Soothsaying for Sixteen: Dario Álvarez

[Edgy MD]

Hey, I'm Dario Álvarez. I'm a left-handed reliever that has fallen two or three slots on the depth chart since last year ended. Maybe four. That's not cool.

But know what is cool? Being the only (and therefore best) 68 in Mets history. That's cool. And so's that big fat [crossout]tilde[/crossout] acento agudo over the A at the start of my last name. Suck on that for a while.

Other things you may or may not know about me:

• I like the slide step. Just try and steal on me.
  
• I washed out as a Phillies prospect and was afloat for about three years when the Mets netted me in.
  
• I've faced Bryce Harper exactly once and I struck that man out for my first big league win.

I've been pretty deadly in the minors to all who would oppose me, and I think, in 2016, I could do the same at the big league level, or at least get my ERA out of the double digits. What do you think?

[ashie62]

Prediction time?

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

An interesting piece, but his pathway to hot Queens action and postgame Torta Neza just got a lot more obstacle-strewn, dinnit? If he's seeing a lot of major-league time at midseason, it's because a whole lot of others have hurt themselves or gotten nabbed trying to make 'roid edibles (Cream of Cream?).

I say he gets something like: 5 G/4 IP, 1 H, 2 BB, 5 K, some statistically-insignificant ERA/WHIP number.

[dinosaur jesus]

It's not a tilde, it's an acento agudo. Sorry to be pedante.

[Edgy MD]

Of course. I was posting on the way out of the office.

[Centerfield]

Never sees Flushing this year.

[Lefty Specialist]

Sees Flushing out the window as he changes planes in LaGuardia for his flight to Vegas, where he'll spend the entire year.

[Centerfield]

Lefty Specialist wrote: Sees Flushing out the window as he changes planes in LaGuardia for his flight to Vegas, where he'll spend the entire year.

We're going to have to subpoena his travel records at the end of the year to see which one of us was right.

[Edgy MD]

Guys, there's always September. Surely there's a handful of innings awaiting him there. (Assuming he remains on the roster.)

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

That's where he gets my 4 innings.

[Ceetar]

6.1 IP 2BB 3K 1HBP

[Lefty Specialist]

Centerfield wrote: Lefty Specialist wrote: Sees Flushing out the window as he changes planes in LaGuardia for his flight to Vegas, where he'll spend the entire year. We're going to have to subpoena his travel records at the end of the year to see which one of us was right.

My luck, he'll change planes in Atlanta.

[MFS62]

Year end cuppa'. 8 games, 7 IP. But he is impressive enough all year to merit serious consideration for the a season-long spot in the Majors in 2017. His ERA will more closely resemble a Northeast Area Code than last year's Saturnian one.

Later

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

These guys at the top of the alphabet are going to be disadvantaged as far as predictions go, because they're coming up too early. Still ~3 weeks to P&C. I don't have a feel for anyone yet. How are we gonna know how these guys are going to when we don;t even know their uniform numbers?

I'm not hosting this show but I'd prefer to tackle two a day in March, or at least, get back to assessing Alvarez, Agbayani and Aardsma later myself.

[seawolf17]

Blows out his elbow in spring training, misses the year.

[Edgy MD]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: These guys at the top of the alphabet are going to be disadvantaged as far as predictions go, because they're coming up too early. Still ~3 weeks to P&C. I don't have a feel for anyone yet. How are we gonna know how these guys are going to when we don;t even know their uniform numbers? I'm not hosting this show but I'd prefer to tackle two a day in March, or at least, get back to assessing Alvarez, Agbayani and Aardsma later myself.

Fair enough.

We can re-launch at the top of March.

[Edgy MD]

OK, time to start getting under the hood with these. What do you think Dario brings this season?

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

The emergence of Josh Smoker behind the Bastard and the Blevinator, makes it a longshot for Dario in this pen. I think he spends the whole year in AAA, makes a September garbage-time appearance or two, strikes out 2 guys in 3 innings. Gives up a triple, though.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Centerfield wrote: Never sees Flushing this year.

Unless he goes out for buffet downtown.

[Edgy MD]

If you said Dario Álvarez would be removed from the roster and then selected off waivers by the Braves, well, bully for you.

Unfortunately, nobody said that. But not a few said he'd never see Flushing, and that was true. While others suggested he'd get a handful of innings late in the year. And that was kinda true too, though he got somewhat more than a handful starting in the middle of the year — 26 2/3 innings between Atlanta and Texas who got him after a late-July trade.

He's currently grinding it out in the Dominican Winter League.