Edgy MD

WOW! Seely is the embodiment of human will.

Bichie is now the tying run. Lindor the go-ahead. Nice bid by Baty-man.

Still is.

You haven't seen fire?

Soto currently the tying run.

Looks misty/foggy descending on the field.

It's baseball and it's glorious.

He's got a fastball at 93, a straight slider/cutter at 88, and curve that he can't get over at 82. He's probably better than this, but right now, he's meat.

The Mets should just position their infielders on the lip of the grass against Tolbert.

That guy under the TV booth shouting the payroll is not somebody I'd want to be next to.

Yabbut ... 81.00 is not exactly a sweet number either.

Seelinger looks like he needs oxygen.

Overturniest game ever. Certainly a full 10 on the Overturny Meter.

A very important but infrequently told chapter in Mets history is the tale of the short but consequential tenure of Bing Devine as general manager. Bing was gone by the time the 1969 Mets won the World Championship, but the team that claimed the title was largely his. Bing's first season (1967) at the helm featured 54 players — a record that stood for decades — as he largely turned his roster over twice, in season, looking for players and combinations that would be helpful when this team was ready to compete. Miracles will come, in some 1969 of the future, but as the 2026 Mets have not been hinting of a magical turn this summer, the work of a GM becomes reloading. As the team prepares to sell off parts, and the can of miracles gets kicked down the road a stretch, should these things come to pass, management will be asked to still field a putative MLB team the last two months of the season, and to evaluate who might have a magic bean or two to add to that can. Some of those figures appear below. Transactions, 7/2/2026 COMING Transferred from St. Lucie to Binghamton on Rehab Assignment Added to 40-Player Roster and Assigned to Syracuse Relief Pitchers Dedniel Núñez Jefry Yan R/R DoB: 1996-06-05 High Level: MLB (2025) L/L DoB: 1996-08-17 High Level: MLB (2026) Rookie sensation of 2024 and UCL victim of 2025, Dedniel Núñez got back on the field in 11 months, as teams are willing to accelerate the recovery schedule a small amount for relievers, which kind of makes sense and kind of doesn't. Steady Deddy gave up a run in an inning and two thirds in St. Lucie, but has yet to be touched in two innings with the Rumble Ponies. If walk/strikeout ratios are something you use to measure a rehabbing pitcher's progress, he has fanned four and walked none in 3 2/3 innings, and 4/0 is irrational! Fellow Dominican Jefry Yan is at the other end of the spectrum — a grizzled veteran of something like a dozen professional seasons in the stateside minors and abroad. He was added last summer and retained this winter with little fanfare, but damned if they didn't do something to get the guy on the good foot. IP R ER H HR BB SO 8.0 4 3 4 0 6 21 The guy's ERA is the bottom line, and that sits at 3.38, which certainly seems serviceable. But the real story here is that the guy has retired 24 guys and 21 of them have been on strikeouts and that is the sort of thing that makes a man stand up and say AMEN! — as does the report that Jefry is bringing 100-mph heat from the left side. Adding a guy to the 40-Player Roster mid-season without promoting him to the big is certainly unusual, and as the maneuver comes at the top of the month, it suggests that the player had a opt-out clause if the team didn't rosterize him. But keep your eyes open for him in coming weeks as opportunities arise. No hurry on Dedniel, but the clock is certainly ticking on this Jefry Yan guy. Transactions, 7/4/2026 GOING Released Infielders Grae Kessinger R/R DoB: 35667 High Level: MLB (2024) Grae Kessinger, Houston Astro of 2023 and 2024, is a third generation MLB player — albeit indirectly, as he follows his grandfather Don Kessinger and uncle Keith Kessinger. He spent the first seven or eight weeks of the season on the IL, and never quite caught up following a damaging hammy injury early in spring training. But considering those bloodlines, and being the only Graeber in MLB history, one might be forgiven for wishing him the best at his next stop. Transactions, 7/5/2026 GOING COMING Demoted to Syracuse Traded from DET for Cash, Assigned to Syracuse Added to 40-Player Roster and Promoted from Syracuse Relief Pitchers Joey Gerber Matt Seelinger Guillo Zuñiga R/R DoB: 1997-05-03 High Level: MLB (2026) R/R DoB: 1995-04-19 High Level: AAA (2026) R/R DoB: 1998-10-10 High Level: MLB (2024) If you watched last night's game, you saw the debut of Guillo Zuñiga. Gary pronounced the name with a straight N as zoo-NEE-gah, like