Down 5-0 and 6-1 today today to the cellar-dwelling DSL D-Backs 2, the DSL Mets 2 staged a fearsome comeback, but ultimately ran out of innings, losing 6-5. The loss dropped our heroes to 27-30, continually approaching .500 and then falling just off the pace. The loss marks their third in a row, and, typically, their fifth in their last 10. A lot of their best players have been forwarded to their DSL Mets 1 brothers, so if they are going to get back involved in the hunt, they have to look within.
With most of the best starters gone to the other squad, the bullpen has had to step up. And nobody has stepped up with quite the aplomb of Antonio Villalba. The Caracas native has appeared in 18 games so far, and there aren’t just cameos. He’s totaled 35 1/3 innings in that time, and none of his appearances has been a start.
But if he ain’t starting a game, Antonio is going to kick-start your heart. In those 35 2/3 innings, he’s held opponents to a miserly .163 batting average. That has helped him to a 1.53 ERA. And the next homer he allows? Well, give that man a free dinner, because it’ll be the first homer he allows.
Bringing the same venomous stuff from the left side is fellow Venezuelan Daniel Guzman. Danny is just behind his cousin with a .189 opponent batting average and a 1.60 ERA. I mean, both are walking too many, but neither is giving up hard contact. At all. Choose your poison right?
All the best hitters have been sent to the DSL 1 team, including the two senior catchers. But that’s just a chance for new folks to emerge, and emerging so far is 19-year-old catcher Kevin Torres. Yeah, he’s only hitting a Metly .225, but he’s walked 28 times already in just 41 games, so he’s reaching base at a robust .359 rate. He’s also caught 31.2% of the fellow teeny-boppers who’ve tried to steal on him, and that’s not nothing.
It won’t last long if they can’t beat cellar-dwelling sad sacks like the DSL D-Backs 2, but this all adds up to 27-30 record, 12 games off the pace in the Dominican Summer League San Pedro Division.
Look, I’m not going to lie to you. Jefferson Escorcha is gone. He just is. And if that’s the way it’s going to be, that everybody who excels on this team is going to be transferred to the DSL 1 squad, well, that just sucks. This is what pretty much was the worst thing about baseball in the 1890s. Even more than the drunken rowdyism, the game was being destroyed by allowing owners to invest in more than one franchise in the same league. Boom — conflict of interest! As the season progressed, the best players from the lesser teams would be gradually transferred to the teams with the better records, and the whole thing grew demoralizing for the players and fans left behind.
I don’t want to see that shit happen here. The DSL Mets 2, lest it be forgotten, had more or less the best record in affiliated baseball last year. But believe it or not, The Cleveland Spiders were good once, also! Let these guys stick with their assigned squads through the season. These guys are playing hard! Maintain some semblance of a competitive commitment to them, Mets brass!
Transactions, 7/24
Direction | NEUTRAL | Transaction | Transferred From Bullpen | Position Group | Starting Pitcher | | [fimg=90]https://metsrostercentral.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/joander-suarez.jpg[/fimg] | Name | Joander Suárez | DoB | 2/27/00 | B/T | R/R |
Transactions, 7/27
