mack’s Mets:


Reese Kaplan -- Positional Analysis for Trades: OF.


MLB Links:










MLB.com: UNBELIEVABLE! Rays walk off in G4, tie WS. Rays 8 Dodgers 7 (Box Score).


MLB.com: 8 best reactions from wild Game 4 ending.


ESPN.com: Tampa Bay Rays' Brett Phillips revels in World Series Game 4 heroics.


Ken Davidoff NY Post.com: Dodgers now know why Rays are baseball’s cockroaches. “These Rays are baseball’s cockroaches. Just when you think you’ve exterminated them, they pop up again. And for crying out loud, you can’t offer them any assistance in their pest-y plans.”


Yahoo Sports: The Dodgers didn't see their latest World Series disaster coming until it was too late.


CBS Sports.com: World Series: Rays' Randy Arozarena sets MLB postseason record with ninth home run.


MLB.com: Game 5 Preview 8:08 PM tonight.

 

Winter Baseball:


Caneros de los Mochis 3 Charros de Jalisco 2 (Box Score). Juan Uriarte 1 for 4 with a double and a run scored for a .320 average this winter. 


Here is the full Mexican Pacific League Scoreboard.

 

Today in Mets History Per Ultimatemets.com:


Born on this date:

Transactions:

New York Mets claimed Bill Spiers on waivers from the Milwaukee Brewers on October 25, 1994.

Kevin McReynolds granted free agency on October 25, 1994.

New York Mets claimed Anthony Recker on waivers from the Chicago Cubs on October 25, 2012.


National Pastime.com:

1961

The Mets sign their first player with major league experience when the team inks free-agent Ted Lepcio. The 32 year-old middle infielder, who compiled a .245 batting average playing with five teams during his ten-year career, will be cut by the expansion team during spring training.

1986

"If one picture is worth a thousand words, you have seen about a million words, but more than that, you have seen an absolutely bizarre finish to Game 6 of the 1986 World Series." - Vin Scully, describing the aftermath of the play after a long silence.

One strike from defeat, the Mets tie the game on a wild pitch and then, thanks to Bill Buckner's error on a Mookie Wilson grounder, win Game 6, knotting the World Series at three games apiece. The hobbled first baseman, who graciously handles the fall out from one of the most memorable moments in baseball history, becomes the scapegoat for the frustrated Fenway Faithful, who wrongly believed his play alone was responsible for Boston demise in the Fall Classic.

 

2000

Mike Piazza becomes the first player to hit a World Series home run at Yankee Stadium and Shea Stadium. The backstop's third-inning homer off Denny Neagle will account for the only two runs the Mets will score in a 3-2 Game 4 defeat to their crosstown rivals.

 

2016

The Mets announce that Mike Piazza, considered by many to be the best offensive backstop in baseball history, will have his number 31 retired during the season. The Cooperstown-bound catcher's digits will join Tom Seaver (41), Casey Stengel (37), and Gil Hodges (14) above the left-field wall at Citi Field.

 

 




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4 comments:

Tom Brennan said...

Ah-row-zah-RAY-NAH!!!!!!!

Tampa wins incredibly, but they don't get there yesterday without the stunning continuing contributions Randy Arozarena. Man, can we have one of those for the Mets? I won't be greedy and ask for two - just one will be fine. Where do I place my order - Amazon?

If the Mets do pursue Lindor, fine. As long as other needs are not neglected. Mr. Cohen needs to not follow the Nets model, where they got two aging Celtics stars for great draft picks when the two were past their prime, and the franchise has taken several years to recover.

That said, this team needs to start getting to the playoffs regularly, and deep into the playoffs often - nothing else is acceptable - no more highlights of 1969 and 1986, come on. I'd rather watch to the 2020 Rays. I am TIRED of Mets reruns.

October 25, 2020 at 8:10 AM
Tom Brennan said...

Not to get all spiritual here, but my wife and I stopped in at a church meeting in a place called Freedom Chapel in Amityville where persons mostly of color with addictions were in a program there, and were listening to Darryl Strawberry preach, not flashy, but reality style "come let us reason together" preaching. He was sharing his own testimony of failures and that God turned his life around and could do it for them, too. He had everyone's rapt attention. You could hear a pin drop. No doubt lives were being touched. He is not doing this for money, or fame. It is a new, probably life-long calling for him. And, unlike many of us, he is in fact in the trenches, touching many, many lives in the inner cities. May he continue to do so.

October 25, 2020 at 8:20 AM
John From Albany said...

Thanks for sharing that Tom. God Bless Darryl.

October 25, 2020 at 9:01 AM
David Rubin said...

My friend went to see him a few weeks ago out here in Thousand Oaks, CA, and loved his sincere & passionate message. Thank goodness he’s well past the days of worrying if he’s going to have a future & looking forward to him leading a long & happier life.
I met him at a book signing in Santa Monica a number of years ago, and though I had met him 5 times before it was the most tranquil & Happiest I had seen him. So happy that his path continues to be blessed...

October 25, 2020 at 3:03 PM

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