Mets News and Morning Links 3/10/2021

 

Good Morning.  Happy Birthday John Cangelosi.  Mets 5 Cardinals 3 as Pete Alonso walks 3 times, Edwin Diaz impresses, and Ronny Mauricio drives in 2 then gets reassigned to minors along with 18 others.

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As we had last night on Mack’s Mets: Mets reassign 19 to Minor league Camp. This included top prospects: Pete Crow-Armstrong; J.T. Ginn; Ronny Mauricio; Francisco Alvarez; Matthew Allan; Brett Baty; Mark Vientos; and Thomas Szapucki. Mets now have 53 players in camp.

Mets 5 Cardinals 3 (Box Score). Kevin Pillar CF 1 for 4 with an RBI and a K; Jeff McNeil 2B 0 for 3 with 1 K; Pete Alonso 1B 0 for 1, 3 walks, 1 K; Dominic Smith DH 0 for 3, 1 K; James McCann C 1 for 3 with a K; Jonathan Villar SS 0 for 3 with a K; Brandon Drury 3B 1 for 2; Albert Almora jr. RF 1 for 2; Johneshwy Fargas LF 1 for 2 with a double; Ronny Mauricio 1 for 1 with 2 RBIs; Taijuan Walker 2 innings, 2 hits, 2 runs, 2 walks, 2 Ks; Edwin Diaz, 1 inning, no runs, no hits, 2 Ks; Miguel Castro, 1 inning, no hits, no runs, 2 Ks; Sam McWilliams, 1 inning, no runs, no hits, 3 walks, 1 K.. 

SNY.TV: The Mets are off on Wednesday [today]. They travel to play the Houston Astros on Thursday at 6:05 p.m., with Jacob deGrom expected to get the start.

NY Post: Mets ‘excited’ to see Pete Alonso walk three times. “After a seesaw 2020 season, Alonso and hitting coach Chili Davis identified strike-zone discipline as an area for improvement this spring. Last year, according to Rojas, pitchers could follow a blueprint with Alonso and often induced him to swing at bad pitches. In six games this spring, Alonso owns a 1.163 OPS.”

NY Post: Sam McWilliams narrowly avoided disaster in a 31-pitch ninth inning in which he walked the bases loaded. McWilliams escaped without a run scoring for his second save this spring. 

Taijuan Walker has his first K as a Met. pic.twitter.com/lzKxNHxhJj

— SNY (@SNYtv) March 9, 2021

"I feel like we're really deep." Taijuan Walker on the Mets' rotation: pic.twitter.com/u8nOAnYAih

— Anthony DiComo (@AnthonyDiComo) March 9, 2021

Edwin Diaz with absolute 🔥🔥🔥 in that third inning pic.twitter.com/KdufIzhN5m

— SNY (@SNYtv) March 9, 2021

If you never saw Edwin Diaz enter a game in Seattle to the tune "Narco" - you may want to see this:

Nice catch here in right by Albert Almora Jr., whose chances of making the team increased due to José Martínez's injury. If Almora is indeed on the Opening Day roster, he'll be the Mets' best outfield defender. pic.twitter.com/FRVi8kZ3Cx

— Anthony DiComo (@AnthonyDiComo) March 9, 2021

Here's 21-year-old Mets prospect Mark Vientos on the advice he's received from big leaguers Francisco Lindor, Pete Alonso and J.D. Davis: pic.twitter.com/gkJBNlmp1I

— Anthony DiComo (@AnthonyDiComo) March 9, 2021

It's actually kind of wild how well nearly all the Mets' top prospects are doing in Grapefruit League play. Following this two-run single, Ronny Mauricio is hitting .455: pic.twitter.com/siCkZHaXXn

— Anthony DiComo (@AnthonyDiComo) March 9, 2021

Luis Rojas on Ronny Mauricio:

"Looks really good, very mature" pic.twitter.com/c7QNkNmAWV

— SNY Mets (@SNY_Mets) March 9, 2021

Thinking we'll make Francisco Lindor a full-time camera man if this whole baseball thing doesn't work out 😂🎥 pic.twitter.com/rbzYbUThdU

— SNY (@SNYtv) March 9, 2021

📸 Scenes from the Mets' "B" game on the main field today. David Peterson throwing to Francisco Lindor and Michael Conforto, among others. pic.twitter.com/C45A1GnjCE

— Anthony DiComo (@AnthonyDiComo) March 9, 2021

Kevin Howard, Mets' director of player development: "He’s already over 90 mph, which is incredible considering he was probably 70% in terms of his effort. He’s on schedule or ahead of schedule. And everything is going great." https://t.co/quVamt6c2G

— Tim Healey (@timbhealey) March 9, 2021

📸 Sixth-ranked prospect J.T. Ginn, the Mets' second-round pick last summer, plays catch Tuesday at camp. He's about one year removed from Tommy John surgery. pic.twitter.com/tCdR3Jl8qt

— Anthony DiComo (@AnthonyDiComo) March 9, 2021

Mike Vaccaro NY Post: James McCann ready to prove Mets made right choice over J.T. Realmuto. “Right away, they made a decision — and, it says here, a wise one — to be aggressive in addressing their glaring hole behind the plate and made McCann their No. 1 catcher at four years and $40 million — one year and $75.5 million less than the Phillies wound up shelling out to retain Realmuto.”

213 Miles from Shea: Get To Know A 2021 Non-Roster Invitee: Jose Peraza.

Newsday: Hopeful of DH, Luis Rojas delays letting Mets pitchers bat.

On BNNY presented by Tri-State @Cadillac, Terry Collins joins the show to answer questions about his evolution as a manager and whether Wilmer Flores is the slowest player he's ever managed 😂 https://t.co/sdz6aiTTgv pic.twitter.com/fR2QO7elnh

— SNY (@SNYtv) March 10, 2021

Is Harol Gonzalez the guy to keep an👁️on most in Mets camp? The honorable MC @ernestdove🎤just who to keep an👁️on for in Mets camp so far as we move closer to the start of the season. #metstwitter pic.twitter.com/AlFjH8uAcJ

— Thomas Brice (@ThomasBrice2017) March 8, 2021

Happy Hump-day all! Today's blog post has a "missing" 1975 card for former catcher John Stearns: https://t.co/ezLlwteF3z @Phillies @70sBaseball pic.twitter.com/3VojxeVmTO

— Gio/wthballs blog (@wthballs) March 10, 2021

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Some of yesterday's Spring Training Highlights:

Gary Sánchez absolutely demolished a solo home run halfway up the light tower in left field 😳 pic.twitter.com/M7OBHcfhmw

— Max Goodman (@MaxTGoodman) March 9, 2021

Steven Matz up to 43 pitches today & nine were swinging strikes. Topped out at 95.7 mph over 3.0 scoreless (3Ks, 1H, 0BB). It's spring, so read into it at your own risk, but beats getting lit up! "Matz is looking really good," Montoyo said. Likely he opens in #BlueJays' rotation

— Ben Nicholson-Smith (@bnicholsonsmith) March 9, 2021

Here is yesterday's Spring Training Scoreboard.

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Today in Mets History Per Ultimatemets.com: 

Born on this date:

• Ken MacKenzie (1934)
• Wayne Twitchell (1948)
• Greg Pavlick (1950)
• Mike Birkbeck (1961)
• John Cangelosi (1963)
• Benito Garcia (2000)

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New York Mets released Duaner Sanchez on March 10, 2009.

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1941	The Dodgers announce their players will begin to wear helmets when batting. The use of the safety headgear will not become mandatory in the National League until 1954, and the AL will follow suit four years later.

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