Here are the day’s minor moves from around the league….
- The Mets signed sidearm right-hander Ben Rowen to a minor league deal with an invite to Major League Spring Training, MLB.com’s Anthony DiComo tweets. Rowen, 28, made his second Major League appearance last year but surrendered five runs in three innings at the big league level. He was outstanding in Triple-A, though (2.33 ERA in 58 innings), which has become par for the course for Rowen. In parts of four seasons there, Rowen owns a 2.22 ERA with 6.7 K/9 against just 1.5 BB/9. His delivery also leads to exceptionally high ground-ball rates, as was the case in Triple-A last season, when he induced grounders at a 60.2 percent clip. Rowen has spent parts of seven seasons in the minors, during which time he’s amassed a 1.85 ERA with 7.0 K/9 against 2.0 BB/9 to complement those strong ground-ball tendencies.
Ruh Ro…I smell a Cheapy kinda bullpen next year,,,Which means a cheapy kind of run for a Playoff Spot…
It is nuts how cheap the Mets act given the market they are in. No need to make long term albatross deals, but they are most definitely capable of more.
This will be their game while this management is there,
Let’s be honest, this is a no risk, minor league signing of a guy with a solid recent tract record in the upper minors. There are always going to be minor league deals that every team makes in hopes one or two of them can stick and at least provide depth in case of injuries or poor performance. There are plenty of worse options to hand out minor league deals to.
So cheap they’ve signed the top free agent on the market. Try being a Pirates or Rays fan and knowing your team has a two year window then rebuilding no matter how good they are. Knowing you will get to see top players for about 5 years at most.
How is anyone ripping the Mets for a minor league signing??? Good signing, add as much depth as you can. There is never enough.
Absolutely
Thank you
Amen
The Mets are run like a small market team…might as well keep up the tradition. I know..it’s a minor league deal, depth, crapshoot, etc. I just wish they weren’t constantly bargain bin shopping for parts needed to make a deep playoff run.
Especially bargain bin moves like the cespedes signing
You mean Broken Parts.
It’s not mgmt, it’s ownership. They got burned by Bernie Madoff and MLB let them go cheap for a few years to regain their solvency. But that was almost 10 years ago and they’ve clearly recovered. The Wilpons have simply decided that it’s good business to field a cheap team. Why spend an extra $50m/year on players when you can just put it in yer pocket? I feel sorry for Mets fans. Yer gettin’ screwed.
Sandy is part of this game. This is how he got and has kept his job. It worked once in 2015 I doubt it will keep working. Watch out for Atlanta and Philly coming up real soon.
“Atlanta and Philly are coming up real soon”… wow what an observation. A vague statement like clearly demonstrates the depth of your knowledge of the game.
All you do is complain and complain with no facts to back it up or simply ignoring the truth (seems to be a lot of that going around). Yes, the Phils and Braves have interesting pieces but they are far from being .500 teams. They are still trying to determine what they have at too many positions. Player development is not an exact science. If they add the right free agents and some of their own players develop as expected they may be at or above .500 in two, three or four years, or maybe this rebuild won’t work out and they’ll be forced to start again.
You sound like you are a typical no-nothing. My comment was that while the Mets have made as many subtraction thus-far as additions they have teams that will be nipping at heels while they choose to stay indifferent and cheap. Sorry to offend you Jeff Wilpon.
MLB organizations need to win at AA and AAA also. This is actually a smart signing if only for AAA — with the PCL parks, ground balls stay in while fly balls are HRs.
I don’t get the vitriol. Ben Rowen should get a serious look on a major league roster. Should have happened years ago, should still happen. He should have gotten a major league minimum offer from somebody but since he didn’t, kudos to the mets. I doubt there’s a minor league free agent reliever signed this off-season with better numbers.
Conor Mullee comes to mind trying to disprove myself but he never cleared waivers.
Who wouldn’t want a reliever to come in and get ground ball outs? Rowen has shown great command and looks like a quality arm. It’s a cheap addition that could turn out to be a quality sign. And if anything send him down to AAA and win some ball games for your fans.
FWIW? MassLive news has Dan Duquette signing 40yo Tomo Ohko to a MiLB deal as a knuckleballer this time around.
Out of MLB for years, Indy ball in 2014 think story said. Duquette makes those barrel scraper type deals and they *do* sometimes pay off and handsomely. However.. this one looks like payback of some kind on something. Ohka as a 40YO rookie all over?
Good move. They always find these guys who make contributions. The negativity mostly comes from one person on these threads who has one focus, to let us all know how much he hates the very respectable Sandy Anderson (who is a veteran, i might add). And that’s all he does. Hates on the Mets… and me. (I’m about to be insulted or cursed out in 3,2,1…).
If you want to have money to pay your starters you don’t just spend it to stock a bullpen. There is a difference between cheap and wisely spent.
I’ve had a little prospect crush on Rowen for a while. With his track record, I’m surprised he hasn’t gotten an extended chance in the majors – seems like some team would view him as a bargain bin Brad Ziegler clone and give him a shot.
Good move with their infield he should be a good addition
Now we just have to go get Brach some how and we will be much better
Trade Bruce and Robles for Brach
The wilpons don’t want too win a World Series if they did they do what it takes too get there
That’s been my point since day one. The Jerk bqbombers wets his panties every time I say that.
Love the sidearm pitchers