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Joe Nolan, too. All descendants of The Tribe of Joe Ginsberg.

Looking through the ranks of minor-leaguers who have moved on this offseason. Transactions,11/13/2024 [table][tr][th]Direction[/th][td90]GOING[/td90][/tr][tr][th]Transaction [/th][td90]Signed Away by NYY to Minor-League Contract[/td90][/tr][tr][th]Position Group [/th][th]Relief Pitchers[/th][/tr][tr][th][/th][td90][fimg=90]https://img.mlbstatic.com/mlb-photos/image/upload/c_fill,g_auto/w_180/v1/people/683094/headshot/milb/current[/fimg][/td90][/tr][tr][th]Name [/th][td90]Jordany Ventura [fimg=50]https://metsrostercentral.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/dominican-republic-flag-small.png[/fimg][/td90][/tr][tr][th]DoB[/th][td90]2000-07-06[/td90][/tr][tr][th]B/T[/th][td90]R/R[/td90][/tr][tr][th]High Level[/th][td90]AA (2024)[/td90][/tr][/table] When the Yankees sign away perhaps the Metliest-named Mets prospect in history, the Mets are going to turn around and sign Juan Soto. Harsh payback, but the game is the game. Transactions,11/25/2024 [table][tr][th]Direction[/th][td90]GOING[/td90][/tr][tr][th]Transaction [/th][td90]Signed Away by BAL to Minor-League Contract[/td90][/tr][tr][th]Position Group [/th][th] Infielders[/th][/tr][tr][th][/th][td90][fimg=90]https://img.mlbstatic.com/mlb-photos/image/upload/c_fill,g_auto/w_180/v1/people/669236/headshot/milb/current[/fimg][/td90][/tr][tr][th]Name [/th][td90]Jeremiah Jackson [fimg=50]https://metsrostercentral.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/usa_m.png[/fimg][/td90][/tr][tr][th]DoB[/th][td90]2000-03-26[/td90][/tr][tr][th]B/T[/th][td90]R/R[/td90][/tr][tr][th]High Level[/th][td90]AA (2024)[/td90][/tr][/table] Jeremiah Jackson came over to the Mets during the 2023 selloff when the Met sent Dominic Leone to the Angels. He'd been having a decent minor-league career, climbing steadily through the ranks every year, but the Mets surprised him by returning him to AA in 2024, and he surprised them by having his easily his worst season as a pro. Transactions,11/26/2024 [table][tr][th]Direction[/th][td90]GOING[/td90][td90]GOING[/td90][/tr][tr][th]Transaction [/th][td90]Signed Away by COL to Minor-League Contract[/td90][td90]Signed Away by PIT to Minor-League Contract[/td90][/tr][tr][th]Position Group [/th][th]Relief Pitchers[/th][th]Relief Pitchers[/th][/tr][tr][th][/th][td90][fimg=90]https://metsrostercentral.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/perdomo-alan-2023.png[/fimg][/td90][td90][fimg=90]https://img.mlbstatic.com/mlb-photos/image/upload/c_fill,g_auto/w_180/v1/people/678576/headshot/milb/current[/fimg][/td90][/tr][tr][th]Name [/th][td90]Alan Perdomo [fimg=50]https://metsrostercentral.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/dominican-republic-flag-small.png[/fimg][/td90][td90]Wilkin Ramos [fimg=50]https://metsrostercentral.