4:42 pm: New York has officially selected Bostick and designated Eickhoff for assignment to open active and 40-man roster space.
3:39 pm: The Mets are planning to select the contract of right-hander Akeem Bostick prior to this evening’s game against the Braves, reports Anthony DiComo of MLB.com (Twitter link). The 26-year-old will be making his major league debut if he gets into a game.
Bostick was a second-round pick of the Rangers back in 2013. The Astros acquired him in January 2015, and he spent the next few seasons in the Houston farm system. Bostick never made the majors with the Astros, though, and was let go in 2019. He signed with the Cardinals but didn’t make an official appearance with the St. Louis organization because of last year’s cancelled minor league season.
New York signed Bostick to a minor league deal in May. He’s spent the year with Triple-A Syracuse, tossing 37 2/3 innings of 6.21 ERA ball across ten appearances (eight starts). Bostick’s peripherals aren’t much better, as he’s struck out a below average 16.8% of batters faced while walking an elevated 13.3% of opponents.
It hasn’t been a banner season for Bostick, but he is at least stretched out. He’s worked up to five innings in a few starts for Syracuse. With the Mets pitching staff hit hard by injuries, New York has tried to patch things together on the mound in recent days. Jerad Eickhoff was re-signed to start last night’s ballgame but didn’t fare well, allowing ten runs in 3 1/3 innings.
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Hopefully he doesn’t get in the game today or tomorrow unless the Mets are blowing out the Braves.
I wish the young man well, just not against the Braves.
As a Mets fan, I’d be happy with a close game tonight.
When you think of garbage think of akeem!
I think of the Astros, but that’s just me……
“tossing 37 2/3 innings of 6.21 ERA ball”
I am a Mets fan out here for 11 years living in Angel land can someone please tell me why Tropeano doesn’t get a chance over Wackoff and Bostick?
He pitched 2 innings for us and gave up a run and pitched well for the Giants this year.
I don’t get it at all and why is Wackoff still on the 40 man roster?!~
Sandy Sucks Sandy Sucks Sandy Sucks that should be the chant
metzfan Sandy has been incredible this year handling all the injuries and signing the bench mob players. If you knew how baseball work you know that the guy you want just got sent down two days ago and can’t be brought back up for a certain period of time.
Once a player is sent down to the minors, they must remain there for at least 10 days before being recalled with the exception of, if they need to return due to an injury. This is to prevent teams from bouncing one or two players up and down depending on the day of the week.
Classic!
Nicely done sir.
He can’t possibly be worse than Eickhoff….. right?
He is
Akeem “Moonlight” Bostick. I hope you get to pitch an inning, just to tell your grandkids you really were a major league ballplayer for a day!
Love the “field of dreams” reference.
Cracked that code, did you?
metzfan haaaaaa
Yikes
And Tropeano remains on the roster and yet they don’t use him.
@extreme113 yes I don’t get it they send him down and pitch Wackoff last night?
metzfan He’s not on the roster
other contenders add quality relievers…..
He’s only here for the day, I’m sure. The Mets have plenty of quality relievers already. They pitched a shutout the other day.
Oops, I thought he was going to be today’s starter. My bad. He’s still only a placeholder until Carrasco comes back on Friday.
sweet Jesus!! Sandy and co. better get their butts in gear and acquire another legit starter….smh…..running Eickoff and Bostick out there against the Braves shows their incompetence
It’s not incompetence, it’s lack of pitchers on the roster because they are injured. Sometimes you just got to take one on the chin and Jared did last night. Because they’ve been playing so many games and all the doubleheaders, it’s sometimes difficult.
If only there was a mechanism to add players to a roster. If only!
metzfan don’t be that guy. It’s not in confidence when pitcher after pitcher gets injured. the front office has done an incredible job signing as many mentally pictures as possible heat up the innings as the pitchers keep dropping like flies
But Bostick’s last 5 starts:
15 IP, 14 H, 15K, 5 BB, 3.00 ERA
I’m not sure where you’re getting this info from. Unless I’ reading this wrong, his last five starts are:
22 IP, 21 H, 15 K, 11 BB, 4.09 ERA
He’s got two relief appearances sandwiched in there which lower his ERA to 4.00 over 27 IP.
Source is: baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=bos…
I meant his July numbers which is my mistake only 4 starts not 5. And I meant appearances, not necessarily starts
yeah 23 walks in 37 innings pitched and above 5 walks in 15 IP.
Wachoff 2.0
And let Tropeano sit who was a MLB starter for the Angels until injuries.
Yeah but most of that is in his first 3 starts of the season with little or no real preparation. 13 walks in his first 3 games and 10 in the next 7
Akeem Bostick was an absolute stud in OOTP15 franchise mode. I think he ended up with like 4 Cy Young awards in my game.
You must have let the Mets front office know, hence the call-up.
I had to do my part.
I always enjoy when random players you’ve never heard of put up big numbers in that game.
A lot is based on pecota formulas in OOTP and he was also a 2nd round pick so the initial scouting numbers were probably on the higher end
I remember Lucas Duda was not a major prospect but ended up pretty similar to his MLB career because of the pecota projections of his minor league numbers
The existing minor leaguers are projected with pecota but I think they do their own internal scouting on draftees with no minor league stats
Thanks for the info! I’ve never really looked into how they calculate the ratings and projections. I do remember Duda being really good in OOTP 12, which was the first version I played.
I like it a lot, in any case. I think it does a solid job of emulating the randomness of the game, it would be boring if every prospect panned out exactly how they did in real life.
Since the Mets are so interest in pitchers with Rangers ties lately, it only makes sense for them to offer a few quality pitching prospects for Gibson and maybe Kennedy too.
This year’s version of Franklin Kilome.
*Franklyn
Thanks, Meet. Glad to know Franklyn has at least one fan looking out for him. Actually, if Mr Kilome was healthy, he might be the one selected here instead of Mr Bostick
It’s Bo time!
Did anybody else read that rumor that the Mets are trying to trade for Story and Gray? It’s from Jim Bowden, who I trust about as much as Bob Nightengale (just look up “Jim Bowden Marlon Byrd”) but it’s not the most unbelievable Mets rumor I’ve read this week
Interestingly, a notification about that trade rumor popped up on my phone and then disappeared. And now I can’t find the article on the MLB app. I wonder if Bowden is at it again
I saw it, too, but from the same source. Wouldn’t mind it, though they’re both rentals so I wouldn’t want the Mets to give up much for 8-10 starts of Gray and a struggling Story. Gray’s starts would be much needed but Story has been pretty bad at the plate this year and I’m not sure they need another underachieving hitter.
This guy’s cousin blew the 2015 NFC Championship game for the Packers
So Eickhoff sets the Mets record for DFAs in a single season, right?
Probably not resume material.
Tyler Anderson will now head to the Mariners after failing to go the the Phillies due to their prospect failing a medical and we should feel good about Bostick and the Mets letting Anderson go effectively twice!
Like I said in an earlier post as a long time Mets fan I can only hope Bostick gets rocked harder than Wackoff so Mets fans will wake up and see how truly inept Sandy and the bunch are.
But their is little hope in that when fans can’t distinguish between reality and fantasy games.
Bostick should have pitched in the Twins-Tigers game today. He might have been the best pitcher there.
Yankees get Gallo, A’s Marte, Brewers Escobar etc etc.. and who do the Mets get??? Prince Akeem??? smh now who the h… is prince Akeem?? Lol this is ridiculous smh.. give me Berrios hot dammit!! Lol incredible
Nice. We all set now to take the whole NL east and NL Championship.
Lol word