The Mets have agreed to minor-league deals with infielder Christian Colon and outfielder Ezequiel Carrera, according to MLB.com’s Anthony DiComo (via Twitter). Colon’s signing has been acknowledged on the team’s transactions page.
Both Colon and Carrera were released recently by the Braves. Neither will likely be seen as an immediate MLB asset, but both could certainly push toward the top of the team’s depth chart. With a variety of injuries currently weighing on the Mets’ roster, these veterans will fill in the ranks at Triple-A and increase the overall depth on hand.
The 29-year-old Colon has rarely shown much with the bat, with a .252/.315/.315 slash over his 386 MLB plate appearances. And he has limped to a .204/.278/.204 slash in his first 55 plate appearances this year at Triple-A. But he’s regarded as a quality defender and has been graded that way by defensive metrics.
As for Carrera, 30, he was a useful player for the Blue Jays in recent years, including a .266/.340/.382 slash with 14 home runs and 17 steals over 635 plate appearances. He was cut loose by the Toronto organization despite agreeing to an arb salary for the current campaign. It was tough to see a path for Carrera to reach the majors with the Braves, though, particularly after he ran up a terribly .146/.228/.220 batting line in 93 plate appearances at Gwinnett.
People in the replay center in NY are trying their best to help the Mets anyway they can.
How many time are you going to make this comment?
decent depth
Tebow Time
“Tebow Time”
Not now, but I’d wager a decent chunk of change that he is called up in September. Mets are still gonna have a bunch of tickets to sell once they’ve been eliminated and Tebow might help. Whether deserving of promotion or not.
I agree. Tebow is coming because it won’t be long before Freddy will be looking at an empty stadium.
It won’t be September. They will need help in the box office after the ASG when fans realize that it’s hard looking up from 4th place. They were expecting to look up at the Nationals, however the braves’ and Phillies’ progress this year shows what they are going to need to do:
Bite the bullet, dismantle the team for prospects and rebuild over 3-5 years.
Cheap Wilpon’s have been lusting at these thoughts for years. Unfortunately with Sandy leading the front office it will not go smoothly.
The problem with that is only two guys stand with true value and the team that makes the most sense to trade with will never happen.
Hey eventually. Glad to see you posting and continuing to be realistic. It’s so difficult for then angry belligerent ones, don’t you think?
However the problem with two guys that can make a difference is Mutt and Jeff. The only hope for the future is for Mets fans to create an economic boycott by:
NOT buying tickets for anymore games.
-Hurt the Wilpon’s in their wallets
NOT watching Mets games on SNY. —Destroy their ratings!
NOT buying any Mets or Mets players’ gear.
—Humiliate them
I don’t think you read a word I just wrote.
Yikes took me this long to realize you’re a bot
Actually I did eventually. So the team has only two players with value. Trade them. Start over.
However you didn’t read what I wrote recently because it won’t do any good to blow the team up.
With cheap Wilpon’s controlling the finances there is an absence of financial commitment and resources.
With Sandy calling the shots, they have their previous GM whispering, their former field manager mumbling and a has been former GM (of another team as a coach on the field).
Baseball has morphed into a different game that is far beyond the geriatric over-the-hill front office. Combined with Mutt and Jeff they have ABSOLUTELY NO CHANCE of a successful reboot.
You may need to take some meds so you don’t appear to be wearing a Buck Rogers’ space helmet on your next response.
Is it not pathetic that this guy takes time out of his day to type paragraphs either trolling the Mets or Red Sox?
Oh. JD. You are pathetic to add comments to my posts and accuse me of trolling.
EXCUSE me, Mr. GM…you are such an expert that people actually quote you on their Twitter feeds.
NOT.
Move on and stay on your own losing teams.
BTW—Analytics are only part of the game. Stop cheapening this space with your authoritarian comments. On occasion when they are accurate you are deep in line with others whom have posted. And when you are wrong, it is laughable.
Hey, I’m not the troll
Carrera takes a long journey to come back home. If he makes the MLB roster, he would be reunited with Jason Vargas, whom he was traded along with to Seattle; 10 years ago.
They might have crossed paths briefly somewhere along the way. But calling them reunited is quite a stretch as they never actually played together. Vargas was in the majors and Carrera was in single-A when they were traded..
I believe I was the one who broke the Colon news. Search up “Christian Colon” on Twitter and you’ll find that I was 2+hrs before DiComo…
Congrats, now go start your own page so you can break the Colon stories.
the sports reporting business is large and is ruled by guys who’ve been around forever. they don’t always deserve the credit bc they aren’t always first.
welcome to real life.
Thank you. Now can you tell us what place this sad excuse of an organization is going to finish?
Bring back Bart
The Mets love Mother Earth, they recycle. In all seriousness though, both of these guys are solid depth signings and at least 1 of them could find their way to New York this year.
Yes Yooz one could be in Flushing this year but not for rewarding performance. They have such poor depth that as the Flushing follies moves into DL mode they will simply need bodies.
How ironic.
It’s a good thing Jeter gutted the Marlins or else the Mets would be finishing last. The Wilson’s should get out of sports.
Wilpon
Except it wasn’t Jeter who did it! Michael Hill is the GM of the Marlins
With these two signings the have also announced that they will be printing World Series tickets on Monday.
(Seriously good depth signings)
Hey 62. The Mets last WS tickets will be there next ones. You are at the beginning of a drought. Store up on bottled water and leave the Mets juice for someone else.
As a die hard Mets fan think the time is starting to come where they just might need to blow the entire team up and look at a rebuild. I don’t see the Wilpons spending money in free agency to go after the impact players in the likes of Harper if he even hits the open market or Machado. Degroms value is the highest it’s ever going to be right now. I say give it another month or so and I think if they fall double digits in games by the end of June they should at least explore that option. Realistically I don’t think any Mets fans truly think with these owners we are locking up both Degrom and Syndergaard when the time comes. Unfortunate but cannot keep making excuses for this team.
Colon had that game winning hit in the series against us a few years back