Summer of 2015

[Edgy MD]

Mid-summer, 2015, on July 15, all in one day, the Mets released Aderlin Rodriguez, Dustin Lawley, and Eudy Pina. None were top-ten prospects, but all were productive minor leaguers. Lawley was coming off a poor half-season, but he had won the St. Lucie Sterling Award the previous year and was the FSL MVP. All three were exactly the type of guy you round out a minor league roster with, and would likely have tasted a month or two of big league coffee filling in during some emergency.

It's certainly possible they were blocking better prospects, and didn't seem content to be organizational fodder, but it really smelled like something dramatically disciplinary. As far as I could tell, nothing ever came out, but the teammates were reportedly stunned. Does anybody remember anything about this? How did Rubin not get to the bottom of it? Or did he?

Lawley played his last games in the Can-Am League last year (go, indy ball!). Pina cashed his last check last season with AA Birmingham in the White Sox system. Rodriguez is still slugging them out in the Eastern League, now with Baltimore.

[Centerfield]

Maybe they were caught in a van with white women.

[Edgy MD]

A handful of their then-teammates are now Mets and I want them to spill the beans.

[Guest cooby]

Write to some of them!