The Mets released right-handers Adrian Houser and Ty Adcock this afternoon. Houser’s release was first reported by Will Sammon of the Athletic (on X), while MLB.com’s Anthony DiComo tweeted the Adcock news.
New York had designated both pitchers for assignment. Houser lost his roster spot last Friday. New York kept him in DFA limbo in an apparent hope of finding a trade partner before yesterday’s deadline. That obviously didn’t transpire, so they had no choice but to put him on waivers. Houser has more than five years of service time and would’ve retained his entire salary if he declined an assignment to Triple-A. The Mets therefore opted for a release instead.
Houser landed in Queens in an offseason trade with Milwaukee that also brought in outfielder Tyrone Taylor. First-year baseball operations president David Stearns was plenty familiar with both players from his time running the Brewers. While Taylor has been a decent fourth outfielder, Houser struggled. He pitched his way out of the rotation by allowing nearly a run per inning over seven starts.
The 31-year-old has fared better in a long relief capacity. Houser carries a 3.28 ERA in 35 2/3 frames out of the bullpen spanning 16 appearances. He hasn’t missed bats in either role (12.5% strikeout rate as a starter, 16.8% in relief), but he has managed a hefty 53.2% ground-ball percentage out of the bullpen.
That wasn’t enough for another team to line up with the Mets on a trade. It’s not likely to convince a club to take the approximate $1.63MM remaining on Houser’s $5MM+ salary off release waivers. Once he gets to free agency, another team could sign him for the prorated portion of the $740K minimum. Houser should at least get minor league offers and may find a club willing to plug him directly onto the MLB staff — likely in a relief role — for the stretch run. He’ll be a free agent again at the start of the offseason.
New York designated Adcock for assignment yesterday as the corresponding move for the Tyler Zuber acquisition. The Mets had claimed the Elon product from the Tigers in May. Adcock made three appearances, surrendering seven runs in 4 1/3 innings.
I don’t understand why some SP rentals with 4+ ERA’s get nice prospect returns in a trade but Mets couldn’t get anything for a Houser or even a Lucchesi?
houser has 5.84
5.8 so/9 4.2 bb/9
negative 1 war
luchessi has a 10.80 era in 1 apperance
4.66 in AAA with 6.9 s0/9 and 4 bb/9
Lucchesi’s lifetime MLB ERA is 4.14. Over 9 starts in 2023 it was 2.89.
Houser sucked as a SP for sure; but was solid as a RP (3.28 ERA).
Nothing back for either of them?
Trevor Rogers’ ERA is 4.53. He sucks.
Lucchesi has lost velocity and now sits at 89-91, topping out at just 92. He’s been getting terrible results in AAA over the last two months. He’s not in a position to help anyone right now.
revpar35, rogers era is just about league average, actaully his FIP is league average. luchessi sitting at 89-91 as geofft said, and your original comment was houser being a SP rental, he wont get anything as a reliever. housers WAR of -1.0 is a big difference compared to rogers positive 1.5
In Houser’s case it might be the fact that he’s surrendered only two fewer walks than last season–in 41 fewer innings…
Lucchesi is still in the system. He accepted his assignment to keep the check.
Lucchesi has low velo, does not strike out much players and does not have good expected metrics, so he’s hardly an attractive trade piece. Teams would just chose their own internal options.
The type of rentals dealt at the deadline typically have something that teams could dream on.
pls dont puke on me
Go back to Milwaukee. Can’t be worse than Montas and or Civale
Exactly!
Houser has actually looked pretty solid in the 2-man long relief role alongside Buttó.
Was surprised to see him let go for nothing.
Or Joe Ross
Hauser might actually be an upgrade for the Tiger’s pen.
Houser will be working by the weekend in MLB first man out of the pen.
Howdy stranger, this is Houser
Come on back to MKE.
Ty Adcock = Cocky Tad
It’s about time.
Please not back to MKE! Seen enough.
Pretty much the fate you’d expect from a post-30 pitcher lacking anything resembling stuff.
Some odd names in the current iteration of the Mets bullpen. That they’ve been able to turn Danny Young (14 MLB innings through age 30) into a K beast is impressive. Or Butto being a wrecking ball out of the pen. Maton and Alex Young… getting Stanek and Brazoban at the deadline… the only names you’d have expected to still be there are Diaz and Ottavino.