The Mets pulled the plug on the Brad Emaus experiment today, designating the Rule 5 draft pick for assignment. This means he’ll be offered back to the Toronto Blue Jays, then put on waivers, allowing any team to claim him.
I think the Mets may have made the move a little too quickly. What do you think?
A great story about the man who we all know as Sidd Finch.
At least, the guy in the photograph of the most famous pitcher to never live.
There’s ‘growing suspicion’ that the Mets will look to trade veterans such as Carlos Beltran, Jose Reyes and Francisco Rodriguez if they are not contending midseason. Plus, Mike Pelfrey could find himself on the block.
-MLBTR, paraphrasing Jon Heyman
No, really?
Right moves all around.
Boyer had struggled every appearance, and today’s four-run inning did nothing to help. Duda needs more reps at Triple-A.
Thoughts?
Here’s one sentence to recap last night’s game…
Though his pitching line won’t reflect it, Chris Capuano pitched well as the Mets bats – including two home runs from Carlos Beltran – delivered in four separate innings to even up the series.
Think you can do better? Leave your one-sentence recap in the comments.
According to Neil Best, the Mets have banned tweeting from Terry Collins’ press conferences. He later tweeted that a reporter is allowed to step out of the room to send his or her tweet.
I, as it should be obvious, do not agree with Best’s stance on the matter – he later tweeted that he finds it “rude and unnecessary.”
Reporters should be free to tweet as they please. The reporters currently handle voice recorders and scribble notes on a pad. Why is a tweet over the line?
I don’t get it.
(H/T JSchil.)
Here’s one sentence to recap the game…
It’s kind of hard to win a baseball game when you go 0-10 with runners in scoring position.
Think you can do better? Leave your one sentence recap in the comments!
And now, for a special announcement…
Thanks to a genius idea from Pirates blog Raise the Jolly Roger, passed along by MetsGrrl, I’m happy to announce the beginning of The New York Mets Walk-Up Music Collaboration Project.
The New York Mets Walk-Up Music Collaboration Project (TNYMWUMCP, for short) will be a crowd-sourced, fan-created and maintained document tracking the music that our favorite players on our favorite team have blast over the loudspeakers as they walk to the dish.
If you know of the song and artist a specific Met walks up to, you can add to our list here.
The project’s spreadsheet will always live on this page, so you can refer to it at all times when you want to know what song Jose Reyes walked up to in the third inning of last night’s game or what song Carlos Beltran uses as he walks to the plate.
There’s even a separate tab for past Mets songs to be filed away for reference.
View the document here. And edit it here.
I hope you all think this is as cool as I do.
Please spread the word and contribute!
