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Apparently there are somehow more important things in life than getting another chance to lower a 36.00 Mets ERA, and so Matt Festa has signed a minor-league deal to be a Texas Ranger.

Beat it, you Yankee-Lovin' Douchebag

One of six pitchers (really five since one is Luis Torres) to make just one appearance this season: also Eric Orze, Phil Maton, Joey Lucchesi, Julio Teheran

In all 31 pitchers have appeared In a NYM uni in 2024 (92 games). 12 (11) of them haven't, and several won't, hit double digit innings.
Orze: 0.0 (didn't retire a batter)
Torrens: 0.1
Festa: 1.0 (gone)
Maton: 1.0
Teheran: 2.2 (gone)
Lucchesi: 4.1 (DFA)
Adcock: 4.1 (40-man)
Tyler Jay: 4.2 (40)
Cole Suiser: 4.2 (40)
Grant Hartwig: 6.2 (IL)
Michael Tonkin: 7.0 (gone)
Yohan Ramirez: 8.1 (gone)

Yeah, my main memory is that he (1) he's a Brooklyn Yankee lover, which is always horribly suspect; and (2) he's one of a string of guys in 2024 that arrived and immediately and counterproductively got thrown in the deep end of the pool, sacrificing a perfectly winnable game at the altar of load management.

Gary Cohen used every opportunity to insert things like 'feats of strength' and 'airing of grievances' into his play-by-play, because he knew Festa was going to be a tiny waterbug skittering across the pond of the Mets 2024 season, leaving little trace of his existence.

I was away and have no memories of him

He grew up in my house and I have no memories of him.

He was no Ty Adcock.

metirish wrote: ↑Fri Jul 12, 2024 9:33 am I was away and have no memories of him

Consider yourself lucky to have missed his brief tenure.