There’s not much “momentum” on a trade involving Mets catcher Devin Mesoraco, Mike Puma of the New York Post tweets, though he notes that a deal still may come together by the non-waiver deadline on Tuesday. Mesoraco has already been part of one trade this year, as he joined the Mets in May in a deal for now-Reds righty Matt Harvey. The 30-year-old Mesoraco has batted .230/.206/.393 with eight home runs in 219 plate appearances and caught 26 percent of would-be base stealers this season. He’ll be a free agent in the offseason.
More from the National League…
- Cubs right-hander Tyler Chatwood is headed to the team’s bullpen to make room for just-acquired starter Cole Hamels, Jesse Rogers of ESPN.com was among those to report. Chatwood joined the Cubs on a three-year, $38MM contract last winter, but the deal hasn’t worked out as planned for the club. Prior to his demotion to a relief role, Chatwood walked a ridiculous 8.14 batters per nine innings across 94 frames (19 starts) and pitched to a 4.98 ERA/5.57 FIP.
- The Pirates placed outfielder Corey Dickerson (left hamstring strain) and first baseman Josh Bell (left oblique strain) on the 1o-day disabled list Saturday, per Jerry DiPaola of the Pittsburgh-Tribune Review. The club recalled outfielder Austin Meadows and first baseman Jose Osuna from Triple-A to take their places. If not for Pittsburgh’s recent hot streak, it may have been in position to sell Dickerson prior to the deadline. The 29-year-old, who’s on a $5.95MM salary in 2o18 and has one arbitration-eligible season left, has batted a terrific .318/.351/.517 with 11 home runs in 367 plate appearances.
- The Nationals reinstated outfield prospect Victor Robles from the disabled list Friday and activated him at the Triple-A level, according to Mark Zuckerman of MASNsports.com. The 21-year-old Robles has missed nearly all of this season after suffering an elbow injury early in the spring. He continues to rank as one of the majors’ premier prospects, though, as evidenced by Baseball America grading him as the game’s sixth-best farmhand in its most recent top-100 list.
- Brewers first base prospect Jake Gatewood will undergo season-ending surgery after suffering a torn left ACL, Adam McCalvy of MLB.com tweets. The 22-year-old Gatewood, Milwaukee’s 14th-best prospect at MLB Pipeline, hit .244/.302/.466 with 19 home runs in 388 PAs at the Double-A level this season.
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lol wow I’m surprised you caught that. Weird.
I thought it was more funny Mesoraco had an obp lower then his batting average. Now that’s tough to do.
Chatwood has more walks than strikeouts…as a starter that can get strikeouts…that SHOULD be hard to do..
40-48 on July 7 to 55-51 after tonight. Pirates are in a tough spot come deadline.
They are in a very tough spot. They’ve really come on strong the last few weeks.
“The 30-year-old Mesoraco has batted .230/.206/.393 with eight home runs in 219 plate appearances . . . “
No, Connor, those are not his stats for this year. At least not according to the bb-ref link you provide. Not even sure where you got those from. 227/.304/.392.
He was at .230 / .306 / .392 to start the day. Lawl!
The .206 OBP was my first clue. Don’t think a non-P could survive in MLB with that even if he fielded like Ozzie Smith.
ChatWALK needs to be demoted to the minors to either fix the walk situation or exit professional baseball.
I’m sorry, but you can’t be in the major leagues while walking almost 9 batters per 9 innings. That’s insane.
Between the walks, and the average number of hits he gives up per 9 innings, that’s the equivalent of giving up almost 17 hits, every single outing. That’s INSANE.
Doesn’t help the bats take a ZZzzzzzzzzzz…he gets hardly any support. Same thing with Chatwood. Pitchers got to go out and be Cy Young and hope the bats wake up. Doesn’t help the pen has no closer cause Morrow is on the DL and it maybe for the season. Theo and crew need to make a trade for a closer. Maybe even make a wake up the team move…
The Cub pen is going to be toast by the end of the season. Their 3.5 game lead has evaporated because the starters can’t go more than 5 and there is no closer. So Joe has no one he can trust and has to have Rizzo pitch….smh. Last 2 games against horrid Card pitcher and we make them look like the Dean Brothers. They really should have worked harder to get Britton. Maybe that money to get Yu should have been spent to resign Wade Davis. Maybe then Morrow wouldn’t be on the DL due to overuse.
U guys r pretty funny we lost 2 games, still have the best record in the nl just got Cole and and we will get another rp. Alison saying morrow is out for the year is just stupid, he will be back within the week. U card and brewer fans r a joke.