The Mets announced they’ve selected infielder Deven Marrero onto the major league roster. He replaces Luis Guillorme, who has landed on the 10-day injured list with a left groin strain (as reported earlier). New York also recalled catcher Michael Pérez from Triple-A Syracuse, placing fellow backstop Tomás Nido on the COVID-19 injured list in a corresponding move. Nido doesn’t count against the team’s 40-man roster while on the virus list, so no additional move was necessary to accommodate Marrero’s promotion.
Marrero, 32 next week, is headed to the big leagues for the second straight year. He appeared in 10 games with the division-rival Marlins last season, frequently bouncing on and off the roster depending on Miami’s need for additional infield insurance. He didn’t reach the majors in the shortened 2020 campaign, but he’d also gotten to the big leagues each year from 2015-19.
A former first-round draftee of the Red Sox, Marrero has settled in as a journeyman utility type. He’s never made much of an offensive impact, compiling a career .194/.250/.284 line with six home runs over 367 career big league plate appearances. Marrero owns a .230/.292/.335 line in parts of eight seasons at the Triple-A level, including a .236/.325/.358 showing in 32 games with Syracuse since signing a minor league contract with the Mets last month.
Marrero has the ability to cover anywhere on the infield, with the vast majority of his professional innings coming at shortstop. He can play second and third base as needed, and that defensive flexibility is of value to a New York team dealing with a couple injuries on the infield. None is more notable than the groin strain that’s likely to cost Guillorme more than a month of action, but New York also saw Eduardo Escobar sit out two games over the weekend due to some soreness in his left side. Escobar is in tonight’s staring lineup at third base and shouldn’t require an injured list stint, but Marrero adds some additional cover if manager Buck Showalter wants to mix in a few more rest days for the veteran Escobar.
Anthony DiComo of MLB.com first reported Marrero was being promoted.
Ahh, so it is COVID-19 for Nido. That makes the roster move easier.
I don’t know what I’m more shocked at: Deven Marrero still playing organized baseball or the fact that he’s only turning 32. It seems like we first heard of him and his ‘pedigree’ at least 15 years ago with Boston. He was a nice kid and worked hard but he was a terrible first round draft pick for Boston. I can’t believe with all the money and depth that the Mets have, Marrero is the best option to call up as a utility infielder right now? I understand he is only a Covid replacement and will be sent back down to AAA shortly but it still amazes me that he was the one to get the call while the Mets are in a playoff race.
Dorothy, he’s exactly what the team needs, a defender first infielder who can play multiple positions. When rosters expand, he could even be called up in September should he not stick through August. If not him, the team could pick up someone similar for the stretch run. No one expected Boston last year to get Iglasias but the team wouldn’t have made the playoffs without him. His bat last year was a surprise. The Mets have no playoffs worries but still can even reshape the 25tg and 26th spots with likely less pitchers.
Are you comparing Iglesias to Marrero? Lol.
He’s already DFAed today
No. Just mentioning how Boston got him for defense when his bat was also big down the stretch. A great surprise.
He’ll go back to the minors then but could resurface due to injuries or on 09/01.
He wasn’t DFAed. He’s playing third base.
Waiver wire legend.
Vientos or Baty should have been called up. Time to give these talented young guys a time to see what they can do.
Buck wants them to stay put he said no
It’s too early to call up Baty.
Baty has been called up and will report to camp on Wednesday 8/17 it was just anounced before the game started. So you got what you wanted lets hope he is ready. The team says he is the closest to be ready and in the playoff battle he is the first one coming.
Vientos has played so poorly in the field he is no longer considered a third basemen. He is a RH 1B/DH, and Baty has only had 2 weeks in AAA, until he proves he can sustain success at that level he doesn’t belong in the majors.
Or until the Mets minor league system can produce players ready to play after some time at AA. Their best players routinely arrive in MLB at 20, 21, and 22, and are successful.
Buck has always seemed to shy away from rookies, especially down the stretch. Lou was the same way.
That makes sense, toycannon. There’s enough pressure on top prospects called up in August without adding a pennant race into the mix.
This is also a job for someone to sit on the bench, not play everyday. In the minors, the kids will continue to play everyday. That’s better for them, and the team.
Looks like they are in the plans for next year
Devin Marrero is temporary until the regulars return. Vientos’ defense is not MLB caliber and if they bring Baty up, they have to make a roster decision this late in the season. In the past, they brought up MiLB players when the rosters expanded. Buck Showalter is an expert in using AAA as a pseudo bench.
All said, I still would like to see what Baty can do but I understand that a few days of coaching him at AAA isn’t enough time.
With a COVID move, no decision needed. Didn’t Devon replace Neto?
Neither of them play SS, which is the need at the moment
What I’ve read is they need defensive flexibility and neither is ready even to play 3B at the major league level
This is the boost they needed
I’m calling a bloop hit tonight
I’m just here to say that one again, the Mets get another call go their way on replay. Truly amazing! You can’t make this stuff up!
Dude they already have 2 infield hits through 7 batters. Hilarious…
Riley makes good contact, but right at Marte. Mets make contact.- off the glove, infield hit, or bloop. This wouldn’t be a problem if that wasnt the theme of their season.