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/dominican-republic-flag-small.png[/fimg][/td90][/tr][tr][th]DoB[/th][td90]2001-08-24[/td90][td90]2000-10-31[/td90][/tr][tr][th]B/T[/th][td90]R/R[/td90][td90]R/R[/td90][/tr][tr][th]High Level[/th][td90]A+ (2024)[/td90][td90]AAA (2024)[/td90][/tr][/table] Alan Perdomo and Wilkin Ramos — two Dominican righthanders who opted for free agency on the same day and then signed off with National League bottom-feeders on the same day. Both are from Santo Domingo, so I'm going to guess they have the same agent. Transactions,12/9/2024 [table][tr][th]Direction[/th][td90]GOING[/td90][/tr][tr][th]Transaction [/th][td90]Signed Away by HOU to Minor-League Contract[/td90][/tr][tr][th]Position Group [/th][th] Catchers[/th][/tr][tr][th][/th][td90][fimg=90]https://img.mlbstatic.com/mlb-photos/image/upload/d_people:generic:headshot:67:current.png/w_213,q_auto:best/v1/people/621529/headshot/67/current[/fimg][/td90][/tr][tr][th]Name [/th][td90]Joe Hudson [fimg=30]https://metsrostercentral.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/usa_m.png[/fimg][/td90][/tr][tr][th]DoB[/th][td90]1991-05-21[/td90][/tr][tr][th]B/T[/th][td90]R/R[/td90][/tr][tr][th]High Level[/th][td90]MLB (2024)[/td90][/tr][/table] Joe Hudson, the half-inning Met, is now joining his 10th organization, having been to the majors with four of them. Transactions,12/27/2024 [table][tr][th]Direction[/th][td90]GOING[/td90][/tr][tr][th]Transaction [/th][td90]Signed Away by Hanshin (NPB)[/td90][/tr][tr][th]Position Group [/th][th] Outfielders[/th][/tr][tr][th][/th][td90][fimg=90]https://img.mlbstatic.com/mlb-photos/image/upload/c_fill,g_auto/w_180/v1/people/681679/headshot/milb/current[/fimg][/td90][/tr][tr][th]Name [/th][td90]Stanley Consuegra [fimg=30]https://metsrostercentral.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/dominican-republic-flag-small.png[/fimg][/td90][/tr][tr][th]DoB[/th][td90]2000-09-24[/td90][/tr][tr][th]B/T[/th][td90]R/R[/td90][/tr][tr][th]High Level[/th][td90]AA (2024)[/td90][/tr][/table] I tend to think of The Hanshin Tigers organization — the entity that gave to us Tsuyoshi Shinjo (among others), and took from us Bruce Boisclair (among others) — as the NPB home away from home for Mets figures. And if the Mets roster can't bring all the deserving aspirants to New York at once, the loving embrace of the Nishinomiya faithful out at Hanshin Koshien Stadium is as good an alternative destination as any. Transactions,12/30/2024 [table][tr][th]Direction[/th][td90]GOING[/td90][/tr][tr][th]Transaction [/th][td90]Signed Away by SDP to Minor-League Contract[/td90][/tr][tr][th]Position Group [/th][th] Infielders[/th][/tr][tr][th][/th][td90][fimg=90]https://img.mlbstatic.com/mlb-photos/image/upload/d_people:generic:headshot:67:current.png/w_213,q_auto:best/v1/people/670712/headshot/67/current[/fimg][/td90][/tr][tr][th]Name [/th][td90]Mike Brosseau [fimg=30] https://metsrostercentral.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/usa_m.png[/fimg][/td90][/tr][tr][th]DoB[/th][td90]1994-03-15[/td90][/tr][tr][th]B/T[/th][td90]R/R[/td90][/tr][tr][th]High Level[/th][td90]MLB (2023)[/td90][/tr][/table] Mike Brosseau joined Syracuse during the season in 2024, and despite a bunch (244 regular-season games) of MLB experience and a strong performance for the Syracuse Mets over 90 games, he was never even rumored as a potential addition to the Mets roster. It's easy to forget — because most things about the Rays are easy to forget — but he was a post-season hero for Tampa Bay, hitting a series-winning, deciding-game homerun off of Aroldis Chapman, who had been suspended earlier in the season for throwing too close to the head of — you guessed it — Mike Brosseau.

