The Mets announced today that they have 
signed Nelson Figueroa, Adam Bostick, infielder Andy Green, and catcher Rene Rivera to minor league deals.
Figueroa was 3-3 with a 4.57 ERA for the Mets last year.
Bostick had his season limited to 11 games after undergoing left knee surgery on May 27. He was 2-2 with a 6.04 ERA in Triple-A last season.
Green, 31, spent all of last season in the minor leagues with the Mets and Reds. He hit .331 with 10 doubles, two triples, eight HR and 28 RBI in 52 games with the Triple-A Zephyrs.
Rivera had been batting .227 with a .252 OBP in 53 major-league at bats with the Mariners.
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say hello to another year of seeing figueroa as our starter.. JOB WELL DONE OMAR…
You do realize that minor league rosters need to be filled too, right?
Hey, who needs Lowe or Vasquez or Burnett or Perez? We have Figueroa and the great Adam Bostick!
Yes we found a closer!!!!!!!!
i sense a disturbance in the sarcasm force
Figgy started only a handful of games last year. Relax. That happens when you have pitching injuries. I like this move…
Decent depth moves
Gotta say, I love Nelson Figueroa. I hope we’re never at such dire straits in 2009 that we need him to spot start but I’m glad to have the guy in the system.
At least we got younger we decide to carry 3 catchers on the team.
You do know what “minor leagues” means right?
major leagues 3 back to the minors?
My goodness the internet makes people jumpy. It’s not even the GM meetings and people are calling out Omar for not making moves and then calling him out for making the small moves that you have to make such as I don’t know fielding a team in AAA.
well when u see decent relievers gon ie howry and affeldt i guess we are entitled to have a stretch of chicken little in us
I think we’re just a little bored with nothing better to do, so we’re having a little fun at Omar’s expense. I’m sure he can take it.
Hopefully, we’ll be kissing his a$$$ next week.
if he gets us k-rod and amakes a blockbuster deal that was under the radar hell ill felate him lol
Can I videotape it and put in on youtube? : ))))
that’s all i think we’ll see this year.. he will sign k-rod late after pretty much everybody is taken then say: we focused on bullpen!!! F***!!!!!
World Series here we come. Omar you’ve done it!
What about Val Pascucci?
LMAO!
ima val pascucci amda herresa mi brotha guiseppe franco bah franabla to you too !!!
Bellisima! Multo bene.
gratsi gratsi !!
Prego.
Hey, if we curse in Italian, can we still get banned?
lol who need Tex … Keith Hernandez is going to take over at first base in 2009!!!!
I’d like omar to shut us up by doing something dramatic to make us go wow, for real here we come… we bashed him and i think he’s one of the worst GM but the advantage he has is the fact that the mets are willing to pay.. if not for that we’d be in big troubles… BIG..
Yeah something like getting the best SP in the game when most thought we could not. Oh wait that was last year. Be patient.
the real, don’t forget it was becoz inly us, the yankees and boston could afford him!! minnesotta needed to make that move, with that being said the advantage we have is the fact that we have money to sign players.. if not this guy would’ve been fired by now along wit willie..
bottom line is, he got us the best pitcher in the majors!!! If anything, Omar can pull off the big moves, its the other stuff he he’s been bad at for 2 years now, the glue guys, role players, bullpen, those kind of moves. Omar will make some sort of big move, maybe 2 in the bullpen, but nothing is happening yet in the market, so he’s obviously weighing his options, using the fact that there are many options to his advantage, making the price come down (well, hopefully).
Was that English. I can’t follow that at all.
But if you are using the tired excuse of the Yankee’s and Sox let us have Santana then I won’t even respond.
That’s like saying that if the Yankee’s did offer their package and got him that we could say well we let them have him because we did not trade Fmart and Pelfrey.
Its just not true either. Theo said during ST last yr that they did make an offer for Santana but the Twins preferred what the mets were offering.
Yup their offer was just never as high as what was reported. It was never both top prospects but one or the other.
“But if you are using the tired excuse of the Yankee’s and Sox let us have Santana then I won’t even respond.”
…and then you continued to respond. Sorry thereal, just busting your chops. :)
True, I’m a talker. LOL. Like you did not know that.
yeah cuz these little minor league deals to help out the entire franchise’s system just makes most blog readers think we’re rebuilding.
From the Fiueroas blog:
We walked over to the apple and Renee and Nelson said Good-bye to that. Then we drove home. On the way home Nelson said to me, “I’m sorry it took me so long to come out”. I told him it was fine and he said, barely above a whisper, with a crack in his voice, “I didn’t want to take the uniform off”.
SHEA WHAAAAA!!!!
Where would we be without such a cunning GM. He’s always somethodical in his depth moves! Jose Lima, Jeremy Gonzalez, Chan Ho Park, Brian Lawrence and Nelson Figueroa- all relied upon heavily the last three years to start games.
Because we had three injured starters (Duque, Pedro and Maine)
And teams like the Yankee’s and Red Sox were relying on Bartolo Colon, a hand full of rookies. Carl Pavano, Darryl Rasner.
This is why you can’t trade all your prospects every year. Then you have no organizational Depth. You (not particularly, but Met Fans overall) kick and scream when you see Atlanta trade for Vasquez. But if the mets did it and included say Niese or Parnell. Then again if a SP went down there is nobody in the minors of consequence to take the spot.
Don’t forget the great Adam Bostick.
I just can’t say it enough but some of you guys amaze me. You must be 15 years old.
What big name FA has signed?
Besides Vasquez, who most of you did not want anyway, what major trade has happen that you wanted to be a part of?
