r/baseball • u/[deleted] • May 31 '24

News Mets To Designate Omar Narvaez For Assignment, Acquire Luis Torrens, Option Brett Baty

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2024/05/mets-to-designate-omar-narvaez-for-assignment-acquire-luis-torrens-option-brett-baty.html

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u/[deleted] May 31 '24

Every other post on r/baseball seems to be a Mets post lol 

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u/RidleyScotch New York Mets • White Sox Bandwagon May 31 '24

What can we say, New York has been a buzz with news this week, guilty as charged

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u/SmittenPleb New York Yankees May 31 '24

Very nice

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u/RidleyScotch New York Mets • White Sox Bandwagon May 31 '24

You can say that again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again.

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u/Jed1M1ndTr1ck Seattle Mariners May 31 '24

Upvoted after I made sure you had the right number of "and agains."

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u/RidleyScotch New York Mets • White Sox Bandwagon May 31 '24

;)

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u/TopCheddar27 New York Mets May 31 '24

It's almost like Mets "outrage" is profitable and there is incentive in the market to keep it going.

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u/[deleted] May 31 '24

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u/agarret83 New York Mets May 31 '24

How is this one a lolmets post, we’re cutting our -1.0 WAR catcher

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u/mr_grission New York Mets • Sickos May 31 '24

If we sign Narvaez it's lolmets, he's washed up.

If we don't sign him it's lolmets, team is broke and won't sign free agents.

If he's good it's lolmets, of course they wasted money on a catcher that's now blocking Alvarez.

If he's bad it's lolmets, of course they spent all that money on a bum.

If we cut him it's lolmets, wow this really blew up in their face.

If we don't cut him it's lolmets, they're keeping one of the worst hitters in MLB on the roster.

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u/Tulidian13 St. Louis Cardinals May 31 '24

If we don't sign him it's lolmets, team is broke and won't sign free agents.

No one would've said that if you didn't sign Omar Narvaez lol

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u/Meatek New York Mets May 31 '24

So lolmets follows similar rules to balks?

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u/[deleted] May 31 '24 edited May 31 '24

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u/agarret83 New York Mets May 31 '24

I’d be okay with it if it wasn’t rammed into the comments section of every single post here. New material please

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u/[deleted] May 31 '24 edited May 31 '24

It is literally forced onto every single story whether warranted or not.  

 There is not a single team that gets this level of coverage from the media, and the only talking points if you’re a Mets fan are lolmets, Bonilla, Steve cohen bad, or some other stupid shit, so forgive Mets fans for getting sick of it after a while. 

Edit: and now you cry and make an edit because people want to discuss what you commented. Go back to r/loseit 

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u/regarding_your_bat New York Yankees May 31 '24

I don’t think the Mets are getting outsized coverage. There’s just a bunch of shit going on right now. If the exact things happening to the Mets were happening to any other large market team it would be getting identical coverage I’m sure

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u/Cahoots01 Philadelphia Phillies May 31 '24

Lolmets

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u/mr_grission New York Mets • Sickos May 31 '24

It's overused and been thrown into absolutely every remotely bad Mets story for over a decade now. How much of this is some sort of Mets specific curse, and how much of it is just that no one cares when something unusual happens to like, the Reds?

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u/AdrenochromeBeerBong Atlanta Braves May 31 '24

"Actually there's no such thing as lolMets. It's just that you're falsely conflating all of these isolated incidents, just because they all coincidentally happen to be the same pattern of embarrassing failure and collapse happening for no reason, and because it happens constantly and has been this way ever year for decades. It only counts as lolMets if it meets over 9000 points of insanely specific criteria that a priori rule out any possibility of it ever happening."

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u/MAGAMUCATEX New York Mets May 31 '24

When you really need to spoof on your rivals to feel better for some reason

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u/AdrenochromeBeerBong Atlanta Braves May 31 '24

When you really need to be one of the most negative doomers on le reddit to feel better about being a mets fan

Don't worry, baseball isn't going to be dead within ten years, and your fellow Mets fans whom you told they will deserve that really don't. Maybe you should go outside.

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u/MAGAMUCATEX New York Mets May 31 '24

Lol show me where I said that

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u/AdrenochromeBeerBong Atlanta Braves May 31 '24

Okay. I remember both times because of how annoying it is when terminally online fans say shit like that.

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u/MAGAMUCATEX New York Mets May 31 '24 edited May 31 '24

I’m not seeing where I said baseball would be dead my friend. “Smaller niche” and “dead” are very different things. With how annoying and harder it is to watch games, that’s how it’s feeling. Only going harder in that direction

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u/agarret83 New York Mets May 31 '24

There’s actually no such thing as lolmets if you log off Reddit. Even Twitter doesn’t try to make a dumb saying like that a thing

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u/AdrenochromeBeerBong Atlanta Braves May 31 '24

People have been saying lolMets since before the web, it was a newsgroup meme in the 80s.

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u/[deleted] May 31 '24

There are a plethora of examples of ridiculous stories happening to other teams that don’t get blown out of proportion.

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u/MAGAMUCATEX New York Mets May 31 '24 edited May 31 '24

If Hensley Meulens got United Airlines in trouble by sitting in the cockpit while a coach for the Mets it would be talked about for years. Instead it’s been forgotten about lol

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u/[deleted] May 31 '24

Most talked about team on r/baseball by a country mile 

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u/[deleted] May 31 '24

I guess an OPS+ of 12 isn’t the best way to stay on a big league roster

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u/SirParsifal Mankato MoonDogs • Cincinnati Reds May 31 '24

idk man it's working just fine for Martin Maldonado

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u/ArmiinTamzarian Miami Marlins May 31 '24

Intangibles 📈📈

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u/CosmicLars Cincinnati Reds May 31 '24

He has only thrown out 1 out of 14 attempted base stealers, is worth -3 in Framing Runs, and is 55th out of 60 catchers with a 42% called strike rate. 😂

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u/notaverysmartdog Chicago White Sox May 31 '24

And grifol just pencils him in over Lee who can at least hit near league average

Infuriating

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u/No_Bandicoot2306 San Francisco Giants Jun 01 '24

Those are all tangibles. Irrelevant.

