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Same Guy, Different Flag: Continuing Careers in 2015

Edgy MD Jan 12 2015 11:56 PM

Late of the Mets' third base line, Razor Shines stays in the Dodger system to take over the Tulsa Drillers. Five-game Mets infielder and unfortunate former Diamondback manager Al Pedrique is bringing new blood to the Trenton Thunder. Always with his heart on his sleeve, and still seemingly believing that he has a great track record of making winning happen, Willie Randolph is disappointed that he has not been rehired by the Yankees. Fresh off of a tour of Japan with the Rakuten Golden Eagles, Zach Lutz its jumping the Sea of Japan to join South Korea's Doosan Bears.

Edgy MD Jan 27 2015 04:14 AM Re: Same Guy, Different Flag: Continuing Careers in 2015

John Buck humbly accepts a minor league offer from the Braves. He'll probably have to learn his way around Gwinnett, but the Braves catching picture, while set, isn't that impermeable, as Christian Bethancourt still has perhaps too much dew on him and A.J. Pierzynski too little.

Edgy MD Jan 28 2015 06:02 AM Re: Same Guy, Different Flag: Continuing Careers in 2015

Rob Carson, who you may or may not remember from 2012 and 2013. Suspenderino. Doperino.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jan 28 2015 03:33 PM Re: Same Guy, Different Flag: Continuing Careers in 2015

The only thing higher than Rob Carson were the 3 dozen home runs he surrendered in his 15 innings of work with the Mets.

batmagadanleadoff Jan 28 2015 03:39 PM Re: Same Guy, Different Flag: Continuing Careers in 2015

The only thing I remember about Carson is that his appearances always reminded me of The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. [fimg=655]http://www.hwdyk.com/q/images/goodbadugly_12.jpg[/fimg]

Edgy MD Jan 28 2015 03:49 PM Re: Same Guy, Different Flag: Continuing Careers in 2015

I would've guessed Carson still had a future as a lefty specialist. But he probably had about five DFAs in his future before he learned to stay away from the wheelhouse. The Tim Byrdak career track. Now, who knows? The indy minors beckon.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jan 28 2015 08:00 PM Re: Same Guy, Different Flag: Continuing Careers in 2015

He probably shouldn't have bought the kind of PEDs that make your pitches fly faster and higher when bats hit them.

MFS62 Jan 30 2015 01:45 AM Re: Same Guy, Different Flag: Continuing Careers in 2015

Omar Minaya leaving his VP post in San Diego to become an adviser to the MLBPA. http://espn.go.com/newyork/mlb/story/_/ ... al-adviser Later

G-Fafif Jan 30 2015 01:56 AM Re: Same Guy, Different Flag: Continuing Careers in 2015

Bobby Ojeda wondering whether his fate will find its way into this thread or the Rico Brogna one. It's more confusing than trying to figure out Jerry Manuel's lineup decisions, says the former studio analyst.

Frayed Knot Jan 31 2015 03:59 PM Re: Same Guy, Different Flag: Continuing Careers in 2015

Minor league deals abound: Catcher Jesus Flores - never really a NYM but an original signee - hooks on with the Braves for a ST invite and perpetual backup SS Omar Quintanilla does similarly with the Rockies

G-Fafif Feb 04 2015 08:34 PM Re: Same Guy, Different Flag: Continuing Careers in 2015

Pedro Feliciano's left arm reportedly to accept a minor league deal with the Cubs. Pedro's heart and soul belongs Perpetually to the Mets.

G-Fafif Feb 05 2015 03:57 PM Re: Same Guy, Different Flag: Continuing Careers in 2015

Moises Alou will be special assistant for player development in the Padre system...as soon as he's off the 15-day DL.

G-Fafif Feb 10 2015 07:13 PM Re: Same Guy, Different Flag: Continuing Careers in 2015

Julio Franco: totally not a Met in retirement, but in a ballgame in Japan soon!

batmagadanleadoff Feb 11 2015 06:02 PM Re: Same Guy, Different Flag: Continuing Careers in 2015

Ike Davis was still suffering from Valley Fever as of last season. (Doesn't surprise me. I always guessed that the lingering effects of the illness were the main, if not sole cause of his on the field struggles. Excerpt: The 2014 season was supposed to be better, but a physical exam showed that he still had traces of the disease, which can linger in some patients. He hit just one homer in 24 at-bats before the Mets traded him to Pittsburgh, where he rebounded some, hitting 10 more homers in 336 at-bats. "Valley fever is a nightmare," said Davis, who turns 28 in March. "You have no energy, no nothing. It was definitely a weird one. It's supposed to go away on its own, but when I had an X-ray last year, it showed I still had it. I'm hoping that's over and done with." If he is free of the disease -- and Davis said he's feeling stronger than he has in several years -- the A's could be in position to make up for some of the many home runs they lost in the trades of Josh Donaldson and Brandon Moss over the winter. Of course, he'll need to get sufficient playing time. http://www.mercurynews.com/athletics/ci ... ounce-back

