The Mets announced a pair of transactions, including the news that right-hander Yefry Ramirez has been released. New York also completed the August 5 trade with the Rangers that brought Ariel Jurado to Citi Field, as right-hander Steve Villines was sent to Texas as the player to be named later.
Ramirez signed a minor league deal with the Mets over the offseason and was part of the team’s 60-man player pool, though he never received a call-up from the alternate training site. The 26-year-old righty has a 6.32 ERA, 1.71 K/BB rate, and 8.9 K/9 over 89 2/3 career innings in the big leagues, all with Orioles and Pirates from 2018-19. Originally an international signing for the Diamondbacks in 2011, the 26-year-old Ramirez has posted some solid numbers over 605 minor league innings (3.57 ERA, 2.96 K/BB, 9.1 K/9), starting 103 of his 137 games.
Villines was a 10th-round pick for the Mets in the 2017 draft, and has worked exclusively as a reliever over 155 career innings in New York’s farm system. He wasn’t a top-30 prospect for the Mets nor a member of their 60-man player pool, though the 25-year-old’s unconventional sidearm-esque delivery has some outstanding minor league numbers — a 2.67 ERA, 5.31 K/BB rate, and an 11.1 K/9 over 155 innings. That dominance didn’t translate to 16 Triple-A innings last season, as Villines posted a 6.75 ERA over that admittedly small sample size.
Whoopdi dam do.
Villines has a 2.76 career minor league e.r.a traded for junk in Jurado as Brodie continues to kill us.
villanes sucks, he traded junk for junk. no big loss
We said.
“New York also completed the August 5 trade with the Rangers that brought Ariel Jurado to Citi Field, as right-hander Steve Villines was sent to Texas as the player to be named later.”
The Mets dealt a talented young minor league pitcher for a woeful fill-in starter in Jurado.
This is the kind of deal that is so foolish it all but requires Van Wagenen’s firing. To get someone like Jurado, you NEVER give up talent, even as a completely novice GM, never mind at the end of your 2nd year on the job.
Brodie strikes again! Great reliever prospect for garbage future waiver claim rider Jurado
he is not a great reliever prospect
We said.
“New York also completed the August 5 trade with the Rangers that brought Ariel Jurado to Citi Field, as right-hander Steve Villines was sent to Texas as the player to be named later.”
The Mets dealt a talented young minor league pitcher for a woeful fill-in starter in Jurado.
This is the kind of deal that is so foolish it all but requires Van Wagenen’s firing. To get someone like Jurado, you NEVER give up talent, even as a completely novice GM, never mind at the end of your 2nd year on the job.
@kahnkobra Please stop writing.
Here’s Vilines history.
baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=vil…
You never, ever trade a young pitcher like this for a failure like Jurado.
What great reliever? Had 6.75 ERA in triple A last year
Did you see his AA ERA? Sure he’s not amazing but certainly better than Jurado. You could probably slot him into the bullpen right now and he’d do all right
Yea, so Mets to trade a minor leaguer for a major leaguer who probably isn’t even as good as the minor leaguer.
I guess you missed the part about not being in The top 30 for a bottom 5 minor league system.
Who cares where he’s ranked? What does that have to do with anything? I can make my own assessment, I don’t rely on someone else’s subjective rankings. (and my point was he’s probably at least as good as Jurado, not that he’s a can’t miss superstar).
exactly
Part of wisdom is abandoning a failed position. The Mets traded a promising minor league pitcher with 11 K/9 and a K/BB ratio often around 5 to 1.
Vilines’ lifetime ERA is 2.47. He’s 23 and has enormous upside. Meanwhile Jurado is a #9 starter with no upside at all, the kind of guy every competent organization has five of in their minor league system. Dealing actual talent rather than, say, 50k for a player like Jurado is inept and absurd.