Mets News and Morning Links 5/17/2022

 

Good Morning.  Mets rained out yesterday, Double Header today.  Mets taking time with Jacob deGrom, and Scott Boras talks about Michael Conforto.

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Mets Links: 

Mets - Cards Game Postponed yesterday.  They will play two today starting at 3.  

NY Post: "Taijuan Walker and long man Trevor Williams will start the two games, though the Mets did not announce who would start which one."

SNY.TV: 5 things to watch as Mets face Cardinals, including bad blood from last series. "A red-hot Brandon Nimmo and a Mets bullpen that is starting to wilt are among the things to keep an eye on."

SNY.TV: Ex-Mets OF Michael Conforto open to signing after 2022 MLB Draft, agent Scott Boras says. "Multiple" teams are expressing interest in Conforto, Boras adds.

Anthony DiComo Mets.com: Mets playing 'long game' with deGrom's recovery. "deGrom will require three to five Minor League rehab starts in his progression back from a stress reaction in his right scapula -- a process that will take weeks to complete....'When you start talking about bone, it’s a little different than muscle tendons,' pitching coach Jeremy Hefner said on Monday. '...We don’t want to mess around with reinjuring that type of situation, because then he’s done for the year...'”

NY Post:

• Mets enter Cardinals showdown with bad blood of first series looming
• Sizzling Aaron Judge gets day off amid brutal Yankees stretch
• Max Scherzer’s help, splitter command behind Taijuan Walker’s evolution

Metsmerized:

• Pedro Martinez Will Participate in Mets Old Timers’ Day
• Series Preview: Cardinals Head to Town for First Time Since Brawl
• MMO Weekly Episode Four: Cody Decker Talks Baseball
• Players of the Week: Nimmo, Walker Steady Mets

Mack's Mets:

• Tom Brennan - Guys Who ARE Producing at the Plate, and Beware the Iceberg
• Reese Kaplan -- The Best Mets Catchers

Amazing Avenue:

• Player Meter: Pitchers, May 9-15
• Player Meter: Position players, May 9-15
• Mets, Cardinals looking to settle score in four-game series
• From Complex To Queens: Minor League Matrices

The Apple:

• Pete's Patience Paying Dividends

🎥☔ Rainout Beat Report! pic.twitter.com/9CWv9UuQ5R

— Anthony DiComo (@AnthonyDiComo) May 17, 2022

SportSpyder Mets Links: 

Minor League Baseball:

A star-studded week of FREE Minor League games on https://t.co/Q7ImZha8ua begins Tuesday.

Led by backstop Francisco Álvarez, MLB's No. 10 overall prospect, Double-A Binghamton hosts Akron for an 11:05 a.m. ET first pitch: https://t.co/sdgEm0RKm2 pic.twitter.com/ZKWqQUPZa3

— MLB Pipeline (@MLBPipeline) May 16, 2022

The Syracuse Mets are in to begin a six-game series against the Bisons. First pitch on Tuesday is set for 6:05 p.m. 

The Binghamton Rumble Ponies open a six-game homestand against the Akron RubberDucks on Tuesday. First pitch is at 11:05 AM. 

Brooklyn is home against the Hudson Valley Renegades.  First pitch is 7:05.  Nick Zwack is on the mound.

The St. Lucie Mets (23-10) start a two-week road trip against the Tampa Tarpons and Dunedin Blue Jays. First pitch against the Tarpons on Tuesday is 6:30 p.m.

MLB and SportSpyder NL East and MLB Links:

That’s a “real” bad start https://t.co/HBUXJmHONO

— MetsFanMania (@MetsFanMania) May 17, 2022

Here is yesterday's MLB Scoreboard.

MLB.com:

• Need a hand? One quick fix for every team
• Yankees prove they still dig the long ball
• Contreras' 100th HR a 1st-inning grand slam ... batting leadoff?!
• Odorizzi carted off field with left lower leg discomfort
• Cueto (7 K's) sizzles in debut, White Sox win in 10th
• Correa expected back tonight vs. A's
• This first pitch is juuuuuuuust a bit high
• 7 slow-starting hitters blooming in May
• Young fan throws ball away -- but gets it back!