Again, tell what you would have done by now so we can all laugh at you instead of always making the same comments over and over.
The real, is not about that, he is a bad GM and you know this, honestly, tell me you have faith in him to do great moves this offseason??? seriously!!
Because while he has been here he has done more good than bad? You can debate that all you want and give all the credit to the Wilpons money and other teams for his success and blame all the negatives on him even with your what ifs. That’s fine. I just remember that the Mets used to stink and now they are relevant. Omar is an average GM and most likely better than any alternative that we have right now. I choose not to focus on things that will not change. Omar is here and will be here because he has the confidence of the owners.
the real i agree with u 95% of the time but come on.. you know omar is horrible when it comes to make even desition.. when we over paid for players he’s at his best.. other than that he’s been terrible at moves that we needed..
I still disagree. He has made good and bad moves just like every average GM. He’s not Theo but he’s not the worst by far.
Theo is not without his awful contracts and trades also.
Every GM does their good moves and their bad moves. I wouldn’t say Omar is a Genisus but he’s no fool. He could have gone heave ho for Santana and sent F-Mart and Pelfrey. But smartly he knew what he was doing.
He over Paid Beltran( now looks like a bargin) and Pedro (turned out to be a bust but we all wanted him)
You can criticize the trades in 2006 that moved bullpen parts. You can criticize Alou and Castillo.
But I want to hear why he has been so awful. He STOLE Maine, Stole Ollie. Signed Beltran who is the Best Offensive CF in baseball, and a top 3 defensive player.
Matt Holliday!
Not terrible. I kind of wish Figueroa wasn’t brought back, should have tried to sign someone younger to a minor league deal, but this is what fielding minor league teams is like.
That’s part of the problem with all this blogging (even though I read all of it) is that if a move is made that is huge, everyone freaks out.
You can still sign a young guy for AAA. At least with Figgy we know he can come up and give a spot start or head to the pen and won’t mind being sent back down.
And he can use Wagner’s box all he wants now.
True. I’d just rather see Omar focus somewhere else first (and I’m not talking about huge moves – even small filling up minor league type moves) and then maybe coming back to someone like Figueroa. Take a chance on someone who has more upside than Figgy before bringing him back.
But again, not a bad move, just one that makes fans antsy.
I meant to say “if a move is made that “ISN’T” huge, everyone freaks out.”
Why wouldn’t you want Nelson Figueroa back?
Let’s look at the record: Nelson Figueroa was sent to Triple A in mid-May. He was called up the last week of August and appeared in seven games, all in September. He allowed one run in 6-2/3 innings for a 1.35 ERA, striking out 7, walking 2. Against the teams that mattered, he pitched a 1-2-3 inning against Milwaukee on September 1 (he won that game), two scoreless innings against Milwaukee on September 2nd, a 1-2-3 inning against Philadelphia on September 7th, and a 1-2-3 inning against Florida on Friday, September 26. If he was called into September games instead of some other relievers who shall remain nameless, we would’ve been in the postseason. He can and has pitched long relief and short relief and can spot start, if needed. He’s currently pitching in the Dominican Winter League for Aguilas Cibaenas. Nelson’s 3-0 (3 starts) with a 2.25 ERA, 3 walks, 15 strikeouts in 20 innings. As I said, why wouldn’t you want Nelson Figueroa back?
can we please get manny>?
listen guys his stats are unreal and he would make everyone better. he also puts fans in the seats, not saying they will have any prob with the new stadium.
i want manny becoz he will put fear in the lineup and some ba**s in the clubhouse.. we would have some one to finnaly fire back at some of the criticism we’ve taken as a team the past 2 years!!
and manny will put fear on the wilpons faces when he says his knee is bothering him and can’t play then puts jay horrowitz in a firemans carry and drops him like a sack of latkes
LOL!
Rusty, I think you have correctly described EXACTLY what Manny would do as a Met….after a 4-for-5 game with a HR, 2 2B, and 5 RBI…..
lol i got a new game to play at shea part deux next year = flay the jay everyone takes turns throwing balls with heilmans face at jay and he has to duck for cover lol btw kingman i was watching a mork and mindy rerun and pee wee did a guest shot -b4 he was famous lol
You guys forget that every major signing will go through Omar before it becomes official just like it will go through the Yankees. An Agent would be stupid to say “Hey Krod the Brewers just offered you 3/36 you should take it.” Krod “Did you check with the Mets first?” Agent “Nah, Omar’s not really trying this offseason” LOL.
with more reason to show you how incompetent he’s been.. he’s got the money side on him and yet still doesn’t know what to do.. i’d like him to put up.. is time for him to PUT ON for this city..
LOL, now you are just starting to sound ignorant. I gotta let you move on and maybe tomorrow you will be back to semi-rational again.
lol, ok.. maybe i was off today, but i just wish to see this guy step up to the plate and provide us with a all around team..
Good to see Figgy back.It just seems like though no matter what mover Omar makes someone is going to go nuts.
Such is the life of sports and the internet.
I AGREE ABOUT THE FIGMEISTER SAMBO BUT THIS IS “ADDITION BY SUBTRACTION??
jeff paris wilpon said the mets will engage in addition by subtraction this offseason at the citifield tour. davidoff believes this means castillo, heilman and schoeneweis.
davidoff, newsday
i don’t care how the mets do it, but please get CASTILLO out of here!!!
amen
well theyre still here zen maybe he meant that he would make camoflage uniforms for the team next so u wont recognize em :P
we should use figgy as our long man next year. He can give u three innings or so and he can also start if u need him
I like this move
true he did decent in that role – i think that might go to a knight or brian stokes
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