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Mets News and Morning Links - 12/9/2023

 



Good Morning.  Happy Birthday Del Unser, Bruce Boisclair, and Juan Samuel. Mets sign Minor League Outfielder, Ronny Mauricio Homers in the DR and MLB plays Where's Shohei?

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12/8/23: Mets Roster Moves - Mets sign Taylor Kohlwey to a Minor League Deal - Stats and Videos "The New York Mets via X/Twitter announced that they have signed Taylor Kohlwey to a minor league deal with a Non-Roster Invite to Spring Training. He has been assigned to the Syracuse Mets AAA Roster...Taylor played 7 years in the San Diego Padres system before being called up to the Majors this year where he had 2 hits in 13 at-bats...Taylor, Bats and Throws Left and will turn 30 next July. 

NY Post: Kohlwey had a strong minor league campaign in the Padres’ system last season, when he slashed .276/.390/.437 with 12 home runs and 15 steals...Kohlwey projects as depth to the Mets’ outfield, which at the moment includes five 40-man-roster members: Brandon Nimmo, Starling Marte, DJ Stewart, Alex Ramirez and Cooper Hummel.

Mike Puma NY Post Sports+ Inside Andy Green’s journey from the field to the dugout to a job directing Mets player development. "This will be Green’s first foray into player development...Green has been entrusted with a farm system that has struggled to churn out major league players in recent seasons. Part of that deficiency falls on amateur scouting, but player development is also a factor. 'I’ve always thought of leadership as looking at the people you have that technically work beneath you and give them firm footing to do their jobs really well,' Green said." (Subscription required).

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Here are the Mets' biggest takeaways from Winter Meetings "The Mets really, really want Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Outfield help is paramount, Infield help, not so much, Pete Alonso is not going anywhere and The team is seeking a “diversity” of arms for its bullpen - The Mets, who employed one of the game’s softest-tossing bullpens last season, are clearly trying to add velocity. But Stearns described his mission as more complicated than that, saying he hopes to build a bullpen with lots of diversity -- hard throwers, softer throwers, pitchers with different arm slots and so on and so forth."

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Winter Baseball:

In The Dominican - 

  • Ronny Mauricio 3B 3 for 5, HR (1st), 1 RBI, 2 runs scored - now hitting .500 with a 1.288 OPS.
  • Ex Minor League Met Hector Rodriquez CF 1 for 5, 2 runs scored, 1 walk - .300 batting average with a .795 OPS; 
  • Ex-Syracuse Met Orlando Calixte 3B 2 for 3, 2 walks, 1 run scored, 1 K - hitting .300 with an .741 OPS
  • Hansel Robles (L,1-2) 2/3 innings, 3 runs - all earned, 2 hits, 2 walks, 1 K - 5.02 ERA;
  • Juan Lagares CF 2 for 4, 1 run scored, 1 K - hitting .267 with an .672 OPS;
  • Jimmy Yacabonis 1 inning, no runs, no hits, 1 walk - 0.00 ERA;
  • Jonathan Arauz SS 0 for 3, 1 RBI - hitting .281 with an .716 OPS;
You can see all of Ronny Mauricio's highlights from last night here.

In Puerto Rico -

  • Carlos Cortes RF 2 for 4, 1 K - .286 batting average with a .661 OPS; 
  • Johneshwy Fargas CF 1 for 2, double, 1 run scored, 1 walk - hitting .200 with a .631 OPS;
  • Adeiny Hechavarria SS 2 for 4, double, 3 runs scored, 2 RBIs, 1 K - hitting .287 with a .642 OPS;
In Venezuela -

