Mets minor leaguers Anthony Gose and Jon Singleton each triggered upward mobility clauses in their contracts, reports Anthony DiComo of MLB.com. That requires New York to offer them to other teams. If another club is willing to give either player a big league roster spot, the Mets would need to call them up themselves or let them head elsewhere (likely in a trade for cash).
Gose signed a minor league deal last December and was with the Mets in Spring Training. He worked six innings of one-run ball in camp. Gose has pitched 15 times for Triple-A Syracuse, pitching to a solid 3.31 earned run average over 16 1/3 frames. He has fanned a quarter of opponents but is walking more than 15% of batters faced. That’s par for the course for Gose, a former outfielder with a mid-90s fastball and scattershot command.
The Mets are stretched on left-handed relief depth after the A.J. Minter and Danny Young injuries. They called up minor league signee Génesis Cabrera to work as Carlos Mendoza’s primary southpaw. They added a second lefty last night, acquiring José Castillo in a DFA trade with the Diamondbacks. Gose has a relatively clear path to the big leagues in Queens, though they’ve already added two other depth arms to their bullpen instead of promoting him.
Singleton, a lefty-hitting first baseman, was in camp with the Astros. Houston released him at the end of Spring Training. He signed a minor league deal with New York at the beginning of April. He has appeared in 33 Triple-A games, batting .216/.358/.432 with seven home runs.
He’s hitting for power and drawing plenty of walks, but he has fanned in nearly 30% of his plate appearances. Singleton had a career-high 405 trips to the plate with Houston last year, batting .234/.321/.386 with 13 homers. With Brett Baty hitting well since being recalled two weeks ago, the Mets probably wouldn’t have room for Singleton if another team were willing to call him up.
My guess is Anthony Gose nowhere.
Hahahahaha good comeback !!!
I hear Jon doesn’t hit Singles a ton.
He has never hit much else either consistently.
Correction: hit that bong VERY consistently.
Keep Gose out of Cleveland please. That was an abusive relationship.
Someone could use Singleton as a 1-dimensional-ish off the bench/platoon power bat, but Gose doesn’t seem to be in a position to expect any team to pick him up on a major league offer..
I think the other way around. Singleton hasn’t been good enough for another team to offer him a roster spot. Gose is showing some promise, though his walk rate is still high.
Singleton belongs in triple a, can’t hit for good to stay in the majors.
Mets gave up the Gose
Nice
“Scattershot command”. The old school term was “wildly effective”.
Wild Thing!
Didn’t the Astros give Singleton a contract extension before he had even finished his rookie season?
Before he made his MLB debut lol. It was a cheap one by extension standards at 5 years/$10M. Still not a wise investment though.
Everyday lineup:
SS Lindor
1B Pete
RF Soto
3B Baty/Vientos (better glove)
DH Vientos/Baty/Winker
2B Acuna
CF Gilbert
C Torrens/Alvarez platoon
LF Mauricio
Unload Nimmo McNeil Marte Gose Singleton; bring up Gilbert Mauricio pitcher
Marte is in his final year and can be unloaded. Nimmo and McNeil are not going anywhere with what’s remaining on their contracts. Pitching is where the turnover will be as Manaea, Montas and Blackburn get healthy and ready to return next month.
@ alproof Absolutely zero basis for saying Gilbert is ready to come up, let alone start. Also little basis for him playing CF very day. His corner defense is great, and he can play some center. but not enough to play there every day. Most pundits actually project him to be a starting corner, or a 4th OF. Mauricio isn’t in every day game shape yet. He’s probably close to a month away from that. And last we saw of him, he was posting a .651 OPS and 67 OPS plus. Hardly ready for the majors, much less a starting role.