2019 Mets Projections Review: Devin Mesoraco

Every spring at 213 we gather a whole bunch of projections for players and average them together to see what a conglomerate of baseball sources think a given player will perform over the year. It’s wholly unscientific – averaging averages and not weighting them for previous accuracy or amount of playing time they feel a player will see.

I thought about not writing this article, but I think it’s important to remember how poorly the Mets treated Devin Mesoraco last year, and how it speaks to the organization as a whole. When we wrote about Mesoraco last year, the Mets catcher situation was a mess between Wilson Ramos, Travis d’Arnaud and Mesoraco. The Mets just bet on d’Arnaud over Kevin Plawecki, who they traded to the Indians. Travis was still trying to come back from injury. For what it’s worth, Mesoraco was projected to put up the following numbers:

Instead, the Mets forced him, essentially, into early retirement.

Instead of doing the right thing of releasing Mesoraco when he wouldn’t accept an assignment to Syracuse, the Mets put him on the restricted list which triggered Devin wanting to retire. There was some gentleman’s agreement that Mesoraco would be on the team if d’Arnaud was not ready for opening day and by the end of March it was becoming clear that he was not ready. So the Mets went from being stacked with the catchers to trading away Plawecki, angering Mesoraco (and potentially damaging their reputation to sign other veteran players), and an injured d’Arnaud.

The kicker is the Mets got rid of d’Arnaud anyway later in the season and went on to have a great year in Tampa Bay.

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