Facts About the 2018 Mets

[Edgy MD]

Baby Smitty was a beneficiary of the Major League Baseball Urban Youth Academy in Compton, California. Though the academy has only been open since 2006, alumni that have made it the big leagues include Anthony Gose, Trayvon Robinson, Aaron Hicks, Efren Navarro, J. P. Crawford, Dillon Tate, Hunter Greene, and (of course) Smith.

This name "Yoenis Céspedes" keeps appearing on rosters that I skim. Can you tell me anything about him?

[G-Fafif]

After two months on the disabled list, ostensibly for a bad hip, Yoenis Cespedes emerged on July 20 to DH at MFYS III, went 2-4, including a home run, and walked in a Mets victory. Then he went back on the DL with two bad heels nobody seemed to know he was playing with. Cespedes may be the actual personification of the cliche about the player who can fall out of bed and get a hit. In his case, a long hit.

How about that Phil (or Philip) Evans?

[Lefty Specialist]

When word came that the Mets hung out with Donald Trump Jr on a spring training fishing trip, it was intrepid reporter Philip Evans who broke it on his Instagram account.




Which reminds me, whatever happened to that Harvey fellow?

[stevejrogers]

Edgy MD wrote: The Mets deployed 56 players in 2018, the most in their long history. Some ground it out through the whole year, while not a few others had more of an ephemeral Mets season, appearing out of the midst and then dissolving like Brigadoon. It's like the world conspired so you never had a chance to get to know them at all.

No idea if its the record for their franchise history, or for an eventual postseason participant, but the NL East Champion Braves deployed 58 different players!

[bmfc1]

Lefty Specialist wrote: Which reminds me, whatever happened to that Harvey fellow?

We hoped that Matt Harvey would regain his "Dark Knight" abilities but he never did. He was banished to the bullpen and, shockingly!, was not happy about it. The Mets traded him to the Reds for Devin Mesoraco where he started but still wasn't very good.

What happened to Mesoraco?

[G-Fafif]

D-Mez, which nobody called him, belted a three-run pinch-homer to help put away the Braves on September 27, probably his last hit as a Met.

Did another catcher, Travis d'Arnaud, produce his last hit as a Met in 2018? Let's have some Td'A downlow.