The Mets made several roster moves today, as relayed by Tim Healey of Newsday. The club has activated right-hander Trevor Gott, whom they acquired from the Mariners in a trade yesterday, and selected the contract of outfielder DJ Stewart. To clear active roster space, they optioned right-hander Jeff Brigham and infielder Danny Mendick. To create a 40-man spot for Stewart, righty Denyi Reyes was designated for assignment.
Stewart, 29, spent the previous five seasons with the Orioles, mostly as a part-time player. He got into 195 games, hitting 26 home runs and walking in 13.2% of his plate appearances, though also striking out at a 26.8% rate. His overall .213/.327/.400 batting line in that time amounted to a wRC+ of 99, indicating he was just a hair below average. But since he was considered a poor defender in the outfield corners, that offense wasn’t enough to hold his roster spot.
He was outrighted by the O’s last year and later reached free agency, signing a minor league deal with the Mets. He’s been faring well in Triple-A Syracuse here in 2023, hitting 16 home runs so far and producing a .229/.362/.516 line for a 115 wRC+. The Mets will see if he can carry any of that production up with him to the big leagues. He still has an option and can be sent back down to the minors without being exposed to waivers.
In order to get Stewart onto the roster, the Mets have nudged Reyes off of it. He made his major league debut with the Orioles last year, tossing 7 2/3 innings with a 2.35 ERA in that small sample. He spent most of the year in Triple-A, posting a 7.17 ERA in 54 innings at that level. Like Stewart, he was outrighted off the Baltimore roster last year and signed a minor league deal with the Mets as a free agent.
Here in 2023, he was added to the club’s roster in the first week of the season but was later optioned with the club hoping to stretch him out for extra rotation depth. That plan hasn’t really worked out as Reyes has a 6.97 ERA in Triple-A this year, tossing 41 1/3 innings. The Mets will now have one week to trade Reyes or pass him through waivers. Despite his struggles this year, he still has an option remaining and is only 26 years old.
Bonk!
Hysterical that as soon as I saw DJ’s name… I thought about a ball bonking off his head.
Pretty smoking wife, though. Plus she’s a nurse. Gotta love that.
He’ll be DFA in about 12 hrs
Great for DJ!!!!
I’m still feeling sorry for Chris Flexen. DFA’d by the Mariners. Traded to the Mets. DFA’d by the Mets.
I feel the same way about Flexen, thought he was going to get another chance, but as they say, baseball is a business.
The Flexen double DFA screams LOLmets.
Woulda been a bigger lol if they kept him
Ya Gotta Believe!
From 50 years ago it worked
Why do the Mets think that Orioles re-treads are going to help them? Buck is living in the past. Tommy Hunter, DJ Stewart, Denyi Reyes (though to be fair, he is a decent pitcher – only had one bad outing), Chance Sisco… O’s rebuild scraps keep ending up in the Mets system. It’s like Buck didn’t learn.
Next up Zack Britton?
At this pace, go back even farther and Danny Tartabull wouldn’t hurt.
Might as well bring Bobby Bo back too from the Orioles Alumni. He’s already getting paid, so it won’t cost the Mets anything more than they are already paying.
And Bobby Bo can tell the team about how to win championships as he flashes his ring from 1997.
Muckenhirn, TJ macfarland, Jimmy Yacabonis…..Buck loves guys he’s familiar with.
Stewart might be a decent power option off the bench. Despite a .229 average at Triple-A, he has a .362 OBP and .516 sugging. Not bad. Though let’s be real, he’ll probably get 7 at-bats, one hit and be sent away forever.
What’s appalling about Brigham is the Mets actually TRADED for that waste of roster space. OOF. And they kept him around long enough to make 32 relief appearances. Double oof.
Reyes is no major loss.
The minor trade they pulled that got Brigham was about Elieser Hernandez. And they traded little of value for both of them. I wouldn’t lose to much sleep over it.
While I actually like Stewart, I don’t see how he gets a call up over Vientos. Personally I’d rather just get rid of Vogelbach and have Stewart be the lefty DH
Vientos is a righty, Stewart is a lefty. I’m assuming that Vogelbach won’t be around very much longer.
God,I hope you’re right!!!!
DJ Stewart shouldn’t be kicking any ML’er off the roster. You’ll see how much of a bum he is quickly.
I don’t doubt that. But regardless, Vogelbach has to go
Brigham sent down after an atrocious move to high leverage situations. I remember someone saying he was one of the most reliable and best relievers on the team. Lasted what 2 weeks in something other than mop up duty. Think someone needs to go to the eye doctor.
I understand why they didnt bring up Vientos / Mauricio as they want them to play everyday and there really is no spot they can be everyday position and dh has a mix between voggy, pham, and canha. Not ideal if they are struggling with the bat as well at the MLB level to give them random days at dh. Personally i think Alonso should dh a little more and maybe give his wrist a bit more of a rest as he came back a lot sooner than expected. He did well on his only dh game the other day and other than that has had one good game since coming back.
I’m not a Met fan, of I never see Jeff Brigham again, it will be too soon
I think Marlins and Mets fans share this in common.
Well you may wanna see him pitching against your team because he’s not gonna get anyone out
Waste of time bringing a contact challenged hitter to the bigs
Mets have won 4 in a row. Is it safe for @CANOsucks to come back to show his loyal, dedicated fandom for the Mets? Or do the Mets need to win more?