So, You're a Met Now, Alex

[Edgy MD]

That's Alex Reyes, once one of the top young pitchers in baseball, with a Ryan-esque profile of 100-mile-per-hour heat and a 12-to-6 curveball dropping off the table, eye-popping strikeout rates, along with antacid-popping walk rates. He's been sidelined and sidelined and sidelined in recent years by UCL surgery, shoulder surgery, lat surgery, and I imagine dental surgery as well.



Reyes is a native of Elizabeth, NJ, but smartly became an MLB draft dodger, moving to the Dominican Republic as a teenager in order to sign as a free agent. I encourage any and all amateur players to do likewise. Now at 30 and three years removed from his last professional pitch, he's about as wild as a wildcard gets.



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ON EDIT: Manny Gómez of NJ Advanced Media sez https://www.nj.com/mets/2024/12/report-of-mets-signing-ex-top-prospect-is-false-team-interested-and-wanted-him-last-season.htmlthis is all a crock, and no deal has been agreed upon.



So hostile, Manny! I guess ... stand by for further updates!

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

this is now being reported as bullshit



https://www.nj.com/mets/2024/12/report-of-mets-signing-ex-top-prospect-is-false-team-interested-and-wanted-him-last-season.htmlhttps://www.nj.com/mets/2024/12/report-of-mets-signing-ex-top-prospect-is-false-team-interested-and-wanted-him-last-season.html

[Edgy MD]

Yup. Caught that and edited.



I don't know what the world's come to when you can't even trust Aram Leighton of Just Baseball.

[G-Fafif]

[Edgy MD]

We really did hardly know ya'.

[ashie62]

Another David Stearns special. Reyes was very top shelf at one time. Maybe he can get healthy at Syracuse

[Edgy MD]

Or not, as it were.