The Mets have claimed catcher Ben Rortvedt off waivers from the Dodgers, according to a report from Anthony DiComo of MLB.com. Right-hander Dedniel Nunez was transferred to the 60-day injured list to make room for Rortvedt on the 40-man roster.
More to come.
Competition for Hayden Senger and MJ Melendez
MJ Melendez doesn’t catch anymore
2025 world champ
Great move by the Mets
They also have Austin Barnes on a minor league deal in Spring training. Neither one will be on the opening day roster unless Alvarez and Torrens get hurt. Is Rortvedt decent on defense? If so they may try to stash him in AAA.
Yes, he’s pretty good. That’s the only reason he has a MLB career.
Everyone has tried to stash him in AAA. No success yet.
Ben there, done that.
David Stearns has proven he can efficiently maximize and successfully implement a small market “less is more” baseball strategy.
But, as far as running a big market team with higher aspirations and an impatient billionaire(David Cohen) staring over his shoulder, he’s fairly unproven.
He went to the LCS in his first year and the Mets have one of the best farm systems in baseball. Mets also have the fourth best WAR prediction for 2026 by Fangraphs and have only two long term deals on the books (one of them being Lindor, which he had nothing to do with) giving them financial flexibility in the future.
It’s his third season with the Mets. Of course he’s unproven. Not sure this needs to be said on every Mets article, especially one about signing Ben Rortveldt. But he’s done a good job so far. No one will ever be happy until he wins a WS, which takes time.
“He went to the LCS”..You do make some solid points, but the Mets did just blow up their team after completely missing out on a watered down, expanded(again) MLB playoff.
I’m not sure I buy into this “best farm” stuff, because their(recent) farm has produced a couple pitchers who’ve looked decent, short term.
But, for me the “best” farms have a few(young) position players doing well in the Majors. For me, “best” is more than a projection or prediction, but it also means you have 1st & second year studs already in MLB, not just projected to be there soon.
A bit hard to figure out – trying to stash a guy in AAA if he clears waivers that will cost over $2.5 mil with the tax hit?
Maybe somebody’s interested in Torrens In trade? Then they’d save a bit over $2 mil.
NyyfaninLAA land:
I would think that Mets just don’t care about that. What is 2.5 million dollars to Steve Cohen?
Would much rather have Torrens. His defense is outstanding and he had a bit of bad luck with the bat. Almost all of his statcast numbers offensively were above average. He’s the perfect backup catcher.
Okay, so who was saying the Dodgers had a good chance of sneaking Rortvedt through waivers? Confess!
David Stearns’ long term plan of stealing all the Dodgers’ #3 catchers is working great so far.