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Mets Claim a guy

Post by metirish » Tue Oct 31, 2023 3:38 pm

Is that a variation on Murphy?? My god
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Post by Johnny Lunchbucket » Tue Oct 31, 2023 3:48 pm

He's probably pretty good if they named the 'pen after him.
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Post by metirish » Tue Oct 31, 2023 3:50 pm

As Mike Tyson would say he's teller
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Post by A Boy Named Seo » Tue Oct 31, 2023 3:51 pm

The rare right-handed reliever who can't hit 90 but his numbers are otherwise pretty good.
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Post by Benjamin Grimm » Tue Oct 31, 2023 3:54 pm

His name is William Penn Murfee and with a name like that, he must be from Pennsylvania. (He's from Nashville.)

29 years old, has appeared in 80 big league games, all but one in relief, and all in the last two seasons with Seattle. A lifetime ERA of 2.70 over 83.1 innings. 28 walks, 92 strikeouts, allowed 8 home runs.
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Post by G-Fafif » Tue Oct 31, 2023 3:58 pm

Let's get him some options, send him down, bring him up, send him down, bring him up...
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Post by A Boy Named Seo » Tue Oct 31, 2023 3:59 pm

He's a side-armer and statcast loves his ass. He's recovering from TJ surgery, so maybe a second half arm. I love that the Mets are doing stuff like this.

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Post by MFS62 » Tue Oct 31, 2023 3:59 pm

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Tue Oct 31, 2023 3:54 pm 29 years old, has appeared in 80 big league games, all but one in relief, and all in the last two seasons with Seattle. A lifetime ERA of 2.70 over 83.1 innings. 28 walks, 92 strikeouts, allowed 8 home runs.
With numbers like that, I wondered why they let him go.
Here's the rest of the story (from Metsmerized):
his season ended due to needing Tommy John surgery in July. He’s expected to be out all of 2024, but he will have five years of team control left starting next year.
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Post by A Boy Named Seo » Tue Oct 31, 2023 4:03 pm

MFS62 wrote: Tue Oct 31, 2023 3:59 pm Here's the rest of the story (from Metsmerized):
his season ended due to needing Tommy John surgery in July. He’s expected to be out all of 2024, but he will have five years of team control left starting next year.
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The blurb I read (CBS Sports) sez he had surgery in July and could be second-half help. Here's hoping.
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Post by Edgy MD » Tue Oct 31, 2023 4:35 pm

This guy is gonna make you totally forget Trevor Gott.
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Post by MFS62 » Tue Oct 31, 2023 4:54 pm

Edgy MD wrote: Tue Oct 31, 2023 4:35 pm This guy is gonna make you totally forget Trevor Gott.
I hope so.
But as with Gott, you never forget your first case of hemorrhoids.

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Re: Mets Claim a guy

Post by smg58 » Wed Nov 01, 2023 8:38 am

He was really good in 2022. He had some control issues this year, but it's possible he thought he had a minor arm issue that he could pitch through and it turned out to be much worse than that. Some people take longer than others to recover fully from TJS, so I'd make no promises with this guy. But he's totally worth a waiver claim.
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Post by Fman99 » Wed Nov 01, 2023 10:11 am

Edgy MD wrote: Tue Oct 31, 2023 4:35 pm This guy is gonna make you totally forget Trevor Gott.
Gott the Twat we call him in my house (or in my brain in my house maybe). He was personally rude to my wife on every occasion when he was pitching in AAA Syracuse and his daughter was enrolled at my wife's day care center.
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Re: Mets Claim a guy

Post by Edgy MD » Wed Nov 15, 2023 2:46 pm

The Braves have grabbed the baton for the next leg of the Penn relays, as Atlanta claimed Murfee off waivers from the Mets yesterdoo.
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Post by A Boy Named Seo » Wed Nov 15, 2023 4:01 pm

Boo.
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Post by A Boy Named Seo » Fri Nov 17, 2023 9:18 pm

Penn Murfee got non-tendered tonight by the Braves. This poor fella's been dumped three times in three weeks.
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Post by metirish » Fri Nov 17, 2023 9:59 pm

Murfee's Law I suppose
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Post by metirish » Fri Jan 05, 2024 2:26 pm

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Post by A Boy Named Seo » Fri Jan 05, 2024 2:30 pm

metirish wrote: Fri Jan 05, 2024 2:26 pm

Good use of this thread. Reduce, reuse, recycle, just like these middle relievers.
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Re: Mets Claim a guy

Post by Edgy MD » Fri Jan 05, 2024 2:31 pm

Last spot on the roster, to my reckoning.
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Post by Benjamin Grimm » Fri Jan 05, 2024 2:32 pm

He just turned 26. Hasn't done much in the big leagues (played in 96 games for the Pirates in 2022, hitting .206 with 11 homers in 283 plate appearances) but had what looks like a nice season in AAA (Arizona's Reno affiliate) in 2023. (124 games, .313/.431/.410 33 doubles, 3 homers and 94 runs scored).
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Re: Mets Claim a guy

Post by G-Fafif » Fri Jan 05, 2024 4:41 pm

National League champion Arizona Diamondback Diego Castillo, that is. (One game, but still.)

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Re: Mets Claim a guy

Post by A Boy Named Seo » Fri Jan 05, 2024 6:30 pm

I immediately thought he was a different (better) Diego Castillo.
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Re: Mets Claim a guy

Post by G-Fafif » Sat Jan 13, 2024 1:16 am

Diego Castillo DFA’d to clear space for Sean Manaea.
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Re: Mets Claim a guy

Post by A Boy Named Seo » Sat Jan 13, 2024 9:08 pm

Maybe they, too, realized it was the other Diego Castillo.
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