The Mets are in agreement on a contract with veteran right-hander Mike Baumann, according to Jon Heyman of the New York Post. The 30-year-old spent the 2025 season with the Tokyo Yakult Swallows of Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball.
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Lol what
Forever Swallow.
That’s what she said.
There will be riots in Massapequa over this decent depth move
Connetquot will never be the same
Nor will Quogue
How about Speonk?
Vinny on the car phone in Ronkonkoma about to drive off the Wantagh Parkway into a stone bridge.
Not gonna lie these are funny, but not all of us LI Mets fans are crazy. That being said, I looked at his stats and woof, I don’t understand this signing at all. Didn’t look good in MLB and didn’t wow in Japan. Meanwhile, we need at least one more proven setup man.
@NMK: Agreed, but this is a minor league deal. He’ll probably throw 10-15 innings of low leverage relief for the Mets as they rotate relievers in and out of Syracuse. It’s virtually meaningless.
Is it though? Post doesn’t specify.
Lake Ronkonkoma is much closer.
A Christmas Miracle! We finally snagged him!
A 4.50 ERA in Japan and a 4.59 ERA for his career with marginal k/9IP stats. Can’t wait for the next GM already
Threw an AA no-no though
It’s a minor league deal. You’d be the same clown complaining there’s no depth in triple A.
I heard Stearns favorite movie is “How to lose a fan base in 10 moves”
If anyone is losing their allegiance to the Mets off of the signing of Mike Baumann, then adios. You weren’t a fan to begin with.
BoylingPoint: I heard you’re a troll. Thanks for confirming it.
Going all in this season.
Lets keep these moves going all day. I guess Christmas came early! I’M NOT STUPID. I’M SMARTER THAN YOU.
Ok, it looks like the pitcher’s gotten everyone a little too excited.
What a JOKE!
The Cincinnati Mets making moves!
The reds were good at pitching in 2025. This move is more like a Nationals pitching move. Cheap warm body type.
You mean a Dodgers pitching move?
You know, the two-time World Series winners
There’s the David Stearns we know
Can’t get enough of the comments about a triple A depth signing
Meanwhile the Marlins signed a quality reliever like Fairbanks for what is currently a bargain 13M. What is Stearns thinking?
The David Stearns show. Marlins got Fairbanks Mets get waiver trash. Not spending a dollar to see a game for a while.
“Pop had Genco. Look what I got.”
Pop had Jocko…look what I got.
Another Stearns lightning in a bottle hopeful.
“Veteran playing in Japan” says it all. His time has passed.
5.1 walks per 9 in Japan doesn’t inspire much confidence. I mean I want him to succeed as a player, don’t get me wrong but he doesn’t seem to be one of the dudes who goes overseas and found himself.
Wow. Looks like we are a lock for the championship. lol
He was decent for orioles one year picking up 10 ish wins by keeping them in games (not blowing saves that I recall as he was a mid game reliver)
He throws hard but his fastball gets hit hard. Has a good knuckle curve but not much in the way of command.
He’s a reclamation project for sure. Was a top 10 O’s prospect for a number of years. (System was fairly weak at the time)
Yep, 2023. When Ben McDonald called him “the vulture” for feasting on those wins other pitchers left laying in the sun
Wrong Japanese pitcher dude
And the marlins sign Pete Fairbanks. Sterns is really screwing this off season up
I guess Mr stearns is not that smart. Maybe
Love the apple butter.
Wow. It’s a depth signing. This is likely a MiL deal.
All teams sign a bundle of lightning in a bottle MiL depth guys. Too much ado about nothing here.
I get it but right now we need starting MLB pitchers and an outfielder that can hit. Look at the depth chart we have zero MLB ready players. Cant field a team by bringing every minor leaguer up at same time that’s just doing a disservice to those players. Stearns wants to go a different route that’s fine but have to replace what we lost and signing all these minor leaguers with invite to camp is recipe for another disaster like 25.
We do. It’s not like free agents are flying off the boards. Does it mean they will sign any of them. Not necessarily.
But this is no relation to that.
Bellinger, Framber, Ranger, Bregman, Tucker, Okamoto, Imai, Eugenio, etc…still out there.
Personally, I’d rather wait for next year on Skubal, Peralta and go light this year and see how the kids develop.
Okamoto, Bassett or Giolito, Hays or trade for an outfielder would likely make the team solid.
If by solid you mean a team that finishes 78-84, then I agree, very solid.
@rjtfd: “I get it but right now we need starting MLB pitchers and an outfielder that can hit”
The signing of Mike Baumann to a minor league deal has literally zero bearing on these theoretical moves.
This guy holds the record for most MLB teams pitched for in one year, with 5 in 2023
Meh
Be still my beating heart. Everybody is waiting for that big Mets free agent signing to pacify the rumbling and grumbling fanbase. Somehow I don’t think this is it.
Split contract right???
Please tell me this isn’t a major league deal.
That’s what I was looking for. MLBTR post isn’t clear about that.
Rotowire is calling it a minor league deal.
rotowire.com/baseball/headlines/mike-baumann-news-…
If this is accurate, then everything is fine. If it’s a major league deal, Stearns is already sampling the eggnog.
O’s fan here. He sucks. That is all.
Angels line up
Trout. Schanuel, zeto, Adell, ohoppe, moore, Grissom, campanero, rada
Kikuchi, Soriano, deitmers, Dana, Rodriguez, manoah,
Closer ramano
Championship caliber team.
Angels 4 runs, opponent 3 runs. All year
Watch Moore break out