With the Holidays past, baseball got
back to the Hot Stove business Thursday.
Biggest Mets news was the Press conference
to introduce Dellin
Betances.
Some press conference quotes from Brodie
Van Wagenen:
From
the NY Post - In regards to the Yoenis
Cespedes deal allowing the Mets to acquire Betances: “The specifics of
Cespedes’ resolution didn’t necessarily drive this decision,” “It was more the
desire to get this player.”
From
the NY Post regarding Dellin’s health: “We believe that a healthy and
dominant Dellin, combined with Edwin Diaz
and Seth
Lugo and Justin
Wilson and Jeurys
Familia, Brad Brach,
Robert
Gsellman, this collective group has the potential to be one of the best
bullpens in baseball.”
From
Newsday: “I’ve talked many times this season and in the past that our goal
is to increase the floor of our projected window,” Van Wagenen said. “This
signing is different. This signing was intended to blow the cover off of our
ceiling.”
From Dellin Betances:
From
the NY Post regarding his health: “I feel good at this point,” Betances
said. “I’ll be ready to go in spring training.” He added: “I’ll be 100
percent.”
From
Newsday: “He grew up playing on the Lower East Side in Manhattan, went to
school in Brooklyn, played for the Staten Island Yankees and broke into the
major leagues in the Bronx. ‘And now I stand here, having the chance to wear
this Mets uniform and play in Queens,’ he said. ‘New York is in my blood.’”
In
that same article Newsday reported “Edwin Diaz has tweaked his mechanics
and the team’s new pitching coach, Jeremy Hefner, went to Puerto Rico to work
with him.”
SNY.TV
had Brodie’s three reasons why the Mets can expect an Edwin Diaz bounceback:
"First and foremost, he's healthy," Van Wagenen said. "Secondly,
even in his difficult time last year he still struck out 99 batters over the
course of the year. And then we know the work he's putting into his training,
from a nutrition standpoint, strength and conditioning as well as nuts and
bolts mechanics. I think once we hired Jeremy Hefner, Jeremy got to Puerto
Rico, sat down with Edwin and we've got a good communication already set
up."
Mets 360 looked at the Minor League Park
factors for the Mets affiliates. Looking
at a Baseball America story they note: “Still, when we say that Brooklyn and
Columbia are pitcher-friendly, you can now see how much that is true. And the
hitting environment in Kingsport is certainly a favorable one. The Florida
State League is a pitcher’s league but St. Luice is one of the better hitting
parks in the loop.”
Metsblog
said with a “big trade” still possible, here are 5 players the Mets should
pursue: They discuss “Cubs 3B Kris Bryant,
Rockies 3B Nolan
Arenado, Pirates OF Starling
Marte and SP Chris
Archer, Red Sox OF Mookie
Betts and Indians SS Francisco
Lindor.”
Rising
Apple detailed 3 Mets minor leaguers fighting for a roster spot this spring
training: Ali
Sanchez, Daniel
Zamora, and Luis
Guillorme.
Rising
Apple also had three good January predictions for the Mets: Sign a veteran
starting pitcher to a minor league deal, make an unexpected trade, and don’t
unload a bad contract.
Amazing
Avenue continued to run down the top 25 Mets Prospects with number 23 – Ali
Sanchez and number 22 - Stanley
Consuegra.
MLB.com had
the prospects set to break out for all 30 teams: For the Mets it was
catcher Francisco
Alvarez. “Alvarez’s $2.7 million bonus in July 2018 was one of the top totals
handed out during the 2018-19 international period, and it wasn’t long
thereafter that he began to receive rave reviews from those inside the
organization. The Mets challenged Alvarez last summer in his pro debut,
assigning him straight to the Rookie Gulf Coast League before a quick promotion
to the Appalachian League, and the then-17-year-old backstop responded by
slashing .312/.407/.510 with seven homers in 42 games between the two stops.
The Venezuela native is already perhaps the best pure hitter in New York’s
system, with defensive chops behind the plate that could make him an impactful
two-way catcher.”
CBSsports.com
had a similar story and also picked Mets Catcher Francisco Alvarez as a “rising
prospect” but they were not as glowing saying: “Francisco Alvarez won't
turn 18 until mid-November, but improved his stock by hitting .282/.377/.443
with five home runs in the Appalachian League. Alvarez has to work on the
nuance aspects of catching -- to be expected given his age -- yet he has an
above-average arm and has plenty of time to potentially mature into at least a
backup-caliber catcher.”
No games last night in the Puerto
Rican Winter League last night and no current Mets played last night in the
Dominican. Here are some notable ex-Mets
that played last night:
The Tigres
del Licey beat the Leones
del Escogido 10-4 (box). In that game -
Former Binghamton Mets and Las Vegas 51 Cesar
Puello went 1 for 4 with double and 2 strikeouts.
Former Binghamton Rumble Ponies Joey
Terdoslavich went 0 for 3 with an RBI 3 walks, 1 strikeout and a run
scored.
2019 Syracuse Met Arismendy
Alcantara went 0 for 3 with two walks and two strikeouts scoring one run. Arismendy
recently signed a minor league deal with the Los Angeles Angels.
Gerson
Bautista pitched just a third of an inning and gave up 3 runs on 3
hits, just one of the runs was earned.
In the other game Toros
Del Este beat Aguilas
Cibaenas 4-0 (box).
Juan
Lagares played center field and went 0 for 3 with strikeout and a
walk.
Carlos
Gomez played right field and went 1 for 3.
Matt
Pobereyko pitched a scoreless inning, no hits, walks or strikeouts.
Ramon E.
Ramirez also pitched a scoreless inning with no hits, walks or strikeouts.
UltimateMets has the date
in Mets History:
Born on this date:
- John Sullivan (1941)
- Jim Dwyer (1950)
- Luis Rivera (1964)
- Mark Dewey (1965)
- Jender
De Jesus
(1998)
- Christofer
Dominguez
(2000)
Transactions:
New York Mets released Bobby
Bonilla on January 3, 2000.
Houston Astros signed Jim
Mann of the New York Mets as a free agent on
January 3, 2001.
Texas Rangers signed John
Thomson of the New York Mets as a free agent on
January 3, 2003.
New York Yankees signed Pedro
Feliciano of the New York Mets as a free agent on
January 3, 2011.
New
York Mets signed free agent Taylor
Buchholz of the Toronto Blue
Jays on January 3, 2011.
New
York Mets signed free agent Chris
Capuano of the Milwaukee Braves on
January 3, 2011.
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