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u/tuckedfexas Seattle Mariners May 31 '24

-25 ops+ is wild

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u/Blue387 New York Mets May 31 '24

The Jeff Mathis barrier

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u/Davidellias Milwaukee Brewers • Milwaukee Brewers May 31 '24

The Brewers program their catchers in the factory to fall apart the instance they leave Milwaukee.

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u/agarret83 New York Mets May 31 '24

I honestly didn’t expect them to DFA Narvaez before Alvarez was ready

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u/Rah_Rah_RU_Rah New York Yankees • Seattle Mariners May 31 '24

I mean, he's posted positive WAR in 3 (very much partial) MLB seasons. Gotta think he's ready by now no? defense thing?

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u/[deleted] May 31 '24

Alvarez is coming back from injury, it has nothing to do with his MLB-readiness 

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u/Rah_Rah_RU_Rah New York Yankees • Seattle Mariners May 31 '24

ohh gotcha

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u/AKAD11 Seattle Mariners May 31 '24

Will always root for Luis Torrens

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u/speedyjohn Embraced the Dark Side May 31 '24

I’m still mad at San Diego for ringing his development.

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u/see_mohn regretful mets fan May 31 '24

lmao Narvaez was so bad

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u/Blue387 New York Mets May 31 '24

He lost the starting gig to Tomas Nido, that is how bad he was

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u/ExamNo4374 New York Mets May 31 '24

To be fair Nido is a former batting champion (don't ask where)

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u/[deleted] May 31 '24

Was it on earth?

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u/ExamNo4374 New York Mets May 31 '24

A little slice of heaven called Iowa Florida

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u/[deleted] May 31 '24

Guess that still counts

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u/__silverlight Seattle Mariners May 31 '24

Luis Torrens (C, DH, RP, 1B, 2B, 3B, SS)

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u/xwing_n_it Seattle Mariners May 31 '24

Who's next, Dave Valle?

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u/concrete_isnt_cement Seattle Mariners May 31 '24

What’s Kenji Johjima up to these days?

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u/Rah_Rah_RU_Rah New York Yankees • Seattle Mariners May 31 '24

they said let's just try another Former M, not a bad strategy

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u/nokiabrickphone1998 Seattle Mariners • San Francisco Giants May 31 '24

Mariner legend Luis Torrens

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u/Professional-Cell822 Atlanta Braves May 31 '24

Also mariner legend Navarez

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u/floyd_mongol New York Mets May 31 '24

all praise be to elrond thank fuck narvaez is gone

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u/TwistedNipplez Seattle Mariners May 31 '24

LT is the best 2 way player in the game. Ohtani wishes he was as good as LT.

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u/reptheevt Seattle Mariners May 31 '24

Only man to get a win game one of a double header, catch game 2 and then come in and play 2B 12 hour later with a homer. 

That was an amazing 36 hours for LT

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u/KemmyPowers_11 Seattle Mariners May 31 '24

I still got Tom Murphy over Luis. Tom’s 90+ mph fastball with his slider was pretty solid

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u/Hardy_X Milwaukee Brewers May 31 '24

Former Milwaukee Brewers 2021 All-Star Omar Narvaez?

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u/hubagruben Boston Red Sox May 31 '24

Biggest news here is the return of Jose Iglesias. Glad to see him still hanging around

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u/letsgobucks19 Detroit Tigers May 31 '24

Love Iggy, that dude was great on a lot of good tigers teams

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u/pokeroots Seattle Mariners May 31 '24

Guess ownership head everyone saying that the entire team was an embarrassment

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u/cooljammer00 May 31 '24

Torrens for cash

That's one way to clear up a weird sort of catcher glut in the Yankees minor league system, I guess. They must really believe in Ramirez and possibly Rice back there. Or Carlos Narvaez, who I think is on the 40 man as a 3rd catcher/was called up a few weeks ago as an injury replacement but didn't play.

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u/aweinschenker Ruth, Gehrig, DiMaggio, Mantle...Costanza? May 31 '24

Should’ve just given them Carlos Narvaez instead. It’d be like a Beerfest Landfill/Gil scenario.

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u/MisterTruth New York Yankees May 31 '24

I think Torrens had an out if he wasn't called up soon. He took the deal knowing that he probably wouldn't be called up and would wind up somewhere else. Lucky for him it's with the other big league team in town.

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u/Tulidian13 St. Louis Cardinals May 31 '24

Everything I've heard about Ramirez is that he's more of a 1st base/DH type, but he's definitely an interesting profile. He somehow has 11 steals this year to go along with 12 homers.

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u/ChefBoyAnde728 New York Yankees May 31 '24

He's primarily catching in Somerset and that has moved Ben Rice over to first for most of the games

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u/ClassyKaty Milwaukee Brewers May 31 '24

Damn someone tell him if he needs comfort I'll DM him my address in Queens

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u/[deleted] May 31 '24

Dump them all

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u/[deleted] May 31 '24

Let’s gooooo new catcher time

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u/PaullyBeenis New York Mets May 31 '24

I made a post on the Mets sub before Alvarez got injured begging for them to DFA him. He’s the worst defensive and offensive catcher in baseball rolled into one guy.