The Orioles announced that the Mets have claimed right-hander Reed Garrett off waivers. Garrett was designated for assignment by the O’s last weekend.
Garrett signed a minor league deal with Baltimore in the offseason, and his contract was selected to the MLB roster 11 days ago. The righty lasted only four days in the Show before being DFA’ed, with Garrett posting a 10.13 ERA over two appearances and 2 2/3 innings pitched. In the longer sample size of 22 2/3 innings thrown by Garrett at Triple-A Norfolk, he has a 1.59 ERA and a 28.4% strikeout rate, albeit with a 10.4% walk rate.
Originally a 16th-round draft pick for the Rangers in 2014, Garrett’s big league career began in 2019 when the Tigers selected him in the Rule 5 Draft but later returned him to the Texas organization. Garrett pitched in Japan with the Seibu Lions in 2020-21 with good results, before returning to North America on a minor league contract with the Nationals and getting into seven games (9 1/3 IP) with Washington in 2022.
In claiming Garrett, the Mets add a bit more bullpen depth to a pitching staff that has had more than its share of injuries. Garrett would be a bit of a late bloomer at 30 years old, but his numbers in Triple-A and in Nippon Professional Baseball are intriguing enough that the Mets might think the righty has some untapped potential.
This guy’s never been good but he does throw 100mph so not a bad low risk pick up
Unironically a Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighter pitcher would be a better pick up at this point for the Mets.
For some reason hitters see him well. Very little deception in his delivery. With Rapsoda and new Edgteonic cameras, looks like someone would have fixed him by now.
Here’s my prediction for Garrett’s Mets career. Called up almost immediately, pitches a few games where he gives up a bunch of runs, DFA’ed. I’d be surprised if he’s still in the Mets organization two weeks from now.
I’m not sure I see the point of this prediction. Its a fairly standard outcome that pretty much happens all the time in baseball. Its just part of the season-long process of maintaining a bullpen.
The point of this prediction is that it’s just a prediction. You’ve heard of people talking about sports before, right? I’ve watched the Mets do it with plenty of guys this year, moreso than any in recent memory and we’re not even halfway through the year. Not sure what your issue is.
He did throw 102 in triple a and set a record in Japan by throwing 105 if a good pitching coach could help him maybe he could be better than what he is
Considering that he’s 30, I imagine that many pitching coaches, some being good, still have not been able to turn him around.
But I forget, this guy is now a Mets player, so they surely will be the team that will fix him. Right?
Don’t forget the potential TJS. He’ll fit in just fine after todays debacle.
Great, another talentless nobody that is instantly going to be given a spot on the 25-man roster. I was equally appalled when they added Vinny Nattoli a little while ago. How many Jimmy Yacabonises, Dennis Santanas and now Reed Garretts will this team go through before they realize putting Triple-A players on your pitching staff gives you Triple-A results?
What else would you suggest they do?
@Cowtipper
I’m not sure what league you think the Mets are in. Players like this are being claimed by teams all over baseball every day. MLB rosters, specifically bullpens, are littered with these triple-A and quad-A types. Thats just the state of baseball today. We have substandard pitchers in our bullpen. We rotate them onto and off of the roster semi-regularly. So do most other teams. Its not cause for a tantrum.
The Mets have plenty of issues to be upset about. This isn’t really one of them.
Your mom must of dropped you or fed you paint chips instewsd of Cheerios
As a kid, I ate instewsds and instewsds of Cheerios.
How many people on this site failed English on grammar school? HAVE not OF. Does any commenter on this site know this?
@Mfs’,
As a kid, I ate instewsds and instewsds have Cheerios.
@Cowtipper Well said. The Mets FO (Cohen, really) recognized their desperate need for at least another star-caliber player towards the end of last offseason, but when they abandoned their pursuit of Correa somehow couldn’t figure out to repair the bullpen with even a modest portion of the $26m a year they were willing to pay Correa, and even though the likes of Andrew Chafin was available for very little.
