Edgy MD

Hey, let's revisit this unvisited question! When Daniel signed with The Nationals, The Mets were granted a compensation pick in the following amateur draft. Who did they take with that pick? Please remember, in the interim since this question first appeared, we have uncovered that the player (a) is a relief pitcher, ( is a lefthander, and © debuted with the Mets in 2023.

Padres infielder Tucupita Marcano facing a potential lifetime ban for gambling, according to reporting by The Wall Street Journal. Apparently, the violations occurred while he was with the Pirates last season. [FIMG=600]https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/9ceaab5/2147483647/strip/true/crop/7965x5367+0+0/resize/1200x809!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F1d%2F43%2Ff964f5254ad086f8160b6ed14aea%2Fsut-l-1413688-padres-photo-day-kc-522.jpg[/FIMG]

I think there are plenty of up and comers. At least, potentially so.

Well, .239 isn't really .200, but we'll see where things are at in eight weeks.

“You go out have a great year. Let's have a great year as a team, and if we do that we're both going to be set up, the organization and Pete, are going to be set up very well going into the offseason." — David Stearns

Well, with two more wins over the Nats, and the assistant of the Braves beating them on Thursday, and third place is OURS heading into London!

Reversal of fortune in progress!! Wins by the 2024 Mets That Have Been Credited to the Starting Pitcher APRIL April 7: Mets 3, Reds 1; Win by Sean Manaea (Game Nine on the Season) April 11: Mets 16, Braves 4; Win by José Quintana (Game 12) April 12: Mets 6, Royals 1; Win by Luis Severino (Game 13) April 17: Mets 9, Pirates 1; Win by Severino (Game 18) APRIL TOTAL: 4 =#0080FF]MAY May 6: Mets 4, Cardinals 3; Win by Manaea (Game 35) May 7: Mets 7, Cardinals 5; Win by José Butto (Game 36) May 19: Mets 7, Marlins 3; Win by Manaea (Game 46) May 31: Mets 10, Diamondbacks 9; Win by Severino (Game 57) MAY TOTAL: 4 =#FFA756]JUNE June 3: Mets 8, Nationals 7; Win by Tylor Megill (Game 60) JUNE TOTAL (to date): 1 End of Season Projection: 24.30

Diekman and Torrens!

Stay with Smith!! Stay with Smith!! Stay with Smith!!

A really impressive day for Vientos.

I know Pete Alonso just wrote "Pitch Violation Strikeout."

Frayed Knot wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: Mets have ruined Gore's lead and he'll cry if he wants to Did you know that Leslie Gore's brother wrote the soundtrack for Fame? Who's Leslie Gore? It's cooby's turn to cry.

Mets announcer Keith Raad referencing The Jim Beauchamp Game!

=Cowtipper post_id=157672 time=1717457445 user_id=166] =Fman99 post_id=157670 time=1717457138 user_id=86] Joey Gallo 63 Ks in 119 ABs. Lol he sucks

[FIMG=500]https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2018/02/13/10/oprah-winfrey.jpg?quality=75&width=1200&auto=webp[/FIMG] You get a steal! You get a steal! And YOU get a steal!!

McNeil is sitting despite being 6-for-7 in his career against McKenzie Gore.

Iglesias is kind of dramatically delaying the debut of his magic hands.

Leadoff walk is a good start. Alonso back where he made his debut.

I'm not surprised with McNeil's apparent marginalization, but two consecutive doses of Luís Torrens is curious.

Hugh Alexander: "Best prospect I've seen in 30 years. ... can do it all ... no faults ... hard to visualize how much he will become." Mike Pendleton: "Who is this Darryl Strawberry? ... Strawberry's credentials aren't much better than mine."

I'm glad I'm not mis-remembering that. I always thought of 13-year-old me as a sharp kid! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dee858f5605ee784806150a/532c0eb4-4fb6-443f-85a4-4e580a2f1723/107633-7462706Fr.jpg> Garry Harris passed in 2022 at only 60, but he seemed to have had a good life as a family man. Three years later the Mets would take Eddie Williams with the #4 overall pick out of the same high school.

Bluebird Banter https://www.bluebirdbanter.com/2020/6/5/20749179/1980-mlb-draft-retrospective-blue-jays-miss-out-on-darryl-strawberryquotes Toronto GM Pat Gillick (from a contemporary Toronto Globe and Mail article) as saying of Harris and Jays second-rounder (who would also peak at AA) Ken Kinnard “We got the two kids we really wanted. I think they're the two best athletes in the entire draft. Both of them can run. They may not turn out to be the two best ballplayers but we think both have a chance to be that as well.” Getting a little mealy-mouthed toward the end there, perhaps. Harris' former high-school coach is quoted as saying “I'd bet my wife and children that he'll make it to Toronto,” so I hope Harris at least got to visit the city for a press conference, just to be on the safe side. Of Strawberry, Gillick is quoted as saying “assumed the Mets would take him, but our people were not as high on him as others.” Again, that may well be big talking coming from the guy whose team had a worse record than the Mets, but didn't get to pick first because the tradition back then was to alternate which league got to choose first. The leagues were two separate corporate entities, so the draft was organized (as I understand it) with concern that no one league would have an advantage in pursuit of talent.

Hi, I'm Mike Pendleton, the Emily Litella of the Rome (GA) News-Tribune, and back in 1980, they paid me to write this. https://metsrostercentral.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/screen-shot-2024-06-03-at-12.29.02-pm.png>

I guess there is also (d) the Mets saw him as the obvious best player available but were shy about his signability. This is supported by a Star-Ledger article from 1980 which has Jay Horwitz saying, "We knew he had other options. We met for 18 hours a day the past six days and finally decided to draft him first and then worry about options." Multiple contemporary sources have Philly scout Hugh Alexander calling Straw "the best prospect I've seen in 30 years." I found other sources saying the Blue Jays (who picked after the Mets, and as noted above, would select an infielder who peaked at AA) were not certain they would go for Strawberry if the Mets somehow passed, but that may be I-didn't-wanna-anyway reasoning by the team who were going to have to make do without having that option.

Howie Rose and other outlets telling Darryl Strawbery's story recall that Straw was the obvious and widespread consensus as the Mets' (and any other team's, had they been as fortunate) only possible selection with the #1 overall pick. That may be true, but I remember at the time that there was some drama over which direction the Mets were going to go. While Strawberry was the favorite and obviously the most exciting to write about, the Mets were juggling several names, including Billy Beane, who the team later selected with the 23rd overall pick. Either: a) I'm misremembering; Whatever drama there was, it was fake newspaper filler, and I was young and naïve enough to buy it; c) Howie (who is generally as sharp as anybody remembering these tales) overstated things. It would really speak to how much more divergence of scouting opinion existed at the time if it was true that Beane was on the Mets' short list for pick #1, and he was still around for pick #23. [FIMG=600]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FBgQL6_XEAQWXFV?format=jpg&name=small[/FIMG] Darryl Strawberry, Terry Blocker, Billy Beane (rear) with Some Guy on the Internet (front)