The Mets have claimed right-hander Kevin Herget off waivers from the Brewers, per a report from Robert Murray of FanSided. There had been no prior indication that Herget was designated for assignment, though with today’s deadline to activate players from the 60-day injured list plenty of 40-man roster movement is to be expected around the league.
Herget, 34 in April, signed a minor league deal with the Brewers last offseason after being cut loose by the Reds. He went on to get a limited amount of big league action in the majors in 2024, tossing 11 1/3 innings for Milwaukee with two earned runs allowed. In Triple-A, he had a larger sample of work, posting a 2.27 earned run average in 47 2/3 innings. He struck out 32.4% of batters faced at that level while only giving out walks 6% of the time.
The Mets were apparently intrigued by those strong numbers, grabbing Herget off waivers today. The Mets just lost Brooks Raley, Adam Ottavino, Ryne Stanek and Drew Smith to free agency so they have filled in some lost bullpen depth with this claim. Despite his age, Herget is still in his pre-arbitration years and is therefore cheap and can potentially be controlled for years to come.
There’s more than 1 Herget? Who knew? You can have the one on the Cubs too. Have a Herget monopoly.
Cue 50 “banned baseball experts” explaining how stupid David Stearns is in-between eating crayons
Cue the trolls that say such things. When they’ve 50 accounts spreading that narrative. Where’s the grammar cop or the fake mod or the trade trout guy. Minor moves aren’t a big deal real people understand that.
Stearns cookout in full effect
Let’s not go dumpster diving now, unless they’re saving here and there for the big boys
Guy was knocked around like a pinata in 2023.
What do you know. Stearns is supposed to be a veteran front office guy. Yet only feels comfortable taking scrap from the brewers. Pathetic. If he made real moves at deadline, perhaps Mets would have a WS team by now
You have the computational capability of a wet sock
I believe that Sterns is picking up Devenski, Covey and Hergert as bodies to throw to the zombies in a zombie Apocalypse.
Of course they did.