11/3/20

John From Albany – Mets News and Breakfast Links 11/3/2020

 



Good Morning. Happy Birthday Armando Benitez, Carlos Hernandez, and Hansel Moreno. Matt Blackham and 14 other Minor League Mets become Free Agents, we get an Instructional League report, and Jacob deGrom one of 3 NL Cy Young Finalists.


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


Mets Links:


Mets.com: deGrom up for 3rd straight NL Cy Young. deGrom joined Cincinnati’s Trevor Bauer and the Cubs' Yu Darvish as the finalists for this year’s award.



SNY.TV: Ranking 5 big ticket free agent and trade targets for Mets if J.T. Realmuto shies away from New York. 1. George Springer, 2. Francisco Lindor,  3. Trevor Bauer, 4. Nolan Arenado, 5. Liam Hendriks.



Joel Sherman NY Post: Lindor, Darvish, Arenado are Mets trade options Steve Cohen can pounce on.


Primetimesportstalk.com: The Mets Should Not Trade for Nolan Arenado. The decline in performance, the contract and the home/non-Coors field numbers are cited plus this – “Arenado is hitting an unimpressive .229 with a .275 on-base percentage while striking out 26.5 percent of the time in the batter’s box at Citi Field. Additionally, Arenado is hitting .190 with one home run in five career Postseason games with Colorado.”


NY Post: Mets’ hunt for pitching could bring them to Charlie Morton. “Morton turns 37 this month and was coming off three straight fine seasons before pitching to a 4.74 ERA in nine regular-season starts with the Rays this year.”            


Baseball America listed all the players that became Minor League Free Agents this past weekend.  Here are the Mets Minor League Free Agents:  Matt Blackham, Jake Hager, Carlos Hernandez, Joel Huertas, Braxton Lee, Hansel Moreno, Jose Moreno, Max Moroff, Jarrett Parker, Darwin Ramos, Nataneal Ramos, Luc Rennie, Francisco Rios, Peter Tago, Adonis Uceta.


Baseball America also listed minor league players the Mets retained/signed: Harol Gonzalez, Bruce Maxwell, David Rodriguez, Mitchell Tolman, Luis Carpio, Johneshwy Fargas.  These players will still be eligible for the minor league portion of the Rule 5 Draft, meaning a team could draft them and not have to add them to their 40 man roster.


Mets.com also had a great Mets instructional league prospect report yesterday with lots of info like Matthew Allan “showing leadership” J.T. Ginn “He’s in great shape and takes his rehab seriously”, Francisco Alvarez “He’s just improving every day behind the plate…and this about one of my favorite Mets prospects Wilmer Reyes – “has seen time all over the diamond as well, impressing at multiple positions while really opening eyes with his right-handed bat...MVP of camp so far, with the power, the production offensively, and also his defense.” Wilmer is Rule 5 eligible this winter.



SearleBaseball.com: Don’t sell him short: Why Stroman is the Best Starter on the Market. “In an era dominated by sluggers, Stroman’s greatest asset is his ability to keep the ball in the park. Since debuting with the Blue Jays in 2014, Marcus Stroman has produced a ground ball rate of 58.6 percent, trailing only Dallas Keuchel for the best mark among pitchers with at least 800 innings in that span.”


Mike’s Mets - My Favorite Billionaire.


Mets360: Five initial moves Steve Cohen should make.


CBS Sports: Samson: Mets fans need to give Steve Cohen time to fix franchise.


Rising Apple: How Steve Cohen can build a sustained winner from the inside out.


Rising Apple: Mets Monday Morning GM: How the Wilson Ramos signing became a dud.


Amazing Avenue: What a Noah Syndergaard extension might look like for the Mets. “If the Mets offer Syndergaard something around $20 to $25 million for two years, that could be highly advantageous for both sides.”


Metsmerized Online: New Trends That Hopefully Stick (And One That Hopefully Won’t) For Brandon Nimmo.


You Tube Mets Channel: Jacob deGrom Named Finalist for NL Cy Young.


You Tube Mets Channel: Top 5 Moments of 2020.


Empire Sports Media: New York Mets Player Evaluations: Catcher Ali Sanchez.


