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The Mets announced that they have signed IF Abraham Nunez to a minor league contract, who will be assigned to Triple-A New Orleans.
Nunez batted .235 with 16 RBI in 252 at-bats for the Phillies last season.
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Nunez, Reed…did the Mets think they were running low on crappy players and had to restock?
lol
hes almost Jewish until you get to the last name.
Coulda been changed from Nunezki
Solid pickup….utility infielders seem like a commodity Omar covets, and who knows when you’ll need another one.
That said, this guy is one of the worst hitters in the history of the steroid era modern baseball.
Am I thinking of somebody else, or was he once considered a pretty big prospect.
Regardless, he is not any good at all.
What happened to Anderson Hernandez, who is STILL on the 40 man roster?
He’s proven he can hit everything EXCEPT major league pitching.
He’s not hitting AAA pitching right now either. (.197/.253/.303 – eurgh)
I sure hope they do not have to use Nunez but we are very thin on back up infielders so it can’t hurt.
That and you know at some point this summer, half the 25-man roster will keel over with some injury or another…
Give him an AB or two against the Phils and see if he’s motivated. Heck, we get burned by former Mets all the time.
I would have preffered getting Jauque Jones for the minor league deal that the Marlins did.
Now thats what I call a smart investment.
Marlins have room for him, Mets don’t. Jones wants to go where he can play. Not where he can play some OF in triple A until September.
I think they’re just filling out their New Orleans roster, esp now that we have Tatis and Johnson was cut not too long ago.
That’s exactly it.
get ready….get set…..BLEHHH!!!!!! I guess I see the logic. It’s just been a slow day and this has been the first post in a couple of hours. How about a post about how excited we are at the prospect of eviscerating glavine in front of hillbilly braves tomorrow? Mmmm.
I like this guy’s plan, lets go with this
Excellent use of the term of “eviscerate”
Much better than disembowel.
I know Glavine is the SP tomorrow but the real question is who will we face innings 2 thru 9?
like i get that this is just a depth move but loooooord is nunez terrible
He does sux’d in a large way…amazing how many big league at bats this guy has tortured hometown fans with over the years. :-)
wait, the Mets are paying a guy 12K to go play in the minors and be around just in case all of our IF’s get hurt….Nonsense!!! Omar shouldve gotten Hanley Ramirez to back up Reyes…probably couldve gotten him straight up for Fernando Tatis !!!! Fire Omar!!!!
PS. Bobby V would make Nunez an all-star.
Can we please have a (self-imposed) moratorium on posts with the above tired formula. We get it. Met fans will blame everything and anything on Omar and Willie. Very observant. Note that it’s a ridiculously exaggerated caricature, but why make an argument when you can whip a straw man?
i would have to agree with you sir
im sorry but are you anywhere close to serious? please say no and go watch a baseball game and learn how things work. wow u better be kidding. that was almost as bad as the time i heard someone say trade delgado to the angels for pitching prospects, ben johnson for matt holiday and andersen hernandez for albert puhols. And anything left to go to chase utley.
guierllNO MOta is not serious. It’s a little funny after a great Mets weekend.
I think he also wants to blame Willie for the bad golfing weather this afternoon.
sometimes these moves are made not even for the sake of the big league club, but just to add depth and experience to the AAA roster. Id be surprised if we ever saw him, but who knows
“Those who can, do. Those who can’t, get sent to AAA and hope that they get as lucky as Crash Davis did in the movies…”
I couldn’t help but yell at the TV this weekend, “Rose goes in the front, Giambi”
I don’t care about Nunez.
I do care about the Mets paying back Tom Glavine for the last game of last year!!! Let’s Go Mets!!!
I care about world hunger; stabilizing oil prices; candle pin bowling; and the Mets….not in that order.
He can probably hit better than Anderson Hernandez and field just as well.
Championship!!!
MVP waiting to happen…
Signing Nunez is like getting beer at Yankee stadium in a plastic cup.
I’ll take the beer.
Nunez is less expensive
$9.50 for a draft beer at Yankee Stadium by the way. I enjoyed that, always goes down smooth.
The 7 toilets to serve about 3000 people in the RF Tier Boxes worked out well too. The House that Morons Built.
The Dump that Ruth Took
in the bleachers.
and here i thought that was a day old hard pretzel on the ground, now i come to find out it was a petrified ruthian blast. very disturbing.
Sure he wont hit at all but is a great feilder and does the little things right. He’s a fantastic bunter. He started alot for the phils last. As much as i hated it against the mets but time after time he would snag those balls down the line usually by jamie moyer on the mound.
The fact that he started a lot for the Phillies doesn’t say anything good about him. He was a significant part of the least productive 3B in the majors.
Nonetheless, he does give us depth at 3B and SS (I guess Tatis has earned first stab at 3B), and will be less awful at the plate than A-Hern. I think it’s a good move.
Nunez is our Philly mole
He could be useful as a 25th man. How much infield can he play, and can he play OF at all? I’d really like the mets to have a true utility guy, to help make double switches work and such. Tatis can fill that role, but I’d feel very, very bad about having him at SS.
I only remember seeing Nunez at 3b. Where else can he play?
He can play anywhere except Shea Stadium.
haha.
He’s actually played more each at SS and 2B than he has at 3B.
Only played two professional innings in the OF though, only one of those in the majors. I doubt he’d look any worse than Tatis out there though.
When Castillo was possibly headed for the DL last week and the Mets looked to New Orleans, all they saw as a roster replacement was Anderson Hernandez. I’m sure that has alot to do with Nunez…that and Tatis was playing everyday for them.
I just feel bad for the Hornets…big Game 7 tonight and the arrival of Nunez will steal all of their headlines!
(On that note, I was in New Orleans last fall and I wish I could put into words the quizzical looks I got when asking storeowners if they had any Zephyrs hats in stock. And this was in SPORTS stores. I think 1 in 10 New Orleans residents knows they have a AAA team).
I laughed very out loud about that Game 7 comment…..Nice One!
Have the XXL Abraham Nunez Mets jerseys been delivered yet?
Someone at Modell’s is searching the stockroom for some vintage 1988 Edwin Nunez numbers…
nice one, dave27. However, we now have a slightly better #45 on the roster
“Nunez”, roughly translated from the original Portuguese, means, “Tim Foli”.
and in spanish I believe it means Tim Bogar
All I want to know is, can he play first?
He played mostly 2B earlier in his career with the Pirates, mostly 3B more recently with the Cardinals and Phils.
I am sure he and his 18 career homers can play 1B, if that’s what you like…
Aw C.mon. Can’t we take a day off from our normal Delgado-bashing, especially after he got robbed yesterday.
Hey, I bet he’s better than Anderson Hernandez, and we definitely need some insurance, Easley makes me a little nervous, he’s has had some decent years
Exactly. Plays 2B, SS & 3B and can’t hit much, but is still an offensive upgrade over A-Hern, in that he can actually hit a little. Just not much.