So now they’re stuck with a bullpen with only three-and-a-half major league pitchers. It’s no surprise this is a team whose GM is a billionaire with no gift for assembling a complete team, and whose assistant GM in Eppler is the only former GM ever trolled by the team that fired him—the Angels were the first club to ever draft nothing but pitching after its GM departed, attributable to Eppler’s chronic inability to find useful pitching for his club.
Well-run teams who get stuck in this situation decide on their best options and let those pitchers pitch. Badly run teams, like the Mets, just hope to get lucky. Since the current FO can’t identify small differences in talent, all it really has, now, is rotating the next AAAA pitcher, then the next, and the next through their MLB club and hope to get lucky.
The triple A stats on this guy are lights out so AAA results ok with me
Did Showalter throw himself out of the game in total disgust of his own team? My gosh, could you lose in a worse way? Holy mother of cod.
2022. Phillies vs Mets. Phillies lost in a much more “horrific” fashion. In 2023 it went a different way. At the end of the day, they were only up 3 runs. So while it was ugly, I could hardly call it a historic travesty. Bad starting pitching (Carrasco only went 4). Bad defense. Bad bullpen. The bullpen is going to get blasted the most, but there were other factors.
I told you losers the day Baty was called up what would happen
Team is destroyed with this loser on it
Everything I said would happen happened
Defense will fall apart and he’ll choke big plays
100% accurate again. Team was so much better with Escobar but irrational prospect worshippers had to have this loser called up, because he’s young
Get a clue at some point. Just because a guy is young and unknown doesn’t mean he’s any good
@Camden453
You’re so right. Baty is the reason Jeff McNeil has stopped hitting. Its Baty who caused injuries to Verlander, Diaz, Carrasco, and Quintana. Baty is the source of the power shortages from Canha, Vogelbach, Marte, and for Lindor producing below his norm. Baty put the sticky substance on Scherzer’s and Smith’s arms. And its Baty’s fault that an entire locker room full of veterans can’t call a team meeting, get fired up, or demonstrate the kind of leadership that gets teams out of funks like this.
Baty is causing more new COVID mutations, gas prices to rise, and inflation to continue lingering. Baty messes up the order on your music playlists, makes you forget you had something in the oven until after it burns, and makes individual socks disappear from your dryer. Its all Baty’s fault.
Look, the be fair, I agree with you that Baty is not ready for regular major league duty, and I said that at the end of spring training when people whined about him being sent down. And I agree that the prospect worship reaches irrational levels. People read a BA article and see a good ranking and, in their heads, overstate what it means and romanticize that the prospect will be the next savior. They don’t understand that prospect rankings and evals are not projections of what the player will be, only of what his ceiling could be. And they get carried away.
And now you (and I) have gotten carried away as well.
lmao, geoff, you were one of the ones thnking he was the savior. I told everyone we should stick with Escobar
We dont have a chance in hell now that Escobar is gone
I can only pray Baty doesnt hit and gets demoted and banished to bust territory
I can guarantee you, the moment the Mets demote Baty and go with Guillorme/Mcneil at 3B the team will start winning again
“lmao, geoff, you were one of the ones thnking he was the savior.”
You’re arguing with strawmen here. Literally no one thought he’d be a savior. He’s a rookie prospect (highly touted but still). There will be (and have been) growing pains. One error in a game in June doesn’t mean you’re right about whatever point you’re making. Mets pitchers walked a couple and hit two batters in the inning. Did Baty cause that?
Further, Lindor, McNeil, Marte, Canha, Scherzer, Verlander, Carrasco, Vogelbach, Ottavino, and most of the middle relievers have played below expectations. Plus Diaz and Quintana have not even pitched. Is this Baty’s fault?
Nice discussion with fair points from both sides with you both @geofft and @Camden453. A little rough on the attack, but good points. And applause to @geofft for the use of sarcastic hyperbole to make your point.