I dunno. He strikes me as the child who is being offered candy. He wants it, but won't take it to spite his parents. What is a better word for that? "Insupportable."

Is there any evidence that he is being any such thing?

Signed away by Houston way back on December 9, interrupting the very faintest of Met legacies, coming to the plate zero times, playing a single inning behind the dish, catching (or blocking or retrieving) 21 pitches. To his credit, his single inning was at the finish of an 11-1 Mets victory, with only one guy reaching base, and two going down on strikes. Those two were Miguel Amaya and Tomás Nido, but triumph is triumph. It was a pretty impressive game as the Mets matched up against the Cubs' Shota Imanaga, who had been pretty damned indomitable up until that point, and hit him all over the park and back again. Drew Smith was on the mound for that sweet inning. His season (and quite possibly his Mets career) would end with his next appearance two days later. https://images2.minutemediacdn.com/image/upload/c_crop,x_0,y_0,w_5476,h_3080/c_fill,w_720,ar_16:9,f_auto,q_auto,g_auto/images/GettyImages/mmsport/141/01jfaj7jk2n4v8p95v2t.jpg>

That's a mighty old arm, but he's probably made as many starts as anybody over the last six years. He may be the new Bartolo.

Bernie Sanders is a member of the Lunchbucket family. I thought everybody knew this. What defensive stiff Marshall could be.

2024 was unrelenting, and had to take one of Bambi's Bandits with it.

I hope this thread lives forever.

A good group. I have no idea which way I'm going in many of these coming matchups.

=smg58 post_id=182119 time=1735665757 user_id=62] How has nobody mentioned this? [media=youtube]AtPawvq-0dc[/media]

That's a fantasy camp worthy of its name. I'd been FB friends with Lenny, and he's spent much a lot of time in recent decades coaching and helping to build the game in Italy, having previously been the first MLB vet to play professionally in Bel Paese. Hey! That's another weird Lenny Randle thing. First big leaguer to play professionally in Italy! Aside from promoting Italian baseball, he used social media to promote his sons' achievements in football — a sport he also played at ASU.

I appreciate DanielTigerSS arriving with his (or her) own avatar image. I'm embarrassed that newbies who don't upload a profile pic get that stupid toilet pic. I don't know why the pic defaults to the toity. It seems like we're hazing the newbies, but I promise that we are not.

The Fielding Bible has him at -3 runs saved, tied for 21st among firstbaseman with 500 or more innings. On a runs saved/inning basis, he was 20th among the same set of fielders. That said, fielding metrics change all the time, often largely obliterating the logic of the previous standards, so it's debatable how meaningful that information is. Or even if it's dead on, it's debatable too how statistically significant one run saved vs. two is when measured against the offensive output of the same guys.

Transactions,1/2/2024 [table][tr][th]Direction[/th][td90]GOING[/td90][/tr][tr][th]Transaction [/th][td90]Signed Away by Milwaukee (American Asszociation)[/td90][/tr][tr][th]Position Group [/th][th] Infielders[/th][/tr][tr][th][/th][td90][fimg=90]https://img.mlbstatic.com/mlb-photos/image/upload/c_fill,g_auto/w_180/v1/people/686634/headshot/milb/current[/fimg][/td90][/tr][tr][th]Name [/th][td90]Chase Estep [fimg=50]https://metsrostercentral.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/usa_m.png[/fimg][/td90][/tr][tr][th]DoB[/th][td90]2000-04-12[/td90][/tr] [tr][th]B/T[/th][td90]L/R[/td90][/tr][tr][th]High Level[/th][td90]AAA (2023)[/td90][/tr][/table] Mets Roster Central takes neither pride nor joy in being a year late with this scoop, but Chase deserves his departure to be noted, especially since it was followed by a terrific year in the American Association, followed by his marriage at the end of the season. His solid turnaround and SEC pedigree should get him another look in affiliated ball, and if not, there are worse careers than riding the rails with the Milwaukee Milkmen.

Here's the NLCS program: [FIMG=400]https://fanatics.frgimages.com/los-angeles-dodgers-vs-new-york-mets-2024-nlcs-program_ss5_p-202439273+u-cakrlhql2kjqphnqf0kk+v-qiwccfv0hiwhqmpd7vq1.jpg?_hv=2&w=600[/FIMG] Here's the London series program: [FIMG=400]https://files.ekmcdn.com/575068/images/new-york-mets-v-philadelphia-phillies-mlb-london-official-programme-june-8th-9th-202-109836-p.jpeg[/FIMG] I can't find a program cover from the standard regular season home games or the NLDS (or NLWCS) but here is a FOX promo for the NLDS that sort of looks like a program cover: [FIMG=400]https://foxsports-wordpress-www-prsupports-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/sites/2/2024/10/GZAtnXibAAA9VqW.png[/FIMG] Neither the yearbook nor the media guide for 2024 feature images of players on the cover.

Subjective, perhaps, but it can be objectively inferred by who is featured most frequently and most prominently in the team's official promotional materials.

