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As everyone knows by now, former Mets reliever Pedro Feliciano died in his sleep at age 45. Feliciano was the ultimate LOOGY. In a stat line we hope never to see again, Feliciano appeared in 484 games in his MLB career – all with the Mets – yet totaled just 383.2 IP. It’s not his fault – that’s just how his managers chose to use him. And maybe it was for the best, as RHB had a lifetime .809 OPS against him in 868 PA.
Feliciano led the league in games for three straight seasons. And then he left the Mets to sign a free agent deal with the Yankees and was immediately hurt. If memory serves, the Yankees accused the Mets of ruining him. Feliciano missed two years but came back to appear in 25 games for the 2013 Mets. He threw 11.1 innings that year and you know that LOOGY lover Terry Collins enjoyed every appearance.
He gave the team everything he had and for that he has our appreciation.
I just looked at the 2013 roster and wow that was a golden year for LOOGYs as the Mets & Collins employed at various points 5 LOOGYs that year, something which thankfully we will never see again.
Leading the list that year was Scott Rice (73 G, 51 IP), followed by Edgin (34 G, 28.2 IP), then Feliciano (25 G, 11.1 IP) and some token apperances by Tim Byrdak (8 G, 4.2 IP) & some journeyman named Sean Penn (4 G, 2.2 IP)
That’s a total of 98 IP that took 144 appearances, which is an average of 2 outs per appearances, so i guess the more apt term should be LOTGY.
Surprisingly the only lefty that year not be used like a loogy was Robert Carson, who had a eye cringing 8.24 ERA and 9.40 FIP!
In all of my decades of watching MLB, Scott Rice was the most abused pitcher ever…not sure if appearance logs support that, but naked eye perception certainly did.
How far we’ve come from the days when Roger McDowell could pitch 5 innings in relief or even when Turk Wendell appeared in 9 straight games for the Mets.
It’s a new day! Starters give you five innings and a 8 man BP gives you 4.
Yes or no? Diaz and McNeil for Sanchez and Urshela.
No. Sanchez is terrible. Diaz has much more value than that.
Sanchez is the DH? 30 HRs and a big righty bat.
There’s no lock the Yankees even tender him a contract, so why would anyone give up a strong closer for him? 30 HR DHs that can’t do anything else aren’t that hard to come by.
I am so disappointed by the Met front office. I can’t understand why they negotiated the Lindor contract when they did. They knew that there were going to be bouque shortstops as free agents and they could have played them off and get a reasonable contract. At the least they would have had a choice even if they were to have spend 34 million dollars a year. When they signed Lindor this past spring they lost all leverage. They could have given Lindor a qualifying offer and also got a draft pick if he didn’t sign. With Cohen’s bucks there was no chance that they were not going to sign one of the shortstops. That was a foolish play when they signed Lindor.
Then to compound the situation they selected their first round draft pick and didn’t sign in because he was injured. How did that happen? The consequences for this mistake is that if they sign an encumbered free agent they will have to loose their 14th draft pick. Yes, I am disappointed with the Mets front office.
A must read:
https://nypost.com/2021/11/13/sandy-alderson-wrong-to-blame-nyc-for-mets-troubled-gm-search/?utm_source=email_sitebuttons&utm_medium=site%20buttons&utm_campaign=site%20buttons
It is a must read, but I don’t think the makeup of the team is as dire as the makeup of the Front Office. If Alderson really intended on leaving the GM alone, he would say it. Problem is Alderson likes the attention and he wants to feel relevant, despite saying he wants to step aside.
Looks like Noah Syndergaard is going to the Angels on a 1/$21 million deal.
So, in addition to being injured the past two seasons and league average the last time he was healthy, we can add two-faced to his list of qualities. The guy who would be “grateful” to get the QO, the one who said it would be difficult to be on another team — he becomes one of the early guys to sign a free agent deal with another team.
I guess the Angels had such great luck with Matt Harvey that they couldn’t pass up the chance to add another injured Mets pitcher. Good luck to them.
Speaking of being two faced, I can’t tell if you’re salty that he spurned the Mets or happy that another team and not the Mets have to overpay for his services. Seems like Syndergaard was in a no-win situation with Mets fans either way.
99 and 44/100% the latter