The Mets have inked a minors deal with veteran catcher Jose Lobaton, per a team announcement. He’ll receive an invitation to MLB camp next spring.
Lobaton, a 33-year-old switch-hitter, has played for the division-rival Nationals for the past four seasons. While he is generally regarded as a reliable asset behind the dish, Lobaton has limped to a .210/.281/.307 batting line over 657 plate appearances during his tenure in D.C.
While he’s an established MLB asset, Lobaton’s struggles of late always made it seem likely he’d end up settling for a minor-league arrangement. Catching depth is always important to have, though, and Lobaton will certainly rate among the better insurance policies around the game.
Perhaps it’s not too soon to fully rule out a run at a MLB roster spot for Lobaton. Current Mets options Travis d’Arnaud (who’s projected to earn $3.4MM in arbitration) and Kevin Plawecki (who’s out of options) have certainly had their share of ups and downs, after all. But it seems quite likely the Mets will open the 2018 season with those two players sharing time behind the dish.
Good depth signing that probably won’t mean anything.
This gets us over the top!
Wow! This is an awesome Christmas comes early gift for the Met fans. Yankees – Stanton, Phillies – Santana, Mets got lobaton!!!!!!
Hahaha
Don’t forget Swarzak. I’d try to grab Frazier to at least get some enthusiasm in that clubhouse!
Oh, that’s right. The Met’s, a professional baseball team. Forgot about them. SMH
Wish I could forget about them
Hey Teach…do the math!
If you mets fans boycott the team you can force the Wilpon’s to sell it because their cash cow is gone.
3 simple steps:
1-refrain from buying tickets to the 2018 home games. Empty seats hit their wallets and are embarrassing.
2-Don’t Buy any licensed Mets gear. That will create disharmony in the clubhouse.
3-Stay away from SNY; force viewership to tank and cause the advertisers to bail.
Together you can demand a truly committed owner to properly building a major league NL team through sound investments and competent management!
You post the same comment on every Mets thread. Get over it, man. Just root for the Yankees. Nobody is forcing you to follow the Mets.
Go get a girlfriend. Or spend this energy coming up with a backstory for a fake one. Your posts are tired.
Thank you! It’s annoying having see it over and over again. I’m surprised there was no “t.c.” Bashing. Or sandy bashing. Surprising actually.
Hi boys. It is worth repeating since some Mets fans have a dense perspective and move very slowly.
Actually TC is gone, right?
And sandy is a placeholder.
Another hot stove with luke warm chocolate milk for you guys?
There’s a small glimmer of hope for you though. Miami fans did exactly what I am prescribing and they got rid of Loria.
It will be painful for a while as good baseball franchises take time to develop. See Chicago Cubs and Houston Astros.
Go ahead and bash Jeter. My bet is that in 3 years the Mets will be in the cellar looking up at the Marlins.
Mets Fever!!! CATCH IT
Ya Gotta Believe !!!!
Outstanding baserunner
Mets should now be favorites to win the NL East.
I love posts about the Mets because the comments are always full of sarcasm
You’d be cynical too when the Wilpons own your team.
Read above and take action
Blue
Get a life
Get a new team. Eventually appears to be an impossible dream.
On this posting you appear to defend your team. On others you criticize. What will be your new alias for 2018?
Clearly you’re accustomed to the WS trophy being firmly slotted in your back end – Yankee fans have no clue what it means to have your fandom tested. Rest assured we’ve got it handled. You can get back to polishing your purchases
Only a player of Jose Lobaton’s caliber could spark such an intense debate as this…
Ha!
Wow Seaver. For a team that traded even Tom Seaver.
It’s hard to fathom an owner of a major market team investing in the team, huh?
Stanton aside do you want to compare recent minor league player development and incredibly productive trades?
It’s one thing to have “your fandom tested”. It’s more accurately described as continually resigned to disappointment.
Good luck the rest of this month. Hopefully Cespedes learned this off season how to drink water so he is not on the DL with pulled this and that, Yafa yada.
Mets are bad baseball and always great drama
The only certainty is that they will finish ahead of the Marlins.*
Subject to DL activity +|- 5 players.
Wow this should shake the foundation of the baseball world
Love the signing!
Who says they couldn’t answer the Yankees getting Stanton? Balls in your court now Yanks.
Been a lifetime Mets fan. Come to the conclusion they have smartest gm in baseball followed by smartest owners! What other team can you say signs so many players with “upside”. They are always right with these players because they are sooo bad that they only have the potential to be better they can never be worse than back of there baseball card says!
Mets fans seem to always be “the glass is half empty” types!
No man we are always “glass filled with pee” type
Lmao
Or is it the warm overpriced beer at CitiField?
and………the Mets have just spent all their money
Lol I think we are actually over budget! Will need to do a salary dump and trade cespides for a bag of balls and international pool money!
The Yankees will take lobaton off your hands in return for a throwback jobs chamberlain game used midge covered jersey from the 2007 alds
We will then flip lobaton for machado
If they REALLY squeeze the bottle they might just have enough $$$ left to sign Yunel Escobar
This move was so major that mlb Twitter didn’t even mention it
It is so major that the lone wolf defender, metseventually posted defensively, like my criticism was unique.
Dipping their hands into the cheap basket. Just like always!!
Mets fans crack me up. I love reading these comments.
I’m laughing so hard. Phenomenal posts guys…Take out the mike yank comments which are nauseating and this was one of my favorite commented posts
So sweet
Why does Wilpon not just sell the team and stop making Mets fans life miserable
The Wilpons are miserable and they want to make our lives just as miserable.
Seriously though smh. I’m a Yankee fan that actually wants Fred coupon to sell the team. He is arguably the worst owner in baseball now that Lois is gone
Very sad that Saul and Fred forced Nelson out way back then. It could have been different.
Da King—correction-all that Wilpon wants is your money, so he can buy more Brooklyn Dodgers memorabilia.
They just want your money.
Mets fans should be excited. they have an exciting bench player that is awesome at taking off helmets when someone hits a homerun.
Mrs Wilson was all in favor of this, until she learned Jeff wasn’t buying her a pair of shoes.