The Sports Daily: Mike Phillps’ Mets Player Review Series: Andres Gimenez. 2020 Stats: 49 Games, 118 At Bats, .263 Batting Average, 31 Hits, 3 Doubles, 2 Triples, 3 Home Runs, 12 RBI’s, 22 Runs Scored, 8 Stolen Bases, .732 OPS, 1.0 WAR.




ICYMI Yesterday at Mack’s Mets:


Reese Kaplan -- It's a New Beginning for the Mets.


Tom Brennan: How Much Should New Owner Steve Cohen Spend This Offseason?


Scouting Report - OF - Ethan Wilson.


Scouting Report - OF - Malakhi Knight.


MLB Links:


MLB.com: MVP, Cy Young, ROY, MOY finalists unveiled.






The Washington Post: Baseball survived a difficult 2020, but 2021 could be even worse. “But no one has any clarity about what that [2021] season might look like, including the possibility of fans in the stands, given the unknowable trajectory of the coronavirus and the status of a potential vaccine. There is a 162-game schedule with an April 1 Opening Day in place, but the sport is likely to be at the mercy of individual states and municipalities — and, in the case of the Blue Jays, the Canadian government — much as it was in 2020.”


Federal Baseball: Bad optics: How will big winter signings be greeted after widespread layoffs for organizations around the league?


Forbes.com: Major League Baseball Confronts Tipping Point When It Comes To Analytics.


Si.com: One Big Question for Every MLB Team This Offseason.  For the Mets they ask – “How will new owner Steve Cohen’s first offseason play out?”


Yahoo.com: Rare Honus Wagner baseball card sells for over $1.4 million at auction.


Yahoo Sports: Jon Lester thanks Cubs fans with $31K worth of beer, adds fitting tip.



MLB.com: Abolitionist Catto was Black baseball pioneer.


The Washington Post: A top baseball prospect’s Southern California scholarship was lost to the pandemic.


Theweek.com: Iowa boy makes baseball bats out of wood brought down by storm, raising money for community.


NJ.com: FOX Sports’ Joe Buck, NBC’s Al Michaels headline Baseball Hall of Fame’s 2021 Ford C. Frick Award finalists.


Forbes.com: Don Drysdale And Dizzy Dean Could Get Into Baseball Hall Of Fame Again (as Broadcasters).


Winter Baseball:


No games Monday in the Mexican Pacific League. They will be back in action today.


Asian Baseball:


LG Twins 4 Kiwoom Heros 3 (Box Score). The LG Twins now will play Chris Flexen and the Doosan Bears in the next round of playoffs.


Here is KBO’s Scoreboard.


Today in Mets History Per Ultimatemets.com:


Born on this date:



Transactions:

Florida Marlins signed Ryan McGuire of the New York Mets as a free agent on November 3, 2000.

Abraham Nunez granted free agency on November 3, 2008.

Jose Santiago granted free agency on November 3, 2008.

Brad Emaus granted free agency on November 3, 2012.

Val Pascucci granted free agency on November 3, 2012.

Kelly Johnson granted free agency on November 3, 2016.


National Pastime.com:


2003

ESPN analyst Bobby Valentine will return to Japan to manage the Chiba Lotte Marines, the club which fired him after a solid second-place finish in 1995. The former Mets and Rangers skipper signs a three-year deal with an option for two more years worth an estimated $6.4 million.


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2 comments:

Tom Brennan said...

Arenado is a lot less of a hitter out of Colorado. If you do get him, don’t overpay.

The write up on the kids in the instructional league was very positive.

I’d be surprised if any team takes Wilmer Reyes in Rule 5. He likely needs a full minor league season to be ready.

I was against resigning Stroman long term after 2020, but if he is the best talent and really wants the Mets, we need lots of pitching of QUALITY, so why not.

Springer? Interested. Realmuto? Interested. Let’s build a juggernaut.

November 3, 2020 at 6:55 AM
Ernest Dove said...

I also heard good things early in camp about the top prospects. Promising stuff about Newton and Palmer who may finally have grown into their bodies. Now time to get those bat skills and plate discipline in check and rocket up rankings.

November 3, 2020 at 8:20 AM

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