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  1. G-Fafif
    Martino's persona emits the inverse of "one can disagree without being disagreeable." Even if you robustly agree with what he's said or written, you still can't watching him or reading him.
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    Feliciano left twice, didn't play in the majors and returned. Three pitchers left once, didn't play in the majors and returned. Terry Leach Mike Birkbeck P.J. Conlon
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    Benjamin Grimm wrote: A guy I work with told me that Realmuto can't be that good, because he went to a Marlins game last year and somebody else was catching. You work with that San Diego writer who didn't vote for deGrom?
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    Edgy MD wrote: Of course, Pedro Feliciano had a couple of zero-game absences. Sui generis.
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    Bordick indeed got the flock back to the Orioles ASAP. Assuming Familia is used early in the 2019 season, his absence should measure sixth-shortest among Recidivist Mets. The Mets have played 69 games since his last pre-departure appearance with them. Shorter absences between terms: Greg McMichael (32 games) Kirk Nieuwenhuis (45 games) Jay Bruce (52 games) Kelly Johnson (60 games/222 days) Frank Lary (60 games/255 days) Unless somebody else is brought back from our distant past, Familia looms as the 48th Recidivist Met.
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    Winter meetings have had me hanging on Martino's every word, which is the worst part of the winter meetings.
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    This deal is a bargain in that for the cost of one reliever, they receive multiple pronunciations.
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    Unfounded theory: Syndergaard was Alderson's savviest get, therefore J. Wilpon, who always resented the GM (who in turn barely concealed his contempt for the COO), relishes the idea of undoing Sandy's handiwork.
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    Let's camouflage Syndergaard -- you can't trade who you can't see.
  10. G-Fafif
    Dirty Al Gallagher, Giants 3B from their 1971 NL West championship team, 73.
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    Mike Napoli has called it a career, following in the approximate footsteps of David Wright, Joe Mauer, that awful Chase Utley, Adrian Beltre and Ike Davis. Adrian Gonzalez, on the other hand, says he's looking forward to playing in 2019. (If there's already a current all-purpose retirement thread, please merge.)
  12. G-Fafif
    Benjamin Grimm wrote: My guess: Mike is going to try to demonstrate that he's the smartest guy there. Nothing will make a Mets fan like Callaway and Van Wagenen faster than putting them on the air with the other two.
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    On the air on WFAN: Jeff Wilpon, Brodie Van Wagenen, Mickey Callaway join Mike Francesa. Enjoy if you haven't already removed your ears in anticipation.
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    Jacob deGrom's long-ago stablemate has signed a minor league deal with the Rangers, following the trail blazed by Jon Niese and Bartolo Colon back to Dan Warthen's conditionally loving embrace. Raffy pitched a whale of a game in Cincinnati in 2017 and held his own facing off against Jose Fernandez in 2016. The bullpen never worked out for him and starting was a limited enterprise. Seemed nice enough. Best of luck.
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    Six years, lotta bucks.
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    Martino floating a rumored Rosario-for-Realmuto deal as allegedly being discussed by the Mets and Marlins.
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    HahnSolo wrote: Ann Richards quote on W kind of applies to Jeff whenever he speaks: "born with a silver foot in his mouth." Richards said it about the elder Bush (George HW, not Prescott). Jim Hightower's appraisal that Bush was born on third and thought he hit a triple would also apply here.
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    1B Flores 117 Bogar 56 McEwing 39 Turner 26 2B McEwing 123 Turner 108 Flores 101 Bogar 22 SS Flores 162 Bogar 119 McEwing 92 Turner 29 3B Flores 143 Bogar 79 Turner 71 McEwing 57 Flores was a Met for parts of six seasons; McEwing five seasons; Bogar and Turner four seasons each.
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    Edgy MD wrote: #2 was ... Super Joe McEwing? The three besides Wilmer who did as many as 20+ at 1B, 2B, SS, 3B were Joe McEwing, Justin Turner and -- I would not have guessed this one -- Tim Bogar. Each of them played at least one game in the OF, which Flores (despite some Spring Training happy talk) never did.
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    Came across this nugget while researching this piece: Wilmer Flores -- who one doesn't think of as a prototypical "cursed with versatility" utility guy -- was the only Met to have played at least 100 games apiece at all four infield positions. Nobody else played thirty games apiece at all four infield positions. You can't keep a good bat down.
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    Cano basically responded to a question about first base from Steve Gelbs with, "Yeah...no." Van Wagenen tamping down Syndergaard rumors, saying it would take "special circumstances" to deal him, that with the Mets having their "chips in" to win now...which is not to say that within the month, "we have found those special circumstances."
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    Van Wagenen's insistence that the Mets would be "relentless and fearless" echoed Nuke LaLoosh's interpretation of Crash Davis's advice that once Nuke got to the bigs, he must remember to show "fear and ignorance".
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    Five appearances for the 2018 Mets, four that involved giving up runs. His last action occurred in one of the signature nights of this dreadful season, the thirteen-inning affair of June 2 when deGrom and seven relievers struck out 24 Cubs to absolutely no avail (well, they got 24 outs, albeit in a losing cause0. During the World Series, when the Red Sox pen was having a bumpy inning, I thought to myself, "I wonder if they wish they had Gerson Bautista back." I kept hoping Jose Bautista would pinch-hit for him.
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    One of those pitchers who got noticeably tetchy answering post-loss questions, which means he's either a great competitor or kind of a jerk. Hard to recall he was considered something of a get. Maybe he'll rebound when he's not dealing with injuries.
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    From the second go-round, he hit a go-ahead homer in the tenth inning to ultimately beat St. Louis in April. Then, it was mostly a vast desert of nothingness, symbolized most clearly by the ninth-inning home run he didn't hit to beat the Orioles in June (fly ball that died in front of the wall, much as the Mets were dying all that month). Yet another non-first baseman who proved first base is a position, not a way station. Wasn't fully healthy in 2018, but hard to see where a tip-top Bruce would have fit in 2019. Between Met stints, the Cleveland-based Texan did a good deal of fundraising for those affected by Hurricane Harvey. Seems worth mentioning. Good luck to a good guy.
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