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2020 Vision: Yoenis Céspedes

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I'm dropping a preview of the 2020 preview threads because, discrediting the hearsay of all those contemptible Never-Yoenis bureaucrats, Yoenis Céspedes appeared at the Mets complex in St. Lucie to take batting practice.



That's legendary Mets pitcher Endy Chavez bringing it from the portside.




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The video has since been deleted, presumably after Jeff Wilpon called him and chewed him out for undermining his insurance fraud.



"Do you realize how hard it is to say he can't play if you post video of him playing!?!?!?!?"


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Well, I can sill see it. Maybe I have it cached or something.



Let's just say I don't anticipate Endy helping the team much on the mound in 2020.


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Sorry. What I meant is Endy took it down. It's been recaptured all over the place so it's on the net, but Endy Chavez deleted it from IG.



Which has led to speculation, including mine, as to why. We've all noted how strange it is that there have been no updates on Cespedes. Clearly there is intent there, especially since Brodie was as vague as one can be when asked specifically last week.



I'm guessing that they're not happy at all that Endy provided the world of a video of living, breathing, hitting Cespedes.


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Weird and dumb that he took it down. makes no sense, even from a 'whoops' standpoint, it's not like people are going to forget it's there. It's the internet.



This is literally what I assumed Cespedes was doing anyway, so all this does is tell the public that he's not having setbacks I guess. I'm sure all the insiders know, it's not like Barwis is a Mets exclusive.





I don't think it's strange that there hasn't been updates on his status in the offseason. It's his own business, the Mets have no incentive to put out that information, and the media is disinterested in really digging for it. Not to mention that the media hasn't really been gracious with Cespedes as a whole in a way that would make him super into updating them.


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He was already swinging a bat before he broke his ankles. It means something if his home run trot isn't his top speed.



I don't see the point in reading stuff into everything. If he's healthy, he plays.


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gotta love that quote though "and industry source" says he intends to play.



That could literally be anyone. The groundscrew at PSL is in the 'industry'.



and also, duh? That's what BP is. an intention to play baseball.


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I'm not sure why we are pretending that the Cespedes situation isn't strange. It's clearly strange.



When a player is hurt, there is a description of his injury, a timetable for his recovery, and periodic updates. After Cespedes's ankle surgery, there have been no updates, no prognosis given, no time table. This is strange.



It became stranger when Brodie Van Wagenen, when asked directly about it, gave as vague an answer as possible. All he would say is that it was "too early to tell".



We now know that Van Wagenen had much more information, but chose not to disclose. Meaning that his answer of the week prior was intentionally vague. Ces isn't holed up at his ranch refusing to answer the Mets. He's at their facility in St. Lucie, walking, hitting, and taking BP from Endy Chavez. Any of this information could have been shared, but it was not. So we have no choice but to speculate why.



The obvious guess is insurance. I suspect that if there was no insurance, updates on Ces would be all over the place. He's doing great. Recovery is right on track. It benefits their likely unwillingness to upgrade the offense if they can point to Cespedes as an "addition".



But there is insurance. And it covers just under 75% of his salary. So here, it benefits them if Cespedes isn't ready. So they're likely keeping silent in case they end up in an insurance dispute later on. Either with the insurance company or the player.



Here's what I think happened.



Jeff: Hey, no one give any public statements on Cespedes until further notice.



All Mets Employees: Ok.



Endy (forgetting): Hey check out this cool video of Yo hitting!



Jeff: Endy, you fucking idiot! Did you not hear me say no updates on Cespedes?



Endy: But I didn't say anything, it was just a video...



Jeff: Are you kidding me?



Endy: Sorry Jeff.



Endy (to himself): Jeff seemed really mad. I guess I should take the video down.



Jeff: DID YOU TAKE THE VIDEO DOWN? MORON. NOW IT LOOKS LIKE WE ARE HIDING SOMETHING.



Endy: But we are hiding something...



Scene


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I don't know if that happened or didn't happen, but I just want to say, I've spent my whole career playing the part of Endy Chavez in that conversation.


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ignoring, not providing, and being vague and unhelpful about injuries and injury updates has been the norm for a while now.



Your bit about them wanting to cover themselves in case they need to prove themselves may be why they took the video down, though again it's still dumb because it's not like they can deny it exists. It continuing to exist on Endy's insta doesn't really matter.





Of course, the simplest answer may be the correct one. They don't want to provide medical/injury updates. They want to discourage people asking for this stuff. And a video just prompts phone calls and texts. This could be from the Mets, or hell, it could be from Cespedes who also doesn't seem to want to answer said questions.



There's no way the correct answer is that it's a subtle dig at the media's narrative that Yo is MIA and lazy. Here's video of him clearly working out, at the Mets complex, but we're taking it down and pretending it didn't happen. You all know it happened so you continuing to write about how the Mets have no idea what he's doing continues to be nonsense, but we're going to still ignore you when you ask for updates.



Of course, if anyone on the MetsBeat really cared enough, it can't be hard to get a quote from someone with Barwis' group. That's probably where the paper headline quote comes from.


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Johnny Lunchbucket wrote:

I really love the Puppet, Pauper, Pirate, Poet, Pawn, King set and want to collect them all


I dunno what to say. Those were on sale at a store near you last year. Where were you? Plus, I don't wanna hijack this thread like the I Give Up thread which wasn't really a hijack anyways, but still, I'm positive there's one poster here that's gonna go all what's Gary Carter's ass doing on third base on me if I keep this up.



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Johnny Lunchbucket wrote:

Zimmo



No wait, Rosario



Zimmo AND Rosario. And d'Arnaud


I can't believe you asked for Amed. It's a total Mets team set but there's two Mets I never got around to doing. Rosario and Matz. So I'll give you an Amed replacement. An insert card.


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Johnny Lunchbucket wrote:

Zimmo



No wait, Rosario



Zimmo AND Rosario. And d'Arnaud


I can't believe you asked for Amed. It's a total Mets team set but there's two Mets I never got around to doing. Rosario and Matz. So I'll give you an Amed replacement. An insert card.


The Nimmo card has the most and the richest color of all the cards in the set.



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Plus two insert -- non-base -- cards.



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Didn't pre-sale ticket promos start yesterday or Mon?



If the Mets were all gushy about the Yo story, a lot of people would be going

all nutty that the Mets are trying to sell tickets already! No one knows what's

what with him it's not even Turkey Day. Conspiracy about cover ups and insurance

money is pretty laughable. The Wilpons suck, but jeez already. This ain't DC and

your government we're talking about here.


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=seawolf17 post_id=26876 time=1574283938 user_id=91]It's fine. He'll just DH.

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