Morning Briefing: Wilson Ramos and Mets Deliver Over 2,000 Turkeys
Good morning Mets fans! Wilson Ramos spent time on Thursday with Mets team employees in giving out over 2,000 turkeys to families in need ahead of Thanksgiving. The “MetsGiving” initiative worked alongside local food banks to deliver the turkeys to families across all five boroughs in New York City.
Latest Mets News
Pete Alonso and Jacob deGrom were named to ESPN‘s inaugural All-MLB First Team.
ESPN announced their 2020 television coverage from Opening Day to Apr. 7, which includes four Mets games (Mar. 26, Mar. 31, Apr. 2 and Apr. 7).
J.J. Cooper of Baseball America considers Mets prospects Patrick Mazeika and Shervyen Newton two unprotected players that they could lose in the Rule 5 Draft.
The Mets and Chasen Shreve agreed to a minor league deal with an invite to spring training, per Jon Heyman of MLB Network.
Former Met Aaron Altherr and Mike Wright both signed with the NC Dinos of the Korea Baseball Organization as reported by Naver Sports (translated by Dan Kurtz of MyKBO). Altherr and Wright will fill two of the NC Dinos’ three allotted foreign player slots and will both receive $800,000, with a $200,000 signing bonus.
Latest MLB News
The Chicago White Sox signed Yasmani Grandal to a four-year, $73 million contract. The deal is the largest in franchise history for the White Sox.
Laura Albanese of Newsday noted four reasons Rob Manfred gave to cut minor league teams: Inadequate facilities, 77 franchises that have moved since 1990 (making for untenable travel), poor pay for minor leaguers and drafting and signing players who do not have a realistic opportunity to make it to the majors.
John Sherman was approved as the new owner of the Kansas City Royals by MLB owners, according to Jeff Passan of ESPN.
Eno Sarris of The Athletic wrote about how good Yoshitomo Tsutsugo and Shogo Akiyama can be in MLB and where they may sign now that they are officially available.
Latest NL East News
The Philadelphia Phillies announced the hiring of Joe Dillon as their hitting coach.
Matt Weyrich of NBC Sports Washington wrote about how Grandal signing with the White Sox affects the Washington Nationals’ plans at catcher.
Latest on MMO/MMN
Matt Musico touched upon the recent Zack Wheeler signing rumors and reflected on his time with the Mets.
Tim Ryder wrote about Ramos’ offseason goals and plans to improve for next season.
Ryan Finkelstein wrote a report card for Jeurys Familia‘s 2019 campaign.
John Sheridan took a look at the players the Mets may lose in the Rule 5 Draft and the likelihood of each being selected.
This Day in Mets History
1968: Jerry Koosman (9.5 ROY points) barely missed winning the National League Rookie of the Year award as he came in second place to Johnny Bench (10.5 ROY points) by one point.
1977: Nine years to the day that Koosman missed out on the National League Rookie of the Year by one point, Steve Henderson (9.0 ROY points) also barely missed winning the award as he came in second place to Andre Dawson (10.0 ROY points) by one vote.
Birthdays: Jay Payton turns 47, Luis Andujar turns 47, Gene Walter turns 59, Lee Guetterman turns 61 and Rich Chiles turns 70.
