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Transactions, 6/3/2024 [th]Direction[/th][td90]COMING[/td90][th]Transaction [/th][td90]Siigned away from Glacier (Pioneer League) to Minor-League Contract, Assigned to Brooklyn[/td90][th]Position Group [/th][th]=#FF8000]Relief Pitcher[/th][th][/th][td90][fimg=90]https://metsrostercentral.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/pintaro-jonathan-2024.png[/fimg][/td90][th]Name [/th][td90]Jonathan Pintaro [fimg=50]https://metsrostercentral.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/usa_m.png[/fimg][/td90][th]DoB[/th][td90]1997-11-07[/td90][th]B/T[/th][td90]R/R[/td90][th]High Level [/th][td90]Pioneer League (2024)[/td90] Jonathan Pintaro's arrival in affiliated ball is the reward for some superhuman patience. He wasn't drafted coming out of high school, and he received no scholarship offers, ending up at Shorter University, a tiny Division III Baptist school where he played five seasons of varsity (his eligibility extended due to the COVID lockdown) over six years. In the interim, he pitched in four seasons of summer amateur ball. Having utterly exhausted his amateur opportunities, he looked to the pros. But no MLB organization drafted him or even offered him a non-draftee free agent contract. So at 25, he made his pro debut, playing for chicken feed in the Pioneer League for the Glacier (Montana) Range Riders. There he did ... pretty badly. But he was invited back to pitch a second season this year and he's been doing much better, striking out 10 in seven scoreless innings last week. He started again on Sunday, and coming in after the second inning, he thought he was doing OK, and so was puzzled when his manager got the bullpen up and working. He tried to ignore it, and when the third inning started, the manager hadn't said anything to him, so he went back out to the mound. It turned out that the skipper just wanted him to throw to one more batter before coming to get him, as the PA announced that his contract had been purchased by the Mets, and he got to leave the field to an ovation and be congratulated by his teammates. All the photos from his college days suggest he was playing with a Daniel Vogelbach physique. He's currently listed at 6'-2" 235, but he looks at least 30 pounds heavier in college, but now he looks like a specimen, so good on him. Transactions, 6/4/2024 [th]Direction[/th][td90]=#000000]NEUTRAL[/td90][th]Transaction [/th][td90]Transferred to Brooklyn on Rehab Assignment[/td90][th]Position Group [/th][th]=#FF8000] Catcher[/th][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/682626/headshot/67/current[/fimg][/td90][th]Name [/th][td90]Francisco Alvarez [fimg=50]https://metsrostercentral.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/venezuelan-flag-small.png[/fimg][/td90][th]DoB[/th][td90]1901-11-01[/td90][th]B/T[/th][td90]R/R[/td90][th]High Level[/th][td90]MLB (2024)[/td90] We usually categorize new rehab assignments as COMING. Even though a guy is going away from the Mets to play for someone else, he's more correctly understood to be moving towards activation from the Injured List. But in this case, there's even more ambiguity/irony, as Francisco Álvarez had been assigned to AA Binghamton on rehab. Moving from there to High-A Brooklyn sends him closer to the Mets geographically, but further away professionally. Weird, but they probably just didn't want to put him on a bus to Pretzel Valley, PA for an Eastern League road trip, and instead allowed him to reinhabit his NYC digs and be waiting for the Mets when they get home from London.

"God, I hate this place." — Howie Rose

The Mets should have pinch-hit with Garrett and then sent DJ Stewart out to pitch the ninth.

Garrett walking the leadoff hitter = NOT what I needed.

The opponent throwing up and in to Pete Alonso may be what we needed.

Looks like he's looking to go back to Reed Garrett.

So, who do you see getting the ninth tonight?. Reid-Foley? I think I'm leaning that way, but Mendoza's thoughts are a mystery to me.

And being a much better bet for a strikeout than McNeil, and a much better bet for a double-play, they nonetheless go to him, and he hits into an inning-ending double-play.

So, you're not buying the population thesis?

We're running out of time for McNeedles to blow up this game off the bench. They need a lefty bat for an RBI here and ... they go to DJ Stewart. Booooo!

We may have to do a Jesse Plemons/Breaking Bad split.

That's correct.

That certainly will be part of the calculus. But we've got eight weeks, babies. A lot can and will happen in eight weeks.

Keith Raad and Howie Rose are playing the Jesse Plemons card now.

Outlaw first-pitch swinging.

The ideas that (a) his "true talent level" is below what is career record with New York represents it to be, and ( you "wouldn't be surprised" to see him improve if he moves to another team, seem to inherently clash with one another.

Having used last year's spreadsheet to tabulate PoTG points again this season, every time a new Met joins in the scoring, I have to remove a Met from last season. José Iglesias takes over Zack Muckenhirn's line, while Luís Torrens displaces Vinny Nittoli.

If you eliminate anybody's best full season in a statistical category, it's bound to have a similar impact on that statistic, assuming that it's a player with a similar career length.

I don't claim that MLB's relationship should excuse the players. But neither do I think that the players' poor decisions should absolve MLB from their open complicity. As for "many alternatives available," it's often the alternatives that get gamblers in the hole, intensifying the pressure to go into betting what they know in order to get out of it.

Sheesh, apart from Marcano, four more guys lose a year. MLB reaping what they've sown, but they don't care, because players are easier to dispose of than the profits they're getting from being in bed with gambling syndicates.

McNeil is coming off the bench this evening to wreak inconceivable damage upon the enemy. Make no mistake, the squeamish will be forced to turn away.

The Mets firstbaseman had a really ugly 0-for-5 as they barely escaped last night's game with the Nationals with an 8-7 victory. Maybe this Alonso guy is someone the Mets could acquire.

Holy shit! McNeil's scratching fleas!!

Herz will add to the extensive string of lefties the Mets are seeing this week, which kind of made it the ideal time (if there has to be such a time) to demote Baty, DFA Narváez, and doghouse McNuffins.

ANTHONY KAY!!! Sweet gods of free agency compensation, it's Anthony Kay! [FIMG=600]https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRKCayN2fUNQcwBGeQFDe3oLMDycA6NsRDzag&s[/FIMG] In the Long Islandiest trade in history, Ward-Melville High School's Anthony Kay was sent by the Mets at the 2018 trade deadline (along with Simeon Woods Richardson) to the Toronto Blue Jays in exchange for Patchogue-Medford High School's Marcus Stroman.