Your Mets of Yore in 2023

[Edgy MD]

Here's to the Cards for inducting a coach.

[Edgy MD]

MLB.tv commercial sells the shift-banning rule in a commercial featuring baseball legends Joey Votto and ... Collin Cowgill.

[MFS62]

Brad Brach will be broadcasting games for the Orioles.

NJ. com via Yahoo

https://sports.yahoo.com/m/c50155c8-45cd-33d1-8298-b3362cac23da/ex-mets-pitcher-gets-job-in.htmlhttps://sports.yahoo.com/m/c50155c8-45cd-33d1-8298-b3362cac23da/ex-mets-pitcher-gets-job-in.html

Later

[Edgy MD]

Danny Graves joins the illustrious company of https://www.cincinnati.com/story/sports/mlb/reds/2023/07/15/bronson-arroyo-danny-graves-deliver-reds-hall-of-fame-speeches/70417368007/The Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame.



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[G-Fafif]

[metirish]

Gave us some great days and nights

[Frayed Knot]

Was kind of hoping he'd get a last hurrah. I didn't even care where.



As a NYM he was fun, exciting, infuriating, and entertaining ... often simultaneously.

[G-Fafif]

Expansive visit with Darryl Strawberry at Citi Field from ex-SI man Michael Bamberger in NYT.

It was a lazy, humid weekday afternoon at Citi Field, and the early birds were taking a steam bath. Ed Kranepool, an original Met, was on the field near the Mets dugout, shaking hands, making the scene. Charlie Hayes, the old Yankee third baseman, was sitting on a cushioned field-level seat near third base. In a few hours, his son, Ke'Bryan Hayes, would be playing third and batting third for the visitors, the Pittsburgh Pirates. Nearby, on the field in foul territory, Jay Horwitz, Mets PR man since 1980, was doing the Jay Horwitz Pregame Shuffle, toes out, head bobbing, checking on this, checking on that. It only seemed like Old-Timers' Day. And then, three hours or so before the night's first pitch, an icon of New York baseball strolled into this summer-in-the-city scene. Darryl Strawberry, his own self. Forty years ago he was a Mets rookie with a 30-inch waist and about six feet of shoulders. For a long time, Strawberry wasn't an active Mets alumnus, but under the team's newish ownership — Steven A. Cohen, take a rare bow in this dismal season! — Strawberry has been coming around, at least now and again. The owner remembers Strawberry in his prime. He roots for him as all New Yorkers root for him. Darryl Strawberry — there was always something about him. You could see it in his face. Strawberry can't tell you much about the Mets' left-handed bats off the bench. His life in baseball has come and gone. But he knows and appreciates the doors baseball opened for him, and he was at the ballpark on that recent night to meet and greet some big-check donors to the foundation he runs with his wife, Tracy Strawberry. Among other things, the foundation helps pay for treatment programs for addicts of every kind. Strawberry knows such programs intimately. So does his wife. Tracy Strawberry is an ordained minister, has a doctorate in theology and, like her husband, is an addict in recovery.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/18/sports/baseball/darryl-strawberry-mets-addiction-ministry.htmlhttps://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/18/sports/baseball/darryl-strawberry-mets-addiction-ministry.html

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2022 Mets who have yet to appear in an MLB game this season (including the entire Kelenic haul):



R.J. Alvarez

Travis Blankenhorn

Robinson Cano

Sam Clay

Edwin Diaz

Nate Fisher

Terrance Gore

Ender Inciarte

Khalil Lee

Yoan Lopez

Devin Marrero

Patrick Mazeika

Adonis Medina

Bryce Montes de Oca

Tyler Naqiun

Nick Plummer

Yolmer Sanchez

Thomas Szapucki



... and a coupl'a other one-time Mets who haven't played in the majors since 2022 (this list below is incomplete and needs some serious updating):



Jerad Eickhoff

Robert Gsellman

Jed Lowrie

Chris Mazza

Oliver Perez

Kevin Plawecki

Joe Smith

Jonathan Villar

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... and a coupl'a other one-time Mets who haven't played in the majors since 2022 (this list below is incomplete and needs some serious updating):



Jerad Eickhoff

Robert Gsellman

Jed Lowrie

Chris Mazza

Oliver Perez

Kevin Plawecki

Joe Smith

Jonathan Villar

Edited September 1, 2023 by Guest

[Edgy MD]

The Jonathan Villars are a group that fascinates me. Journeyman utility infielders who pop up in town for one year at the end of a career and turn out to be far more useful than anybody had a right to expect.



The other group that fascinates me are the Jay Bells. Journeyman utility infielders who pop up in town for one year at the end of a career and turn out to be far less useful than anybody had a right to expect.

[roger_that]

Or the Jed Lowries, who never pop up at all.

[Edgy MD]

Are there any other Jed Lowries?



I suppose there's one or two, but damned if I can think of them.

[Edgy MD]

Ex-Met catcher, bullpen coach, and first base coach Sandy Alomar, Jr. has been retained for the Guardians' staff under new manager Stephen Vogt, one of only two holdovers from Terry Francona's braintrust.

[Edgy MD]

Texas Rangers broadcaster C.J. Nitkowski takes his trade to Atlanta. He says he wants to be closer to family.



How do I tell C.J. that his family is from Rockland County?

[Frayed Knot]

From the Braves web site via mlb.com: Nitkowski's well-traveled 10-year MLB career included a stint in the Braves' bullpen during the 2004 season.

He and his wife, Megan, have spent the past couple of decades raising their three children in suburban Atlanta. Nitkowski is a well-recognized voice

on SiriusXM's MLB Network Radio and has won six Long Star Emmys while serving as the Rangers' television analyst since 2017.

So, Rockland County no more.





Apparently Jeff Francoeur is stepping away from his full time TV role to spend more time with his family (at least he and Nitkowski aren't

doing this in order to spend more time which each other's families) so CJN will be the primary TV color man for Braves telecasts starting this

coming season. Not sure how/if this affects Francoeur's network gig but both he and Glavine (who Francouer effectively replaced) will work

only a handful of games this season for the Braves' local Bally Sports affiliate.