The Mets designated outfielder Nick Plummer for assignment and selected the contract of right-hander R.J. Alvarez from Triple-A Syracuse on Tuesday. New York has also formally placed right-hander Carlos Carrasco on the 15-day injured list due to an oblique strain (as was previously reported), optioned righty Adonis Medina to Syracuse and recalled right-hander Stephen Nogosek from Syracuse. They’ll need to make an additional move tomorrow when they select top prospect Brett Baty to the 40-man roster for his MLB debut.
Plummer, 26, was a first-rounder by the Cardinals back in 2015 and reached minor league free agency following the 2021 season, never having been called up to the big leagues. The Mets inked Plummer to a Major League contract despite that lack of MLB experience, and they indeed gave him his big league debut earlier this season. Plummer excited Mets fans with homers in back-to-back games in late May, but he went hitless over his next 22 plate appearances before being sent back to Triple-A Syracuse.
Things haven’t gone particularly well for Plummer in Syracuse, either. Through 58 games and 246 plate appearances this season, he turned in a lowly .232/.317/.370 batting line — numbers that loosely align with his career .222/.358/.360 output in just over 2000 career plate appearances in the minors. He’ll hit waivers or be released within the next week, as the passing of the trade deadline means that players who are designated for assignment can no longer be traded to other clubs.
The 31-year-old Alvarez will be taking a Major League mound for the first time since way back in 2015 if Showalter calls him into tonight’s game. He’s had a nice year in Syracuse, pitching to a 3.38 ERA in 34 2/3 frames — albeit with an unsightly 13.4% walk rate in that time. This marks the second time Alvarez has been selected to the Major League roster in 2022, but he didn’t get into a game before being optioned back to Syracuse and eventually designated for assignment (and subsequently outrighted). He’s up as an extra arm, and the Mets will need another 40-man move for Baty tomorrow, so it could be yet another brief stay on the 40-man roster for the former Padres and A’s righty.
Sleepy Dom Smith lives another day.
Dom Smith’s days are numbered LOL.
I still can’t believe they drafted him instead of Aaron Judge.
“Sleepy dom”
Are you mocking hus sleep apnea or depression. Im guessing you use the term jab as well.
He’s just being a jerk.
*replies to self*
This was a complete was of a first round choice by the Cardinals… Randy Flores has done much better
Another Mets thread. Yippie.
Damn those Mets for making transactions.
Exactly
This dude was impressive with 2 hrs & 6 rbis. Don’t count this guy out. He looked very athletic
Mets might be knee jerking on this guy, give him a chance.
Yeah that .222 minor league batting average over six seasons has impressive written all 9ver it.
Plummer is 25, trade him to the Braves, we’ll give him a shot
We’re all “9ver” it
That would make the Braves just as stupid as you. Seens unlikely.
Did you read the article? Since the trade deadline has passed it said he couldn’t be traded. Which surprised me because I thought players could still be traded but after the deadline could not appear in the post season. Maybe someone can clear this up for me? Like the author?
That was the old rule after August 31 (the deadline for waiver trades). Now only players who haven’t been on the 40-man roster at all over the course of the season can be traded.
Minor league trades outside of 40-man rosters with players who hadn’t been on one this year can be made. What’s gone is “irrevocable waivers” which allowed high paid, for the most part, major leaguers to pass through with an agreement that the trading team gets prospects via waivers. Now, a DFA can just be claimed for his remaining contract taking the burden away from the team that let him go. If he goes unclaimed then gets signed elsewhere for the minimum, that amount comes off what the original team owed.
Oh please. Nothing about Plummer says he’s anything but AAAA fodder. You’re evaluating him on two games. Look at his career, how little other teams value him.
Phillies fans remember that one game…
And a wonderful game it was…
Nah this is no knee jerk, plummer is a slap dick prospect who will more than likely always align with his career numbers
What’s the definition of slap dick?
“There all slap dick till there not”-Trevor Pluoffe. Come on you know the definition of slap dick. A slap dick is just as good as the next slap dick which is all a slap dick is till there not a slap dick which means they made it in the major leagues
Good luck to Alvarez on his call-up today, the next great Mets prospect since…..ummm??? David Wright?!
Wrong alvarez
You have trouble seeing Nimmo, McNeill and Alonso when you watch these games? Lol. You are such a homer
None of these guys should be compared to Wright.
Your starting catcher was a top Mets prospect.
Alex Ochoa, Lastings Milledge, Jason Tyner…for all the hype and hope we all have for prospects, the odds are always against them. Very few live up to expectations.
Mets Players !!
Take it easy in the RESTROOMS !!
Mets will not have a PLUMMER !!!!
I end my sentences with a BANG !!!
Go easy Jon, some people are unable to control their MODULATION!!!
At least he’s got his next career lined up
Can’t wait to see Baty.
Well at least we know what his next career will be
Glad we see Perez instead of Alvarez, what a relief
Ugly day for Cardinal former 1st round picks. Piscotty gets released by the Athletics and now this with Plummer. Ouch.
Piscotty been crying DFA since that one good season with the athletics.
Mets just broke another pitcher.
Its really been since 2015 since the last time Alvarez pitched in the majors? Crazy how time passes so fast
Too bad for Plummer. Must be wrenching to get DFA’d. But he had his rooters for a while there.
Someone will probably grab him
I’m glad the Mets are going to RJ Alvarez now rather than the 10 to 20 other better pitchers they could have signed on minor league contracts in the offseason
Alex Claudio is still in AAA and pitching effectively. Should’ve called him up instead of someone that was so nervous to be on a ML mound that he nearly decapitated two Braves.
Eppler is a sorry GM; all his 1/2 DH moves robbed the bench depth of players who can play the field and now you have Long Island Duck playing 3rd against your division rival and did I mention the catcher who started?