2019 Mets Roster Shuffle

[G-Fafif]

The thread for quick transaction-type updates.



Gavin Cecchini DFA'd, off the 40-man roster to make room for Justin Wilson.

Edited January 28, 2019 by Guest

[Centerfield]

This is crushing for the Cecchini Fan Club.



Surprised he got the axe instead of like Tim Peterson or someone like that.



I still think he can hit someday. Would have been good if he didn't completely disappear after that foot injury last year.

[G-Fafif]

Nobody in the BVW administration, save perhaps for Ricco, had anything to do with drafting or developing him, so I imagine the sense of attachment the previous regime may have had to a first-round draft pick wasn't there. I don't know how much of a factor something like that is, but I would guess that every little bit helps a player on the bubble.

[smg58]

The glut of infielders probably made this inevitable. It would take an unpleasant number of injuries to create an opening for Cecchini at this point, and I don't see it or even want to see it happening. I'd feel bad, but I think a waiver claim is in his best interests.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

They saved Eric Hanhold?



I know some turnover is inevitable but it's almost as though Brodie Von Whathaveyoudoneformelately is making a show of whacking Sandy's guys.

[G-Fafif]

It has been suggested by a Twitterite who has thought about it that Mets likely have a trade lined up for Cecchini.

[smg58]

=Centerfield post_id=1950 time=1548706866 user_id=65]I still think he can hit someday. Would have been good if he didn't completely disappear after that foot injury last year.

[Edgy MD]

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: They saved Eric Hanhold?

Right?

[Centerfield]

Read some of the middle relievers we held onto. Cutting Cecchini is an unforced error.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

[LWFS]

Edgy MD wrote: Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: They saved Eric Hanhold? Right?

We have an Eric Hanhold? And a Drew Gagnon?



Christ, I feel like Grimmy. (No offense, BG.)

[Edgy MD]

Well, that was a little ... well, all's swell that ends swell.

[bmfc1]

Sean Burnett, lefty RP, to a minor league deal

https://metsmerizedonline.com/2019/02/mets-sign-left-hander-sean-burnett-to-minors-deal.html/?fbclid=IwAR2bwMjWS5r21rGMWFfkhBsfIstvcwk-G0JuJiBcAPd6iS2Vogs6FJbUhpghttps://metsmerizedonline.com/2019/02/mets-sign-left-hander-sean-burnett-to-minors-deal.html/?fbclid=IwAR2bwMjWS5r21rGMWFfkhBsfIstvcwk-G0JuJiBcAPd6iS2Vogs6FJbUhpg



https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/burnese01.shtmlhttps://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/burnese01.shtml

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Burnetthttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Burnett

[Edgy MD]

Wow. Burnett's appeared in 380 MLB games, but only 26 since 2012.

[Vic Sage]

Burnett, Avilan or Zamora as 2nd lefty in the pen? or somebody else?

[Edgy MD]

Hector Santiago joins that field as well, with Ryan O'Rourke and David Roseboom on the periphery.

[bmfc1]

Danny Espinosa, former National, to a minor league deal with a major league invite (do they use Evite?)

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/e/espinda01.shtmlhttps://www.baseball-reference.com/players/e/espinda01.shtml

[Edgy MD]

Bad news for Sam Haggerty.