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2020 Mets Debut Autographs

Posted by Matthew Lug on 12 September 2020 Comments Off

It’s getting late early

Three quarters of the way through the abbreviated season, the Mets’ pitching situation has gone about as well as you would expect. Injuries and ineffectiveness chipped away at the makeshift rotation, which saw Steven Matz and David Peterson demoted to the bullpen and Seth “Absoluetly Not a Starter” Lugo and Robert Gsellman promoted. Lugo quickly cemented his role as the #2 starter while Gsellman was just #2 until injuries took him down as well. As for Marcus Stroman, his return never materialized and he opted out for the season. Anyone with a pulse and a 40-man spot is getting a shot at the rotation now, including new arrival Ariel Jurado, with less than stellar results. At least Jacob deGrom started getting run support?

Despite everything that went wrong (by chance or design), the Mets still found themselves within reach of a playoff spot. 8 spots for 15 teams will do that… So it was anyone’s guess what they would do at the trade deadline. Buy for a big run? Sell and regroup for next year? Stand pat and let the chips fall where they may? They did none of these things and dealt prospect Kevin Smith (who would have his first Mets autographs released less than a month later) and three PTBNLs for reliever Miguel Castro, catcher Robinson Chirinos, and old friend Todd Frazier, aka literally the least you could do without doing nothing. Predictably, their record was 21-24 at the 3/4 mark, 2 games (and 3 teams) back in the playoff race. It’s not over, but they’re going to need to do something soon if they plan on playing past September, whatever that ends up looking like.


Andrés Giménez*	Jake Marisnick	Dellin Betances	Eduardo Nunez
24 July 2020	24 July 2020	25 July 2020	25 July 2020

Hunter Strickland	Rick Porcello	Michael Wacha	Chasen Shreve
25 July 2020	26 July 2020	27 July 2020	27 July 2020

David Peterson*	Brian Dozier	Ryan Cordell	Franklyn Kilomé*
28 July 2020	30 July 2020	30 July 2020	1 August 2020

Jared Hughes	Billy Hamilton	Ali Sánchez*	Ariel Jurado
3 August 2020	5 August 2020	10 August 2020	1 September 2020

Miguel Castro	Robinson Chirinos	Erasmo Ramirez	Guillermo Heredia
2 September 2020	3 September 2020	7 September 2020	21 September 2020

*MLB Debut

2017 Mets Draft Class Autographs

Posted by Matthew Lug on 30 August 2017 Comments Off

Easy as 1-2-3

Full list of 2017 Mets draft picks

When you don’t pick until late in the first round, most of the intriguing names will be off the board by the time it’s your turn. Despite several forfeited picks ahead of them, the Mets had to wait to the 20th pick to start their 2017 draft due to a strong 2016. That probably won’t be a problem next year… And so I know nothing about first round pick David Peterson other than his assortment of autographs and memorabilia in various Panini products. Mark Vientos followed in round 2 with autographs and memorabilia from Panini and Leaf and then Quinn Brodey went in round 3 with autographs from Leaf (from 4 years ago). And that’s about it for this draft class. The Mets would go on to sign all three plus 29 of their other 37 picks, but that didn’t include the only other two picks with autographs at the time of the draft, CJ Van Eyk and Jake Eder.