The Toros del Este of the Dominican Winter League announced on Wednesday that New York Mets first baseman/outfielder will play with the team this season. It’s been a tumultuous season for the 23-year-old in which he started it off by getting scratched from spring lineup after showing up late. He then had a quadriceps injury that held him out for most of spring thus handing the Mets first...
Plus stuff has never been an issue for the hard-throwing Bobby Wahl and it wasn’t on Thursday night when he made his New York Mets debut. The right-handed reliever picked up in the trade from the Oakland Athletics for Jeurys Familia retired both batters he faced including a strikeout of Johan Camargo on a nasty breaking ball. Wahl popped 98 mph on the first two pitches he threw with the...
It may not take a trade involving Asdrubal Cabrera to shuttle Jeff McNeil to the major leagues. At least that’s what assistant general manager John Ricco insinuated on Friday, but it still doesn’t sound like the Mets are too eager to rush the 26-year-old, who has totaled 18 home runs between Triple-A Las Vegas and Double-A Binghamton in 2018. “He’s getting our attention,” Ricco...
Prior to tonight’s game, the Mets activated outfielder Justin Ruggiano from the 15-Day Disabled List. Ruggiano will wear #1 and will be available tonight. To make room for Ruggiano on the active roster, the Mets optioned Gabriel Ynoa to Las Vegas. Ruggiano, 34, was signed by the Mets on July 30 and was 1-6 (.167) in three games before he ended up on the DL with a strained left hamstring....
On July 13, 2016, Rafael Montero was demoted to AA Binghamton due to his struggles at AAA Las Vegas. Montero has pitched much better since being demoted, and this past week, Montero was named the Eastern League’s Pitcher of the Week for the week ending July 30, 2016. Last week, Montero made two starts going 1-1 allowing just seven hits, two runs, two earned, and three walks with 15 strikeouts...
The New York Mets today announced that the club has signed outfielder Justin Ruggiano to a major league contract. Ruggiano will be in uniform tonight, wear #1 and is active for tonight’s game versus the Rockies. To make room on the active roster, the Mets have placed infielder Jose Reyes on the 15-Day Disabled List with a left oblique strain, retroactive to July 27. To make room on the 40-man...
Las Vegas 51s reliever Josh Edgin has been sent to New York to have his left elbow examined after complaining of some soreness according to Betsy Halfand of the Review-Journal. During the game, Vegas broadcaster Russ Langer said it wasn’t thought to be anything serious and more of a precaution. Edgin has been working his way back from Tommy John Surgery that he had last year in March. He...
Rafael Montero has been named the Pitcher of the Week for the Pacific Coast League. Montero made two road starts, not allowing a run in 11.2 innings on six hits with five walks and 13 strikeouts. For the week Montero posted a 0.94 WHIP and .154 batting average against. Montero, 25, shutout the River Cats over 5.2 innings with six strikeouts on May 9. In his second start of the week, he tossed...
First base is one of the Mets’ weakest areas when it comes to depth in the minor league system considering three of the players below didn’t even play the position full-time in 2015. The Mets have Lucas Duda under contract for the next two seasons making them strong at first base at the Major League Level. The hope is that once his contract is up that Dominic Smith will be ready to...
Left-handed reliever Dario Alvarez, who spent a couple of days with the Mets before being sent back to Las Vegas when the Mets activated David Wright, is likely to rejoin the Mets again on Friday in Miami, when the Mets open up a three game series with the Marlins. (ESPN New York) Alvarez was not among the other players who joined the Mets on Tuesday when rosters expanded because he had to spend...
Lending credence to reports that the Mets will be promoting pitching prospect Steven Matz sooner rather than later, about a dozen advance scouts were in attendance last night in Las Vegas to watch the young southpaw pitch. (New York Post) Earlier this week, Sandy Alderson told reporters that Matz had nothing left to prove in the minors and that if it weren’t for a packed rotation, he...
What is with all these night games, Cubbies? I thought it was an actual city ordinance that you can only have a certain amount of them in a week. Are the extra bleachers corralling the sound and not letting it escape into those Chicago neighborhoods? Old Kauffman Stadium, before the 200+ million dollar renovation, had no seats in the outfield between the foul poles. It made visiting outfielders...
