The Mets announced the signing of free agent lefty Jake Diekman to a one-year contract. The veteran reliever, a client of the Beverly Hills Sports Council, is reportedly guaranteed $4MM. There’s a matching club option for the 2025 season, which Diekman would vest if he appears in 58 games this year.
Diekman, 37, is a veteran of 12 major league seasons. The Mets would be the southpaw’s ninth club. He’s never had even average command of the strike zone (career 13.3% walk rate), but he’s a power-armed lefty who misses bats in droves and has managed to overcome his penchant for walks more often than not.
The 2023 season was an uneven one for Diekman, who opened the year with an ugly 11 1/3 innings in the White Sox bullpen before (like so many pitchers before him) making a 180-degree turnaround upon signing with the Rays. Diekman was rocked for 10 runs on 11 hits and 13 walks with the ChiSox but gave the Rays 45 1/3 frames of 2.18 ERA ball with a 28.6% strikeout rate and 13.5% walk rate. He averaged 95.7 mph on his heater during his time with Tampa Bay — right in line with the 95.6 mph he averaged over the seven seasons prior.
While Diekman has had some rough seasons interspersed throughout his mostly solid career, he’s never posted an ERA of 5.00 or higher and has kept his earned run average south of 4.00 in eight of his dozen MLB campaigns. On the whole, he sports a lifetime 3.82 ERA in 570 1/3 MLB innings, including a 3.67 ERA over the past four years.
Tampa Bay changed up his pitch usage a bit, as Diekman threw his changeup at a career-high 15.8% clip as a Ray. He’d previously never thrown the pitch at more than a 7% clip in any full season. In fact, Diekman entered the season with just 149 total changeups thrown in his career … before throwing 137 of them in 2023 alone. The results were strong: opponents batted just .176/.222/.294 in the 36 plate appearances that Diekman finished off with a changeup. His slider and four-seamer remained effective as ever; opponents hit just .161 and .175 while slugging .290 and .228 against that pair of offerings, respectively.
Lack of command has been the primary flaw holding Diekman back from standing as one of the game’s elite lefties. At age 37, that’s unlikely to change. But even with a bloated walk rate, the quality of Diekman’s pitches should continue to produce plenty of whiffs and a deluge of weak contact. Opponents have averaged a below-average 87.8 mph off the bat against him in his MLB career and hit just 33.6% of batted balls at 95 mph or greater. In 2023, opponents mustered a pitiful 84.6 mph average exit velocity and similarly feeble 26.4% hard-hit rate against him.
The Mets signed a quartet of free agent relievers to major league contracts before talks with Diekman gained traction, adding Jorge Lopez, Michael Tonkin, Austin Adams and, most recently, Adam Ottavino on one-year deals. That group figures to join returning veterans Edwin Diaz, Brooks Raley and Drew Smith in a revamped Mets bullpen.
One thing the Mets lack in the bullpen, following that slate of veteran additions, is flexibility. None of Diaz, Raley, Smith, Ottavino, Diekman, Lopez, Tonkin or Adams can be optioned to the minors, nor can Sean Reid-Foley or Phil Bickford. That sets the stage for the Mets to further shake up the relief mix, either by designating someone like Reid-Foley or Bickford for assignment or perhaps finding a trade partner for one or both of those holdovers.
The Mets are already in the highest tier of luxury taxation and are entering their third straight season exceeding the tax threshold. As such, every dollar they spend at this stage of the offseason is taxed at a 110% rate. Effectively, they’ll pay just over double whatever Diekman’s salary is in order to add him to the bullpen for the upcoming season. The Mets had a projected $309MM payroll and $322MM of luxury obligations even without Diekman, per Roster Resource. Both numbers jump even further north by $4MM.
