According to Joel Sherman of the New York Post, the Mets have signed free-agent RHP Al Reyes.
The 38-year-old Reyes was the closer for the Rays last year, and had 26 saves.
Over 26 games this season, Reyes was 2-2 with a 4.37 ERA.
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The Post is reporting Reyes is a Met. This is a no brainer, switching to the NL, almost a K per inning, cheap and a former closer. Out of the options we have, this is a good one to fall in our lap
He also helps us corner the market in Reyes-es.
Yep, Jo-Jo Reyes should watch out.
As im sure Gary Cohen will say 50 times tonight, the Mets now have 3 kings
I’ll bet it’s nowhere near 50 times!
You are right, it will probably be closer to 10
Kings of Queens? Anybody?
I think there’s a Reyes on the Twins too. Although there is most certainly more.
I believe that “Reyes” is the plural, so there’s no telling how many kings we have.
Would that be Reyii???
nice
LOL.
does anyone know if we still have Jose A Reyes, the catcher from spring training last year???
We just need Anthony, Dennys, and Jo-Jo now.
very lucky score by omar. just think, people were screaming for him to make a move, and overpay. I’ll take a cast off from one of the best teams in baseball given our situation. And he didnt cost anything. a really good move by omar.
Agreed. I think you judge a GM in a big market by the moves he doesn’t make, and Omar has shown the ability to resist the temptation to make the impulse trade. Even though he’s made some slip ups recently, I think he is clearly one of the best GMs in the game.
Rotoworld.com also reports the deal.
using the Post as it’s source, so still one source
My question is who updated Wikipedia already???
likely one of his agent’s staff. just a guess
Hahah nah. People edit Wikipedia the second news breaks. I updated Dan Warthen and Jerry Manuel’s bios like 5 minutes after the news broke. Someone beat me to Peterson and Willie though…
Can I order a Reyes jersey with interchangeable numbers?
That’s a good idea!
Just give him 47. Then you only need 2.
This was a no-brainer, and should put an end to the Eddie Kunz nonsense. We now have added 2 major league succesful relievers for the playoff push while giving up NOTHING
Whaddya mean nothing???? Anderson Hernandez is a career sub-.200 hitter. You don’t come by those every day, you know.
Shoot….good point…how did we ever let Chip Ambres go eitehr?!?!?!?! haha. or Royce Ring…he was our future closer in 2003 when we got him for Alomar….fire Omar!
Didn’t Chip Ambres have an RBI? I think that gives him more cred than AHern.
Hopefully Sherman is correct that he has been signed. This is encouraging. I’m glad that they didn’t let his arrest (from a bar fight. Charges were eventually dropped) stop them.
Winner.
Now all we need is Derek Jeter and ARod, and we’ll have 3 kings and a pair of queens.
ZING!!!!
SiZzLeeeeee..
lol nice
And there is your post of the week folks! lol
A full house!
Awesome post I laughed out loud at work, trust me it doesnt happen often
three snaps
Could we trade ARod and Jeter for Salma’s pair of Queens?
and that, folks, is why he is the one and only , incomparable, Toasty Joe.
Thank you. I am nothing without my many legions of fans.
Nice, dude. Very nice.
Why would a bar fight stop them…..Castro was accused of raping a woman a few years back in PIT when he was a Marlin
between ayala and reyes we have two guys who would’ve made our bullpen unbeatable if it were 2004.
let’s hope they can get lucky/hot for 6 weeks. better options than kunz or muniz surely.
I wonder why the Rays released him, those numbers really don’t seem that bad. Or maybe they just look decent to me because of what our bullpen looks like.
because they have other guys who are better
One guy’s trash….
Check rotoworld for the complete explanation.
But then why not put him on waivers?
Who gets cut — Stokes?
Or do they send Cancel back down and go with 13 pitchers?
I would think they send down Cancel. They need more pitchers at this point than hitters.
That makes too much sense though, so they will prolly instead bring up a 4th catcher.
Cancel will probably go when Castillo is activated. I can’t see them sending Argenis Reyes down. The problem is that you just can’t rely on Castro not getting hurt.
