The Mets are acquiring catcher Michael Perez from the Pirates in exchange for cash considerations, per Jon Heyman of the New York Post (via Twitter). This is the second deal consummated between these two sides in the past two days (Yesterday, the Pirates sent designated hitter Daniel Vogelbach to New York for Colin Holderman). In this case, Perez was designated for assignment yesterday, so the acquisition cost for the Mets was negligible.
To make room on the 40-man roster, the Mets have designated Travis Blankenhorn for assignment, per Tim Healey of Newsday Sports (via Twitter). Blankenhorn was called up to the active roster yesterday, so his designation clears an active roster spot for either Perez or Vogelbach.
In the short run, Perez serves as catching depth, should Tomas Nido require a stint on the injured list for his bruised hand. In that case, Perez would join with Patrick Mazeika to form the Mets’ catching tandem. In the long run, Perez can be optioned to Triple-A, so he can remain in the Mets’ organization to serve as depth once Nido and/or James McCann return.
For the Pirates, this is simply a way to pick up some extra cash for a player they might have lost anyway. They have Jason Delay and Tyler Heineman handling catching duties with Perez now out of the organization. Veteran Roberto Perez remains sidelined after hamstring surgery back in May.
Why??
Nido hurt i guess
Because McAnn and Nido are hurt. And they don’t feel Alvarez is ready, which I agree with.
He should be a big help with his 150 BA
One thing he does have is pop. A lot of power for those rare times he doesn’t get out.
Both the starter and backup are injured. This is to cover them for a brief min
I will probably see a meltdown from mets fans who think this is our real trades
How stupid do you think Mets fans are? We are a championship caliber team, so we are fully aware this isn’t a big trade. Give us some credit
I think you are giving yourselves at little too much credit imo
billy eppler, the man who wouldn’t know positive depth if it hit him in the face
Because we have 2 hurt catchers, and Chicago is probably asking too much at the moment.
Because he could be awful and still be a noticeable upgrade from what we currently have. But wow, he IS bad. Still…
Mets picking up pirates trash garbagefrom the side of the road i see
The Pirates specialize in dumpster diving
And you specialize in being a homer. Sheez.
Yoshi, Van Meter, are representative of dumpster diving
You can call me all the names you wish, I remember when ownership spent money to be competitive
Nutting cares more about profit than putting a competitive team on the field
The downward spiral began yesterday and will continue to go on. Average team has played average baseball lately. That 9-1 extra-innings record is the reason they are in first.
Agreed, the team that is 22 games over .500 and dominates in extra innings is in the midst of a complete meltdown because they traded for a 4th string catcher. Thank you for your incredible insight and wisdom. You are an asset to this country, a real Steve Bannon as it were.
First level of grief….denial.
First stage of denial is having the profile picture you do. Good grief chap get a grip.
Oh i see, you were offended because Trump. You are that kind of person. Sorry he hurt your feelings. Put a bandaid on.
Nah I wasn’t offended in the least. It’s just like the dude who keeps talking about his high school sports days. Move on, it’s gonna be ok.
You’re the one who brought up his profile pic out of nowhere
Yes. As a survivor of a cult, I do my best to confront any signs of cult-ish behavior I see in the wild.
@Onefiver ROFL plus you get in a Bannon reference! Well-played.
Not crazy about either trade but it’s early and these are small moves. And since when is 9-1 in ghost runner extras a bad thing?
And those posts below about red tie. Haha
A dude who can’t stop talking about high school sports days combined with Captain Queeg.
The Braves and Mets will be battling it out till the end. They’re both really good teams.
Can’t possibly imagine what your motivation would be in predicting doom and gloom for the Mets.
To me 9-1 in extra innings shows their depth and ability to stay in every game and drive runners in scoring position home. I get it. You’re a Braves fan, and it’s frustrating the Mets always get the hype, but this year it’s well deserved; the Mets are legit.
Yep the Mets have lucked out on Manfred’s ridiculous man on second base in extra innings. That simply will not continue. Braves are coming for 1st place soon.
Yes! The Manfred Mann at second rule is the reason the Mets have a better record then your team. Keep your mindnumbingly stupid takes coming!!
9-1 in extras is a negative… right, got it.
Just think he means it will regress to the mean. Going 9-1 in the next 10 not likely.
I mean clearly going 9-1 is extras has everything to do with skill and not luck. Just look at the last few against the Cubs and Marlins. The Mets did all the work to win.
Good defensive catcher. Interesting player offensively. He doesn’t make contact much, but when he does, he hits the ball hard. Home runs tend to come in spurts for him.
He fits in good we need another strikeout guy in our lineup
He’s just catching for a couple of days.
If you look at it this way he’s an upgrade from Mazeika
Exactly. That’s all this is. Mets are down 2 catchers. They just need a better replacement for a few games.
Michael Perez is certaintly not a good defensive catcher.
Mets most active team at the Deadline..come on AJP step up!
I get it. They need a catcher(s), but they couldn’t find one better Michael Perez?
Not one that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg. Chicago is probably asking for just that at the moment. The Mets are letting the market for the bigger names settle so they can pay a more realistic price for said players.
Not immediately. Obviously they feel they’re desperate for a pickup NOW. I could see him being released or demoted quickly once the other ducks line back up.
For Cohens spare change, no.
Mets fans have gotten spoiled real quick. It takes more than $20m players to keep a roster going!
He’s just catching for a couple of days.
What’s shocking – this is not really a downgrade from NYM C offense. Nido has been feeble and Mazeika is 4A
Nido is awful. They absolutely cannot go into next season with him as a starter
Mets catchers have the worst OPS in baseball. It’s .501, which is shockingly bad. Thankfully, the other positions have picked up slack for the most part.
Nothing wrong with this move at all As he is minor league depth but there better darn sure be some big moves ahead cause with degrom coming back and heading to free agency along with many others this is the time to make a run. These 2 guys dont make the lineup much better. Need a righty with pop along with 1-2 bullpen arms
bk11235, need a lefty and a righty with pop and at least 2 relievers!!
Ill settle fir a righty. No lefties with pop out there. Hence vogelbach
Soto lol
Soto ain’t out there for mets
Remember when Mets fans thought they would trade for Soto, Cruz, Mancini, Bell, and Castillo because “CoHEn iS a WiNNeR”
They got a few pirate bums instead
Imagine being so dumb that you assume random depth moves in late July are the total sum of a teams trade deadline moves. Oh wait! You don’t have to imagine that because you actually are!
Just imagine those players being available for the right price in prospects…bet you wish your owner could afford just release players to take on better ones.
The Brewers fan talking smack like if he knows what a winning team looks like ♂️
Remember when time continued on rather than stopping forever and the future exists? Still plenty of time to make other trades. Or not, they’re still in first place anyway and deGrom isn’t even back yet. Man, the Mets really live inside some folks.
No and neither do you. You’re just making things up because you have nothing better to do.
Gonna put on my Amazin’ Kreskin cap and make a prediction:
“August 4th, 2022: The Mets have designated Michael Perez for assignment.”
He’s here for a handful of games so the team doesn’t have to rush Alvarez and burn two weeks of his service time. While part of me wouldn’t have minded seeing one of the Nicks (Meyer or Dini) get a couple ABs to see how they fare against MLB pitching, I’m not going to get upset about a move that literally cost the team money and nothing else.
You think he’s going to make it to the 4th?
It just depends on Nido’s injury. As soon as he’s back, Nido is gone, unless he manages to go on a tear or something offensively (very unlikely), in which case Mazeika would be gone. None of the three can hit a lick.
Wanted him for catching depth. I like the pickup.
Interesting move to say the least, but getting anything out of Perez is a plus in my eyes. Jason Delay’s recent success finally pushed Perez out, which I am okay with.
I heard the pitchers like throwing to Delay.
He was considered a plus defender throughout the minors. I see him as a Jacob Stallings 2.0. He doesn’t change the future of Henry Davis or Endy Rodriguez, but at least provides a quality second option.
Here’s hoping the Mets go all in and take Gamel, Quintana, Marisnik and VanMeter, too. Nice to see the Pirates have found a place to send their castoffs
Eppler loves mediocrity, thats all he has ever created as a GM
Interesting take. I mean he is the one who got the players who are actually doing well right now. Scherzer, Marte, Canha, Escobar, and Bassitt are all his, and they are big reason why we’re in first place. But go ahead with your bad self…
Take Escobar off that list, but otherwise you have a good point
LOL, that was uncle Steves money!! how did he do with the bullpen in the offseason?? Any GM can sign FAs when u have lots of cash….Joelly was a bad trade and Bassitt has been ok but he gave up a couple good pitching prospect for him. i hope Stearns is brought in next year and dump this Alderson/Eppler combo….
You consider Perez to be mediocre? You can’t even uselessly insult the GM right. (Say it with me, every team makes small moves, not every move has to be a blockbuster… repeat that until you understand it.)
Cosmo, lol i didnt even say a word about Perez!! Perez is probably his best move because he didnt give up the better player in a trade for once lol….
Pirates one stop shop for your 4th outfielder, 5th starter, utility man.
Hahahahahah
McCann on DL, Nido took a ball off his wrist behind the plate last night, so they have AAA Mazeka now as Primary until he returns and they need a backup. So Perez fits the need, doesn’t cost much, and can go to AAA when not needed, or if they get Contreras from Cubs the formula changes.