MLB Trade Rumors:

• Blue Jays Option Cavan Biggio
• Jake Odorizzi Carted Off With Left Leg Injury
• Marlins Notes: Poteet, Meyer, Sanchez
• Diamondbacks Select Jake Hager
• Giants Activate Tommy La Stella, Place Anthony DeSclafani On 60-Day IL
• Guardians Acquire Yohan Ramirez From Mariners
• Boras: Michael Conforto Not Ruling Out Late-Season Return
• Rays To Place Brandon Lowe On Injured List
• Pirates Claim Tyler Heineman, Designate Andrew Knapp
• Mariners Select Roenis Elias
• Tigers Place Austin Meadows, Victor Reyes On 10-Day IL
• White Sox Select Johnny Cueto
• Royals Fire Hitting Coach Terry Bradshaw
• NL West Notes: Melancon, Dodgers, Bryant
• Latest On Padres’ Rotation Plans

Yahoo Sports:

• Detroit Tigers game score vs. Tampa Bay Rays: TV, time, radio info
• D-backs vs. Dodgers Highlights
• Astros vs. Red Sox Highlights
• Dodgers finally get to Madison Bumgarner, then hang on for win over Diamondbacks
• Athletics' offense historically bad through first 38 games of 2022 MLB season
• Giants vs. Rockies Highlights
• Giants' Curt Casali won't keep mustache past May despite recent hot streak
• White Sox vs. Royals Highlights
• Angels vs. Rangers Highlights

ESPN:

• Astros' Odorizzi (leg discomfort) exits on stretcher
• Yanks' Cortes off Twitter after old tweets surface
• Back injury forces Rockies' Senzatela from game

CBS Sports:

• Yankees vs. Orioles score: New York wins for 21st time in last 25 games, makes franchise home run history
• Astros right-hander Jake Odorizzi carted off after suffering left leg injury vs. Red Sox
• Michael Conforto could sign with team after 2022 MLB Draft, agent Scott Boras says

FanGraphs:

• Player Evaluation on the Moon
• Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat – 5/16/22
• Injury Rundown: Kershaw, Megill, Luzardo Get Put on the Shelf

SportsSpyder:

Today in Mets History Per Ultimatemets.com: 

Born May 17:

• Dick Smith (1939)
• David Roseboom (1992)

Transactions:
New York Mets released Yogi Berra on May 17, 1965.

New York Mets released Raul Gonzalez on May 17, 2004.

New York Mets released Frank Catalanotto on May 17, 2010.

Houston Astros signed Kyle Farnsworth of the New York Mets as a free agent on May 17, 2014.

 

National Pastime.com: 

1971

Ralph Garr ties a major league record for the round-trippers in extra innings, going deep in the 10th frame and the 12th with a walk-off homer against the Mets in the Braves' 4-3 victory. The Atlanta left-fielder called the 'Road Runner' by his teammates, is the fourth player to accomplish the feat and the first to do so since 1966, when New York's Art Shamsky went yard in the 10th and 11th in a losing cause for the Reds at Crosley Field.

1973

At Anaheim Stadium, a horrific injury dampens Bobby Valentine's promising major league career when his spikes get caught in the outfield's chain-link fence attempting to catch a home run ball hit by Dick Green. The 23 year-old speedster, who had started the season hitting .400 in April, suffers a multiple compound leg fracture and will miss the rest of the season, eventually finishing his playing days as a utility player with the Padres, Mets, and Mariners.

 

1979	The Phillies beat the Cubs in a fifty-hit slugfest in the Windy City, 23-22. The 11 home runs hit in the game tie a major league mark, shared by Chicago and their opponents 1967 Reds and 1977 Mets, while playing in the friendly confines of Wrigley Field.
1985	The Rangers fire skipper Doug Rader and replace him with the Mets' third-base coach Bobby Valentine. Before returning to New York in 1996 to manage his former team, 'Bobby V' will compile a 581-605 record (.490) during his eight seasons in Texas.

 

Baseball Reference:

2001: Mets free agent acquisition Steve Trachsel becomes the first pitcher in franchise history to give up four home runs in an inning, pitching himself out of the starting rotation in the process (one day later, he'll be off the roster altogether, off to Norfolk for a three-week Triple A stint). To be fair, the Met bullpen does not exactly cover itself in glory either, with Rick White and John Franco each contributing 4 runs to San Diego's 15-run total; an uncharacteristically economical Franco accomplishes all this in one third of an inning. The one Met bright spot is the performance turned in by a newcomer assigned mop-up duty in the 9th, super sub Desi Relaford, who moves over from SS to make the only mound appearance of his major league career. Sporting a tailing change-up and a fastball, which at 91 MPH is about 5 MPH faster than anything Trachsel was able to muster, Desi fans the opposing pitcher, then induces two consecutive Padres to fly out to the deepest part of the park.

2009:  In a 2 - 0 win by the Giants over the Mets, New York hurler Mike Pelfrey balks 3 times. It had been 15 years since Al Leiter was the last pitcher to have three balks in a game.

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