  • 2021 Syracuse Met Jose Martinez DH 3 for 4, 2 HRs(4th and 5th), 2 runs scored, 3 RBIs - hitting .351 with an .958 OPS;
  • Wilmer Flores 1B 0 for 4, 1 walk - hitting .250 with an .630 OPS;
  • Wilson Ramos C 3 for 3, 1 walk - hitting .306 with a .823 OPS;;
  • Ex-Syracuse Met David Rodriguez DH 2 for 5, 1 RBI - hitting .324 with a .821 OPS;
  • Wilfredo Tovar DH 2 for 4, 1 run scored, 1 RBI, 1 walk - hitting .272 with a .706 OPS; 
  • Jonathan Villar PH 0 for 1 - hitting .176 with a .457 OPS; 
  • Ex-Binghamton Rumble Pony Yeizo Campos 1 inning, no runs, no hits, 1 walk - 5.40 ERA;

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X/Twitter, Sports Talk radio was ablaze yesterday with word that Shohei Ohtani was on his way to Toronto to sign a deal with the Blue Jays.  Some people were even supposedly tracking his plane, saying that a restaurant near the Sky Dome was going to be serving Sushi Friday Night - only for people to later tweet out that Shohei was not in Toronto or on a plane but back home in Southern California.  

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New York Mets released Donn Clendenon on December 9, 1971.

New York Mets traded Leon Brown and Brock Pemberton to the St. Louis Cardinals for Ed Kurpiel on December 9, 1976.

New York Mets traded Roy Staiger to the New York Yankees for Sergio Ferrer on December 9, 1977.

New York Mets traded Blaine Beatty to the Montreal Expos for Jeff Barry on December 9, 1991.

Montreal Expos drafted Guillermo Mota from the Mets on December 9, 1996.

Colorado Rockies signed Mike Hampton of the New York Mets as a free agent on December 9, 2000.

New York Mets signed free agent Julio Franco of the Atlanta Braves on December 9, 2005.

New York Mets released Andy Green on December 9, 2009.

Washington Nationals drafted Elvin Ramirez from the Mets on December 9, 2010.

Mets drafted Pedro Beato from the Baltimore Orioles on December 9, 2010.

Mets drafted Brad Emaus from the Toronto Blue Jays on December 9, 2010.

New York Mets signed free agent Garrett Olson of the Pittsburgh Pirates on December 9, 2011.

New York Mets signed free agent Curtis Granderson of the New York Yankees on December 9, 2013.

New York Mets traded Jon Niese to the Pittsburgh Pirates for Neil Walker on December 9, 2015.

New York Mets signed free agent Asdrubal Cabrera of the Tampa Bay Rays on December 9, 2015.

Philadelphia Phillies signed Zack Wheeler of the New York Mets as a free agent on December 9, 2019.

New York Mets signed free agent David Robertson of the Philadelphia Phillies on December 9, 2022.

National Pastime.com:

2003

Kazuo Matsui, a Japanese seven-time All-Star shortstop, agrees to a three-year $20.1-million deal with the Mets. Twenty-eight year-old 'Little' Matsui hit .305 with 33 home runs while driving in 84 runs last season with the Seibu Lions.

2013

The Mets sign Curtis Granderson to a four-year, $60 million contract, the team's richest free-agent deal since Sandy Alderson became the GM in 2010. The 32 year-old outfielder, who hit 84 homers in two seasons for the Yankees before being limited to 61 games last year due to injuries, is expected to provide some much-needed power for the team that ranked 25th in the long ball in 2013.

2015

Major League Baseball issues a recommendation for all its 30 teams to install netting to protect their fans who are sitting in front of the most exposed field-level seats. The suggested protective shield, which would extend from one dugout to the other, will be implemented by most of the clubs before opening day, with the Mets, Pirates and Twins already in compliance, having netting down the the first and third base foul lines.


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2015: At the Winter Meetings in Nashville, TN, the Pirates trade 2B Neil Walker to the Mets in return for P Jonathon Niese; the Yankees send reliever Justin Wilson to the Tigers for prospects Luis Cessa and Chad Green; and the Athletics send 3B Brett Lawrie to the White Sox for two prospects.

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