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Getting a former top 50 prospect and a potential power (left-handed arm) for Jay Bruce looks pretty good for the Reds.
– Besides pushing for Bruce, the Giants also have expressed interest in Tampa Bay pitcher Matt Moore, according to several reports.
For the second year in a row, the New York Mets have landed a slugging outfielder on deadline day. If you remember correctly, the Mets were set to acquire Bruce last season, but the deal ultimately fell through.
“Look, it was an extraordinary turnaround past year”.
And before you ask where everyone is going to play, I direct you to review Exhibit A: this season. He spent six years at the Orange County Register, and began his career at the Oakland Tribune, where he started an 11-year journey covering Major League Baseball. With Cespedes nursing a quad injury that may send him to the disabled list, Bruce’s arrival, assuming Nimmo’s physical does not block the blockbuster acquisition, comes at a necessary time for NY, who, at 54-50 and 6.5 games behind the Washington Nationals, hope to rally for a playoff berth down the homestretch of the season.
But it is unclear if Bruce is a clutch hitter or simply hitting in the clutch.
Jay Bruce bats.360 with runners in scoring position.
“I think he’ll make a big impact”, Collins said in a press conference.
BRIEFS: Cespedes (strained right quad) didn’t start for the third straight game, but laced a pinch-hit single in the seventh. It’s a ideal fit, and yet, it really isn’t.
“You try not to play GM”, Walker said. And when it happened, I was very, very excited. That’s when the Mets traded for Yoenis Cespedes and took off like a rocket for the World Series.
We know the Pirates are on controllable starters, but unknown is what effect the sweep this weekend has on their previously stated plans to add. “They talked about us losing 100 games at the beginning of the year, and s–, we’re damn sure trying, aren’t we?” In nine big-league seasons, he has a.249 batting average and has hit.248 with runners in scoring position, indicating that what he’s doing in 2016 isn’t replicable in the long term. Bruce has a $13 million team option for next season.
Gannett New Jersey columnist Bob Klapisch reported the Mets are “cautiously optimistic” they will complete a deal. After the Mets traded the 29-year left-hander to Pittsburgh in December for Neil Walker, the second baseman signed a one-year sublease for the pitcher’s apartment on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. They were able to work around that and agree to a deal just before the trade deadline.
“Herrera, 22, was once regarded as the Mets” future second baseman. He was batting.276 with 13 homers and 55 RBIs this year at Triple-A Las Vegas. “It’s not that our estimation of Dilson has gone down; we realize we have some other options and seem to be well-covered there”.
Niese, 8-6 with a 4.90 ERA, pitched the final two innings in his return and allowed Didi Gregorius’ ninth-inning homer. Their outfield situation might be crowded, but at least Bruce is under team control through the 2017 season.
“Honestly I have no idea”, he said.
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At the end, the Mets outlasted a half-dozen or so teams that also sought Bruce.
