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Mets Select Akeem Bostick

By Anthony Franco | July 28, 2021 at 4:42pm CDT

4:42 pm: New York has officially selected Bostick and designated Eickhoff for assignment to open active and 40-man roster space.

3:39 pm: The Mets are planning to select the contract of right-hander Akeem Bostick prior to this evening’s game against the Braves, reports Anthony DiComo of MLB.com (Twitter link). The 26-year-old will be making his major league debut if he gets into a game.

Bostick was a second-round pick of the Rangers back in 2013. The Astros acquired him in January 2015, and he spent the next few seasons in the Houston farm system. Bostick never made the majors with the Astros, though, and was let go in 2019. He signed with the Cardinals but didn’t make an official appearance with the St. Louis organization because of last year’s cancelled minor league season.

New York signed Bostick to a minor league deal in May. He’s spent the year with Triple-A Syracuse, tossing 37 2/3 innings of 6.21 ERA ball across ten appearances (eight starts). Bostick’s peripherals aren’t much better, as he’s struck out a below average 16.8% of batters faced while walking an elevated 13.3% of opponents.

It hasn’t been a banner season for Bostick, but he is at least stretched out. He’s worked up to five innings in a few starts for Syracuse. With the Mets pitching staff hit hard by injuries, New York has tried to patch things together on the mound in recent days. Jerad Eickhoff was re-signed to start last night’s ballgame but didn’t fare well, allowing ten runs in 3 1/3 innings.

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57 Comments

  1. TradeAcuna

    4 years ago

    Trae turner or bust!

    Reply
    • birdsfan415

      4 years ago

      trea**

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      • Ya'll a bunch of salty crybabies

        4 years ago

        Trea**

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    • Lloyd Emerson

      4 years ago

      Tray?

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      • DanzigInTheDark

        4 years ago

        Trés

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  2. davidk1979

    4 years ago

    Hopefully he doesn’t get in the game today or tomorrow unless the Mets are blowing out the Braves.

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  3. bhambrave

    4 years ago

    I wish the young man well, just not against the Braves.

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    • SeeUonTheUlnarSide

      4 years ago

      As a Mets fan, I’d be happy with a close game tonight.

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  4. Ham Fighter

    4 years ago

    When you think of garbage think of akeem!

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    • Ya'll a bunch of salty crybabies

      4 years ago

      I think of the Astros, but that’s just me……

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    • Canosucks

      4 years ago

      “tossing 37 2/3 innings of 6.21 ERA ball”
      I am a Mets fan out here for 11 years living in Angel land can someone please tell me why Tropeano doesn’t get a chance over Wackoff and Bostick?

      He pitched 2 innings for us and gave up a run and pitched well for the Giants this year.

      I don’t get it at all and why is Wackoff still on the 40 man roster?!~

      Sandy Sucks Sandy Sucks Sandy Sucks that should be the chant

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      • metzfan

        4 years ago

        metzfan Sandy has been incredible this year handling all the injuries and signing the bench mob players. If you knew how baseball work you know that the guy you want just got sent down two days ago and can’t be brought back up for a certain period of time.

        Once a player is sent down to the minors, they must remain there for at least 10 days before being recalled with the exception of, if they need to return due to an injury. This is to prevent teams from bouncing one or two players up and down depending on the day of the week.

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    • joeyrocafella

      4 years ago

      Classic!

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    • busta37

      4 years ago

      Nicely done sir.

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  5. Larry David's Joe Pepitone Jersey

    4 years ago

    He can’t possibly be worse than Eickhoff….. right?

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    • davidk1979

      4 years ago

      He is

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  6. For Love of the Game

    4 years ago

    Akeem “Moonlight” Bostick. I hope you get to pitch an inning, just to tell your grandkids you really were a major league ballplayer for a day!

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    • EasternLeagueVeteran

      4 years ago

      Love the “field of dreams” reference.

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      • IHLgulls

        4 years ago

        Cracked that code, did you?

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    • metzfan

      4 years ago

      metzfan haaaaaa

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  7. joebourgeois

    4 years ago

    Yikes

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  8. extreme113

    4 years ago

    And Tropeano remains on the roster and yet they don’t use him.

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    • Canosucks

      4 years ago

      @extreme113 yes I don’t get it they send him down and pitch Wackoff last night?

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    • metzfan

      4 years ago

      metzfan He’s not on the roster

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  9. mookiesboy

    4 years ago

    other contenders add quality relievers…..

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    • Bill

      4 years ago

      He’s only here for the day, I’m sure. The Mets have plenty of quality relievers already. They pitched a shutout the other day.

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      • Bill

        4 years ago

        Oops, I thought he was going to be today’s starter. My bad. He’s still only a placeholder until Carrasco comes back on Friday.

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  10. wright1970

    4 years ago

    sweet Jesus!! Sandy and co. better get their butts in gear and acquire another legit starter….smh…..running Eickoff and Bostick out there against the Braves shows their incompetence

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    • jmzy23

      4 years ago

      It’s not incompetence, it’s lack of pitchers on the roster because they are injured. Sometimes you just got to take one on the chin and Jared did last night. Because they’ve been playing so many games and all the doubleheaders, it’s sometimes difficult.

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      • causality

        4 years ago

        If only there was a mechanism to add players to a roster. If only!

