Mejia Suspended Again

[Centerfield]

Failed another one. Now gone for 162.

Idiot.

[Guest themetfairy]

Are you fucking kidding me?

This time it's for 162 games

Maroon. Knucklehead....

[HahnSolo]

That was fast.

[dinosaur jesus]

Did the front office have some idea this was coming, and make the Clippard trade in anticipation?

[A Boy Named Seo]

Dipshit. Memories of Jenrry Mejia...

[Zvon]

ugh! omg...

Mejia, NO CARD FOR YOU!!!!

[Gwreck]

I bet they probably have to leave him on the restricted list until the suspension is over (and then immediately release him), rather than doing that now.

[Lefty Specialist]

Sorry, Jennry. Don't let the screen door hit you in the ass on the way out.

The first time you might be able to chalk up to ignorance. The second time, especially so soon, can only be arrogance.

[Guest themetfairy]

Or complete stupidity....

[RealityChuck]

Sandy said they hadn't been notified when they made the deal.

As for Mejia

[ashie62]

All the money he could have made.

[Ceetar]

Fire whoever told you that whatever extra stuff you took would mask the drug this time.

[Frayed Knot]

So essentially the deal bringing in Clippard, instead of strengthening the bullpen, essentially just brings in back to status quo.

[Edgy MD]

dinosaur jesus wrote: Did the front office have some idea this was coming, and make the Clippard trade in anticipation?

Either way, I find myself suddenly very pleased with the Clippy deal.

[Edgy MD]

Earning a second suspension a few weeks after the first one is up is unseemly, to say the least. Keith advocating for a lifetime ban is a little unseemly too.

[Fman99]

I'm all done with him. He can go sleep on A-Rod's couch.

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

Apparently someone with no confidence in his own ability as a baseball player.

[Frayed Knot]

Or too much confidence in whatever "doctor" is prescribing these things and/or the masking agents for him.

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

Time to just cut bait with this idiot. Mejia is apparently too stupid to ever be of value to the Mets.

[Guest d'Kong76]

I'm glad he got caught again. Players take notice.

[Frayed Knot]

Rockin' Doc wrote: Time to just cut bait with this idiot. Mejia is apparently too stupid to ever be of value to the Mets.

Sandy apparently stopped short of saying the Mejia has thrown his last pitch for the Mets, but he probably has to do that rather than risk some kind of complaint from the players union.
But I think we all pretty much know that he's thrown his final pitch for the Mets.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

I'd imagine so. Criminy.

I wonder if even Familia's defending him in locker-room discussions anymore.

[Centerfield]

Isn't he under Mets control? Why cut a guy if you can get something of value back for him?

I mean, I get it if you don't want the guy to pitch for the team again, but it's better to get some value rather than release him outright no?

[Edgy MD]

It certainly makes sense not to make a decision you don't have to, unless you think you could gain something by sending some kind of message.

But the guy is off the roster, off the payroll, and his career is in shambles. I don't see what there is to gain by doing anything except getting on with the season and the business of running the team. It's a big week!

[Ceetar]

Centerfield wrote: Isn't he under Mets control? Why cut a guy if you can get something of value back for him? I mean, I get it if you don't want the guy to pitch for the team again, but it's better to get some value rather than release him outright no?

arb eligible. Meaning he's a non-tender candidate. I'm not really sure how that works with him suspended through July of next year. I guess you could offer him major league minimum which would prorate to peanuts just to have him around. Otherwise he's stuck hoping someone else does, not sure how the suspension works if he's not in a system.

He's young enough that if he was serious about it he could to go Japan or Australia or independent ball and pitch a "I'm clean!" enough that someone will eventually give him a flyer and then he'll get a few games in before testing positive for the SAME DAMN SUBSTANCE a third time.

[Edgy MD]

I imagine this makes him ineligible for the 2016 post-season. Is that correct?

If so, that surely increases the likelihood of a non-tender.

Am I wrong in thinking that the North American indy leagues tend to honor PED suspensions handed out in affiliated ball?

[Frayed Knot]

Centerfield wrote: Isn't he under Mets control? Why cut a guy if you can get something of value back for him? I mean, I get it if you don't want the guy to pitch for the team again, but it's better to get some value rather than release him outright no?

Not necessarily suggesting he needs to be immediately cut, particularly as how he'll be spending the next 12 months in a kind of suspended animation: still under NYM control but not being paid and not accumulating service time. No decisions on his future need to be until that time as far as I know which, again, is probably part of why Sandy didn't definitively rule out him being a Met at some point in the future.
But it's the trust thing that's got to be burning mgmt now, that there's no way they could ever believe him about anything again. Plus there's that sword hanging over any team's head who gives him the next shot, that one more dirty test and he's banished for life and who wants to have a piece like that in your plans while building a bullpen?

[Centerfield]

Arbitration eligible. Wow. Imagine having to be Mejia's representative for that.

[Frayed Knot]

He was eligible this past season as well, it's what jumped his salary from ~1/2M in 2014 to about $2.6M
Of course he's never going to see most of that money. By my reckoning he was active for about 20 days of the season meaning he gets about 20/182 of his pay, or some 11% (although I'm not going to be holding any telethons for a guy who took in close to 300K for three weeks work).

Not sure how the 20% max cut rule would work in this particular case. Under normal circumstances, if the Mets kept him after the suspension's up they'd have to offer him at least 80% of his current contract or risk losing him. They could cut him loose and then try to resign him at a lower rate but of course that would allow him to seek other offers as well. Either way, it'll certainly throw a wrench into the works.

[Edgy MD]

How cool is it, though, that what could have been demoralizing ill tidings for everybody was the lower hand to the three aces of Syndergaard's performance, Wright's appearance, and the pre-emptive acquisition of Clippard?

Don't bring me no bad news.