Direction | GOING | GOING | GOING | GOING | GOING | Transaction | Transferred To DSL 1 | Transferred To DSL 1 | Transferred To DSL 1 | Transferred To DSL 1 | Transferred To DSL 1 | Position Group | Starting Pitcher | Starting Pitcher | Starting Pitcher | =#FF8000]Relief Pitcher | =#FF8000]Relief Pitcher | | [fimg=90]http://www.milb.com/images/silhouette/180x270.jpg[/fimg] | [fimg=90]http://www.milb.com/images/silhouette/180x270.jpg[/fimg] | [fimg=90]http://www.milb.com/images/silhouette/180x270.jpg[/fimg] | [fimg=90]http://www.milb.com/images/silhouette/180x270.jpg[/fimg] | [fimg=90]http://www.milb.com/images/silhouette/180x270.jpg[/fimg] | Name | Edinson Diaz | Christofer Dominguez | Andres German | Jefferson Escorcha | Daniel Guzman | DoB | 12/25/99 | 1/3/00 | 5/16/97 | 10/4/99 | 2/16/98 | B/T | R/R | L/L | R/R | L/L | L/L | Direction | GOING | GOING | GOING | GOING | GOING | Transaction | Transferred To DSL 1 | Transferred To DSL 1 | Transferred To DSL 1 | Transferred To DSL 1 | Transferred To DSL 1 | Position Group | =#FF8000]Relief Pitcher | =#008000] Catcher | =#008000] Catcher | =#8000FF] Infielder | =#0000FF] Outfielder | | [fimg=90]https://metsrostercentral.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/joander-suarez.jpg[/fimg] | [fimg=90]http://www.milb.com/images/silhouette/180x270.jpg[/fimg] | [fimg=90]http://www.milb.com/images/silhouette/180x270.jpg[/fimg] | [fimg=90]http://www.milb.com/images/silhouette/180x270.jpg[/fimg] | [fimg=90]http://www.milb.com/images/silhouette/180x270.jpg[/fimg] | Name | Joander Suárez | Jorge Martinez | Endy Rodriguez | Felix Valerio | Eulises Sanchez | DoB | 2/27/00 | 7/23/96 | 5/26/00 | 12/26/00 | 3/7/97 | B/T | R/R | R/R | S/R | R/R | R/R | Direction | =#00BF40]COMING | =#00BF40]COMING | =#00BF40]COMING | =#00BF40]COMING | =#00BF40]COMING | Transaction | Transferred From DSL 1 | Transferred From DSL 1 | Transferred From DSL 1 | Transferred From DSL 1 | Transferred From DSL 1 | Position Group | =#FF8000]Relief Pitcher | =#FF8000]Relief Pitcher | =#FF8000]Relief Pitcher | =#008000] Catcher | =#FF8000]Relief Pitcher | | [fimg=90]http://www.milb.com/images/silhouette/180x270.jpg[/fimg] | [fimg=90]http://www.milb.com/images/silhouette/180x270.jpg[/fimg] | [fimg=90]http://www.milb.com/images/silhouette/180x270.jpg[/fimg] | [fimg=90]http://www.milb.com/images/silhouette/180x270.jpg[/fimg] | [fimg=90]http://www.milb.com/images/silhouette/180x270.jpg[/fimg] | Name | Kevin Hernandez | Victor Isturiz | Haniel Ogando | Alexis Marquéz | Darling Baez | DoB | 4/23/01 | 3/8/97 | 7/15/99 | 6/1/99 | 6/26/97 | B/T | L/L | R/R | R/R | R/R | R/R | Direction | =#00BF40]COMING | =#00BF40]COMING | =#00BF40]COMING | =#00BF40]COMING | =#00BF40]COMING | Transaction | Transferred From DSL 1 | Transferred From DSL 1 | Transferred From DSL 1 | Transferred From DSL 1 | Transferred From DSL 1 | Position Group | =#8000FF] Infielder | =#8000FF] Infielder | =#8000FF] Infielder | =#0000FF] Outfielder | =#008000] Catcher | | [fimg=90]http://www.milb.com/images/silhouette/180x270.jpg[/fimg] | [fimg=90]http://www.milb.com/images/silhouette/180x270.jpg[/fimg] | [fimg=90]http://www.milb.com/images/silhouette/180x270.jpg[/fimg] | [fimg=90]http://www.milb.com/images/silhouette/180x270.jpg[/fimg] | [fimg=90]http://www.milb.com/images/silhouette/180x270.jpg[/fimg] | Name | Fidel Almario | Wilmy Valdez | Wilker Velasquez | Julio René | Alejandro Medina | DoB | 11/17/99 | 7/3/97 | 1/18/01 | 11/6/97 | 4/7/00 | B/T | S/R | R/R | L/R | R/R | R/R | Direction | =#00BF40]COMING | Transaction | Transferred From DSL 1 | Position Group | =#0000FF] Outfielder | | [fimg=90]http://www.milb.com/images/silhouette/180x270.jpg[/fimg] | Name | Eduardo Salazar | DoB | 12/15/00 | B/T | R/R |
Transactions, 7/28
Direction | =#00BF40]COMING | Transaction | Signed As Amateur Free Agent & Assigned To DSL2 | Position Group | =#FF8000]Relief Pitcher | | [fimg=90]http://www.milb.com/images/silhouette/180x270.jpg[/fimg] | Name | Marco Villegas | DoB | 4/17/01 | B/T | R/R |
Transactions, 8/1
Direction | GOING | Transaction | Transferred From DSL 1 | Position Group | =#FF8000]Relief Pitcher | | [fimg=90]http://www.milb.com/images/silhouette/180x270.jpg[/fimg] | Name | Daniel Guzman | DoB | 2/16/98 | B/T | L/L |
