Memories of Neil Ramirez

[G-Fafif]

Neil Ramirez has signed a minor league deal with Nats, where he will commune with Murphy, Perez and whatever papers den Dekker left behind on how to wreak vengeance on those who DFA'd him. Not that it will help.

Aside from his uniformly sucking, I'll remember sitting in the Big Apple section and hearing him warm up, his pitches smacking the catcher's mitt like a real major league pitcher's and wondering why it neither sounded nor looked so impressive in game action.

[Edgy MD]

There were certainly worse Mets careers. But most of them had a moment of grace sprinkled among their troubles. I cannot identify a single successful Neil Ramirez outing. I mean, I guess there were appearances where he got one out, walked a guy and left, so maybe moved the WPA needle a hundredth of a point or two, but not the sort of thing you award Schaefer points for.

Did he get any Schaefer points, like, ever?

[Benjamin Grimm]

The final number may change slightly, because it reflects some games for which voting has not yet closed, but as it stands now, Neil Ramirez will depart with 3.39 Schaefer points to his name.

He's earned more Schaefer points in 2017 than each of the following players:

Tommy Milone
Kevin Plawecki
Brandon Nimmo
Gavin Cecchini
Chasen Bradford
Sean Gilmartin
Adam Wilk

[G-Fafif]

Intellectually, I understand Sean Gilmartin pitched for the 2017 Mets, and I remember Sean Gilmartin pitching for the 2017 Mets...but it doesn't seem like Sean Gilmartin pitched for the 2017 Mets.

[seawolf17]

G-Fafif wrote: Intellectually, I understand Sean Gilmartin pitched for the 2017 Mets, and I remember Sean Gilmartin pitching for the 2017 Mets...but it doesn't seem like Sean Gilmartin pitched for the 2017 Mets.

If "When Did Sean Gilmartin Pitch For The Mets?" was a trivia question, I'd answer something like "...2015ish?"

[Guest themetfairy]

I don't even have a photo of Neil Ramirez. And I can't say I regret that.

He had occasional moments of competence, but not much more than that, and many moments of incompetence. May he do for the Nats what he did for us....

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I'm hard pressed to recall any appearance you could describe as good, and just as few that weren't marred by some egregious badness.

The shame is, the Mets and Ramirez really needed one another and still couldn't make it work.

Had he even had a couple good appearances, especially early on, he might be the next Mets closer instead of some schmo in the Nats minor leagues.

[ashie62]

I don't know what he looks like.

[Edgy MD]

Well, not for lack of effort from me.

[Lefty Specialist]

Trying desperately to purge him from the memory banks.

[Edgy MD]

Neil Ramirez spent 2017 with two teams and a third organization (Washington) that didn't bother deploying him at big league level.

He moves on now to the Indians, hopefully signing to replace one of the pitchers Mickey Jannis plans to poach from Cleveland's roster.