I must Askew for your opinion of Brooks Raley

[A Boy Named Seo]

Mets make a lefty-for-lefty swap!



https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2022/12/mets-acquire-brooks-raley.htmlhttps://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2022/12/mets-acquire-brooks-raley.html



Youngster Keyshawn Askew and his sexy K/9 rates go to Tampa for 34-year old Brooks Raley, coming off a career year.



Did the Rays fleece us? Maybe? But we need a bunch of relievers so... *gulp*

[metsmarathon]

mets straighten up their bullpen, trading askew for raley.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Enough with the 34 year olds. This team is going to be dull as shit

[MFS62]

Askew has the numbers to one day make this deal look really bad.

But he also may have control issues that will one day make this look good.

I'm not sure which.

Later

[A Boy Named Seo]

Brooks Raley most similiar pitcher...





Joelly Rodriguez.

[Edgy MD]

Mets are kind of conducting themselves like the Yankees this week, plugging holes with short-term solutions from guys on the back end of their careers.



Down side is that it's all about next year, future be damned. The upside is that they are easy moves to pivot from.

[A Boy Named Seo]

Mood-wrecker incoming. Here is a vid of a side-arming lefty who hits 96 that we just traded. His delivery reminds me a little of Josh Hader?

[Edgy MD]

I just played that video and two guys walking down the street past my house stepped into the bucket.

[G-Fafif]

Another mood-wrecker.

[A Boy Named Seo]

Dude is so threatened be couldn't even wear a patch. Nice pickup, Mets. Ugh.

[MFS62]

A Boy Named Seo wrote: Dude is so threatened be couldn't even wear a patch. Nice pickup, Mets. Ugh.

I'm guessing he didn't want the COVID vaccine, either.

Later

[Edgy MD]

No reason to guess when you have a device in front of you that has access to all information ever.



And ... https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/34570910/tampa-bay-rays-reliever-brooks-raley-unvaccinated-covid-19-miss-series-torontoyup.

[A Boy Named Seo]

Freedom isn't free. It costs $93,407.

[smg58]

Raley doesn't score any points in the likeability column, but he's a solid lefty who'll cost less money than worse relievers will get in the open market. Askew is too far away to get a real sense of what kind of pitcher he will be. But I do like his motion.

[Fman99]

Hates gays and vaccines. Loves lefty on lefty matchups.