Edgy MD Feb 11 2015 06:05 PM Re: Same Guy, Different Flag: Continuing Careers in 2015

This statement is an annual event, isn't it? "I was really suffering last year, but didn't want to say so, even when asked directly. But I'm really 1000% better this year, honest."

batmagadanleadoff Feb 11 2015 06:08 PM Re: Same Guy, Different Flag: Continuing Careers in 2015

Edgy MD wrote: This statement is an annual event, isn't it? "I was really suffering last year, but didn't want to say so, even when asked directly. But I'm really 1000% better this year, honest." Could be. But I've never seen a player so good and so bad all at the same time all the time. (I guess you wait for a player to don another team's kit before criticizing him).

Edgy MD Feb 11 2015 06:14 PM Re: Same Guy, Different Flag: Continuing Careers in 2015

Wow, a parenthetical sarcastic attack! You are starting to like me!

batmagadanleadoff Feb 11 2015 06:16 PM Re: Same Guy, Different Flag: Continuing Careers in 2015

Sarcasm?

Edgy MD Feb 11 2015 06:18 PM Re: Same Guy, Different Flag: Continuing Careers in 2015

Be a mensch.

batmagadanleadoff Feb 11 2015 06:20 PM Re: Same Guy, Different Flag: Continuing Careers in 2015

I've spent too many years cultivating this schtick. I'm not gonna suddenly go out of character over Ike Davis.

Edgy MD Feb 11 2015 06:25 PM Re: Same Guy, Different Flag: Continuing Careers in 2015

Do it for me and the love we share.

Edgy MD Feb 11 2015 06:26 PM Re: Same Guy, Different Flag: Continuing Careers in 2015

Tom Seaver once borrowed my soap and didn't give it back. CRITICISM!

batmagadanleadoff Feb 11 2015 06:34 PM Re: Same Guy, Different Flag: Continuing Careers in 2015

Why did ol' Tom need to borrow your soap?

G-Fafif Feb 13 2015 06:52 PM Re: Same Guy, Different Flag: Continuing Careers in 2015

Proper assignment of Mr. Escuela's complaints belongs as in many thread as applicable. Tom Seaver: “Always take up two parking places.” Yogi Berra: “Berry, berry bad card player.” Ed Kranepool: “Borrow Chico’s soap and never give it back.” "I can't forgive him for that," lamented Spring Training invitee Nelson Briles when the furor over Chico's tell-all, Bad Stuff 'Bout The Mets, reached Butterball Field in 1979. I surely hope Nellie made his peace with the social leper Escuela before Briles died in 2005.

Frayed Knot Feb 27 2015 12:21 AM Re: Same Guy, Different Flag: Continuing Careers in 2015

Johan inks a minor league deal w/Toronto

Edgy MD Feb 27 2015 05:06 PM Re: Same Guy, Different Flag: Continuing Careers in 2015

Ike Davis still feels ill-served by the Mets. It still burns!

John Cougar Lunchbucket Feb 27 2015 05:35 PM Re: Same Guy, Different Flag: Continuing Careers in 2015

That's a Tracky story given the click-us-instead treatment by Fox. The funny thing with Ike is that the Valley Fever is never a present issue, but always a past issue. And I'm taking MetIrish's word on his closing every bar on the Upper East Side vs. his denial of the Mets admittedly slimy anonymous hit job.

Edgy MD Feb 27 2015 05:42 PM Re: Same Guy, Different Flag: Continuing Careers in 2015

Yeah. Switching to the tracktastic link. I think Ike has been the gift that keeps giving for Martino. He's always ahead of the crowd for the Daily Davis.

Frayed Knot Mar 08 2015 03:54 AM Re: Same Guy, Different Flag: Continuing Careers in 2015

Chris Young (the tall, white, pitching variety) signs a one year deal with Kansas City. Let's hope he gets some strikeouts this year of Chris Young the MFY OFer

G-Fafif Mar 19 2015 12:39 PM Re: Same Guy, Different Flag: Continuing Careers in 2015

Papi Valdy! [youtube:2yys32km]WjjibOBQzcI[/youtube:2yys32km]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Mar 19 2015 03:59 PM Re: Same Guy, Different Flag: Continuing Careers in 2015

El es El Hombre ahora.

Edgy MD Mar 19 2015 04:12 PM Re: Same Guy, Different Flag: Continuing Careers in 2015

So, that expands the roster of Mets turned rappers to Strawberry, Reyes, Valdy and the "Get Metsmerized" crew of George Foster, Darryl Strawberry (again), Dwight Gooden, Lenny Dykstra, Rafael Santana, Rick Aguilera, Kevin Mitchell, Tim Tuefel, and Howard Johnson.