As far as Castro is concerned, let’s cross that bridge when we come to it. Send Cancel down, period. When Castro gets hurt, put him on the DL if necessary, and then bring Cancel back up at that time. No need to over analyze this or micro manage for some contingency that may never happen… although I would agree with you that the likelihood of Castro getting hurt is at least as good as our bullpen imploding every other day. I think it’s more important we have the extra pitcher right now than a 3rd catcher.
Wouldn’t they just put Wagner on the DL?
Or has he been added already?
He is on the DL. They need to make room on the 40 man roster, IIRC.
he’s already on the DL, he was supposed to be activated Monday, but yeeeah…
great signing. low risk, potential high short-term reward. good job, omar.
“Reyes, who has not pitched since Aug. 5, will be sent to the minors to work himself back into condition.”
I thought he will be ready to pitch right away
Yea, I thought so too…but I guess let him throw a few innings first in AAA. We’ll prolly see him in Shea within a week.
The 3 r migos. Ha! That is just silly!
Hey, I ran into Larry “Chipper” Jones in Manhattan today as I was buying a few suits. Got his autograph on a ball as there was a Moddell’s across the street. Thought it was interesting.
Thats kinda interesting. You should cracked him in the face.
But seriously, was he polite and friendly? just curious.
Screw Larry. I hate that S.O.B. I would have nailed him with the ball right between the eyes right after he signed it. Then I would’ve shoved it down his throat. I can’t believe he has the audacity to walk around the streets of NY. What an a-hole!
the audacity? haha…oh come on.
To be honest, I want him spending some of his salary in NYC. help us out a little.
the audacity of hope. hehe
I can top that: Saw Mr/Mrs Piazza yesterday – they were riding bikes down the west side near pier 40. He’s a bigger dude than I thought. He was checking out my Mets lid. We didn’t chat I was on the move.
No, Larry is pretty cool. I told him I was more impressed that I found a suit store that actually has suits in my size (6′5″) over getting his autograph as I am a Mets fan, he laughed. And I said, I find it extremely funny that you named your child Shea. Nice guy. looks old though.
He is actually going to be at the same store tomorrow if you guys are interested. Porto Fino Suits, by Grand Central.
Reyes Checklist:
Jose………..[X]
Argenis……[X]
Al……………..[X]
Dennys……[...]
Anthony……[...]
Jo-Jo………..[...]
in time my friend….in time…
Meanwhile, they should also corner the Carlos Market:
Guillen
Gonzales
Zambrano
Gomez
…as someone else posted, all we need is Carlos Reyes
VERY well done….sent that to my boss and you could hear him cracking up
As underwhelming as these last 2 moves may seem….
THEY ARE HUGE!!!!
7 man BP
1. al reyes immedietly takes over as the closer….yes, you heard me
2+3.felciano + smith setup
4. ayala is their go-to RP[he just looks nasty]…we need him to get the key outs[more important than setup]
5. show remains the loogy
6. heilman will try not to suck[face it, he's in the BP atleast till next ]year
7…1 spot left for the old dirty sanchez….hopefully he hits the DL to rest up the home stretch
using stokes or parnell for the last spot[we need another RP that throws hard w/good movement]
that’s almost liveable…and 100x better than when wags 1st went down
by the way…can someone take out castillo to end his “return”…i like this team the way it is. if nothing else, let him collect splinters!
I think a key point by Cohen Darling last night was that we don’t necessarily need out closer for the 9th. Based on that reasoning. I think Mota was sort-of our closer in 06. he came in during the big spots to get outs. So lets not put whoever the closer is in the 9th inning all the time. Go with the hot hand in the big spot.
Depending on the situation, I feel ok (as much as one could given the track record) with Scho, Heilman, Ayala, Feliciano, and maybe Reyes too in the big spots. Smith needs to be used situationally (preferably with the best IF D, and Sanchez needs to rest to see if he can get more velocity. i trust Duanar less than Heilman at this point because at least Aaron has been putting some movement on the ball. That leaves stokes for long relief. Who’d I miss?
Whew, Thanks Omar, I wasnt crazy about seeing Maine in the pen. This hopefully puts an end to that for now.
What do you think Gary Cohen? Tell us tonight.
he was signed to a minor-league contract
Ohhhhhh.
I think that’s more because he hasn’t pitched in 15 days and just needs to throw some down there to get his arm back in shape. As long as he does OK down there, he will be up soon (September 1st at the latest).
Ok. Sounds good to me.
Can the guy still throw hard?
Reyes was accused of fighting with and spitting blood at patrons while celebrating his 38th birthday at a Tampa bar, and police subdued him by using a taser.
Hot! Scary psycho reliever!
wh wha what? Thats awesome. I like a lil fight in em.
The charges against him were dropped.
Yes, true . . . he’s still a major league baseball player who was tased.
Tampa drives people to do crazy things, man.
is it weird that the thing that concerns me most in that was the 38th birthday part?
He’s a reliever and we have no commitment to him. Why does his age scare you? If we can get 20 good innings out of him, who cares?
what song does he come out to?
something by ozzy – crazy train maybe?
Anything Ozzy Osborne…
We Three Kings?
We three kings be stealing the gold . . .
Bad boy, bad boy……….watcha gonna do when they come for you……..
That would f#$&ing Hilarius to here him come out to
What????
I fought the law, but the law won.
Yes! The Clash version, of course.
You can call me Al, by Paul Simon
Having my Baby….
The Ayala signing and this one make me feel more confident about this team. Last year in the midst of doing everything we could to boot games away we stuck with same tired relievers and didn’t admit that there were problems.
Calling out the relievers in the press, signing a couple of different arms, giving rookies a chance with playing time, in general trying to tinker and tweak things to keep the team going is what was so sorely lacking last year even before September.
Yeah. Maybe this signing and calling them out sets a fire underneath them to perform better.
YES, the all reyes game ending double play is now possible!
Reyes with the pitch…weak grounder to Reyes at shortstop…the toss to Reyes at second…the throw to Reyes covering first…
Ok so Delgado is more likely to be at first then Reyes, but I can dream! lol
A grounder between 1st and second that Delgado would go for and miss would make it possible with a nice play
top 9th-runner on 1st….
bunt or slow chopper to 1st base side…
delgado charges, but al reyes fields it…
throws to j reyes at 2b for one, then a quick throw to 1st
a reyes covers…
DOUBLE PLAY!!!!!
METS WIN THE SERIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!![crowd goes wild]
…sorry…too far ahead of myself?
If you look at his gamelogs, Reyes allowed zero earned runs in 20 of 26 appearances, and four of the 11 runs he gave up came in one game. Granted, I don’t know how mahy inherited runs he gave up, but that suggests that he’s still fairly reliable. Anyway, definitely worth a shot.
Is it safe to say that Omar Minaya is the most racist GM in history? Maybe biased is the better word. I know Latino’s are some of the greatest ballplayers around, but don’t you think this is a littttle over the top?
56 Luis Ayala
25 Pedro Feliciano
45 Pedro Martinez
46 Oliver Perez
50 Duaner Sanchez
57 Johan Santana
40 Robinson Cancel
11 Ramon Castro
21 Carlos Delgado
4 Argenis Reyes
7 Jose Reyes
15 Carlos Beltran
10 Endy Chavez
17 Fernando Tatis
Luis Castillo
El Duque
Tony Armas
Ambiorix Burgos
Moises Alou
Angel Pagan
Al Reyes
This could very well be the roster of the Dominican National team in Beijing. I know, they’re not ALL Dominican.
I know I shouldn’t even dignify the comment, who bleeping cares? They could sign the entire Dominican baseball team and I wouldn’t care as long as they finished first. Give me a break.
But they ARE (seemingly) all ex-Expos! That Omar Minaya. A real Exexpoist.
now lets name all the white people in the mets organization that Omar may or may not have acquired
WHOA.
