Mets sign RHP Al Reyes (NY Post)

Reyes closed for the Rays last year. He had a 4.9 ERA but had a 1.15 WHIP. Gave up a lot of HR (1.93 HR/9) but also struck out 10 per 9 innings.

UPDATE [by Eric @ 4:18pm]: Reyes is 38, but has had very strong strikeout rates and so-so walk rates throughout his career. The longball problem he had last season with the Rays seemed to be a new development, as he had mostly kept the ball in the park throughout his career. Injuries have been a big problem for him, but this is a fine low-risk pickup.

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Well

Let the shots in the dark continue . . . why the hell not?

'Catsmeat!' he cried. 'I see it all. It was that chump, Catsmeat.'

by Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright on Aug 20, 2008 4:23 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Could do a lot worse

by ams258 on Aug 20, 2008 4:31 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Omars plan is not complete

This weekend I just know he’s gonna make a waiver trade for Jo-Jo Reyes. He is collecting Reyes’.

Now I know why the Mets didn’t deat for Mark Texiera – he had the wrong last name!!!

by IanB in MD on Aug 20, 2008 4:50 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

that would be pretty awesome

WP: Reyes
SV: Reyes
SF: Reyes
HR: Reyes, Reyes
RBI: Reyes 4, Reyes 2, Reyes
SB: Reyes 2, Reyes

by mmxii on Aug 20, 2008 6:28 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

GWRBI: Reyes

Man oh man I miss the GWRBI. So meaningless, but when I was 10 and 11, I always wanted to see Gary Carter’s name next to that more than anything. That guy was awesome.

by IanB in MD on Aug 20, 2008 6:49 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

We could start tracking GWRBIs again as an AA project

That’d be fun, in an ironic sort of way.

by Eric Simon on Aug 20, 2008 7:44 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I loved Gary Carter when I was a kid

I was so sad when I first found out that some of his teammates couldn’t stand him

by JoshNY on Aug 20, 2008 8:33 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

They couldn't?

Way to shatter the illusion, man.sniff

by BobbyV_Incognito on Aug 21, 2008 1:01 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

that would be Reyeses.

We've got ourselves a ball club, the Mets of New York town!

by kingcritical on Aug 21, 2008 6:50 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Reyeseseseseses

I think maybe we should just use the Spanish collective form “Los Reyes” instead. In fact, we could just rename the team Los Reyes de Nueva York and be done with it.

by anonymous on Aug 21, 2008 1:55 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Last year they seemed to be colecting Carloses for a while

We had ’Los Uno (Beltran), ’Los Dos (Delgado), and ’Los Tres (Gomez). For a while I though the Mets might go for ’Los Cuatro in the offseason, but then the Cubs re-signed Zambrano.

Alas, now they just have Uno and Dos.

We've got ourselves a ball club, the Mets of New York town!

by kingcritical on Aug 21, 2008 2:19 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs