{"id":3751,"date":"2023-12-02T11:37:19","date_gmt":"2023-12-02T17:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=3751"},"modified":"2023-12-02T11:38:19","modified_gmt":"2023-12-02T17:38:19","slug":"mendozas-mets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=3751","title":{"rendered":"Mendoza’s Mets"},"content":{"rendered":"

All right everyone, let’s get caught up before the winter meetings start and the big names start to arrive.<\/p>\n

\"\"I can’t think they fired Buck Showalter<\/strong> only to wind up with a Yankee coach nobody’s ever heard of, so it seems like someone miscalculated the ease with which they’d gather in Craig Counsell. I was no fans of Counsell anyway so I’m glad he’s not here but in the end I’d have stayed with Buck all along.<\/p>\n

\"\"Carlos Mendoza<\/strong> will wear No. 28, and said all the right things at his press conference, but we’ve heard plenty of good press conferences before.<\/p>\n

\"\"Mendoza’s staff will include returning hero John Gibbons<\/strong> as bench coach, Jeremy Hefner remains as pitching coach and Eric Chavez<\/strong> mercifully becomes the hitting coach again. New to the staff is first-base coach Antoan Richardson<\/strong> and third base coach Mike Sarbaugh<\/strong>. None of these new guys have been assigned numbers yet; Gibbons wore 8 for the Mets until Gary Carter<\/strong> came along, then took 43 and 45.<\/p>\n

There’s been the beginnings of moves for a bullpen and bench. Tyler Heineman<\/strong>, claimed off waivers from Toronto, is a defensive catcher who can’t hit. There’s Cooper Hummel<\/strong>, a multiposition player claimed on waivers from Seattle. Joey Wendle<\/strong> is another versatile player and could serve in the same role as Luis Guillorme<\/strong> did last year, hopefully minus the getting the hurt and not contributing upon his return.<\/p>\n

Pitchers include a few relievers I’ve never heard of: Kyle Crick and Cole Sulser<\/strong> each signed to a minor league deal from Tampa Bay; Carlos Guzman<\/strong>, signed to a minor league deal from the Cubs; and Austin Adams<\/strong>, signed from Arizona. Then there’s Luis Severino<\/strong>, the one-time Yankee ace who was one of the worst pitchers in the league last year. Severino wore No. 40 in the Bronx; that currently belongs to Drew Smith<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

In addition to Guillorme, Daniel Vogelbach<\/strong>, Trevor Gott<\/strong>, Sam Coonrod<\/strong> and Jeff Brigham<\/strong> we not tendered contracts and became free agents.<\/p>\n

\"\"I don’t pretend to know what awaits the Mets on the free agent and trading markets but reports that the Yankees somehow have a leg up in the Yamamoto sweepstakes by reserving his No. 18 seems worth a thought here. The Mets could play that game too if they weren’t suddenly retiring every number. They in fact used 18–a number traditionally reserved for aces in Japan–for Takashi Kashiwada<\/strong> and Ryota Igarashi<\/strong>, though safe to say, neither was an ace. But both came years after Darryl Strawberry left Flushing in 1990 and nobody seemed to care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

All right everyone, let’s get caught up before the winter meetings start and the big names start to arrive. I can’t think they fired Buck Showalter only to wind up with a Yankee coach nobody’s ever heard of, so it seems like someone miscalculated the ease with which they’d gather in Craig Counsell. I was … Continue reading “Mendoza’s Mets”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[866,751],"tags":[1117,1005,1118,1124,1119,1122,1024,816,1037,101,1070,1121,1030,1120,805,1116,451,1115,465,1103,1123],"class_list":["post-3751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-who-is-this-guy","category-wild-speculation","tag-austin-adams","tag-buck-showalter","tag-carlos-guzman","tag-carlos-mendoza","tag-cole-sulser","tag-cooper-hummel","tag-daniel-vogelbach","tag-drew-smith","tag-eric-chavez","tag-gary-carter","tag-jeff-brigham","tag-joey-wendle","tag-john-gibbons","tag-kyle-crick","tag-luis-guillorme","tag-luis-severino","tag-ryota-igarashi","tag-sam-coonrod","tag-takashi-kashiwada","tag-trevor-gott","tag-tyler-heineman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3751"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3753,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3751\/revisions\/3753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}