Maybe you are on to something here. Let’s call up AACLU, NAACP and get Mike Wallace ready for the 60 Minutes story. They could also just rehash that one Andy Rooney bit at the end about how he doesn’t care about baseball anymore because of the weird last names.
Are you saying that Latino last names are “weird.”
Weird how? (In a Joe Pesci accent)
Weird, foreign its all the same thing, man.
“There all named Rodriguez to me these days!!”
Wait, maybe guigsy IS Andy Rooney.
Dude, I’m trying to help you out and you dig yourself in deeper.
Oh well.
If you hadn’t noticed by the initial post I made responding to this idiot, I’ve been sarcastic, man.
can’t forget: Jose Lima – Jermi Gonzalez – Jose Valentin – Ruben Gotay and Julio Franco
And basically paraphrasing Andy Rooney’s dumb comments, not my own.
Yeah.. what’s so bad about signing more Latino players? As long as they can play well and help the team, I don’t see any problem with it. Omar probably has advantage over other GMs in that regards, because he is a Latin American, which I think is actually good for the Mets.
I don’t think this is any form of reverse discrimination.
Omar and Phillips openly talk about getting players that reflect their market strategy, so they can sell more tickets and all that junk. All teams do it to some extent.
That said, I don’t think Omar is going to turn down picking up quality anglo. Its a mix of strategy and randomness if that makes sense.
If we did have he All-Dominican team we wouldn’t be complaining about anything, trust me!!! Our division lead would be so huge. We would crush everyone!!! We could only be so lucky!
moron…
You better go look at the 2004 Expos or their last year. More likely our roster has the most of those players on it.
As far as the Hispanic thing, who cares. I don’t hear the players whining about it.
Paul Lo Duca
Doug Mientkiewicz
Marlon Anderson
Chris Woodward
Brian Daubach
Mike DiFelice
Danny Graves
Mike Matthews
Xavier Nady
Shawn Green
Michael Tucker
Kelly Stinett
John Maine
Darren Oliver
Dave Williams
Damion Easley
David Newhan
Jeff Conine
Ben Johnson
Chip Ambres
Brian Lawrence
Aaron Sele
Chan Ho Park
Joe Smith
Billy Wagner
Jon Adkins
Brian Schneider
Ryan Church
Trot Nixon
Brady Clark
Brian Stokes
Brandon Knight
Scott Schoeneweis
Matt Wise
Eddie Kunz
That’s pretty much a comprehensive list of players signed/drafted/acquired by Omar Minaya since 2005 that have played multiple games with the big team. Unless those guys are secretly Hispanic, get over the whole “Omar prefers Hispanic players” thing. It’s nonsense.
Oh! And Chad Bradford.
Umm. Ehhh. I just checked the stats sheet on Reyes.
In 61 games covering 60 innings, Reyes gave up 13 home runs in 2007. That makes Heilman’s stats look stingy.
I’m just curious how they intent to differentiate the 2 A. Reyes’…
Ar. and Al
Problem solved.
I hope it says AL REYES across his back…possible
They don’t use initials…that’s why they have different numbers.
probably with the cunning use of the letter L.
Fantastic!
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great pick up, it’s about time we did something right, it’s been too long.
13 home runs in 60 innings?
Ouch.
you wanna keep giving away games the way we have? at least this guy has closed before, and not too long ago. Compare anyone else that’s available then talk.
If we did have he All-Dominican team we wouldn’t be complaining about anything, trust me!!! Our division lead would be so huge. We would crush everyone!!! We could only be so lucky!
than you Rays
Regarding 40 man space – you could always move El Duque or Jason Vargas (remember him?) to the 60-day DL. Problem solved.
My question is this – why did Al Reyes get a minor \league deal? Shouldn’t he be on the team now?
He hasn’t pitched since August 5th. They want him to get some of the rust off.
They also have to send someone down. This gives more time to decide on that.
I live in Tampa, we used to see Reyes out drinking….ALOT!! Dude has an alcohol problem! That’s why he hasn’t been playing, Maddon doesn’t like that in a player.
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