Mets Guy in Michigan Apr 17 2015 02:26 PM Ex-Mets in new places

I don't think this fits in a Rico thread, since he's not in retirement. But the Detroit News has a nice story about Mud Hen -- and former Met -- Mike Hessman, still playing. [url]http://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/mlb/tigers/2015/04/17/hessman-still-hit-opening-day-toledo/25927575/ OE: Thanks for moving to the right thread!

Edgy MD Apr 20 2015 01:51 AM Re: Same Guy, Different Flag: Continuing Careers in 2015

Our old buddy Alan Dykstra serves God and man, crushing his first career homer off the screen to turn a 2-0 Yankee lead into a 3-2 deficit. Unfortunately, the rest of the Rays didn't do their part, and Yanks came out on top.

Gwreck Apr 22 2015 05:30 AM Re: Same Guy, Different Flag: Continuing Careers in 2015

Things you don't see every day: Ike Davis pitching to Colin Cowgill. (He got him to ground out).

John Cougar Lunchbucket Apr 22 2015 12:59 PM Re: Same Guy, Different Flag: Continuing Careers in 2015

1-2-3 inning for Ike. Went out and closed 3 bars afterward I hear. In the boxscore I noticed one of the Angels relievers was rookie Cam Bedrosian, son of Steve.

TransMonk Apr 28 2015 03:25 PM Re: Same Guy, Different Flag: Continuing Careers in 2015

Blue Jays place Jose Reyes on DL with cracked rib

Edgy MD Apr 28 2015 04:38 PM Re: Same Guy, Different Flag: Continuing Careers in 2015

That's what we get for letting shortstops bat!

Frayed Knot May 01 2015 01:01 PM Re: Same Guy, Different Flag: Continuing Careers in 2015

So hard drinking' Ike is doing all right for himself out in Oakland: .314/.380/.443, though just one HR and is in a strict platoon situation - just 4 ABs vs LHP all year. But Oakland itself is having a tough time: 9-14 though losing some tough games as they're +13 in RS/RA to date and Pythag sez they should be more like 13-10. So on those two notes, Ike comes up in the bottom of the ninth last night, facing tough closer Huston Street, A's down by one, 2 outs, bags loaded, deep drive to CF ... and he's gets 'Trout-ed' http://m.mlb.com/news/article/121577536 ... els-at-500

Edgy MD May 01 2015 01:45 PM Re: Same Guy, Different Flag: Continuing Careers in 2015

He should've bunted.

G-Fafif May 02 2015 08:36 PM Re: Same Guy, Different Flag: Continuing Careers in 2015

Prentice Redman, who you may remember from such films as "2003? Two-Thousand Me!" and "Howe Great Thou Art, Skip" is playing for the Long Island Ducks.

Frayed Knot May 19 2015 12:31 AM Re: Same Guy, Different Flag: Continuing Careers in 2015

Ike Davis - 15 day DL (Quad) Bruce Chen - called up by Indians just last week, was DFA'd after one start.

Edgy MD Jul 08 2015 05:54 PM Re: Same Guy, Different Flag: Continuing Careers in 2015

Gonzalez Germen is not sure which army he's marching in. [list][*]December 19, 2014: Purchased by the New York Yankees from the New York Mets.[/*:m] [*]January 20, 2015: Purchased by the Texas Rangers from the New York Yankees.[/*:m] [*]January 23, 2015: Selected off waivers by the Chicago Cubs from the Texas Rangers.[/*:m] [*]July 7, 2015: Selected off waivers by the Colorado Rockies from the Chicago Cubs.[/*:m][/list:u] Welcome to the Rockies, Gonzo. Baseball purgatory for relief pitchers.

G-Fafif Aug 14 2015 06:10 PM Re: Same Guy, Different Flag: Continuing Careers in 2015

Blaine Boyer goes on the Twins' DL. For that to happen, Blaine Boyer had to have been a Twin. Thought Blaine Boyer had been inactive since the Mets jettisoned (or Mettisoned) him in 2011. Didn't pitch in the majors in 2012 or 2013. Was briefly a Padre last year. Was a fairly active Twin this year. Go figure.

Farmer Ted Aug 14 2015 07:06 PM Re: Same Guy, Different Flag: Continuing Careers in 2015

Jose Reyes clears waivers in Colorado. Let the mumbo jumbo trade rumor bullshit begin.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Aug 14 2015 07:42 PM Re: Same Guy, Different Flag: Continuing Careers in 2015

Farmer Ted wrote: Jose Reyes clears waivers in Colorado. Let the mumbo jumbo trade rumor bullshit begin. I love the guy like a cousin, but unless they're paying virtually all of his freight, we should steer clear of the guy like he's the empty subway car at rush hour.

