Keeping track of recent minor transactions within the Mets system
Last week
New York Mets
3/11 – The Mets made their first round of cuts: Rafael
Montero, Dario Alvarez, Akeel Morris, Chasen Bradford, and Paul Sewald. I
discussed my thoughts on these cuts in last weeks post, but it’s old news by
now anyway.
3/15 – The second group of cuts was a bit bigger: Robert
Gsellman, Seth Lugo, Gabriel Ynoa, Jeff Walters, Josh Smoker, Dilson Herrera,
Brandon Nimmo, Duane Below, Stolmy Pimentel, Gavin Cecchini, Dominic Smith,
Marc Krauss, and Travis Taijeron. This second group of cuts is a mix of guys
who aren’t expected to help this year and guys who will be among the first
called up. Obviously Dilson is waiting for the first opportunity to arise at
2B. Duane Below and Seth Lugo are probably the Mets top starting pitcher depth
at the moment, though Gsellman or Ynoa could leapfrog them (at least Below)
with strong performances. Taijeron or Krauss could be brought up as bench help
if injuries get bad. Josh Smoker is a beast of a lefty who could force his way
into the Mets pen with a strong AAA performance. Walters is a righty who was in
the same place Smoker is now two years ago, but then TJS set him back. He
didn’t have the same life on his fastball last year with Binghamton though, so
we’ll see what he brings to Las Vegas this year.
3/16 – In an unexpected twist, Ruben Tejada was released so
the Mets could save ~$2.5 Mil. Tejada was never really appreciated by Mets
fans, but he was one of the longest tenured Mets and usually a better player
than most fans gave him credit for. He didn’t really have a spot on the Mets
bench, as they have other backup SS options and his bat can’t carry him on the
bench. That said, it’s hard for met to believe there are 30 better shortstops
in the majors right now, because Tejada is good enough defensively for SS, and
provides average shortstop production at the plate. For his career, Tejada has
an 86 wRC+, which is the league average wRC+ for a shortstop over the past 5
years. He’s been a 2+ fWAR/600 PA player in 4 of the past 5 seasons, he just
really stunk it up in 2013. I hope Ruben can find a team where he fits in and
where he’s not immediately forced to try and replace a franchise shortstop.
Las Vegas 51s
3/11 – Dario Alvarez and Rafael Montero were optioned to Las
Vegas.
3/15 – Seth Lugo, Brandon Nimmo, and Dilson Herrera were
optioned to Las Vegas.
Binghamton Mets
3/11 – Akeel Morris was optioned to Binghamton.
3/15 – Robert Gsellman, Gabriel Ynoa, Josh Smoker, and Jeff
Walters were optioned to Binghamton.
These moves don’t necessarily signal
that all of those players are returning to Binghamton this season.
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