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Mets Place Jose Reyes On DL, Sign Justin Ruggiano

By Steve Adams | July 30, 2016 at 4:11pm CDT

The Mets have placed infielder Jose Reyes on the 15-day disabled list with a strained left intercostal muscle and signed veteran outfielder Justin Ruggiano to a Major League deal, the team announced. Ruggiano is in the lineup for tonight’s game.

The Mets reunited with Reyes earlier this year in spite of a dreadful 2015 season and a 51-game suspension under Major League Baseball’s domestic violence policy. Reyes has shown more extra-base pop than he has in years, but his overall productivity hasn’t been especially impressive; he’s hitting .239/.278/.493 in 72 plate appearances while primarily playing third base. The extent of Reyes’ injury isn’t known, butĀ if he’s expected to miss significant time it could further motivate the Mets to add a bat to spend some time at third base.

Ruggiano, 34, was released from the Rangers’ Triple-A affiliate earlier this week, where he’d batted .226/.321/.427 in 191 plate appearances. Those numbers are fairly pedestrian, but Ruggiano has a long track record of hitting left-handed pitching quite well at the Major League level. In parts of eight MLB seasons, he’s slashed .273/.336/.521 with 25 homers (538 PAs).

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9 Comments

  1. anonymoususer

    9 years ago

    Wow, just the impact bat they needed to add! -_-

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    • thelaxboy

      9 years ago

      haha yeah, Ruggiano is trash. Decent base runner but that’s about it. He was a waste of Ranger money so we dropped him. I’m really surprised someone picked up such a mediocre player out of such a wide availability of outfielders.

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  2. AddisonStreet

    9 years ago

    I liked Ruggiano when he was a Cub, even though he never did much. Not really going to help that Mets offense, but I’m glad he’s getting another shot at the Bigs.

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  3. lifetimemet41

    9 years ago

    Wow! That should really help protect YC baseballs most under whelming lineup!

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  4. YankeeFan18

    9 years ago

    I’m not 100% sure on what the Mets we trying to accomplish with getting an outfielder/southpaw killer, besides replacing injured Juan Lagares, but they have Brandon Nimmo in the minors awaiting another aportunity at the Major League level. Unless the are planing on Wilmer Flores at 3rd and Asdrubel at short, I am still supriseed they signed Justin to a Major League contract. If anybody has any thoughts, on anything I talked about please let me know!

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  5. 1tav

    9 years ago

    At least it’s a right handed bat they can send out there. I hope he can play CF.

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    • agentx

      9 years ago

      Ruggiano looked good out in CF with the Dodgers and obviously hits lefties well. Good, almost no-cost stopgap for the Mets.

      Reply
  6. mj450

    9 years ago

    Guessing they would have brought up an infielder to replace Reyes on the roster. May be a sign that mets are preparing to move Nimmo and need the OF depth

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  7. metseventually 2

    9 years ago

    It doesn’t stop.

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