Benjamin Grimm Aug 14 2015 07:47 PM Re: Same Guy, Different Flag: Continuing Careers in 2015

I love him as much as I love your cousin, and I agree. Taking on the final years of that backloaded contract, without having had the benefit of the less expensive early years (and the younger Jose) doesn't make any sense at all.

G-Fafif Aug 15 2015 04:35 PM Re: Same Guy, Different Flag: Continuing Careers in 2015

Jose Valverde, released from the minors by the Nationals last month, has been suspended for PEDs. So if somebody signs him, he'll automatically be out 80 games. Smooth.

Frayed Knot Aug 22 2015 01:38 AM Re: Same Guy, Different Flag: Continuing Careers in 2015

Season ending hip surgery for Ike Davis. Torn labrum.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Aug 22 2015 01:58 AM Re: Same Guy, Different Flag: Continuing Careers in 2015

Marlon Byrd HRS in his 1st Turn at bat as a Giant.

Edgy MD Aug 22 2015 03:27 AM Re: Same Guy, Different Flag: Continuing Careers in 2015

Frayed Knot wrote: Season ending hip surgery for Ike Davis. Torn labrum. Probably a lingering effect of the collision with Wright in 2011.

Elster88 Sep 15 2015 04:39 PM Re: Same Guy, Different Flag: Continuing Careers in 2015

Julio Franco: a version of a player-manager under the Japanese flag. [url]http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/13630613/at-57-years-old-julio-franco-playing-baseball-japan

Farmer Ted Nov 23 2015 06:01 PM Re: Same Guy, Different Flag: Continuing Careers in 2015

Did the guy even get a "Memories of" thread? Jeremy "Two Times" Hefner battling back after his second Tommy John surgery, now toiling in the Dominican Winter League. Posted on November 12, 2015 Written by Kerwin Abreu . San Francisco de Macoris: The general manager of the Cibao Giants champions of the 2014-2015 season, announced hiring pitchers Jeremy Hefner and Sam Gaviglio to strengthen the team's starting pitching. Hefner, RHP 29-year-old has experience majors with the Mets, he debuted in the majors April 23, 2012 against the San Francisco Giants, working 3.0 inputs 3 hits, 1 bxb, no runs. In two major league seasons, 50 games, 8-15 record with 4.65 ERA, 36 games as a starter, 224.1 innings, 242 hits, 116 runs, 55 bxb, 161 strikeouts. Gaviglio, RHP 25 years old, belongs to Tacoma Rainiers, Triple A Seattle Mariners. In 2015 record was 8-7 with 4.94 ERA in 23 games, 19 as a starter, 105.2 innings of work, 104 hits, 58 earned runs, 36 bxb, 80 strikeouts, the opposition is batting .255 "We are strengthening our starting pitching, we have had ups and downs, we are not in the position we want to be but we are working hard," said Felix Francisco. "They will be available in the short term, possibly his first appearance out of the bullpen and be ready to open in the next week," Felix said. "The pitching has stabilized in the last week starting pitching has been better," added Francisco. The Giants are currently in the 5th position with a record of 8-12, in season 2015-2016 in option to BHD-Leon Cup, with special dedication to Michael Ferris Churches.

Edgy MD Nov 23 2015 07:02 PM Re: Same Guy, Different Flag: Continuing Careers in 2015

He got a no-memories-thank-you thread: http://archives.cranepoolforum.net/2060 ... 0603.shtml And then, since he never signed with another team, memories have been on hold.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Nov 30 2015 07:18 PM Re: Same Guy, Different Flag: Continuing Careers in 2015

Chris Young the outfielder signs multi-year (how many is multi? I dunno) deal with the Red Sox.

Edgy MD Nov 30 2015 07:55 PM Re: Same Guy, Different Flag: Continuing Careers in 2015

Man, what a case. The Mets were dead right on his redemptability but dead wrong about their capacity to be the agents of redemption.

Frayed Knot Nov 30 2015 08:00 PM Re: Same Guy, Different Flag: Continuing Careers in 2015

Would be pretty kooky if "multi" year meant more than two in his case.

MFS62 Dec 01 2015 04:21 AM Re: Same Guy, Different Flag: Continuing Careers in 2015

My adoptee, Juan Centeno, signed a minor league deal with the Twins. Later

MFS62 Dec 06 2015 01:42 AM Re: Same Guy, Different Flag: Continuing Careers in 2015

Mike Pelfrey inks 2 year deal with Detroit. http://sports.yahoo.com/news/ap-source- ... --spt.html Later

Edgy MD Dec 24 2015 05:36 PM Re: Same Guy, Different Flag: Continuing Careers in 2015

Jordany Valdespin takes his wounded junk to the Tigers.