Transactions, 8/8
Direction | NEUTRAL | Transaction | Transferred To DSL 1 | Position Group | =#8000FF] Infielder | | [fimg=90]http://www.milb.com/images/silhouette/180x270.jpg[/fimg] | Name | Fidel Almario | DoB | 11/17/99 | B/T | S/R |
YOUR DSL Mets 2 Coaching Staff
Position Group | =#BF0000] Manager | =#BF0000]Pitching Coach | =#BF0000]Hitting Coach | | [fimg=90]https://metsrostercentral.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/yucary-de-la-cruz.jpg[/fimg] | [fimg=90]http://www.milb.com/images/silhouette/180x270.jpg[/fimg] | [fimg=90]http://www.milb.com/images/silhouette/180x270.jpg[/fimg] | Name | Yucary De La Cruz | Rafael Roque | Gilbert Gomez | DoB | 10/23/90 | 1/1/72 | 4/30/90 | B/T | R/R | L/L | R/R | Position Group | =#BF0000]Infield/Bench Coach | =#BF0000] Coach | =#BF0000] Coach | | [fimg=90]http://www.milb.com/images/silhouette/180x270.jpg[/fimg] | [fimg=90]http://www.milb.com/images/silhouette/180x270.jpg[/fimg] | [fimg=90]http://www.milb.com/images/silhouette/180x270.jpg[/fimg] | Name | Lilian Castro | Samuel Taveras | Pedro Reyes | DoB | 11/16/65 | 4/14/89 | 9/8/68 | B/T | R/R | R/R | R/R |
YOUR 2017 DSL Mets 2
Position Group | Starting Pitcher | Starting Pitcher | =#FF8000]Relief Pitcher | =#FF8000]Relief Pitcher | =#FF8000]Relief Pitcher | | [fimg=90]http://www.milb.com/images/silhouette/180x270.jpg[/fimg] | [fimg=90]http://www.milb.com/images/silhouette/180x270.jpg[/fimg] | [fimg=90]http://www.milb.com/images/silhouette/180x270.jpg[/fimg] | [fimg=90]http://www.milb.com/images/silhouette/180x270.jpg[/fimg] | [fimg=90]http://www.milb.com/images/silhouette/180x270.jpg[/fimg] | Name | Robert Colina | Brailin Gonzalez | Enmannuel Almonte | Johan Amado | Darling Baez | DoB | 4/4/01 | 9/23/99 | 11/9/97 | 5/4/01 | 6/26/97 | B/T | R/R | L/L | R/R | L/L | R/R | Primary Position | Starting Pitcher | Starting Pitcher | =#FF8000]Relief Pitcher | =#FF8000]Relief Pitcher | =#FF8000]Relief Pitcher | Other Positions | rp | rp | | | | Status Notes | | | | | | Position Group | =#FF8000]Relief Pitcher | =#FF8000]Relief Pitcher | =#FF8000]Relief Pitcher | =#FF8000]Relief Pitcher | =#FF8000]Relief Pitcher | | [fimg=90]http://www.milb.com/images/silhouette/180x270.jpg[/fimg] | [fimg=90]http://www.milb.com/images/silhouette/180x270.jpg[/fimg] | [fimg=90]https://metsrostercentral.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/eiker-huizi-2018.jpg?w=90&zoom=2[/fimg] | [fimg=90]http://www.milb.com/images/silhouette/180x270.jpg[/fimg] | [fimg=90]http://www.milb.com/images/silhouette/180x270.jpg[/fimg] | Name | Daniel Guzman | Kevin Hernandez | Eiker Huizi | Victor Isturiz | Christopher Madera | DoB | 2/16/98 | 4/23/01 | 9/24/00 | 3/8/97 | 10/1/96 | B/T | L/L | L/L | R/R | R/R | R/R | Primary Position | =#FF8000]Relief Pitcher | =#FF8000]Relief Pitcher | =#FF8000]Relief Pitcher | =#FF8000]Relief Pitcher | =#FF8000]Relief Pitcher | Other Positions | sp | | sp | sp | | Status Notes | | | | | | Position Group | =#FF8000]Relief Pitcher | =#FF8000]Relief Pitcher | =#FF8000]Relief Pitcher | =#FF8000]Relief Pitcher | =#FF8000]Relief Pitcher | | [fimg=90]http://www.milb.com/images/silhouette/180x270.jpg[/fimg] | [fimg=90]http://www.milb.com/images/silhouette/180x270.jpg[/fimg] | [fimg=90]http://www.milb.com/images/silhouette/180x270.jpg[/fimg] | [fimg=90]http://www.milb.com/images/silhouette/180x270.jpg[/fimg] | [fimg=90]http://www.milb.com/images/silhouette/180x270.jpg[/fimg] | Name | David Marcano | Juan Martinez | Miguel Mata | Haniel Ogando | José Valerio | DoB | 8/28/01 | 2/14/96 | 5/5/97 | 7/15/99 | 8/17/00 | B/T | L/L | R/R | R/R | R/R | R/R | Primary Position | =#FF8000]Relief Pitcher | =#FF8000]Relief Pitcher | =#FF8000]Relief Pitcher | =#FF8000]Relief Pitcher | =#FF8000]Relief Pitcher | Other Positions | sp | sp | sp | | sp | Status Notes | | | | | | Position Group | =#FF8000]Relief Pitcher | =#FF8000]Relief Pitcher | =#FF8000]Relief Pitcher | =#008000] Catcher | =#008000] Catcher | | [fimg=90]http://www.milb.com/images/silhouette/180x270.jpg[/fimg] | [fimg=90]http://www.milb.com/images/silhouette/180x270.jpg[/fimg] | [fimg=90]http://www.milb.com/images/silhouette/180x270.jpg[/fimg] | [fimg=90]http://www.milb.com/images/silhouette/180x270.jpg[/fimg] | [fimg=90]http://www.milb.com/images/silhouette/180x270.jpg[/fimg] | Name | Rolfy Vargas | Antonio Villalba | Marco Villegas | Alexis Marquéz | Kevin Torres | DoB | 8/25/00 | 7/19/99 | 4/17/01 | 6/1/99 | 5/4/99 | B/T | R/R | R/R | R/R | R/R | R/R | Primary Position | =#FF8000]Relief Pitcher | =#FF8000]Relief Pitcher | =#FF8000]Relief Pitcher | =#008000]Catcher | =#008000]Catcher | Other Positions | | | | 1b | | Status Notes | | | | | | Position Group | =#8000FF] Infielder | =#8000FF] Infielder | =#8000FF] Infielder | =#8000FF] Infielder | =#8000FF] Infielder | | [fimg=90]http://www.milb.com/images/silhouette/180x270.jpg[/fimg] | [fimg=90]http://www.milb.com/images/silhouette/180x270.jpg[/fimg] | [fimg=90]http://www.milb.com/images/silhouette/180x270.jpg[/fimg] | [fimg=90]http://www.milb.com/images/silhouette/180x270.jpg[/fimg] | [fimg=90]http://www.milb.com/images/silhouette/180x270.jpg[/fimg] | Name | Eliam Arias | Alejandro Medina | Ruben Monegro | Federico Polanco | Wilmy Valdez | DoB | 3/6/01 | 4/7/00 | 12/2/97 | 3/20/01 | 7/3/97 | B/T | R/R | R/R | R/R | L/R | R/R | Primary Position | =#8000FF]Third Base | =#8000FF]Third Base | =#8000FF]Third Base | =#8000FF]Shortstop | =#8000FF]First Base | Other Positions | 2b, ss | 1b, c | ss | | lf | Status Notes | | | | | | Position Group | =#8000FF] Infielder | =#0000FF] Outfielder | =#0000FF] Outfielder | =#0000FF] Outfielder | =#0000FF] Outfielder | | [fimg=90]http://www.milb.com/images/silhouette/180x270.jpg[/fimg] | [fimg=90]http://www.milb.com/images/silhouette/180x270.jpg[/fimg] | [fimg=90]http://www.milb.com/images/silhouette/180x270.jpg[/fimg] | [fimg=90]http://www.milb.com/images/silhouette/180x270.jpg[/fimg] | [fimg=90]http://www.milb.com/images/silhouette/180x270.jpg[/fimg] | Name | Wilker Velasquez | Jan Cabrera | Ezequiel Peña | Julio René | Jeison Rodriguez | DoB | 1/18/01 | 9/11/00 | 5/25/99 | 11/6/97 | 1/27/98 | B/T | L/R | R/R | R/R | R/R | R/R | Primary Position | =#8000FF]Second Base | =#0000FF]Right Field | =#0000FF]Left Field | =#0000FF]Left Field | =#0000FF]Right Field | Other Positions | ss | cf | rf, cf | cf, rf | lf, cf | Status Notes | | | | | | Position Group | | =#0000FF] Outfielder | | =#0000FF] Outfielder | | | | [fimg=90]http://www.milb.com/images/silhouette/180x270.jpg[/fimg] | | [fimg=90]http://www.milb.com/images/silhouette/180x270.jpg[/fimg] | | Name | | Eduardo Salazar | | Jean Carlos Soto | | DoB | | 12/15/00 | | 4/3/00 | | B/T | | R/R | | R/R | | Primary Position | | =#0000FF]Left Field | | =#0000FF]Left Field | | Other Positions | | cf, rf | | | | Status Notes | | | | | |
Inactive D-Mets 2
Position Group | =#FF8000]Relief Pitcher | =#FF8000]Relief Pitcher | =#0000FF] Outfielder | | [fimg=90]http://www.milb.com/images/silhouette/180x270.jpg[/fimg] | [fimg=90]http://www.milb.com/images/silhouette/180x270.jpg[/fimg] | [fimg=90]http://www.milb.com/images/silhouette/180x270.jpg[/fimg] | Name | Jaison Paniagua | Luis Vasquez | Tulio Garcia | DoB | 2/25/98 | 7/19/99 | 7/3/98 | B/T | R/R | R/R | L/R | Primary Position | =#FF8000]Relief Pitcher | =#FF8000]Relief Pitcher | =#0000FF]Left Field | Other Positions | | | rf, 1b | Status Notes | Under Suspension | On 60-Day DL | Not Yet Activated | â¬
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