Now from my observation, you guys know that I’ve often called out Mets fans and their media for overhyping Mets prospects. Baty is the latest. So is Alvarez. I’ve always been about letting a guy prove himself over at least 2 or 3 seasons before you start guaranteeing the potential production and contribution you will get from a young player. But of course, Baty and Alvarez were already getting votes for Cooperstown just like Ike Davis, Lastings Milledge, Fernando Martinez, Butch Huskey, Chris Donnels, Shawn Abner, Aaron Heilman, Generation K, etc. etc. etc. all were. Just let the kids show what they are at the MLB level before you start guaranteeing performance or trusting that you can hand the reins over to them instead of trusting a proven veteran guy (like Escobar) who has shown over many years that he’s a legit MLB starting player.
As for the Mets, with them having 85 games left, after the Dodgers game tonight, the Mets will be either 8 games back of the Dodgers (who almost certainly they ain’t catching) or they’ll be 9 games back of the Dodgers, Giants and Marlins for that last WC spot. And with the Phillies and Brews 5 games ahead of the Mets; and also a couple of games behind the Padres and Cubs respectfully. Like I said in another article thread, the Mets are going to be blazing hot the rest of the way, but they’ve been trending downward while key teams like the Marlins and Giants are trending upward, and the Mets still need to overtake the other 4 teams trying to grab a spot, before the Mets even get to that 6th WC spot. 85 games is still a lot of season, but with so many teams ahead of them, and the size of the deficit they have to make up to catch the teams holding spots, you have to play at a high level of winning games to overtake so many teams and overcome such a sizable deficit…especially when they aren’t likely to catch the Dodgers, so they’re hopes are trying to catch the Giants, Marlins and D-Backs who, according to media hype, supposedly are lesser teams that the Mets supposedly should be able to run down. We’ll see. So much time left, but it isn’t going to be easy, especially if the lead continues to be maintained over the next couple weeks or so, and certainly if it continues growing as it has.
World according to Camden…BATY IS THE DEVIL!! BATY PUT POISON IN THE PITCHERS ROSIN BAG!! BATY SLIPPED BUCK SOME ACID!! BATY SMOKES WEED WITH MR.MET! BATY SLEPT WITH MRS.MET!! BATY,BATY,BATY!!! AAAARRRRRGGGGHHHHH….
@brooklyn62
So Mrs. Met is messing around with Baty now? Dear goodness! Mr. Met thought their marriage was back on track after Syndergaard left! Poor Mr. Met needs to start facing the news about Mrs. Met. You can’t turn a garden tool into a housewife. They just get tangled up into too many weeds, and if you don’t watch out, they can give you Poison Ivy.
* typo
…Mets are going to need to be blazing hot the rest of the way…
The Mets bullpen IS blazing hot! Bunch of arsonists masquerading as relievers.
I wont apologize for my rage over Baty
It’s fans constantly clamoring for prospects that pressured the Mets to call Baty up. An entire season wasted
They were fine early on. Yeah, there were problems with the offense. The bullpen had problems. But nothing they couldnt work through if the defense was good
Just as I said would happen here in the thread when he was called up, the Mets totally lost confidence defensively when they added Baty. Any weak cog and mentally the team will lose confidence. Guillorme and Lindor almost instantly started having problems defensively
This is the same reason the 86 core hated Jeffries so much
I said all this would happen. With modern analytics run by geeks, they dont think any of this is real, but it is. You add a guy that is shaky and the mentality spreads to everyone else
So you’re saying Baty worships Lord Beelzebub? Zoinks!
You don’t get any points by calling us losers, Camden.
Idiot, do you not know how to baseball?
I hate to say I told all the hordes of clueless ones so, but I told you so
You told us that Baty would have an error in June?
Baty had a huge error and may have cost the Mets the game and series. He’s not a good fielder. This is going to happen, but Carrasco didn’t pitch well and was pulled early. The Mets bullpen stinks. Baty isn’t the sole problem for the Mets, and it seems odd to call him out when the team has been losing every way possible.
He couldn’t possibly be worse than what they have.
Baty? Right now he’s merely replacement level for the season and for his career. Escobar and Gullorme are better than that, and neither would have booted the DP grounder that glued itself to Baty’s throwing hand.
Garrett probably replaces Brigham now.
But Brigham’s young.