I’m usually never a “call up Vientos to DH!” guy or “call up [this or that top prospect]!” guy
But in Alvarez’ case, I don’t get the absolute insistence to keep him at AAA
I get the “defense arguments” and all the arguments about “calling pitches” and “working with pitchers.”
The pitchers aren’t these fragile flakes that need just the right catcher to function or something
Its a lot of scared managing. Absolutely no harm in calling up Alvarez to catch
Maybe they don’t want to lower his prospect value if he hits .180, but if they have no intention to trade him then he should be up
Alvarez will log more time at catcher in AAA and Mets pitchers may not like pitching to him in the bigs. Plus, he’s only played nine games in AAA and only has 3 hits in 27 ABs.
But I agree, their total inability to hit at catcher is reaching a breaking point. If they’re still not hitting at all deep into August, I wouldn’t be surprised if Alvarez got called up.
Didn’t Scherzer sing Praises for Alvarez when he was rehabbing?
Yes but that could easily have been lip service
Alvarez did not catch Scherzer, so Scherzer may have just been talking about Alvarez’s overall makeup. Alvarez DH’ed the game Scherzer pitched. McCann caught Scherzer because he was also on a rehab assignment in Binghamton. Source: I was there! And it was a blast!
Sandy Alderson still is calling the shots. Dumpster Diving and All or Nothing who takes walks Vogelbach moves instead of going all in. Remember Jay Bruce LOL.
Blankenhorn is actually not that bad and he should be claimed.
Mets making themselves worse with these poorly planned moves.
They “dumpster dived” their team into a 280 million dollar payroll. Marte, Scherzer, Canha has been great. Your take is so off base, unsurprisingly.
Some people are just clueless or enjoy complaining.
I’d give the Mets management some time on this one, we still have Mazeika who does a decent job and Nido isn’t on the IL as of yet, may be they just wanted a quick, cheap, warm body until a large deal can be made. If this guy is as bad as everyone is saying, also may be they could give Alvarez a shot for a short while.
The Mets needed a guy who could catch for a few days. He’ll be optioned to AAA for depth. Win/Win for both clubs.
Short sighted knee jerk moves instead of solving the starting Catcher position. Mets need a starting Catcher to win like when they had Jerry Grote, Gary Carter, and Mike Piazza.
(A bit of Mets winning History for ya Frank Cashen is rolling over)
Good grief, I put this in the wrong thread. My bad.
This is just the result of Alderson/Eppler poor management.
The move itself means nothing. But when you look around you see a couple of dumpster divers
Lack of imagination has always plagued Sandy in particular. His roster construction has always been below average. The one thing he’s got going is he’s a great con.
I knew enough to bet Atlanta to win this division and now I’m more sure than ever.
They had an immediate need for a catcher. He didn’t cost prospects. He’s not gonna be the starter for the rest of the season. Get a grip.
Tell me a team that has a better *4TH STRING* catcher just chilling on the roster. What sort of creativity would you like to see a front office pull off in order to not have to make relatively meaningless depth moves on a regular basis. You don’t know quite as much as you think you do apparently.
IMO Philly has a better 4th catcher but your point stands.
They have one of the highest payrolls in baseball. Calling them ‘dumpster divers’ makes absolutely no sense. If you’re going to hate, please try to have the slightest clue as to what you’re talking about.
Blankenhorn of Plenty’s DFA cleared the spot for Perez. Vogelbach takes Holderman’s 40-man roster spot.
Really what it comes down to is the Pirates thought Considerations was an improvement over Perez and yes I can see why. Alot of teams have interest in Considerations,brings alot to the table. Team first attitude, fills any position. Can slot him in anywhere always want him on hand. Kind of a necessity not a luxury.
He prefers to be called by his first name: “Cash.”
Which is oddly enough os what Ron Darling calls his son.
I hope an organization with a long term plan for Blankenhorn claims him and ends his status as a AAAA/AAA gypsy. The guy deserves better. Are you seeing this Farhan Zaidi ??
How is LaStella working out for the Giants at 2B ??
When he was with the Rays he had nice power to left center, now he’s dead pull and you can see the results.
The Mets are a good team but man they have some bad hitting catchers
The Mets should’ve been in on Jacob Stallings this off season… (checks bRef)… uh boy! Yikes
The type of trade that warms bob nuttings heart like no other.
Bob Nutting ( Pirates Owner) favorite transaction…. Cash. Take a look at the number of recent Pirates Prospects signed to 2nd contacts. We need a new owner that wants to win. Bob just wants to do the bare minimum, then put cash in his bank account. His motto “ Screw the fans”. I am all business and about my money.