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    • metzfan

      4 years ago

      metzfan don’t be that guy. It’s not in confidence when pitcher after pitcher gets injured. the front office has done an incredible job signing as many mentally pictures as possible heat up the innings as the pitchers keep dropping like flies

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  11. Camden453

    4 years ago

    But Bostick’s last 5 starts:

    15 IP, 14 H, 15K, 5 BB, 3.00 ERA

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    • rct

      4 years ago

      I’m not sure where you’re getting this info from. Unless I’ reading this wrong, his last five starts are:

      22 IP, 21 H, 15 K, 11 BB, 4.09 ERA

      He’s got two relief appearances sandwiched in there which lower his ERA to 4.00 over 27 IP.

      Source is: baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=bos…

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      • Camden453

        4 years ago

        I meant his July numbers which is my mistake only 4 starts not 5. And I meant appearances, not necessarily starts

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  12. Canosucks

    4 years ago

    yeah 23 walks in 37 innings pitched and above 5 walks in 15 IP.
    Wachoff 2.0

    And let Tropeano sit who was a MLB starter for the Angels until injuries.

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    • Camden453

      4 years ago

      Yeah but most of that is in his first 3 starts of the season with little or no real preparation. 13 walks in his first 3 games and 10 in the next 7

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  13. hiflew

    4 years ago

    Akeem Bostick was an absolute stud in OOTP15 franchise mode. I think he ended up with like 4 Cy Young awards in my game.

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    • Ya'll a bunch of salty crybabies

      4 years ago

      You must have let the Mets front office know, hence the call-up.

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      • hiflew

        4 years ago

        I had to do my part.

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    • Larry David's Joe Pepitone Jersey

      4 years ago

      I always enjoy when random players you’ve never heard of put up big numbers in that game.

      1
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    • Camden453

      4 years ago

      A lot is based on pecota formulas in OOTP and he was also a 2nd round pick so the initial scouting numbers were probably on the higher end

      I remember Lucas Duda was not a major prospect but ended up pretty similar to his MLB career because of the pecota projections of his minor league numbers

      The existing minor leaguers are projected with pecota but I think they do their own internal scouting on draftees with no minor league stats

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      • Larry David's Joe Pepitone Jersey

        4 years ago

        Thanks for the info! I’ve never really looked into how they calculate the ratings and projections. I do remember Duda being really good in OOTP 12, which was the first version I played.

        I like it a lot, in any case. I think it does a solid job of emulating the randomness of the game, it would be boring if every prospect panned out exactly how they did in real life.

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  14. tsc32

    4 years ago

    Since the Mets are so interest in pitchers with Rangers ties lately, it only makes sense for them to offer a few quality pitching prospects for Gibson and maybe Kennedy too.

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  15. EasternLeagueVeteran

    4 years ago

    This year’s version of Franklin Kilome.

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    • MeetTheMets41

      4 years ago

      *Franklyn

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      • EasternLeagueVeteran

        4 years ago

        Thanks, Meet. Glad to know Franklyn has at least one fan looking out for him. Actually, if Mr Kilome was healthy, he might be the one selected here instead of Mr Bostick

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  16. Cohn Joppolella

    4 years ago

    It’s Bo time!

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  17. Larry David's Joe Pepitone Jersey

    4 years ago

    Did anybody else read that rumor that the Mets are trying to trade for Story and Gray? It’s from Jim Bowden, who I trust about as much as Bob Nightengale (just look up “Jim Bowden Marlon Byrd”) but it’s not the most unbelievable Mets rumor I’ve read this week

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    • Bill M

      4 years ago

      Interestingly, a notification about that trade rumor popped up on my phone and then disappeared. And now I can’t find the article on the MLB app. I wonder if Bowden is at it again

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    • rct

      4 years ago

      I saw it, too, but from the same source. Wouldn’t mind it, though they’re both rentals so I wouldn’t want the Mets to give up much for 8-10 starts of Gray and a struggling Story. Gray’s starts would be much needed but Story has been pretty bad at the plate this year and I’m not sure they need another underachieving hitter.

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  18. amk1920

    4 years ago

    This guy’s cousin blew the 2015 NFC Championship game for the Packers

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  19. SonnySteele

    4 years ago

    So Eickhoff sets the Mets record for DFAs in a single season, right?

    Probably not resume material.

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  20. Canosucks

    4 years ago

    Tyler Anderson will now head to the Mariners after failing to go the the Phillies due to their prospect failing a medical and we should feel good about Bostick and the Mets letting Anderson go effectively twice!

    Like I said in an earlier post as a long time Mets fan I can only hope Bostick gets rocked harder than Wackoff so Mets fans will wake up and see how truly inept Sandy and the bunch are.
    But their is little hope in that when fans can’t distinguish between reality and fantasy games.

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  21. BuyBuyMets

    4 years ago

    Bostick should have pitched in the Twins-Tigers game today. He might have been the best pitcher there.

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  22. MendozaNYC

    4 years ago

    Yankees get Gallo, A’s Marte, Brewers Escobar etc etc.. and who do the Mets get??? Prince Akeem??? smh now who the h… is prince Akeem?? Lol this is ridiculous smh.. give me Berrios hot dammit!! Lol incredible

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  23. Lemonade24

    4 years ago

    Nice. We all set now to take the whole NL east and NL Championship.

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    • MendozaNYC

      4 years ago

      Lol word

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