Utes shall be served.
You’re right, and its too bad. Brigham had a very good start. But he’s fallen apart a majority of the time this past month. But this is why he’s a reliever.
I haven’t seen anybody call attention to Pitching Coach Jeremy Hefner being an issue. Mets fans- discuss.
@brooklyn62 I’m more concerned with the performance of Syracuse Mets pitching coach Kyle Driscoll. Other than Lucchesi he hasn’t gotten even mediocre performance out of any of Syracuse’s starters. The entire staff’s walk rate averages 5 per 9. As for bullpen filler, guys like Reyes, Nogosek, Curtiss, and Yacabonis end up with ERAs over 5 *in Syracuse* and appear completely incapable of doing what guys like this need to do: pitch adequately (they won’t do better than that) once they reach the majors, with ERAs around 4.25-4.50. Instead they walk the park, collapse under pressure, give up line drives in the gap and 440′ HR.
Hard to know if there’s anything resembling an intelligible chain of command, but Hafner should have plenty of input into what’s happening–and not happening–in Syracuse. Should, but when your de facto GM has no training as a GM and didn’t think to run a shadow FO during the decade he was seeking to buy the Mets, who knows, really.
Great points, JackStrawb!
Why not designate Billy Eppler for assignment? Padres trade for Josh Hader, we get Reed Garrett. Braves trade for Sean Murphy, we get Omar Narvaez. Phillies sign Castellanos, we trade for Daniel Vogelbach. Billy InEppler should be canned. Worst GM in all of sports history. 400 million dollar payroll and meanwhile the Reds, who’ve barely spent an 1/8th of the Mets payroll is in first place in their division. Really goes to show you that spending money on quantity never beats spending money on quality. Also a terrible evaluator of talent. Can anyone a reliever Eppler traded for or got from another teams DA bin that actually performed well for the Mets? I can’t think of one
Package Eppler and Vogelslug. Maybe a Mexican league team would give us a 6 pack of Dos Equis and call it good.
Billy Eppler is top 5 worst GMs.
It’s funny he’s getting all the blame. I think Cohen is responsible for this mess. Moves like Pham and Senga really worked out, but Mets fans ignore that and complain that Eppler sucks because of Vogelbach. This Mets team went all in on 2 older starters. That was Cohen.
@vonpurplehayes you forget about Tyler Naquin, Dennis Santana, Darin Ruf, Zack Muckinhern, Mychael Givens, Escobar, extending Tomas Nido, etc. Lets not forget how they didnt even give Gary Sanchez a chance. His batting average might be low but hes been hitting homerun after homerun. There is other moves that Eppler did like not constructing a good bullpen, excercising Carrasco’s option, signing Quintana, etc. Eppler is no good and honestly he is the worst GM in a while. Ever seen Saturday Night Fever? There is a scene where Trevolta is looking at himself in the mirror, doing his hair, and complimenting how hot he looks. Thats what Billy Eppler does whenever he wakes up in the morning. He’s been blaming everyone but himself. The lack of accountabiliy he has is disgusting. No wonder the Angels finished under .500 every year for the 5 years he ran the team. He did not deserve a 4 year contract. I wouldn’t of even signed him in the first place. Gms like Dave Dombrowski were available, its not like there was no one ele
The team was fundamentally built around the starting pitchers Cohen wanted to get. The starting pitching underperformed. Eppler deserves plenty of blame, but so does Cohen. Also I think letting go of Bassitt and Walker was a huge mistake. Everyone keeps talking about the 101 win Mets, those two guys were a huge part of that and you let them walk for Carassco and Megill. If you want to blame Eppler for that one, then go right ahead.
Honestly though, when the Braves traded for Sean Murphy especially when they had Conteras and I can’t recall the other catcher, there was some that were chiding the move, saying “why the heck did we give up two catchers for one and a prospect”. Now, that they see the move and how good it ended up being along with pairing up with Travis, the naysayers are all but a ghost in the wind until he has a bad stretch. 😛
The Braves are a smartly run organization, but they also hit some luck, especially with the SS situation.