Meet the Thirty 2020 Mets

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Opening Day roster, per Newsday:



P: Betances, deGrom, Díaz, Familia, Lugo, Matz, Oswalt, Porcello, Sewald, Shreve, Smith, Strickland, Wacha, Wilson



C: Nido, Ramos, Rivera



IF: Alonso, Canó, Giménez, Guillorme, McNeil, Núñez, Rosario, Smith



OF: Céspedes, Conforto, Davis, Marisnick, Nimmo

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Uniform numbers of note:



68: Betances

22: Porcello

47: Shreve

71: Strickland

45: Wacha

60: Giménez

12: Nuñez

16: Marisnick



Dom Smith is now 2; Drew Smith is still 62.



Six are on the Injured List: Gsellman, Lowrie, Stroman (now 0), Hughes (87), Brach, Lockett

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Second assistant hitting coach Ryan Ellis is listed as 34, while Noah Syndergaard isn't listed on the IL.



Jeremy Hefner is listed as 93, perhaps because Melky Cabrera, since teleased, had 53 in camp.

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[Johnny Lunchbucket]

gimenez. is that a surpise?

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

How out f it I've been -- went to update the old mbtn website, saw the domain expired yesterday!

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

what happens to guys like Gonslaves not on the 40? Limbo? Free agent?

[Ceetar]

there's like 60man taxi squads or something right? that I haven't read up on exactly. they're 'around' though.

[MFS62]

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: what happens to guys like Gonslaves not on the 40? Limbo? Free agent?

He has been designated for assignment, according to Amazing Avenue.

Later

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Ryan Ellis has been relisted as 91.



Jeremy Hefner is back in 53.

[MFS62]

More changes than a Cher concert.

Later

[Lefty Specialist]

14 pitchers and 8 infielders. Ay caramba.



Hope Gimenez gets an AB before he's sent down. I'll also betting he'll be the 'automatic guy on 2nd' in extra innings.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Only if he makes the last out in the inning before. The runner isn't someone you can designate; it's whoever is in the lineup and would bat ninth in the current inning.

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First in-season transactional note of 2020: Oswalt demoted or perhaps deported to the Alternate Site, a.k.a. Brooklyn. Mets will announce corresponding move once they clear all the baseballs the Braves hit from their paperwork.

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After getting knocked around last night, the Mets have decided Tyler Bashlor is the answer to their pitching depth issues, at least for today. He's been called up following the tossing of Corey Oswalt into an unmarked van.

[LWFS]

How is Peterson making his way rosterward? Erasmo?

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Peterson up and starting. Bashlor DFA'd.

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David Peterson will wear good ol' No. 77.

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Marisnick to the IL with a strained hamstring. Ryan Cordell gets the call.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Do they cancel games because of strained hamstrings?

[LWFS]

Only if they're, like, contagious hamstring pulls. Testing will be important.

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Let's see now...



Nunez to the IL.

Dozier up from BK.

Strickland DFA.

Zamora recalled.



Also, Bruce Maxwell has been signed and assigned to work out at the ALTERNATE SITE. And yesterday, in case it was missed, Jordan Humphreys was DFA'd to make room for Ryan Cordell.



Dozier to wear 15; Cordell, BTW, is 18.

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For the record, Rivera's on the IL, Kilome (wearing No. 66) is up.



Eight games in, five members of the Opening Day active roster are no longer on the active roster.

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Jared Hughes (No. 35) is activated. Franklyn Kilome has been ridden hard and put away wet

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Ali Sánchez (No. 70) joins the cast. The catcher takes the place of a former left fielder who nobody ever talks about anymore (restricted list).

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Cano to IL. Hamilton up (No. 21).

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Ryan Cordell has been DFA'd.



Also, the Mets have picked up righty reliever Ariel Jurado from way on the other side of the Hudson, specifically Texas. He's been assigned to where all naughty righty relievers go, the Alternate Site.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I think it's a pretty safe bet that three or four years from now, you'll be the only one here who remembers Ryan Cordell.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Cordell will be memorialized, forever, in a Typewriter Chewing Gum complete or total Mets 2020 baseball card set, currently in the design and planning stage.

[Frayed Knot]

I guess having your manager opt to not PH for Tomas Nido but then does PH for you an inning or two later more or less serves as the DFA equivalent of writing on the wall.







I remember picking Cordell out during ST (the original one) as a player to watch.

Still not sure I wouldn't prefer him to Billy Hamilton but I admit that's largely speculative.