Memories of Dario Álvarez

[Edgy MD]

There's always somebody fishing for left-handed relief, and if that somebody is the bottom-feeding Atlanta Braves, a little thing like a 9.98 ERA in Las Vegas isn't going to scare them away.

1) Dario was the only (and therefore best) 68 in Mets history.
2) Used the slide step as a matter of course. He hardly pitched enough to build up a data set, but I bet he was a helluva tough assignment to steal against.
3) He had washed out as a Phillies prospect and was utterly at sea for three years, unattached to any known record-keeping league for about three years, when the Mets hauled him in.
4) He's faced Bryce Harper exactly once, and struck Harper out for his first big league win.

[Guest themetfairy]

I remember seeing Dario pitch, but nothing particularly memorable about his performance except for the Metliness of it.

[seawolf17]

Pitched once or twice (maybe?). Probably wore a uniform with blue and orange somewhere in the color scheme. Came in out of the pen, most likely.

Other than that, I got nothing.

[Edgy MD]

This was almost guaranteed to happen. Eric O'Flaherty has been no more effective for the Braves than he was for the Mets last year, and so their primary left-handed reliever has become Hunter Cervenka, who looks 26 going on 50. Dario has a AAA ERA barely out of the double digits, but his strikeout numbers were prodigious. Since the end of last season, he had fallen from second to about sixth in the depth chart of left-handed relievers, so he was expendable, but as always, it would have been nice to get something for him.