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Going under the radar of recent late spring transactions is the Mets signing amateur pitcher Colby Morris.
Colby is about as dark a horse as you're going to find. He's a rare player signing a pro-contract out of a Division III school (Middlebury College) and out of the Northeast (Vermont). Add in that he got noticed in a year that lacked a season for him to play in and got signed in a year following the drastic trimming back of the minor leagues, and he's El Caballo Oscuro. He was able to scrounge up some competition in the stripped down indy leagues the last year and a half and keep his career going until the Mets came noticing.
He's got a swinging head of hair and a big ol' dimple and you just know that if it was back in the day, he'd be showing up for practice in a jacked-up Chevy Nova with a Foghat 8-track blasting.
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Also joining the Mets in recent days has been former Oriole catching prospect Martin Cervenka, who had reached as high as AAA with Baltimore. He is of no known relation to Hunter Cervenka other than having been recently been employed by the Orioles. He also is no known to be related to wacky rock legend Exene Cervenka. But he is Czech-born and he would be the first such animal, if he makes the Mets.
He'd in fact be something like the last also, as he was actually born in then-Czechoslovakia — still recently liberated from half a century of Soviet domination — about five months before the country ceased to be, splitting into the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
They drive on the right side of the road there, so it's all good.
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