Memories of Pedro Beato

[Guest Swan Swan H]

Pete the Beat will be heading to Boston in exchange for at least six weeks of Kelly Shoppach, according to people who oughta know. Memories?

[Ceetar]

bigger name than I expected to be named.

My main memory of him is a couple of weeks ago at Star Wars Night, in the rain, extra innings, him putting the game out of reach.

[Edgy MD]

Carried a lot of pink backpacks.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

In the end, the Kid from Brooklyn was a real disappointment. Good arm, exciting, but the results weren't there.

[Vic Sage]

so let me get this straight... we traded the future of a 25 year-old power-pitching reliever for 6 weeks of a mediocre old catcher whose best as the short end of a platoon?
I'm sorry... are we in a pennant race that no one is aware of?

[Edgy MD]

Oh, shit. We meant to tell you, yeah.

This is really embarrassing. Who was supposed to tell Vic about the pennant race?!

[Vic Sage]

nobody ever tells me nuthin.

[Guest Swan Swan H]

Maybe if you watched a game instead of going to see 'Once' for the fifteenth time.....

[MFS62]

Was it Beato who got on Thole's effort for (not) blocking one of his pitches in the dirt?
If so, maybe this was a "peace in the clubhouse" move. But I also think the kid has the stuff to become a decent major league pitcher.

Later

[Vic Sage]

i could see a baseball game instead of ONCE?
oh wait... a METS game. that's not quite the same as a baseball game now is it?
ONCE more, with feeling!

[Guest Swan Swan H]

Well, the Mets season is Falling Slowly.

[Edgy MD]

Too late, Vic. He zinged ya.

Beato was the subject of one of our "Odes to the Opening Day Roster."

[batmagadanleadoff]

I thought he'd be good. But Beato was naughto.

[G-Fafif]

Pitched three scoreless innings at Citizens Bank Park the night Will McAvoy and others reported President Obama was about to announce the killing of Osama Bin Laden.

New York Mets pitcher Pedro Beato watched from the roof of his Brooklyn high school as the World Trade Center collapsed on Sept. 11, 2001. The world learned Sunday night that Osama bin Laden, the terrorist mastermind behind those attacks, had been killed by U.S. forces. They learned from TV, radio, Internet and smart phones. Beato learned from word of mouth. He heard thousands of Phillies and Mets fans chant, "USA! USA! USA!" in the top of the ninth inning at Citizens Bank Park. "Mission accomplished," he said following New York's 2-1 victory in 14 innings.

[Frayed Knot]

The biggest legacy Beato will leave is the circuitous route he took to get here ... and now leave.

- A 17th round "draft and follow" guy (a category which no longer exists) he pitched well in JuCo and impressed the Mets enough to offer him around 2nd round money
- But he and agent wanted 1st round money and so a signing which all concerned thought was sure to happen didn't happen and so he re-entered the draft and went to Baltimore (signing for right about the mid-point between what the Mets were offering and what he originally wanted)
- he pretty much scuffled in the Baltimore system until being moved to the pen a few years later, but by then it was time to protect him and the O's chose not to
- so the Mets plucked him in the 'Rule 5' draft and, unlike most who go that route, he stuck, having a decent year although with fairly pronounced home/road splits (home = good, road = not so much) and 1st-half/2nd-half splits
- there were always the occasional rumors that mgmt wanted to try him out in the rotation but those never seemed to materialize
- injuries delayed his 2012 season and, freed from the Rule 5 requirements, was able to work in the minors where his stats look decent even if nothing eye-popping.

In the end you'd have to think he failed to impress someone - or several someones - with his work this season. When you fail to crack THIS bullpen for more than 4 innings then it's probably time to say "somebody up there doesn't like me"

[ashie62]

Seemed to usually get lit up when I watched.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Inherited a lot of runners during his time here. Cashed in virtually all of 'em, or so it seems.

[Chad ochoseis]

Brooklyn boy!

[Guest themetfairy]

I'll think of him as a local boy done good. At least for a while.