10/27/20

John From Albany – Mets News and Breakfast Links 10/27/2020



Good Morning. Born Today Ralph Kiner.  Happy Birthday Jonathan Niese, TJ Rivera, and Ruben Tejada.  Jeff says goodbye, Mets get a player off waivers, and MLB $8.3 Billion COVID-19 Related Debt.


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


Mets Links:


NY Post: Jeff Wilpon says goodbye to Mets employees in strong sign. “On Monday afternoon, a team source confirmed, the Mets held an organization-wide Zoom call to award employees who had reached milestones for service. At the conclusion of the call, COO Jeff Wilpon thanked all of the employees and bid them farewell, a strong sign that a change in ownership is imminent.”


Andy Martino SNY.TV: Sources: Steve Cohen has the votes for ownership approval, A-Rod/J-Lo would not. League officials still do not believe that Mayor Bill de Blasio will block the deal.


NY Post: Mayor de Blasio’s cagey response on blocking Mets’ sale to Steve Cohen. “This is something our Law Department is evaluating right now and we obviously want to get to a resolution on this very quickly,” he said. “The deal is this: Because the land that Citi Field is on and the stadium belong to the city, the city always has to have a role when there is an ownership change.”


amNY: Steve Cohen, Sandy Alderson already eyeing international scouting plan, improvements: Source. “Laying down proper roots and setting up a competent network in baseball hotbeds around the world will only enhance the Mets’ chances of finding top-tier prospects — which hasn’t had an abundance of success in recent years.”


Chris Dial Mets360: With Mookie Betts off the Free Agent board, Steve Cohen should go big, or go home. Among the players Chris wants the Mets to target -  Trevor Bauer, Marcus Stroman, DJ LeMahieu, Marcus Semien and Justin Turner.


Matt Musico Metsmerized Online: An Important Similarity Among Mets’ Potential Offseason Targets.  Matt notes how potential Mets targets George Springer, J.T. Realmuto, and Francisco Lindor would also improve the Mets defense.


SNY.TV: Breaking down 5 external and internal center field options Mets could turn to in 2021. George Springer and Jackie Bradley Jr. could be among the options. Brandon Nimmo, Amed Rosario and Starling Marte are the others mentioned.




Rising Apple: Why Chasen Shreve is worth bringing back in 2021. Chasen Shreve “had a solid year in the truncated 2020 season. He posted the second-lowest WHIP of his career at 1.160 and struck out 34 batters in 25 innings.”


Mike’s Mets talks about the “hundreds of layoffs going on across MLB” in “Dollars and Sense.”


MLB Trade Rumors: Mets Claim Robel Garcia, Designate Ryan Cordell. “Garcia, 27, made his MLB debut with the Cubs in 2019 after a highly unusual path to The Show. The former Indians farmhand was out of affiliated ball from 2014-18 before the Cubs caught a look at him playing for a professional team in Italy. They brought him in on a minor league pact, and Garcia showed off light-tower power at Triple-A in 2019 — 21 homers in 296 plate appearances — before being called up.”


Metsmerized Online: Steven Matz Working With Phil Regan in Port St. Lucie.


Rising Apple: Mets should bring back Curtis Granderson in an off-the-field role.


Rising Apple: Mets Monday Morning GM: What were they thinking with the Jeurys Familia reunion?


Empire Sports Media: New York Mets Player Evaluations: Outfielder Guillermo Heredia. “Heredia upped his average and also showed some surprising power with the Mets. His slash line was .235/.278/.588 with two home runs in the same 18 plate appearances.”


The Sports Daily.com: Mike Phillips' Mets Player Review Series: J.D. Davis. 2020 Stats: 56 Games, 190 At Bats, .247 Batting Average, 47 Hits, 9 Doubles, 6 Home Runs, 19 RBI’s, 26 Runs Scored, .761 OPS, -0.2 WAR.


WGBB Talks to former Met Glendon Rusch.


ICYMI Yesterday at Mack’s Mets:


Reese Kaplan -- Positional Analysis for Trades: SP.


MLB Links:


Yahoo Sports: MLB Debt Totals $8.3 Billion as Manfred Mulls Options for Next Season. “The debt was accrued so the clubs could fund their businesses during this COVID-affected season without fans in the stands and negligible ballpark revenue.”


AP News: Dodgers 1 win from title after 32 years and more than $3.6B.  “They have spent $3.69 billion in player payroll over 32 seasons.”


CBS Sports: World Series 2020: Four things that must happen for the Rays to come back against the Dodgers. Don’t fall behind early, get length from Snell, knock out Gonsolin early, Get lucky.


MLB.com: World Series Game 6: 7 key storylines. Do the Rays have one more shocker left in them?


MLB.com: Game 6 Preview 8:08 PM Tuesday.


MLB.com: If LA wins, should Kershaw be WS MVP?


ESPN.com: World Series 2020: Dodgers fans have taken over 'neutral' site with L.A. one win from a title.


Winter Baseball:



Off Day yesterday for the Mexican Pacific League.


Full Squad workouts got underway in the Dominican League yesterday.


Aguilas.com.do: Águilas Cibaenas receives a handful of five players, with important roles this season including former Syracuse Met Arismendy Alcántara and Juan Lagares.


Jordany Valdespin, Jenrry Mejia, and Antonio Bastardo were some of the Ex-Mets working out for Toros Del Este.





Today in Mets History Per Ultimatemets.com:


Born on this date:


Transactions:


 New York Mets released Bob McClure on October 27, 1988.

Oakland Athletics signed Garrett Olson of the New York Mets as a free agent on October 27, 2012.


National Pastime.com:

1986

With another dramatic comeback, the Mets defeat the Red Sox, 8-5 to win Game 7 of the Fall Classic to become World Champions for the second time in the franchise's 25-year history. Third baseman Ray Knight, who is named the Fall Classic's MVP, makes amends for an earlier error by hitting a home run, which puts the Mets ahead for good in the seventh inning.

2000

The Mets, this year's runner-up in the Subway Series, turn down New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's invitation to be part of the parade for the World Champion Yankees down the Canyon of Heroes in lower Manhattan.

 

2015

Michael Conforto becomes the third player to accomplish the World Series Triple Crown, playing in the Little League World Series (2004 Redmond LL, WA), the College World Series (2013 Oregon State) and the MLB World Series (2015 Mets). The two other major leaguers who have participated in the rare event are Jason Varitek (1984 Altamonte Springs LL, FL, 1994 Georgia Tech, and the 2004 Red Sox) and Ed Vosberg (1973 Tucson LL, AZ, 1980 University of Arizona, and the 1997 Marlins).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Baseball Reference:


2015: The Royals win an epic Game 1 of the World Series, 5 - 4 over the Mets, on Eric Hosmer's 14th-inning sacrifice fly off Bartolo Colon that scores Alcides Escobar with the wining run. Escobar opens the bottom of the 1st with an inside-the-park home run off Matt Harvey, but Kansas City trails, 4 - 3, in the 9th before Alex Gordon homers off Jeurys Familia with one out to send the game into extra innings.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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2 comments:

Tom Brennan said...

Ralph is having a large birthday gathering in the Kiners Corner section of heaven.

Wonder if TJ Rivera will ever see the light of major league day again. Odd to say that about a career .300+ hitter.

Good to see some young 'uns getting some competitive playing time.

I wonder if Arozarena has any more tricks up his sleeve?

October 27, 2020 at 6:09 AM
John From Albany said...

You would have thought that the last Place Nationals would have given TJ a shot last year but I guess he did not impress at their off site camp. We will probably see him playing ball this winter.

October 27, 2020 at 6:39 AM

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