1/19/22

Player Profile - Stephen Nogosek

Stephen Nogosek - Photo by Herm Card - Herm4444@gmail.com

Background, Stats, Videos.

Background: 

Stephen Nogosek, Relief Pitcher, Bats Right, Throws Right, DOB 1/11/1995, 6th round, 2016 Draft out of the University of Oregon. Acquired by Mets in the 2017 trade with the Boston Red Sox for Addison Reed that also gave the Mets Gerson Bautista and Jamie Callahan.  Resigned as a Minor League Free Agent January 2022.

2019 was a dream season for Stephen.  He was lights out for Binghamton (0.95 ERA, 11 games, 19 innings, 20 Ks, 12 walks).  In Syracuse he was almost perfect.  His first 23 games for Syracuse he was 3-0 with a 0.00 ERA in 30.1 innings.  In the last game of the season, the tie breaking game to win the division and go to the playoffs, Stephen ended up being charged with 4 runs and Syracuse ended up losing 14-13.  You can read more about that game here.  

His 2019 combined line for Binghamton/Syracuse: 3-0, 1.07 ERA, 35 games, 50.1 innings, 50Ks, 25 Walks.  His NY Mets 2019 Line: 0-1 10.80 ERA, 7 games, 6.2 innings.  

Syracuse.com: How a video game superstar sparked Syracuse Mets reliever to dominance. "Nogosek admired [Nick] Kolcheff’s aggressiveness and ability to shrug off both good and bad results in a bullish search for consistency."

Syracuse.com Surging Mets’ reliever Stephen Nogosek: ‘I’m not going to pitch scared’: "He compares an approach toward pitching to the daily instincts of a mule deer. That animal, he said, gets up every day to pursue the same simple urges of finding food and water and staying alive...The lives of pitchers can be a little more complicated, but the applicable lesson for Nogosek is that when it comes to a daily approach it’s best to not stray from the basics."

After 2019, Stephen was placed on waivers in order to make room for free agent Rick Porcello.  Since no other team claimed him, he was returned to the Syracuse roster.  

Then the Pandemic.  As he describes to Ernest Dove and Thomas Brice below, Stephen worked hard in 2020 to get his body back into shape.  In 2021 he started off back in Syracuse and was promoted to the Mets for one game in July where he gave up two solo HRs in three innings of work against the Reds getting tagged with the loss after coming when the starting pitcher was injured.  Stephen wound up getting himself injured with shoulder inflammation but came back later to finish the year in Syracuse.  He became a free agent in November returning to the Mets on a minor league deal on in January 2022.

Stephen Nogosek - Photo by Herm Card - Herm4444@gmail.com

In 2022 Stephen will serves as a depth piece in Syracuse but should injuries happen, he could get the call to Flushing.  Maybe this could be the year that he puts it all together and dominates the major leagues like he did in Syracuse and Binghamton in 2019.  

Here is Stephen Nogosek’s FANGRAPHS page.

Here is Stephen Nogosek’s Baseball Savant page.

Stats: 

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Videos:

Ernest Dove and Thomas Brice interview with Stephen Nogosek:









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2 comments:

Mack Ade said...

I have always been a big fan of Nogo and. given a year of good health, I think he could be a serviceable piece in the Mets pen.

January 19, 2022 at 2:15 PM
Tom Brennan said...

Nogo always has statistically seemed to have control issues. A walk every 2 innings. Hopefully it comes together for him, either with the Mets or another team that struggles to field serviceable pitchers like Baltimore. He's getting to a make-or-break age - but then again, I thought that about Paul Sewald and he had by far his best year in his early 30s in 2021.

January 19, 2022 at 2:51 PM

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