Will Sammon and Ken Rosenthal of the Athletic first reported the Mets and Diekman were nearing an agreement. SNY’s Andy Martino reported the Mets had offered a one-year deal with a vesting option at around $4-5MM annually. Martino confirmed the sides had an agreement. MLB.com’s Anthony DiComo reported the $4MM guarantee, while Joel Sherman of the New York Post reported the $4MM option that vested with 58 appearances.
Mets have quietly been building a strong veteran bullpen. Could be helpful if they lose down the stretch and want to acquire prospects at the deadline.
Really? They have a lot of depth, but I don’t see it as a “strong” bullpen. It’s pretty mediocre ahead of Diaz.
Diekman can still be valuable but he can’t be overworked like he was in his brief time in Boston.
Oh for sure. This is a solid acquisition. But the Mets’ pen as a whole is pretty middling (sans Diaz). And that is problematic given that their rotation is pretty lackluster.
It’s insulting to call Raley and ottavino middling. Raley was super good last year and ottavino was great value the last 2 years
@ DannyDimes2023
No one said Ottavino and Raley were individually mediocre, but the bullpen as a whole ahead of Diaz certainly is.
Well they are the bullpen ahead of Diaz.
Raley and Ottavino are very capable setup men, and as for the rest… middle-relief arms are lottery tickets. The Mets have a lot of them now, so they only need a few to hit to have a solid pen.
This. Bullpens fluctuate so much year to year. The Mets pen doesn’t look great, but if 1 or 2 arms overperform, with got Diaz closing it out, it’s not a stretch to say this bullpen can be really strong.
How are Raley or ottavino mediocre though?
Raley is solid. but Ottavino crashes in high leverage situations. Thats what makes this signing good: the Mets now have a situational lefty for use in the middle innings. That leaves Raley available for the 8th, and keeps Otto in the 7th where he belongs. Last year, the Mets had to use Raley, the only lefty, in the middle innings at times, and Otto struggled as the 8th inning set-up guy.
A 2.44 and 2.14 K/W are mediocre. I wouldn’t be expecting much above a league-average ERA going forward.
I wouldn’t say Brooks Raley is mediocre. I think he’s quietly turning himself into an above average lefty reliever based off the last 2 years.
Better than last year
Yawn …. No reason to pay attention to the Mets until they move on from their Frankie Lindor mistake …. The nightmare continues until 2031 …..
Not sure how lindor is a mistake in any way.
@Very Barry: Then don’t. Fair-weather fans like you are a dime a dozen.
You won’t be missed.
Mets still have plenty of problems, but Lindor isn’t one.
pretty good bet we see his best Mets days still to come
The Mets have whiffed on plenty of free agents, Lindor has not been one of them.
Since 2015 he’s only behind Trout and Betts in fWAR; perennially top 5 SS both offensively and defensively and on track for HOF career but yeah I guess whatever
Yeah, I hate when my shortstop hits 31 homers and steals 31 bases with 98 RBI and 108 runs. Terrible.
and you have to read “ terrible “ in your best Charles Barkley voice…
@Very Barry It’s incredible, the ignorance of the average fan.
As of Cohen buying the team in October 2020 the Mets had a very good, affordable nucleus, one of the best in the majors, but were looking at big, impending turnover, key players reaching their arb years, and issues such as their ace deGrom’s opt out coming after two more seasons.
They were well off in terms of cheap talent at SS, it should have been close to last on their TO DO list, but what did novice owner Cohen playing GM decide to do? He chose to trade an obvious budding star in Gimenez, who has been more valuable since he was traded per PA or inning played than Lindor, and overall has put up 90% of Lindor’s value, but for 800k a year vs. the $34.1 million a year the Mets committed to for an entire decade after bidding against themselves.
Cohen’s big ‘splash.’
And the average fan goes ‘huh, I don’t see an issue here’ even despite the above, and even though we’re seeing a largely wasted peak from Lindor with the Mets obliged to carry him for another 8 years and another $280 million.
