Francisco Álvarez is close.
The young receiver sat on Thursday after playing consecutive days and is ready to catch games with Double-A Binghamton on Friday and Saturday, after which he could be ready for his debut in the season.
“We will have a conversation after you get those two days and see if you need more springs to the bat and if you feel that you are ready to start,” the Mets manager Carlos Mendoza, Álvarez, who required a hand, said Thursday.
Once Álvarez’s time comes, this opportunity for Major League will probably end Hayden Senger, but the belief is that there are more possibilities to come.
Senger, a 27 -year -old rookie who worked in the minor leagues for nine seasons, has impressed, partly defensive, in his first 11 games as a large major.
He has thrown three of the five Bashealers potentials with an arm that the team has no rival in baseball.
Among 64 receptors that have launched to the second base this season, the average Senger speed of 88.7 MPH is the best in the game.
Counting his childhood, he has always known that he has a talented arm.
He perfected the duration of the gift the first days of the pandemic in 2020.
Without a team to play, Senger worked in the PRP baseball in Indiana and looked around all the teams for the pitchers: weighted balls and medical balls designed to develop the strength of the arm.
“That seems fun,” he thought, and had some time in his hands.
“I’ve always had that high rank speed,” Senger said, “but now it’s easier.”
In his first taste of the elders, Senger has handled the pitchers well, he has strong framed and blocking numbers and has hit a little.
It has gone 5 by 22 (.227) with a double and has demonstrated an adept bunt.
Quality defensive receptors find a niche in the game, even if they are not asked to do a lot of offensively.
“Getting the opportunity is something special to me,” Senger said before supporting Luis Torrens while the Mets beat Cardinals 4-1 in Citi Field. “It is an honor to be here with this team.
“The son always thought he could catch in the big leagues. It was only the batting part that I have always had reservations. But now I feel that I can give them a [quality at-bat] Right now. “
Jeff McNeil was 0 by 3 and began in the central garden with Low-A St. Lucie while the Mets look for other options after José Siri fractured his warm.
Recovering from oblique tension, McNeil is expected to join Binghamton or Triple-A Syracuse on Saturday and play games behind the back.
Tyrone Taylor started in the center, and Mendoza said he would feel comfortable using Brandon Nimmo, a former central gardener who has pushed left, in the place. It is possible that Luisangel Acuña, who played a central field in the children last season, becomes an option.
“We’ll see,” Mendoza said about Acuña. “He is going to spend a lot of time with Antoan [Richardson, the outfield coach].
“… he is playing well, so it’s ear opportunities here.”
The Mets also called the gardener José Azócar, who could see time in the center.
When summoning Azócar, the Mets opted to Justin Hagenman, the official placed Siri in the 10 -day IL and remembered Max Kranick, who had been chosen on Wednesday.
Brett Bitch (2 by 3 with a double and RBI) has surely hit five of its six setting games.
“Bathy is showing the things he is capable of or,” Mendoza said.
Paul Blackburn is expected to (inflammation of the right knee) throw two tickets with high-a Brooklyn on Saturday.
Darryl Strawberry, who was present to support the annual black legacy game of the Mets that celebrates the history of the Black Mets players, was informed that the Department of Defense had scrubbed and then restored an article on the service of Jackie Robinson in the army.
“It’s a shame if they do that,” Strawberry said. “The shame for them for a person who had to fight so strong, and he was only fighting for himself. He was fighting for any color player who puts himself in the uniform, from black players to Latin players. Therefore, it would be a shame if they cannot maintain that right, keep it as it should be because it represents something that you can imagine.”
– Additional Andrew Crane reports
