Good Morning. Happy Birthday John Cangelosi. Mets 5 Cardinals 3 as Pete Alonso walks 3 times, Edwin Diaz impresses, and Ronny Mauricio drives in 2 then gets reassigned to minors along with 18 others.
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As we had last night on Mack’s Mets: Mets reassign 19 to Minor league Camp. This included top prospects: Pete Crow-Armstrong; J.T. Ginn; Ronny Mauricio; Francisco Alvarez; Matthew Allan; Brett Baty; Mark Vientos; and Thomas Szapucki. Mets now have 53 players in camp.
Mets 5
Cardinals 3 (Box
Score). Kevin Pillar CF 1 for 4 with an RBI and a K; Jeff McNeil 2B 0 for 3 with 1 K; Pete Alonso 1B 0 for 1, 3 walks, 1 K; Dominic Smith DH 0 for 3, 1 K; James McCann C 1 for 3 with a K; Jonathan Villar SS 0 for 3 with a K; Brandon
Drury 3B 1 for 2; Albert Almora jr. RF 1 for 2; Johneshwy Fargas LF 1 for 2 with a double; Ronny Mauricio 1 for 1 with 2 RBIs; Taijuan
Walker 2 innings, 2 hits, 2 runs, 2 walks, 2 Ks; Edwin Diaz, 1 inning, no runs, no hits, 2 Ks; Miguel Castro, 1 inning, no hits, no runs, 2 Ks; Sam
McWilliams, 1 inning, no runs, no hits, 3 walks, 1 K..
SNY.TV:
The Mets are off on Wednesday [today]. They travel to play the Houston Astros
on Thursday at 6:05 p.m., with Jacob deGrom expected to get the start.
NY
Post: Mets ‘excited’ to see Pete Alonso walk three times. “After a seesaw
2020 season, Alonso and hitting coach Chili Davis identified strike-zone
discipline as an area for improvement this spring. Last year, according to
Rojas, pitchers could follow a blueprint with Alonso and often induced him to
swing at bad pitches. In six games this spring, Alonso owns a 1.163 OPS.”
NY
Post: Sam McWilliams narrowly avoided disaster in a 31-pitch ninth inning
in which he walked the bases loaded. McWilliams escaped without a run scoring for
his second save this spring.
Taijuan Walker has his first K as a Met. pic.twitter.com/lzKxNHxhJj
— SNY (@SNYtv) March 9, 2021
"I feel like we're really deep." Taijuan Walker on the Mets' rotation: pic.twitter.com/u8nOAnYAih
— Anthony DiComo (@AnthonyDiComo) March 9, 2021
If you never saw Edwin Diaz enter a game in Seattle to the tune "Narco" - you may want to see this:Edwin Diaz with absolute 🔥🔥🔥 in that third inning pic.twitter.com/KdufIzhN5m
— SNY (@SNYtv) March 9, 2021
Nice catch here in right by Albert Almora Jr., whose chances of making the team increased due to José Martínez's injury. If Almora is indeed on the Opening Day roster, he'll be the Mets' best outfield defender. pic.twitter.com/FRVi8kZ3Cx
— Anthony DiComo (@AnthonyDiComo) March 9, 2021
Here's 21-year-old Mets prospect Mark Vientos on the advice he's received from big leaguers Francisco Lindor, Pete Alonso and J.D. Davis: pic.twitter.com/gkJBNlmp1I
— Anthony DiComo (@AnthonyDiComo) March 9, 2021
It's actually kind of wild how well nearly all the Mets' top prospects are doing in Grapefruit League play. Following this two-run single, Ronny Mauricio is hitting .455: pic.twitter.com/siCkZHaXXn
— Anthony DiComo (@AnthonyDiComo) March 9, 2021
Luis Rojas on Ronny Mauricio:
— SNY Mets (@SNY_Mets) March 9, 2021
"Looks really good, very mature" pic.twitter.com/c7QNkNmAWV
Thinking we'll make Francisco Lindor a full-time camera man if this whole baseball thing doesn't work out 😂🎥 pic.twitter.com/rbzYbUThdU
— SNY (@SNYtv) March 9, 2021
📸 Scenes from the Mets' "B" game on the main field today. David Peterson throwing to Francisco Lindor and Michael Conforto, among others. pic.twitter.com/C45A1GnjCE
— Anthony DiComo (@AnthonyDiComo) March 9, 2021
Kevin Howard, Mets' director of player development: "He’s already over 90 mph, which is incredible considering he was probably 70% in terms of his effort. He’s on schedule or ahead of schedule. And everything is going great." https://t.co/quVamt6c2G
— Tim Healey (@timbhealey) March 9, 2021
📸 Sixth-ranked prospect J.T. Ginn, the Mets' second-round pick last summer, plays catch Tuesday at camp. He's about one year removed from Tommy John surgery. pic.twitter.com/tCdR3Jl8qt
— Anthony DiComo (@AnthonyDiComo) March 9, 2021
Mike
Vaccaro NY Post: James McCann ready to prove Mets made right choice over J.T.