Is having Lindor bad? Not in a vacuum, no, but player acquisition never occurs in a vacuum. In the context of paying 40x what Giminez cost for very similar performance, when the team had huge holes opening up all over the roster that, as we saw, even Cohen’s wallet couldn’t address, yes. Of course it was a horrible move. More than a few of us said so at the time.
Avg Fan: “Duh, I don’t see a problem here.”
It’s unbelievable, really.
@JackStrawb
I felt the same way when the Mets made the trade and extended Lindor. So far, it turns out we were right, but to be fair Gimenez could have been a flop. Also, Lindor has performed well and could wind up a major part of a Mets championship (I hope).
Facts!
Gimenez is trending upward offensively, but there’s a long way between where he’s at and “similar performance” to Lindor. And that’s where the volatility of WAR defense stats can lead to weird conclusions.
Take Lindor’s bat (120 OPS+) out of the 2023 Mets lineup and replace it with Gimenez’ pedestrian (98 OPS+) stats and the result would have probably projected as a high 60s W team. Even more of a disaster.
If you want to go another direction, the Mets letting DeGrom walk was a solid decision and might have paid off had they not turned around and promptly sunk that savings into two 40+ year old pitchers. But, at this point, Cohen doesn’t see money as an issue any more than paying a bridge toll to get to the stadium.
He was the ninth best player in all of baseball last year. What are you talking about?
The Mets have been quietly building an old (when it’s not merely over-the-hill) bullpen out of antiques who once had a little shine, castoffs, and career failures.
No one they brought on board this offseason is actually good (Diekman projects to negative 0.1 fWAR acc to ZIPs, while Ottavino warrants +0.2; Austin Adams? negative 0.5 fWAR). No one in their bullpen will bring back more at the Deadline than some authentic contender’s #28 prospect, a 20 year old corner OFer who debuted in the Dominican Rookie League with a .602 OPS.
Matt Moore I thought would have been a good signing but maybe he didn’t want NY pressure and East Coast prefer West Coast etc.He could start and relieve. I am a NYM I can’t really blame him. Sounds like Jake may have similar feelings and is trying to find another team for similar $.
I was hoping they would have signed Moore last offseason. But his starting days are pretty long gone
Excellent move by Stearns. Now get a bat with pop and they are a WC contender. Well- until things go wrong of course.
They almost always do go wrong
That they do man. That they do.
If you think the 2024 Mets are a World Series contender; then I think you should really review the other teams around the league. The 2024 Mets won’t even break .500 this year
WC isn’t WS
If you’re in the dance you’re a WS contender.
horace – Tell that to the Rays, who haven’t won a legit postseason series since 2008 …. and they’ve made the postseason 7 times since then.
These are the elite opinions I’m here for
@FPG
They made it to the postseason in 2020 and then proceeded to win a pennant. That’s 3 series wins just to get to the WS.
87 wins, and either a WC, or a near miss. Yes, I’m optimistic, but the season hasn’t started yet. Let’s wait and see.
Given the starting rotation, I am going to say 82/83ish wins.
87 seems difficult with that rotation and in that tough division. I agree about the WC though.
WC teams with no expectations are the best chance to go to the WS anyway. The power house teams almost never get there
Difficult, yes. I’m not doing calculations to come up with that, it’s just a gut feeling, combined with optimism. But I expect a McNeil bounce back, combined with Baty moving towards original talent evaluations, a notch up from Alvarez, another solid Lindor season, Alonso being Alonso, plus the improved OF defense to help the pitching.
The pitching is a question mark overall. That’s why I think Stearns is focusing so much on BP talent, so he has a lot of options that potentially could rise to the occasion. The season will prove itself, and I still have hopes.
As a Mets fan, I’d be impressed if they can pull off 70 wins. That rotation is horrible with the exception of Senga and the bullpen is a group of misfits with the exception of Diaz. The field is average and they still haven’t addressed the DH spot.
Well we’ve seen Texas, Houston, Atlanta and the Dodgers win in the last 4 years. I would describe all 4 as powerhouse teams.