actress Daphne Zuniga, instead of the zoon-YEE-gah pronunciation indicated by the tilde. Anyhow, baseballreference.com says the latter is correct, and while we have faith in Gary Cohen getting his shit together, we can hardly afford a repeat of the jay-or-EESE debacle. Anyhow Guillo, looked pretty sweet last night, sawing off bats at the handle and making a basket catch on a week popup. He also looked like one big Colombian — putting the bedimpled Joey Gerber on notice (one hopes) that he will have to earn his way back to Flushing. Also joining the swelling 40-Player Roster (calling it a "40-Man Roster" does not allow for room to believe a woman may one day play for the Mets) is Matt Seelinger. Matt had been DFA'd by the Tigers and the Mets, rather than hope to grab him on the waiver wire, made a move and acquired him for cash money. Matt is local boy several times over, born in the Long Island hamlet of Westbury, NY, graduating from W.T. Clarke High School in nearby Salisbury, and then going on to play four years for Farmingdale State College. As Farmingdale has spent most of its history as a two-year community college, you can't come from a much more obscure stateside background to find yourself at the threshold of the bigs. And yeah, this is the time of the year when the Mets are prone to add local figures and feel-good stories to give themselves some good press, and gain some good will from the credulous and gullible, but we at Mets Roster Central can't help ourselves. GO, MATT SEELINGER!!! But wait ... there's more ... . Transactions, 7/7/2026 GOING GOING GOING Designated for Assignment Designated for Assignment Demoted to Syracuse Relief Pitchers Relief Pitchers Infielders Alex Carrillo Guillo Zuñiga Ronny Mauricio R/R DoB: 1997-06-06 High Level: MLB (2025) R/R DoB: 1998-10-10 High Level: MLB (2026) S/R DoB: 2001-04-04 High Level: MLB (2026) COMING COMING NEUTRAL Promoted from Syracuse Ended Rehab Assignment and Activated from IL Transferred from Syracuse to Binghamton on Rehab Assignment Relief Pitchers Infielders Outfielders Matt Seelinger Jorge Polanco Luis Robert, Jr. R/R DoB: 1995-04-19 High Level: AAA (2026) S/R DoB: 1999-11-13 High Level: MLB (2026) R/R DoB: 1997-08-03 High Level: MLB (2026) As we went to press, there was an absolute busload of transactions announced — an absolute, packed commuter bus, too. One of those flex jobs. We knew we'd be seeling Seelinger sooner or later, and were prepared to celebrate, but regret to lose big ol' Guillo Zuñiga so quickly and hope it's not for good. Overlooked in last nights crazy finale against the Braves is that Guillo was in a position to walk away with the win after Soto's dramatic ninth-inning homer, but by blowing the save, Devin Williams vultered away from him the chance to gain a win in his first — and possibly only — game as a Met. Luis Robert, Jr.'s reassignment from Syracuse to Binghamton reads like a demotion, but it is more likely just about saving him a road trip. The OrangeMets hit the road yesterday to start series in Norfolk (tonight's opener was rained out), while Bingo stayed more local with a trip to Hartford. The big news, though, perhaps, is the return of Jorge Polanco. While Polanco has been the target of a disproportionate amount of animus as the putative replacement for Pete Alonso at first, his slow start didn't help, and whatever you can hang on him regarding his persistent Achilles injury, that hasn't helped either. But here he is back, and while he hasn't lit it up in his rehab assignments, he's a veteran who should adapt quickly to game speed, assuming he's in good enough condition to play at all. It's 2026, anyhow. They got machines to get you used to game-speed pitching. As we go to press a second time, the Mets are parading pitcher after pitcher against the Royals, and struggling to get outs. Sooner or later, their newest pitcher will get the call. GO, MATT SEELINGER!!!

That's an error in my book, but the world is what it is.

Good time to have Tolbert sacrifice.

Did Keith just snickeringly out his daughter on live television?!

Tolbert should have broken from third on that play either way.

Somehow, the Royals have a guy batting .378 hitting ninth.

Tough moment to be Huascar Brazoban right now.

Getting those last 15 outs is going to be some business. Help me, A.J. Minter. You're my only help.

Maybe he thought there was a force play in the on-deck circle.

I like that the Mets have seemingly bagged the Spider-Man mask, but are still doing the pffft with their hands.

Terrific RBI by Ewing, but gosh, Massey, dive for that ball and knock it down.

Soto finds the page though, and gets a lot of green on his shirt.