The Mets announced Thursday that reliever Carl Edwards Jr. has been designated for assignment. They also confirmed the previously reported IL placement for center fielder Luis Robert Jr., who’s been diagnosed with a lumbar disc herniation. Righty Austin Warren and recently claimed corner infielder Eric Wagaman are up from Triple-A Syracuse in a pair of corresponding moves.
Edwards, 34, signed a minor league deal back in December. The longtime reliever opened the season as a starter in the Mets’ Syracuse rotation but was added to the big league bullpen earlier this month. He’s pitched well, holding opponents to one run in six innings. Edwards has punched out a whopping 44% of his opponents (11 of 25) but has also dished out four free passes already (16%).
A key member of the Cubs’ bullpen from 2016-18, Edwards has bounced around the league in the eight years since. The Mets are Edwards’ ninth club in the majors, and this year’s six innings already tie his highest single-season workload since 2023.
Edwards also had a productive two-year stint with the Nats in 2022-23, but his stops with the other seven clubs for which he’s pitched have typically been fleeting. In addition to the Cubs and Nationals, he’s suited up for the Padres, Mariners, Braves, Blue Jays, Angels and Rangers. However, Edwards hasn’t pitched more than six innings for any of those teams. Overall, he carries a career 3.51 ERA in the majors, though most of his production came during that initial run with the Cubs, when he had about three extra miles per hour on his fastball over his current 92.5 mph average velocity.
The Mets will have five days to place Edwards on waivers, release him, or trade him. He has enough service time to reject an outright assignment to the minors even if he clears waivers, so barring a minor trade for cash, he’s likely to end up a free agent. The waiver process takes 48 hours, so his DFA will be resolved in no more than seven days.
They should’ve DFA’d Manaea and/or Peterson after last night’s LOL show. Edwards gave up only 1 run over 2.2 innings, far better than the starter Peterson or the arsonist Manaea.
Where they all goin go out to eat now?!?!?!?
Carls house. Carl’s Jr’s
Man, if Edwards could have had any kind of even moderate success in the majors he could have naturally landed an endorsement deal with Carl’s Jr. oh what might have been.
Manaea is owed $25 mill next year too. Can’t cut him yet. But I say we catapult him into the sun with Peterson
Steve Cohen can afford to eat that $25M contract. Once DFA’d and released, Manaea can sign with another club for the major-league minimum and revive his career in doing so.
He signed a Bobby Bonilla type contract, they’ll be paying him 20 years from now. Amazing how generous rich people can be!
Soto: So if Manaea keeps getting lit up you think they will keep him around due to his salary? I would rather pay his salary with having no chance of getting lit up anymore vs paying him the same amount to stay and keep hurting the team.
Sounds like a brilliant idea to me but I’m a fan of a rival team that takes joy in the Mets continuing to pay so much money for losing. As they have throughout nearly all of my adult life.
He pitches better than the other pitchers yesterday, strikes out 6, and gets DFA’d. Fire David Stearns.
Has he been bad? Cardinals need some bullpen help.
Click on his name and see for yourself.
Twins need more bullpen help.
Team number 9 common down. Or cubs it’s probably gonna be the cubs
It seems everyone continues to disrespect the Muts? Let’s Go Muts! Get up and greet the Muts!
Dont be mean. Call them what they really are.
Trash. Steaming hot trash.
This guy is still pitching!!!?? Wasn’t he on the 69 Cubs???
2015 but what’s 46 years
You’re right … was the 84 team with Jodyyyyy Jodyyyyy Davis
Mets took a bite out of Carl Jr salary
Their on field performance looks like the toilet bowl the day after Carl Jr
Stearns had a bad off season.
Very bad. !
Some ball players have a bad reputation, it’s because they got caught stealing. A joke, but not really. Cora
I was expecting trash stats, but when I look at an ERA of 1.50, 6IP, 11K, 4BB
I gotta say someone should pick him up or is there something else going on here.
Small sample size but he did look better than a lot of the garbage the Mets have been throwing out there lately
Twins please claim him I’m fine letting go of Luis Garcia.
Claim him off waivers, you’re on the hook for his entire contract. Wait till he’s released and then you can sign him for the major-league minimum.
Oh lord on hook for his entire minor league contract oh no the cheap twins owners won’t be able to afford that
I don’t see any indication he is making more than the minimum now so any salary difference should be negligible.
Twins are in for sure.
They should designate the entire team for assignment
Players, coaches, batboys
Everyone
Over-hyped, Over-Rated, out of their depth without a clue…Stearns & Cohen. TweedleDum & TweedleDee.
Except for being a millionaire, how can Stearns live with himself, knowing what he’s done to our team and knowing what so many many Mets fans think of him?
dfa their only good reliever for WAGABUM 💀 oh boy. i usually laugh at the mets struggling but now they have to see that scrub hit feel bad
Wish they would designate Doo-Doo Dave for assignment.
Could Peterson be sent to AAA? Does he still have options?
Age 30 so out of options. Would have to clear waivers and be outrighted.
Technically, he has an option. But he has five years MLB service time. So he cannot be sent to the minors without his consent. If he refuses, the Mets have to either keep him, trade him, or release him and remain on the hook for his contract (minus the prorated portion of the major league minimum).
He’s going to have to go to work at Hardees to catch up on his bills.
WtfMets
Wow, he’s actually been pretty decent this season, in a small sample size. He has 11 Ks in 6 IP and a 1.50 ERA. Seems like he’s worth a flier somewhere. Bring him back, Jed!