You just can’t handle being curb stomped last week. Mets put the ball in play better than anyone. If the Braves weren’t busy striking out 19 times in Striders last game maybe they’d have more base runners
Ok
Sore losing fan base. Can’t make this stuff up. Even the homer Braves announcers didn’t expect the call to be overturned because you couldn’t tell if he was out. Way to close so the call stayed the way the umpire called it, which was the right thing to do.
Sore losing fan base lol. StridersLeg is just trolling giving you all a taste of what Braves fan deal with here with MetFan Put in the books dude.
He’s already gone 3 for 5 against the Phillies this coming weekend.
“already gone”
“this coming weekend”
That’s the power of Marrero, he has already gotten hits in future series
Forever Giant
Marrero’s back! Marrero’s back! I missed these threads.
Did he get DFA-ed yet, or are the Mets until after tonight’s game, so they can bring him back again in a few days before DFA-ing again?
For every kid that is not good enough to play, try to be as good as Marrero. At least you can keep getting called up and then DFA-ed, then called up again, then DFA-ed… All those free trips to MLB cities!
Marlin – ….trips to MLB cities, he will receive a prorated $700,000 (which is somewhere between $3500-$4000 per day he spends in the MLB). Joke all you want, but in two weeks in the MLB he makes as much as the family average annual income in about half the states in the USA….
It’s a good life, isn’t it. I remember last year how many times the Marlins brought him up, DFA-ed him, sent him down, then brought him back again. He kept the MLBTR team filled with updates.
The baseball G-ds had to gift the Braves a run because McNeil was out at first. At some point, their luck will out. Who knows about tonight though.- if the game gets suspended, the Mets may get away with a win with Strider not finishing that game.
It’s not luck that your moron manager blew a challenge on a call too close to overturn, with two outs in the second inning and the bottom of the lineup coming up.
Do you mean the manager that won the world series last year!
Yep that’s the one he means. Stupid decision tonight
Wait, managers win World Series? I thought pitcher and manager wins went out of style in the teens.
They sure didn’t hesitant to change the call at home plate though for the Mets. Not to close for the Mets – they even took the effort to overturn it because clearly there is clear and convincing evidence Alonso was safe
Looks like the Mets just broke another pitcher.
The Mets are a laughing stock!
The Phils also won game 1 and gave away 2 games after. Braves need to beat the overachievers tomorrow and the rest of the series too. There is not much time left if they want the division. Good job by Strider tonight – of course he gave up 2 lucky hits again but this time he was able to hold them from scoring. I don’t know how people can look at there lineup and think what they are doing offensively is sustainable in the playoffs. They have one great hitter in Nimmo, who will be a free agent. McNeil is also a gamer with his non-selfish approach. Otherwise, it is nothing special.
This was the one game in the series where the Braves had the favorable pitching match up. Not so much the next three.Just remember the Mets schedule in September is what the Braves had in June.
The Braves schedule is not hard either. Regardless, the Mets are due for a losing week or 2 or 3. They had zero bumps on the road the entire season. Usually, this stuff happens when you least expect it. Knowing how everything has been going the Mets way this season, it only makes sense for them to go on a losing streak during the time you least expect it.
Do you really think the Braves are going to play .700 ball for four months? The Braves are due to lose more then the Mets are. The Mets starters are too good to lose to many in a row.
They did last season didn’t they? or at least close to it.
The Mets have been playing this good since opening day. The Yankees are a great example of a team currently slumping after 1st half dominance. No one pitcher is unhittable for the entire season. Max and deGrom will have their bad moments at some point.
The one thing I’ll give the Mets is ‘Narco’ for Diaz. I think William should find a new walk-up song and give Diaz sole exclusivity to the song. Let him savor this season because the idiot who gives him a large contract next season will probably forgo using it next season because he won’t be good enough to deserve it.
They did not play that way last year. They only won 88 games last year and had a bunch of retreads get hot in the playoffs. Let’s not overstate how good they were.Degrom had a 1.08 era last year and looks better so far this year. Keep hoping for that bad moment or as you all say for the Braves to get “lucky”.
Yes that is a little weird for the Braves to be playing it just like it was awkward for Mets fans to be be doing the tomahawk chop. Both teams need to leave certain things alone.
I honestly don’t remember when William started using Narco, but I know for sure he was using that song prior to the games against the Mets. I just agree with what Gary said in the broadcast. Diaz popularized that song…let him have it out of respect.
@Mets698622 You kind of made his point or proved it by your example of the Braves. Most teams don’t dominate for a course of a year. It could happen but I’m sure teams would rather get hot late rather than early like the Braves last year. The Braves staff had 3 HoF guys in the 90s and they had a hard time getting it done when it counted the most. Don’t assume because you have great starters that they will get the job done in October. Also it’s not like these guys are very reliable heath wise. Imo and what I personally want is Braves Yanks or Mets Yanks World Series. Coming from a Braves fan
The Mets are due for a losing week or several, they have schezer and degrom back
We are talking about winning the division not the World Series. The Mets, Braves, Dodgers, Padres will all be hard series in the playoffs for anyone.
What about Alonso buddy isn’t he a great hitter? Lindor? I agree i don’t buy the Mets but to say “they have one great hitter in nimmo” (which i agree, he is a great hitter) is eczema
I guess they all went to bed early. Nowhere near as mouthy as they wear the last week or so and earlier today
As the wear what?
Still in first place.
Yep a strong regular season team and to make it possibly to the NLCS and lose to the Phillies or something crazy like that. Got to love baseball. And got to love October baseball. Bring your jackets!