Stunning, shocking headline, I know. We were all counting on the once-nearly-good Escobar to handle the eighth inning for the Mets, but he has suffered an out-of-the-blue setback that requires season-ending surgery. This wasn’t even going to be given the importance of a post, since we more or less wrote off Escobar the day we … Read more
My apologies for not posting this earlier, but like most of the news out of Port St. Lucie this spring, it took me a long time to understand and extract the logic.
Let’s just run through specific personnel.
Nelson Figueroa (cut) – He’s not a Cy Young candidate. He’s barely an MLB-quality 5th starter. However, he had a spectacular spring, he had a great winter campaign, he had an outstanding
Omar Minaya held firm on his minor-league offer to Kiko Calero, and came out the winner in the negotiations. Calero signed a one-year, minor league contract that will pay him $850,000 plus incentives if he makes the Major League roster. According to the The New York Times: Calero was so eager to join the Mets … Read more
Good news, Mets fans: Jose Reyes is NOT pregnant. Steve Popper was the first to report that news on Twitter early yesterday, and further blood work evaluated last night confirms it. Whew! That would have been a major issue for the Mets, who already are without Carlos Beltran for the first few months of the … Read more
According to various reports, the Mets are interested in LOOGY Joe Beimel, but not for the $2M he wants. Further, the team is also looking into Kiko Calero, but he prefers an MLB contract rather than the minor league deal the Mets want to offer. Without question, Beimel is the best lefthanded specialist available on … Read more
The Florida Marlins have signed Kiko Calero and Jason Standridge to minor league contracts, and invited both to spring training. Calero, most recently of the Athletics, is a guy I’ve always been high on and would have liked to have seen the Mets take a gamble on. At one time he was a lights-out setup … Read more
Baseball America has listed the 561 minor leaguers who filed for free agency on November 6th. This list will take a while to sift through, but on first glance, I’m intrigued by: Flamethrower Jose Capellan; Free-swinging, AAAA outfielder John-Ford Griffin, though he bats left and has no use for the Mets; Onetime Met Jason Anderson, … Read more
