Aug. 15: The Mets have now requested release waivers on Salas, tweets DiComo. Assuming he clears waivers, Salas will be a free agent in 48 hours.
Aug. 10: The Mets have designated reliever Fernando Salas for assignment, reports Anthony DiComo of MLB.com (Twitter link). His spot will go to newly promoted first base prospect Dominic Smith.
Salas is in his second season with the Mets, who acquired him from the Angels at the end of August last year and saw the right-hander improbably turn into a key component in their run to a wild-card berth. Salas gave the Mets 17 1/3 innings of 2.08 ERA pitching last September and piled up 17 strikeouts against no walks, leading them to re-sign him to a one-year, $3MM over the winter. The wheels have come off this season, though, as the 32-year-old Salas has logged a 6.00 ERA over 45 frames.
The Mets will surely hope a taker comes along for Salas, who has less than $1MM left on his deal. Perhaps some bullpen-needy club will overlook his bloated ERA and focus on more hopeful numbers, including career-best ground-ball (45.1 percent) and swinging-strike (13 percent) rates. Salas has also yielded a lofty .379 batting average on balls in play and managed only a 64.1 percent strand rate, both of which could regress in his favor before the year’s out.
Had to be done
About time
Now who will Terry leave in the game way too long to walk in runs?
Robles
Once the season ends I can almost guarantee there will be an article on this website dedicated to detailing him being claimed off of waivers or a bullet point under a minor moves post listing off the players outrighted off of the Mets’ 40-man rosyer.
Still a good pitcher more a victim of circumstances IMO. Toxic clubhouse and awful defense behind him really hurt. Shouldn’t have trouble finding work. Hope he joins my yankees!
Toxic club house ? I didn’t think it was that horrible
I read they didn’t want to call up their top prospects bc of the clubhouse. Could be wrong but otherwise what took so long?
Did you read that in the comments section here?
Nope, they wanted to clear roster space so that they’d be able to play every day. With Bruce and Walker gone, that is now possible.
The guy has 6.00 ERA, 1.778 WHIP, 4.40 FIP. How is your opinion “a victim of circumstances”? Look at the stats before you make stupid “opinions”. I hope he joins “your” Yankees too, so he can consistently lose games down the stretch.
His babip and strand rates were bloated; why dont you read the stats before judging other ppl
No Eventually, he won’t “join” the Yankees. That only happens to lonely mets fans who end up joining the Jets and Nets fan groups in joint therapy sessions.
BTW-what happened to your old friend, “Mets2015NLChamps2016WSChamps”?
Or was that your old name and you couldn’t take being held accountable to you morphed into this lackluster identity?
Wasn’t the clubhouse, rather a certain infielder who was unhappy. They didn’t want the stud prospect having to deal with him.
I hope he goes to the Yankees also.. that guy is absolute garbage!! I have literally turned the game off when TC would bring him in.. unwatchable.. never a clean inning. Always a walk or a hit and eventually a run.. obviously with a 6 ERA.
How are his home runs related to terrible defense? He was good occasionally but horrible other times. Robles, too.
White Sox are calling.
Nah, if the White Sox want him they’ll wait a week for him to clear and spend nothing as opposed to giving up anything.
Idk what the advanced stats say but he was consistently bad this season.
That being said he’ll be a good pickup for the Nats
We have a bullpen now no thanks
Angel’s resign him! Any one but Bud the pud!!!!!
He is worse than Bud Norris.
Here-here. After tonite’s BUTT Noris performance, Salas can cover our 7th inning. Trade Norris for a bag of hair.
Go back where he started?
The Cardinals?
Yeah, need just about any kind of bullpen help.
Thank god! What took so long?
Back to the angles
Nope. More likely to Seattle
Obtuse or acute?
lol
After getting Salas, fans would go off on a tangent… So I cannot cosine your statement.
Right!
Thank god the dude was a dumpster fire after the first few weeks of the season.
Maybe Dodgers can acquire him for Chris Hatcher?