I'm certain that the issue is not the presence or absence of balls in the pants of the Mets' president. I also dispute the notion that Alonso is "the current face of the franchise."

After being used sparingly, but primarily as a DH in his brief pro debut, Nolan McLean flipped the script, and rocketed up the charts as a starting pitcher in 2024, starting seven games with a 2.89 ERA for Brooklyn, before moving up to Binghamton where he clocked a 4.19 ERA over 18 starts. The Mets kid-gloved him, only allowing him an average of 4.39 innings per start, and it's notably hard to get credited with wins that way. The Mets continued to allow him to swing the bat, however, and he put up low averages and high slugging percentages over 35 games as a DH. [FIMG=360]https://metsminors.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/mcleanpress.jpg[/FIMG] [FIMG=340]https://metsminors.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/FCL-Mets-McLean-Nolan-08-08-2023-3A-scaled-e1712326958125.jpg[/FIMG] Nolan got better as the season progressed with Bingo, logging a 2.35 ERA over his final six starts, and finishing the season with a six-inning/six-strikeout shoutout performance that helped make him 2024's final Eastern League pitcher of the week. Foggo and Santiago each missed the season with injuries, and Santiago was released back in November. But, hey! Nolan McLean!!

Not a lot of cartoons featuring Joe Frazier, let alone Joe Frazier behind a mask. One could hardly blame the targeted reader for not recognizing him. Fortunately, Basement Bertha is here to help.

Your 8-ball answers much more specific questions than mine.

Man, this year takes and takes. My cousin James fondly recalls his first-ever Mets game sitting, by chance, next to Lenny Randle's mom. Lenny was a halfback on a baseball field. Loved to run on pure instinct, putting up a shockingly bad stolen-base percentage along the way. Supposedly, back in Jackie Robinson's time, if you felt a pitcher was throwing at you, typical practice wasn't to wait until he got up and depend on your pitcher to send him a message, but rather to bunt the ball down the first base line and run over the pitcher as he went to cover first. Or, if the pitcher fielded the ball himself, plow him directly. Supposedly. But the only time I ever saw that play in direct retaliation, though, was when Lenny did it. A sweet and interesting guy, but a scrapper when he felt wronged. [media=youtube]AJPpTXzPxFs[/media] How many weird things is he known for? Punching his manager, blowing a ball foul, being at the plate when the lights went out ... the guy was a TWiB highlight reel all by himself.

METS: Ortiz may not be healthy at all, but we're willing to sign him just so he can rehab with us, and maybe pitch someday later. BROOKS RALEY: Ummm ... . DREW SMITH: Yeah, c'mon. WTF, man?

While others are fretting over 2025, Mets execs are already shoring up 2026, signing a guy expected to miss all or most of the coming season as he recovers from UCL surgery. His signing includes an invite to spring training, but that would presumably be just a formality, as he won't actually be climbing any mounds. But one would guess the better facilities and higher class of associations are worth something. Transactions,12/23/2024 [table][tr][th]Direction[/th][td90]COMING[/td90][/tr][tr][th]Transaction [/th][td90]Signed Away from PHI to Minor-League Contract and Invited to Spring Training, Projected to Open Season on Injured List[/td90][/tr][tr][th]Position Group [/th][th]Relief Pitchers[/th][/tr][tr][th][/th][td90][fimg=90]https://img.mlbstatic.com/mlb-photos/image/upload/d_people:generic:headshot:67:current.png/w_213,q_auto:best/v1/people/656814/headshot/67/current[/fimg][/td90][/tr][tr][th]Name [/th][td90]Luis Ortíz [fimg=50]https://metsrostercentral.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/usa_m.png[/fimg][/td90][/tr][tr][th]DoB[/th][td90]1995-09-22[/td90][/tr] [tr][th]B/T[/th][td90]R/R[/td90][/tr][tr][th]High Level[/th][td90]MLB (2024)[/td90][/tr][/table] Earlier in the spring, the Mets were rumored to be interested in the other Luís Ortiz, one among many desirable Pirate arms, but he was dealt from Pittsburgh to Cleveland around the time this deal went down. It was Every Luís Ortiz Must Go! Weekend or something.

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