Realmuto. “Right away, they made a decision — and, it says here, a wise one
— to be aggressive in addressing their glaring hole behind the plate and made
McCann their No. 1 catcher at four years and $40 million — one year and $75.5
million less than the Phillies wound up shelling out to retain Realmuto.”
213 Miles from Shea: Get To Know A 2021 Non-Roster Invitee: Jose Peraza.
Newsday:
Hopeful of DH, Luis Rojas delays letting Mets pitchers bat.
On BNNY presented by Tri-State @Cadillac, Terry Collins joins the show to answer questions about his evolution as a manager and whether Wilmer Flores is the slowest player he's ever managed 😂 https://t.co/sdz6aiTTgv pic.twitter.com/fR2QO7elnh
— SNY (@SNYtv) March 10, 2021
Is Harol Gonzalez the guy to keep an👁️on most in Mets camp? The honorable MC @ernestdove🎤just who to keep an👁️on for in Mets camp so far as we move closer to the start of the season. #metstwitter pic.twitter.com/AlFjH8uAcJ
— Thomas Brice (@ThomasBrice2017) March 8, 2021
Happy Hump-day all! Today's blog post has a "missing" 1975 card for former catcher John Stearns: https://t.co/ezLlwteF3z @Phillies @70sBaseball pic.twitter.com/3VojxeVmTO
— Gio/wthballs blog (@wthballs) March 10, 2021
MLB
and SportSpyder NL East and MLB Links:
Some of yesterday's Spring Training Highlights:
Gary Sánchez absolutely demolished a solo home run halfway up the light tower in left field 😳 pic.twitter.com/M7OBHcfhmw
— Max Goodman (@MaxTGoodman) March 9, 2021
Steven Matz up to 43 pitches today & nine were swinging strikes. Topped out at 95.7 mph over 3.0 scoreless (3Ks, 1H, 0BB). It's spring, so read into it at your own risk, but beats getting lit up! "Matz is looking really good," Montoyo said. Likely he opens in #BlueJays' rotation
— Ben Nicholson-Smith (@bnicholsonsmith) March 9, 2021
Here is yesterday's Spring Training Scoreboard.
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Braves' Strider goes 5 in 1st start since April '24
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Dodgers' Clayton Kershaw tosses 3 scoreless innings in first rehab start
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. slams his first home run of the season vs. Braves
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SportsSpyder:
Today
in Mets History Per
Ultimatemets.com:
Born on this date:
- Ken MacKenzie (1934)
- Wayne Twitchell (1948)
- Greg Pavlick (1950)
- Mike Birkbeck (1961)
- John Cangelosi (1963)
- Benito
Garcia (2000)
Transactions:
New York Mets released Duaner
Sanchez on March 10, 2009.
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1941 |
The
Dodgers announce their players will begin to wear helmets when batting. The
use of the safety headgear will not become mandatory in the National League
until 1954, and the AL will follow suit four years later. |
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Remembering Mets History (2004-2006) Kaz Matsui Becomes First Player to Lead Off His First Three Seasons With HRs
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6 comments:
The Kids acquitted themselves well in spring training before their reassignment. Good for them.
