MANNY ACOSTA RUMORS & GOSSIP

Mike Pelfrey, Manny Acosta, Ramon Ramirez, and Andres Torres all filed for arbitration before the midnight deadline last night. Pelfrey earned $3.925 million, Torres earned $2.2 million and Ramirez earned $1.65 million in 2011. They are all expected to get significant raises for the upcoming season. Tuesday is the deadline for teams and players to exchange salary arbitration...

Shudder to just think of it a couple of months ago. After a horrible start,  Manny Acosta has been lights out lately.  Which begs the question: Can Acosta assume the role of closer for the 2012 Mets? It goes without saying that Acosta has thoroughly been the Mets most consistent and reliable arm out of the bullpen for the better part of two months. In his last 29 outings (consisting...

Since the All-Star break, Manny Acosta has been the Mets’ best reliever. Tim Byrdak has a better ERA (1.80 versus 2.19) but Acosta has faced more than twice as many batters (48-22) and has given up three runs overall to Byrdak’s four. No other reliever is close to their ERA. Acosta’s effective stretch goes back further than the break. In his last 16 games, he has 17 IP...

Jason Bay & Carlos Beltran had grand slams in consecutive innings, and R.A. Dickey had another quality outing in the 14-3 blowout of the Detroit Tigers Game Notes R.A. Dickey came out today and seems had the luck on his side and was blessed with run support. Outside of that, R.A. went seven innings, allowing three runs on ten hits, including two home runs while walking three...

The New York Mets today announced the team has selected the contract of righthanded pitcher Manny Acosta from Buffalo (AAA) of the International League. Acosta will wear uniform #36 and will be available for tonight’s game vs. Atlanta. After yesterday’s game, the Mets optioned lefthanded pitcher Mike O’Connor to Buffalo. In order to make room on the 40-man roster, the Mets...

The Mets Mr Acosta was Designated for Assignment before the beginning of the season, passed through waivers and was out righted to Buffalo. The soon to be 30 year old was squeezed out of the Mets bullpen with Blaine Boyer getting the last spot in the bullpen. He had a ERA of 2.95 last year for the Mets once he was called up. He was in 41 games in 2010 with a 9.5 K/9  Source baseball-reference

Since floating the idea that Bobby Parnell could be sent down to the minors to start the season yesterday, we have a little more clarity based on some new information. This morning, Andy Martino of the Daily News wrote that the Mets front office “has considered demoting reliever Bobby Parnell to the minors”, but a team source told him that they decided to reject the...

Manager Jerry still has his pull with the Mets. Instead of sending Mr Mejia down to Buffalo to make room for DL returnee Ryota Igarashi, the Mets optioned Manny Acosta.Of course most would have preferred to send down Oliver Perez but he is would have to agree to it.Mejia needs to go down soon so he can maybe ramp up to become a starter later this year but Manager Jerry loves the...

Went to the game last night, straight from work, didn't get home til 2am and then went to work at 6am. After a power nap, watching the game and catching up the blog.As I expected Iggy was placed on the disabled list and one of my candidates to replace him was called up in Manny Acosta. I've got to say Acosta looked very good in person in his first inning of work. Hard throwing...

The Braves optioned reliever Manny Acosta to the AAA Gwinnett Braves today as the intense competition for the final spot(s) in Atlanta’s bullpen continues. Acosta has posted a 3.55 ERA in 103 relief appearances in his three seasons as a Brave, but the 28-year old righthander has continually                      struggled with his command. The Braves are likely to [...]