Update 7:45 PM: Adam Rubin is reporting that the call-ups will be Josh Satin, Collin Cowgill, and Josh Edgin. Satin will be added to the 40-man roster to fill the empty spot left when Ankiel was released yesterday. That means within 48 hours, Satin/Cowgill/Edgin/Nieuwenhuis will all have been promoted to the MLB roster. Let’s go, youth movement!
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Sandy Alderson has announced that the Mets have optioned Ike Davis, Mike Baxter and Robert Carson to Triple-A Las Vegas following today’s brutal 8-4 loss to the Marlins.
“At some point you just have to say to yourself this is not in his best interest,” Sandy Alderson said about Davis’ demotion. “I was one of his biggest supporters. I just felt at some point we’ve got to get him out of here. Hopefully he’ll be back in a short period of time. But he needs to go there. He needs to be able to play every day. He needs to be able to work on his swing without worrying necessarily about the outcome. We think it’s in his best interest.”
“It’s tough to sit through 30 innings and score not even a handful of runs,” Alderson said. “It’s been frustrating for everybody. I’m sure it’s frustrating for the fans, too. But we’ve got an off-day tomorrow and we’ve got to pick it up on Tuesday.”
Corresponding moves are expected to all come from Triple-A Las Vegas, but will not be announced until Monday. If true that means no Jack leathersich or Robert Carson.
David Wright (courtesy of ESPN New York) added this:
“When you’re struggling the way we’re struggling, changes come — whether you like it or not,” Wright said. “That’s the name of the game. I think what every player, what every front office, what every coach strives for is consistency. But you can’t have consistency when you are a dozen or so games under .500.”
“You keep getting asked about the Marlins and teams you should beat,” Wright said. “I think I said it the other day: Teams are probably looking at us that way, where you’ve got to come in here and beat us. So we can’t look at any other team that way.”
This team is an absolute joke right now. This should have been done a month ago when the season was still relevant, not now when they are floundering and playing worse baseball than the Miami Marlins – if that is at all possible.
These moves come a day after Rick Ankiel was released and let’s call this what it is – an act of desperation by the front office..
Davis has been in a season-long funk that has suffocated the offense and sucked the life out of it. He will not be replaced at first base by Lucas Duda or Justin Turner – so look for Josh Satin to get the call.
This could also open the door for Wilmer Flores, but unless he’s given an everyday job, I doubt it. Look for either Andrew Brown or Collin Cowgill to replace Baxter. Both players have already disappointed this season with the Mets forcing their own demotions to Triple-A, but lets face it folks – the cupboard is bare.
Will Josh Edgin replace Carson? Probably, but he’s had a rough go of it in Binghamton and Vegas since being demoted himself. Edgin was one of the first relievers to get axed from Sandy’s 2013 bullpen.
This team sucks right now… We’ve gone from bad to worse… They can’t do anything right…
I will keep updating this post with more of my thoughts throughout the night…
Promote Flores up and move Murphy to first base. You have one roster spot on the 40man so bring up the Leather Rocket lastly,bring up Satin and DFA German off the 40 man or bring up Andrew Brown to back up the Of and 1B. They are so bad so let’s get the Kids up to play and not 4A players.
About time! The front office has a pulse….I wish theyd have more convictions when doing moves they seem so reluctant to do “everything”.
They wait til the last minute to do everything
Bringing up Flores would be an Ideal move but chances are they wont just more bandaids like Brown or Satin
I don’t think Flores would be called up unless there is a path for him to get regular playing time.
Yeah I know they wont bring him up but it would be great if they start forming this team already. Its been 3 years now and theyre still trying to figure out if Ike and Duda are building blocks.
This project should be over already
I know it wont happen but it would be great to integrate someone like Wilmer into this lineup while Ike is away on vacation in Vegas and if Flores excels and Ike is hitting it would be a great problem to have. Having to decide where to plug players rather than moving trashy 2nd hand furniture(Brown, Baxter,Byrd,Ankiel) to different parts of the room in an attempt to create Feng Shui but end up with Chop Suey instead. lol
We can all live with the youth movement and since Ike and Duda will not be building hocks we need to bring in the kids. Satin is not an answer. Put Flores at second and Murphy at first and see whet we have. The pitchers will be here soon so we need to see if we have bats or need to buy them this winter.
Who wants to help me start a boycott against ownership? If we can seriously do it and only have a couple Thousand fans a game show up, they will lose millions and will change their ways or sell the team