Sugar looked pretty darned reliable to me - stop worrying about Diaz.
No spring is perfect - but this one feels real good.
When deGrom returned from his TJS, he shot up thru the minors. Why can't JT Ginn, who most likely will be pitching games, I'm guessing, by June 1, since his surgery preceded Thor's by a few weeks.
Tom,
Mets have a lot of talent and always provide a lot of hope each Spring.
Unfortunately, talent doesn't always win.
We saw it in 1969 when the Mets beat the Cubs, Braves and Orioles with defense and fundamentals.
We saw it in the 80's when those 80's Cardinals teams beat the much more talented Mets all but 1986 and 1988.
We saw it in 1988 when an inferior Dodgers team beat the Mets.
We saw it in Brooklyn in 2019 when a team without any top 100 ranked prospects (until Matt Allan and Baty joined the team for the playoffs) won the NYPOL championship through defense, fundamentals, and base running - the very things this team lacks.
It is like being that villian, seeing James Bond, tied up over a shark tank and thinking "This time it will be different! This time I have him!" Then the movie ends the way they always do.
How many times do we have to see this movie with the Mets before we realize that defense, fundamentals, base running wins?
When you believe something based on facts - it is science. When you believe on hopes and dreams - it is something else. The Mets are something else.
Geez, John, way to throw the water on the fire! :-)
Actually, I am parked someplace between Tom's total optimism and John's realism.
The Mets, with their talent, lousy defense, baserunning and fundamentals, were in the race all year until the day before the season ended with basically zero pitching after Jake last year. If they can get reasonable pitching, they have plenty of offensive talent to get over the hump.
The problem with the 80's talented teams was the 'team character'. It seems like they knew they were good and they partied a little too much for their own good.
The on-field character and chemistry matters. If the 2021 team has that as much as the 2H2019 and 2020 teams did, they will be quite good. As Tom said the other day: Winning begets Winning.
I am positive on this team, but they still have work to do to clean up the finished product.
John, I have a different take on the 1980s. The Mets were done in by astounding pitching performances by Tudor, Hersheiser, and Ric Sutcliffe.
Sutcliffe was 16-1 after Cubs got him in 1984, keeping the division out of reach.
In 1985, Tudor was 20-1 after Memorial Day. He was also a beast after he returned from injury in 1987.
Orel was insane in 1988.
The Mets won in 1969, but the same structured team fell well short in 1970-72 and it was a miracle they got in the playoffs in 1973.
I want a team that can get deep into the playoffs, whether we win the series or not. I think this team has a real shot to win the division, iffy defense and all.
As I mentioned in the Reese article this morning, I's love Maikel Franco on a cheap one year deal, because the Mets were incredibly lucky in 2015 to make the series, because at the All Star break, they had several players who had combined for 700-800 at bats to that point and were hitting .180. That was 10% to 15% of total ABs by non-position players up to that point of the season. The cumulative effect of those awful hitters and pitchers hitting had the Mets at that point as the worst scoring team in the majors. Half the offense was awful, and pitchers pitched around the half who could hit.
My guess is several were good defensively, without looking back at who the culprits were. You can look up those stats. I was writing about it then, appalled that with so much good pitching, they had so much bad fringe hitting.
So, other than possibly Nido, I want every single offensive at bat in 2021 to be taken by a quality offensive player. And with Franco to replace Martinez, no matter how crowded that makes the offense, that goal is a reality.
Taking into consideration the other factors, the Mets weren’t done in by one pitcher during the 80’s at several points, they were done in by teams that overachieved. The 84 Cubs had 7 guys drive in over 80 RBI each, but that never happened again. The 85 Cardinals had McGee hit .351, Coleman steal 100 bases, they caught everything in sight with Van Slyke, McGee and Coleman, Pendleton, Herr, and the Wiz, and that’s why they won. To win, you need special occurrences.
Per WFAN - Carlos Carrasco sore elbow. Shutting down for a couple of days.
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