True, but look who else made it to the last 4 World Series: Arizona, Philly, Astros, and the Rays. Of the losers, only the Astros were a powerhouse. There’s a chance! And if the AL powerhouses get knocked out early too, like the last time the Mets got there (sigh, only to fail that time), then the chances are even better.
Anyway, I’m not expecting a WS appearance, only hoping for a WC, and with that, a first round win. That would be a good season.
I’ll wait and see. 🙂
Agreed and I worry about Senga in year 2. There is a book on him now and hitters can lay off that forkball. Severino scares me and Quintana is a question mark. Lopez Fujinami can throw hard but have no idea where it’s going. Listening to Ottaviano talk you’d think he’s Mariano Rivera. And then there is that gaping holes at DH and 3rd.
There’s nothing really to worry about because I don’t expect anything. . The Mets aren’t contending this year. And this rotation would not win in the playoffs even of they did make it.
This is all a “pre-build” Between expiring contracts and dead money, they will be $65 mil under the CBT for ’25. And if they trade Marte, they save another $20M.
Enough money to sign Burns and Woodruff for ’25, still stay under the CBT and get a reset to avoid all of the draft/IFA penalties. They play all of the kids and prospects in ’25 and learn which ones are keepers and which are also-rans. , Then they head into ’26 knowing what they need, and able to spend as much as they want to get it – knowing that they now have a FOTR top 3 of Burns, Woodruff, and Senga, and a premium reliever in the pen around which to actually build.
Yes, Chris, there is a book on Senga now. And there’s one on every current MLB pitcher too. The batters still need to hit the ball. And Senga of course is building up his own book too. Until the hitters show that they can hit him consistently, he’s at least a #2 in a good rotation. Other than Senga, the other starters are all question marks at this point. Will Q be fully back to being a solid mid-rotation pitcher? Do we have much to hope for from Severino? We unfortunately don’t have all the same info the FO has, so we have to wait and see. Stearns is putting a BP together that perhaps can weather quite a few storms. We very well may need that.
As far as the hitting and defense goes, aside from the big question at 3B, the defense should be good. Can Baty start hitting like the upper tier prospect he was supposed to be? I hope so! Certainly there should at least be some improvement both at bat and in the field. How much, we’ll have to let that play out. For DH, I could see Vientos, Marte (maybe), Stewart, and Alvarez combining for some decent totals on the season. It isn’t likely to be the black hole it was last year. And if Vientos takes the job and runs with it, bat him behind Alonso.
Overall, I remain optimistic for 87 wins, and maybe a WC.
Sounds good. But I still think this “reset” year isn’t going to be a total loss. There is hope. I’m holding on to that, right or wrong. 87 wins, here we come!
I’m not saying Segna is going to fall apart. But he’s not going to strand 79% of runners again next year. At least I don’t see it happening. If he does or maintains something near it then he’s an ace. I’d love to see Quintana get back to being a dependable 175 plus innings guy again. If Severino can find the velo he has lost. With the exception of Diaz the pen to me looks like a collection of castoffs. Then there is the offense. If McNeil and Matte hit. If Stewart is for real. Can the kids except for Alvarez play? I bleed blue and orange but 87 wins is a lot with this squad. I’d love to see it though.
And I would love to see it too. So I wear my blue and orange (and sometimes very blue) heart on my sleeve. Marte hits better this year, or makes way for Gilbert mid-season. Is Stewart for real? There have been a few other late bloomers over the years. Maybe he’s one, maybe he’s not. We’ll know soon enough.
LGM!!!
yeah,on paper it looks bleak, but lottsa times teams come out of nowhere. We’ve seen it happen. Gotta play em’ on the field.
Maybe the 2024 Mets will break 500 next year
I’ll take it, but I both want and hope for better. I’ll stick with my gut guess of 87 and see what happens.
