Today is November 25th. Tomorrow is Thanksgiving.

Octavio Dotel was born on this date in 1973. The Dominican right-handed pitcher debuted with the Mets in 1999, a fun year for the Mets. The Mets traded him with Kyle Kessel and Roger Cedeño to the Houston Astros for Derek Bell and Mike Hampton, who later signed with the Rockies because of the school system. Dotel pitched for the Astros, the White Sox, the Athletics, the Pirates, the Packers, the Blue Jays, the Springfield Isotopes, the Cardinals, the Royals, the Gators, the Dodgers, the Yankees, the Braves, the Rockies and finished his MLB career with the Tigers. Octavio Dotel died on April 8, 2025 in a nightclub roof collapse in Santo Domingo at age 51.

Shingo Takatsu turns 57 today! The Japanese right-handed pitcher pitched for the 2005 Mets after debuting in 2004 with the White Sox. Takatsu pitched for Yakult in Japan from 1991 to 2003 before coming to the US in 2004. After the Mets, he returned to Yakult and pitched in Korea, AAA Fresno in 2009 and finished his pro career in 2010 in Taiwan.

The Mets are teaming up with New York Cares for their 19th Annual Coat Drive presented by your local Toyota dealers on Wednesday, December 10, from 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. at the Mets Team Store at Citi Field. Free parking will be available in Lot G. Fans bringing a new or gently used winter coat will receive a voucher redeemable for two (2) tickets to a select Monday – Thursday Mets home game in 2026. Fans will be limited to one (1) ticket voucher. Fans who donate will also receive an exclusive 20% discount at the team store. Some exclusions may apply. Please note that non-winter coats like windbreakers, jean jackets, raincoats or other light jackets will not be accepted. Fans will be limited to one (1) ticket voucher. Free parking for the Coat Drive will be available in Lot G. