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The Mets signed minor-league free agent RHP Andy Cavazos, reports Joel Sherman in the New York Post.
He played in the Rangers system from 1999 through 2002, after which he spent five years in the Cardinals organization.
In 17 games for the Cardinals last season, the 26–year-old Cavazos allowed 25 runs, while walking 16 in 20 innings pitched.
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This isn’t exactly the big splash I was waiting for but seems like a Omar reclemation project.
I did read that talks have cooled with Kyle Loshe, which is good since I would rather throw in Pelfrey, Humber, or Mulvey in that number five spot than a Philly reject.
If I was Omar, and I am not, I would sign Colon and Garcia. See what Colon can do and Garcia will be ready by the All-Star break. (notice I didn’t name the pitcher who shall not be named).
Maybe by “big splash”, senior management thought we were all referring to a pro wrestling move made famous by King Kong Bundy?
If you’re listening, we want a pitcher, not a belly itcher.
That should work guys.
Interesting you bring up wrestling … Cazavos is cousins with Tito Santana. (Too bad not Johan)
I knew there was something to it. Although, Tito’s move was the “Flying Forearm” (can’t figure out how to do the TM symbol. I know Tito is looking for a pay day), so maybe they got the next best thing to a “big splash”? ™
SPLASH!
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Um, mop up guy?
in some low-level high school league.
maybe.
25 runs in 17 games?
Maybe I should ask for a tryout?…
Then you can boo yourself.
Year Age Tm Lg Lvl Aff W L W-L% G GS CG SHO GF SV IP H R ER HR BB SO HBP WP BFP IBB BK ERA WHIP
26 MEM PCL AAA STL 1 5 .167 44 0 0 0 12 0 47.2 40 18 17 5 26 48 0 2 203 1 0 3.21 1.38
Last year’s minor league stats are not that bad. The bullpen is a crap shoot.
Sorry that did not post like how I thought it would.
hahaha
You think that is funny??? hahahah me too. How do you post tables and codes on this damn site anyway?
“in some low-level high school league.
maybe.”
Like in the actual school, right?
El Sid is next….
He’s a user no?
He’s using fried chicken and large extra cheese pizzas.
Why don’t you ever give me a t-shirt?
Here it comes…. BANG…. Happy New Year! Wear it with pride! You’ve just been T-shirted.
Awesome. My nose has been running all day.
Better than anything Kleenex has come up with. Good for crying after the Mets send Jorge Sosa out there as our number 2 pitcher too….
What’s worse, sending Sosa out there as a #2 pitcher or Cow-Bell-Man?
cowbell man is a fan favorite and would likely get a rousing response from a sold out shea.
cowbell man throws first no hitter in mets history!
You should have seen cow bell man during the 6th inning of the second to last game of the season. The guy was on the field level down the right field line hiding in the back corner in a total daze. I seriously thought he was going to end it right then and there. I was going to suggest a new hobby to him, but thought twice about it….
he was watching maine throw a no-no!
Cow-Bell-Man is a cheap imitation of Freddy Sez.
No he was not. The guy had already given up…
quit drinking the hatorade danny. shea has its characters and i appreciate his commitment.
I think he sucks. Not drinking the Hatorade. Who are you, Tuning-Fork-Man?
im a guy that doesnt go to shea and sit down and read a book
Not even the yearbook or program?
rarely =\
i get the media guide when i get my sunday package
I hear that. I usually throw that out and keep the mouse pad or “Ceremonial Groundbreaking Pen/Shovel”.
I wonder what they are going to give us this year….any guesses? Here is my first thought:
One of those Starting Lineup figurines of Johan Santana.
My guess is a book entitled “Omar on Omar: Why I Am Be A Genius”. All five pages of the book feature Omar with prized acquisitions Oliver Perez and John Maine.
How about a replica 2007 NL East Champs banner?
We finally landed that guy that will solidify our rotation for the next 5 years. I can sleep easy now.
25 runs in 20 innings? I usually look at hits to IP as an indicator. This is pretty bad though.
Haha…if that was hits to innings pitched it would be bad, but it’s RUNS. Is it even possible to give up 25 runs in 20 innings? You would think after the first 10 or so innings the manager would stop running him out there….was he playing for Willie?
I think those numbers are in the California Penal League.
Way to put a ribbon on 2007 Omar!
do you guys ever shut the hell up?
he had 3.25 ERA in AAA last yr.
if you look @ his ML stats his ERA was inflated by two horrible outings.
also he was converted from a SS, so @ 25 hes still young in development
im not saying hes going to be great just cant take the whining.
o yeah El Sid doesnt need to come up in every comment section
-57
just take the fun out of posting here why don’t you?
el sid can return..but what do you get out of complaining so much over a guy we’re likely to never hear about again..
EVERY TEAM makes these signings
hell i heard the yankees are interested in chris woodward
Do you think Metsblog could exist without compaining? I can’t go to my wife and say, “Honey, can you believe Omar hasn’t made any major signings to improve the starting rotation yet? All he has done is trade away a potential all-star for two also-rans and sign garbage relievers?” I go here for that.
and your wife thanks you
So, you’re good with this team? You think Omar has improved the team this offseason? You think the Mets are ready to recapture the NL East crown and play deep into the playoffs with this team? You can’t possibly think that.
no but i dont think theres a point in whining about a signing like this when all he likely is his insurance.
best case is he has a great ST and helps the team.
otherwise he sits in AA/AA /.Why is that bad?
every team makes these signings every year, yet this will likely get up to 70 comments of whining over a guy we’ll never hear again
who wanted darren oliver, chad bradford, jorge sosa, endy chavez, pedro feliciano, jose valentin, john maine, el duque
i’d like to whine about you whining about the whining.
seriously, complaining and whining about the Mets is one thing, but the complaining and whining about the complaining and whining needs to stop. There are support groups for that…
i am so sick of the whining about the complaining because of the carping on this site that I am moved to remonstrate. Everytime someone bellyaches that there are too many posters grouching about the grousing, someone has to go and gripe about that. And that’s the moaning I can’t stand. I mean, if you must gripe about the complaining about the squaking over people who can’t stop grumbling, by all means keep it to yourself. Get a grip people!
His ERA was 3.21 – I posted his 2007 minor league stats up top… It’s right up there.. the pile of garbled letters and numbers is it.
Ya Gotta BELIEVE!!!!!!!!! LMAO
Yeah…I BELIEVE…….
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that this is not a championship team.
I believe that we have 2 choices. Wait and see or cry from now until the end of the season. I choose to wait and see. Moves can be made after the off-season. If Omar can’t get what he wants now, it is better to wait and see what is out there during the season when teams are falling out of the race. I will laugh and smile, and when I think I am going to cry.. I will drink instead.
after watching what omar did not do last off season and what he has not done this off season, it is very hard to keep the faith. i still don’t understand how he didn’t land either lilly or mench w/ galvine at the end of his contract. short sightedness or no vision of the team will need in the near future. how’s this for a rotation
pedro
lilly/mench
maine
ollie
pelfrey/humber or other #5
not too shabby.
omar blew it last year and is contiuing the poor job.
VISION it doesn’t seem to me omar has it.
He can still land Mench because he is a FA. He can platoon with Church in RF.
I am sure you meant Meche, who received a 5 year 55 mil deal – Even though he performed well last year.. That is a big risk for a .500 pitcher
Is it better to have a frontal lobotomy or a bottle in front of me?
EL SID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
C’MON WE GOT CAVAZOS……
LET’S GO TO WAR HERE!!
2008 NL East Championship here we come!!!
The Team. The Time. The Retreads….
Happy Friggin New Year!
No, seriously Happy New Year to all of you here at Metsblog.
I hope that this will be a good reclamation project, because Omar sees something in this guy that others don’t – safety in numbers in ST, I guess.
I think it is interesting that Omar ruled out Jim Leyland as manager of the Mets because Minaya wanted someone who would be working for him 12 months out of a year. I am not privy to what goes on behind-the-scenes, but I honestly haven’t seen Willie doing anything since the end of September – and to be brutally honest, not too much in September either. I don’t want to end the year on that note, so I will add that I just have to be hopeful for 08. I love Shea and will be sorry to see it go – and plan on coming to town to attend a few “farewell games”. Let’s hope that the team can give us something to cheer about in its final season and maybe even Santana and a World Championship!!! Have a great 08, everybody!
Happy New Year Everyone! The way 2007 ended for the Mets, I’m glad to see it go.
I somehow think the Mets will be better than everyone thinks. Signings like this one are just for stock piling – I’m okay with it. I still think we will get another pitcher.
Here’s to a great 08 – Shea will go out with a bang!
Be safe – Have great New Year Matt!
but i dont know why we need this guy, juu kno wat im sayn? i mean we have j maine and o perez, juu kno wat im sayn? im ready to go to war with the guys we have now, JUU KNO WAT IM SAYN???
See you in third place…
Whoa
but danny, what if that is what it’ll take to get it done? and btw, no pts for my spot on impersonation?? anyone?
Here’s a t-Shirt…. BANG!
Then I wouldn’t do it. Enjoy the T-Shirt.
Just a little bit of paste over here.. a few popsicle sticks over there and TA-DA.. we have it. Your 2008 New York Mets!
This guy’s stats in AAA were very much solid:
http://minors.baseball-reference.com/players.cgi?pid=18262
Low risk, high reward signing. If they sign enough under-the-radar middle relievers, someone will eventually emerge to pitch the 7th and eighth innings. Worked for the Phills last year after all.
Jeez…. Matt are the comments really that bad???? It’s just all in good fun. What would you like to see from a post about a minor league pitcher. Post that the Mets have just traded forJohan Santana and you’ll get better comments…. Can you tell me the Mets just got Santana???? Please????? I’ll shoot you a T-Shirt.
I see people started sipping the champagne already.
To officially welcoming in the final year of Shea Stadium!….
One year from now Bush will be on the way out and Citi Field will only be months away…
Yay….
Whos with me?
I can see that’s a phrase we’ll get mighty sick of in the next year or so
I’m going to have to dock you points for repeating an already tired catch phrase.
I’ll go with -420 to accentuate the reason I’m so irritable this week (on the road and far away from my mood medicine ;)
it’ll make the champagne that much sweeter in October I guess
Sorry, but the champagne catch phrase will never get tired. It’s right up there with Art Howe’s “We battled.”
Happy New Year to all METSBLOGGERS!!
Another typical offseason this year. Unfortunately….we needed a little better this one.
My thoughts on the team this year is we are likely ok and could contend for the division as we are currently constituted but we are not WS capable. The offense though pretty good is still dependent on some question marks for it to be better than just good. The following things must happen….
1) Jose Reyes needs to be the Jose Reyes of the first 3 months of last year.
2) Carlos Delgado needs to not be done. He has to become the force he was in the past prior to last year. I believe he will as his post AS numbers were more typical of him last year than his preall start ones. Plus it is his walk year and no baby etc
3) Luis Castillo has to be healthy and capable of being the .360 OBP guy that he always has been
4) Alou needs to be himself even his older self but deliver 100 – 110 games minimum.
With all those things….we should have an excellent offense for most of the season. Miss one and we are still ok. Miss more than 1 and I expect we will have trouble winning more than 85 games.
Pitching is better in the pen than last year Starters still need work
I agree with most of what you say. However, I think this team has real problems being competitive with the d-backs and braves of the world if we don’t secure a number one pitcher….short of that and we are just spinning our wheels with an aging team.
luckily the d-backs aren’t in the division and the braves lost two of their core starting players this off season and only added Glavine, who we (and everyone else) are likely to beat up on.
Dbacks maybe but Braves?? Signing Glavine helps us twice (off our team and on thiers). Plus add in the picks we get. Best deal of the offseason in my opinion
can this guy play catcher or first base? cause we could use one
I know this is a sarcastic comment, but it’s a good place as any….
I was chatting with my dad this week, who is from DC and has been to quite a few nationals games (poor guy) … based on his impressions (and I definitely respect his baseball opinions, the man’s an almanac and has been watching for 50 years or so and been a Mets fan since the start) I think we’ll be pleasantly surprised with the Schnide … he is definitely impressed with his defense and ability to handle a pitching staff (as we’ve all heard…yadda yadda I know); He also emphasized his poise and plate discipline. Another point he made was that he felt Schneider got a lot more out of the Nats pitching staff than LoJuica got from a superior Mets staff (and minus the roid rage too!)…
Sorry for the thoughtful post, now back to your regularly scheduled snide comments and complaining…..
good insight Mook! I think schneider will be very solid defensively and can likely milk the young pitchers to at least mediocrity with creative calling and more importantly….encouraging them in game to trust their stuff and throw what he puts down.
Its not my dislike for Schneider(or even Church for that matter), its the fact that we gave up way too much to get them.
Milledge for Schneider is too much
Milledge for Church is too much
But Milledge for BOTH is not too much. Even if Milledge might have had a good year in RF, you got a RF and C out of the deal.
Also, I don’t know where you guys get that LMillz is a potential All-star. He has as much chance of being the next Alex Escobar as the next Jose Reyes.
a lot less of a chance on the Jose Reyes side of the spectrum, that’s for sure….
He is a better musician than Reyes though. God, did I just use the word musician? OK, let me give it quotes…”musician”.
Ths kid is 23. I think there is no reason to devalue what we all thought he was to become just because he did not produce gaudy numbers at 22 in the bigs. He was rated amongst the top 5 players in the minors 2 years ago. He had a blistering level of success at all minor league stops and should develop more power as he ages and grows into his body. Why not think he can still become a force and an allstar?
he may not become albert pujols overnight or ever but he could easily have a career progression similar to Alex Rios if not our own Carlos Beltran.
This guy has pitched 662 inning in his minor league career and had a career whip of 1.43. He spent 4 1/2 years in A ball… wow
Since converting to a full time reliever he has averaged a K per inning and his walk totals have gone down. Of course, the 16 walks in 20 innings for the Cards aside.
I think his ship has sailed, he’s a AAA set up man at best next year.
[...] season, the 26
Happy New Year Whiners!…………..Here’s to another Year Of Whining…I Look foward to it.
[...] Juan Padilla* RP Back in the fold. 38. Nate Field* RP 39. Kevin Mulvey* SP 40. Andy Cavazos* RP (signed as free agent 12/28/07) 41. Gustavo Molina* C 42. Steve Schmoll* RP 43. Adam Bostick SP/RP 44. Fernando Tatis* 1B/3B 45. [...]
Did you weep in the shower afterwards like they always do on those lifetime movies?
Or like in Ace Ventura…
“Einhorn is a man?!?!?! Einhorn is a maaaaaaaan!!!!!!!!”
keyboard ruined…coffee everywhere…
Glad I could make your office a festive place on this New Year’s Eve!
I meant, Atlas.
It’s on the shoulders of Omar….Get Santana, or we are doomed….The Braves are better than us, The Phils are probably better than us, then you get to the class of the league, The D-Backs….we are a long way off from them. (I bring them into the mix because if we were to somehow make the playoffs surely we would run into them.) There are not enough T-Shirts on planet Earth to fix this, only a number one starter will do the trick….I am willing to throwing in a life time supply of T-Shirts to Johan and to the Twins organization if that helps get a deal done though…
The Braves are OK, the Phils are scary offensively.
Like I said last week, if the D-Backs can figure out a way to win games 0-0, they will be nasty.
the dbacks are the class of the league?! hahahah
let me know when they score more than 2 runs a game with that joke of an offense