@ Huck 3 Appreciate the optimism, even if [I think] its blind optimism. how on earth do you see this rotation leading to 87 wins??? With the only dependable starter – Senga – having to match up with opponents’ aces much of the time?
Sooo many things would have to go right, and nothing wrong.
Sometimes things go right even when you expect they won’t, or even when they really shouldn’t. It’s a gut feeling. I try to think of reasons why it might happen, and I’ve already named some ideas, but it really comes down to my optimistic gut.
OTOH, why should a very late round draft pick only taken as a favor to a childhood friend turn out to be the best hitting MLB catcher – ever? It shouldn’t, but it did. (Doesn’t mean I’m right, but I like the analogy.)
@Benjamin101677 Probably so. Ah, the blindness of the wistful fan unable to accept the reality in front of him.
Among the Mets’ many problems is that they don’t have anything like enough good players to seriously contend, with just 5 guys returning in 2024 who put up 2 WAR or better in 2023.
The Red Sox had TEN such players and still went 78-84.
The Mets didn’t actually add even one good player for 2024—only a pack of guys they hope will make their downside less bad, guys like Houser, Severino, Manaea, whom they hope will do slightly better than Megill, Butto, Lucchesi, and the wounded Peterson, and bullpen castoffs notorious for little more than big K, ugly BB totals—Diekman’s another such, fwiw, giving up 6 BB per 9—none of whom project for an MLB average ERA, fcol.
The ancient Ottavino is returning. The ancient Diekman will chip in his 0.2 fWAR (the most optimistic of his projections) never mind his 4.41 FIP over the past three seasons and his SIERA of 4.58 for 2023.
A 37 year old who just posted his worst season since 2017. What could possibly go wrong?
The Mets will win around 90 games this year. Marte is healthy again and the young player’s performance will go up. I don’t know where this Mets have no talent fallacy is coming from. Almost every betting site has their over under around 85 wins before improving their bullpen.
@10centBeerNight You mean, March 1st?
Better to go wrong with a bunch of small deals like this than investing for top dollar deals and losing.
They’ll be a totally different team under Mendoza. Sterns will give him the roster to win 100 by next year and they’ll actually be a looser bunch than they were under the dictatorship of old man Buck.
I think they’ll be looser without expectations. It’s less about Buck and more about no pressure.
It’s less about Buck than it is having nothing like enough good players to seriously contend.
The pretense of meaningful games in early August as the team is not quite mathematically eliminated. That’s what this roster is for.
Not that you can blame Cohen, really, for much more than having dug this absurd hole thanks to playing GM and not being able to find good people to build the team his first three years.
Okay–you can blame him for a lot.
Exactly, this group tends to fold under pressure. To be fair it’s NYC and it is intense pressure.
Yeah ok a changeup that worked with Tampa Bay isn’t going to work with NY. Every game is a higher intensity environment
It isn’t Atlanta or Tampa Bay personnel magically fixing things, they play low energy games
When they get to the playoffs they’re not even remotely competitive
@Camden453
Atlanta doesn’t have competitive and intense playoff games? I guess I was imaging all those seasons and the championship they won.
Do not compare the TB environment to the ATL. Braves fans show up for their team.
Yeah ok. These Braves and Rays teams wouldn’t even win 80 games playing in NY
When you’re NY you need star players at every position to win, even on the bench and in the minor leagues
It’s not like playing in Atlanta or TB
Fans have nothing to do with it. They play low energy games on a daily basis
The Braves don’t have star players at every position?
okay boomer
@Slow day at work
Yep, I guess I’m imaging that too. They look morel like the Athletics of Oakland.
I’m a Tigers fan, but to say Atlanta wouldn’t win 80 games in NY’s environment is ludicrous. I wouldn’t be surprised if they won every game in NY with their roster versus NY’s rotation.
I think you are overthinking how stressful it is to play in NY.
Camden
Such a hot taek
Congratulations
Concerning that his K-BB% has cratered since 2021 and his overall career. Guy walks too many guys and it isn’t getting better with age.
@Old York Mets fans are notoriously generous of spirit. I’m sure they’ll take Diekman’s 6 walks per 9 with perfect equanimity.
PTWSTN
this guy is my new immaculate grid go-to
Bickford took them to arbitration—he should probably be the one let go
That, plus he stinks
The article lists 10 relievers who are out of options. Bullpens carry 8. That means that at least two of them will have to be removed, not one. And i Drew Smith could also make the makes the 25-man, a third will have to go, as well.
@geofft They’ll be keeping league average Drew Smith and his 4.58 FIP since 2019 at his $2.2 million salary. That’s how bad this pen is.
Yes, I imagine they will. Just trying to speak to the facts, not my opinion.
*26 Man
@ JackStrawb …. or.. we could be wrong. The Mets just signed Fujinami as well
By throwing change ups he became the deke man.
They should’ve signed Loup again even thou he had an off year last year but he’s done very well when he was here, they should give Bauer a chance sign him to a 1 year with a club option and sign Woodruff to a low 2024 deal since he can’t pitch this year but lock him up to a 2 year deal with a club option. Megill and Peterson should go in the bullpen when Peterson comes back than trade or cut the 2 worse relievers for Megill and Peterson.
I haven’t followed the Brewers much over the years to say, but I have been wondering if Stearns’ approach to the Mets is kind of like a Kim Ng approach to the Marlins: Put together a list of B/C tier players to create an A tier team (Instead of buying your way to a playoff appearance).
LOL METS AND KIM NG.
Fake Marlins’ GM gone finally
Ma’am, your caps lock is on.
Yeah, that’s how they did it.
And an “A tier team”? Oh, comrade.
The more I continue to check the site out, the more I notice that you can’t make the slightest mistake ever as a commenter here because there’s always that one guy…
By “A tier team”, I meant a team that qualifies for the playoffs. The Marlins weren’t as good as the Phillies, Rangers, etc, last season by any means, but they still made the playoffs.
Maybe I should have said “B+ tier team” or “Playoff ready team”, but I’m sure you knew what I meant.
No, I had no idea what you meant beyond what you wrote, which stated the “top” tier. You know, the “A” tier. The “best” tier.
Dodgers, Orioles, and so on.
Glad you’re not paranoid or anything, though. Just don’t cancel therapy quite yet. They may in fact be after you. Cheers,
S tier is actually the “best” tier, as you call it, but you might have already known that given how knowledgeable you are.
Dodgers, Astros, Braves, and so on.
Thanks man, I’m doing well. You should check on the classifieds soon, I’m sure this takes a lot out of you. Cheers,
Good pickup, he’s had some good years.
Meanwhile, sleepy Jed and the Cubs still don’t have a valid lefty in their pen. And they’re supposed to be a big market club!
Braves fan here, but I like what the Mets have been doing this off season. I wouldn’t be surprised if they surpass the Fish and compete with the Phillies and my team for the division.
Their SP is good enough with a solid bullpen and a balanced offense. If their defense and baserunning is like it was in ’22, they could be one of those pesky teams that annoy the hell out of you because they just won’t go away.
They could also implode, in which case they have some really good assets to trade at the deadline, including Pete Alonso
Anyone sign Brasier yet???
The Mets may have been deked by Diekman.
I will be here for the pitchfork & torches mob going after Stearns when he moves the polar bear at the deadline or lets him walk in FA.
And when he resigns with the Mets for 8/200 and inevitably becomes Chris Davis 2.0, you’ll be there with pitchfork and torches too
Lol, you don’t follow baseball, do you, slow person?
@Ella B only been following since 1991, so maybe not as long as you or others.
If you take Chris Davis from 2013-2017 you’d be amazed at how similar he was to Pete Alonso from 2019-2023
Of course, Alonso is younger and I don’t think he was peaked, but his defense is the same, ISO, OPS+, all the same even WAR is on a similar trajectory.
