The Mets have claimed catcher Chance Sisco off waivers from the Orioles, per team announcements from both clubs. The Orioles had designated him for assignment last week. The Mets moved J.D. Davis to the 60-day injured list to clear a roster spot for Sisco, who has been optioned to Triple-A Syracuse for the time being.
Today’s claim brings to an end Sisco’s tenure with the Orioles, who selected him in the second round of the 2013 draft. The left-handed hitting backstop raked up through Double-A over the next few seasons, eventually earning himself a place on top prospect lists. Baseball America ranked Sisco among the back half of the league’s top 100 minor league talents entering the 2017 and 2018 campaigns, with the expectation that Sisco would cement himself as a bat-first regular behind the dish.
To this point, however, Sisco hasn’t carried that offensive promise over to the highest level. He tallied 598 major league plate appearances with Baltimore over the past five seasons, managing just a cumulative .199/.319/.339 line. He’s popped sixteen home runs and walked at a strong 10.2% clip, but Sisco has become increasingly strikeout prone as he’s climbed to the highest level. He’s gone down on strikes in 32.3% of his MLB plate appearances. Advanced defensive metrics have panned his work behind the plate, which was also a concern for some scouts as he worked his way up the ladder.
While Sisco hasn’t yet proven a valuable big leaguer, there’s little harm for the Mets in placing a claim on an obviously talented player. He’s still just 26 years old and has a decent .264/.352/.421 slash line in 805 career plate appearances at Triple-A. As mentioned, he can also be optioned for the remainder of the year, so the Mets can keep him in Syracuse as high minors’ depth if he remains on the 40-man roster all season.
Davis’ transfer to the 60-day IL is largely a procedural move. It rules him out for 60 days from the time of his initial IL placement (May 3). He’ll be eligible to return on July 1. General manager Zack Scott told reporters (including Tim Britton of the Athletic) earlier this week that Davis could embark on a minor league rehab assignment within a week or two.
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Chance Thomas Leo Sisco
His career on base is about average. Nothing wrong with this claim. I have read that for whatever reasons it takes most catchers more time to come into their own as a hitter. I don’t know it but good luck.
Mets just trying to give this boy a Chance
Again? How many more times?
Was he one of the Boondock saints??
Awful baseball fan
The Sisco Kid was a friend of mine
The Sisco Kid was a friend of mine
He drink whiskey, Poncho drink the wine
He drink whiskey, Poncho drink the wine
Mets love trash, explains their entire roster
That roster is in first place. If the roster is trash, explain that.
You mean the Yankees.
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Dude was hyped to be the second coming of Wieters. Wieters was supposed to be “Mauer with Power”. Here’s hoping that Rutschman actually lives up to his hype.
Whoever told you Sisco was the second coming of Wieters was trying to pull one over on you. Sisco was never meant to be anything more than a decent everyday catcher.
Living in Baltimore and being an Orioles fan for the last 42 years, a lot of people were saying that. I went back and looked at some of his draft scouting reports and he was supposed to be a franchise savior. He was the 50th prospect in baseball in 2016.
50th ranked prospects are not franchise saviors. They are everyday regulars. In house media sources always over inflate prospect hype. Less biased sources might give you better opinions on prospects.
He was supposed to have enough bat to carry his weak arm and poor catching ability. Five years of struggles showed that not to be the case. Not even a 4A player at this point.
The Baltimore media loves to hype guys up beyond belief. They would say Keegin Akin was going to be an ace despite not being a top prospect.
No catcher will ever live to their hype. No catcher should ever be ranked a top 50 prospect and no catcher should ever go in the first round
Craig Biggio
Buster Posey?
Carlton Fisk
Yogi Berra…a 5’7″ purple heart walk-on from the beaches of Normandy
Sisco was known through his minor league career as a disaster catcher defensively whom they hoped would hit well enough to offset his miserable defense.
Chance deserves to be in a place where he can a real opportunity to prove himself.
The Orioles whiffed on how they handled this fellow.
His competition in Baltimore was Caleb Joseph, Pedro Severino and Austin Wynns.. The biggest problem with him coming up was that he wasn’t a good catcher. They kept him in the minors for a while to work on that to complement his hit tool.
Now he’s a guy who can’t hit and still isn’t a good catcher. He’ll probably stick for a while as a depth piece somewhere but that’s about it.
He had zero people blocking him and plenty of opportunity to hit and catch in Baltimore. The Mets are paying James McCann an 8-figure salary for this and the next three seasons to start ahead of Chance Sisco, and there’s no DH.
So what is it you mean by “[he] deserves to be in a place where can [sic] a real opportunity to prove himself”, when at best he can be a back up catcher and play on Sundays?
Have you been paying attention to the last four or five seasons? The only one whiffing here is Sisco himself, at an alarmingly high rate.
He had every opportunity in Baltimore to take that job and win that spot. He was given every opportunity and he didn’t capitalize on it. Baltimore organization was very much wanted him to be the catcher of now and a DH till A.Rutschman is ready.
Sad to see JD Davis going to the 60 day. His defense has always been suspect but the guy can hit. and a team with as many injuries as the Mets have had need him back.
He can still be activated in a week.
Woah, good call. I was thinking it was much longer but he’s eligible to be activated July 1.
Kinda sticks. Really wanted the Braves to take a flier on him.
Why? He’s Alex Jackson with less glove.
Oh no!
Well, this move outta make metsfan22 prophecies of greatness come to fruition. At this point, why bother playing the rest of the season, uh?
First Vance, now Chance. Anyone named Lance available?
Not to my knowledge, but this goes together with the *illar run. They have Villar and Pillar. Can Millar be a hitting coach?
Let me see that thonnnnnnnnngggggggg
Just what we need another guy that dont make contact
Makes sense if Nido is injured
I do hope the Mets give Mazeika some looks before turning to Sisco.
I’m surprised, more teams didn’t want to take a chance.
That was a terrible way to get your obligatory name-based pun in, considering how overused it has been. Also, if you’re serious it shows you know little of how actually terrible Sisco has been as a major leaguer and even AAAer over the past four years.
Pirates should have picked him up. LH bat. Could back-up the right handed Stallings. The kid can hit, has power!!
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I can’t believe Chance Cisco has garnered THIS MUCH attention and opinion, with many comments