Chris Davis only had 1 good season after he signed his contract, I think Alonso will have 3. But then, he will be just like Chris Davis.
Man was this dude atrocious with the White Sox. They bring out the worst in everybody, fans and players alike!
They would be contenders immediately this year if they just did the right thing and manned up and signed Trevor for the rotation
“Manned up” – It looks like I may not be the only alpha in the world, after all!
Yeah, the Mets are just one good 33 year old pitcher away but aren’t smart enough to realize it.
Didn’t Tonkin and Adam’s both sign split contracts?
With most pitchers, and ESPECIALLY relief pitchers it’s all about their pitch selection and how often they use their best pitches.
The Rays and the Braves are excellent at just simply making a relief pitcher throw their best pitches more often, and having success revitalizing their careers.
It isn’t quite all THAT simple. It is also just as important for that pitcher to know how to set up hitters and how to best pitch off of their best pitches, but that’s always where an experienced game caller can make a huge impact as well.
These teams will sometimes go to a bit more extremes with some of their pitchers, like Matt Wisler or Dylan Lee. As a starter, Wisler had a pretty flat fastball and he’d often struggle commanding his arsenal of pitches, but he always had an excellent slider. Now, knowing that information, the Rays took the former failed starter and asked him to almost exclusively throw his slider. Wisler’s slider had been an extremely well graded out and effective pitch, even while he struggled as a starter. Then, exclusively throwing his slider, Wisler suddenly had a career resurgence. Unfortunately, that success didn’t last very long for Wisler, but the Rays were able to get several productive relief outings out of someone that otherwise would sat in AAA as most team’s 8th or 9th SP option.
It wasn’t quite to the same extremes as Wisler, but the Braves were able to turn Dylan Lee into an extremely productive relief arm doing something fairly similar.
Whether it is pitch selection or teaching new grips (spike curve for the Braves), these teams are going to continue finding gems and finding success each and every season. The Braves and the Rays just are not afraid to consistently trust their scouts, use new tech to their advantage, make changes, and potentially fail. Their consistent success allows players to trust them when they suggest making any changes, and as a result, both franchises have successfully revitalized the careers of countless players, and neither team is slowing down anytime soon.
And … How’s War And Peace 2.o going?
Are the Mets any closer today?
Would not be surprised to see Stearns now pull off a trade to clear spots. Think Drew Smith. If he could find a taker for Narvaez it would be a feat. Maybe some club has their C slip on a banana peel and has a need
Of course he got better when left the White Sox lol
Tampa fixed him and now he got a deal good on him.
Tampa can take a double amputee and develop them to throw 100 with their foot
With the addition of Diekman and Shintaro Fujinami today, who becomes the odd man out?
A few people. The Mets are now at 42, including 16 relievers. Ten or eleven of those relievers are out of options. So at least two people have to be cut quickly to get down to 4, and two more will wind up getting cut at the end of spring, unless there are injuries. That will still leave four extra, and exactly four who actually have options. That includes Drew Smith. Footnote on Smith: he was on pace to reach free agency at the end of the year. if he spends more than 34 days in the minors, his FA gets pushed off another season.
I believe the mets will sign Snell next.
Cool, but that seems unlikely. I’ll take it if they do!
Geez. Who owns the mets? They spend crazy money
Why would you ask this very Googleable thing?
Rick Moranis.
The honey I shrunk the kids royalties are nearly limitless.
Look at Diekman commanding Peralta money. Yankees brass are smelling farts & polishing turds.
Can you believe, they told me there is no YELLING in baseball?!?!? I didn’t buy it.
He still plays for Milwaukee, right?
Diekman struggles in 2024. Mets waive him. Rays claim him. Pay him the pro rated minimum. Diekman shines again!
All they need is to bring back Daniel vogelbach back and we really can compete with the nationals for last place.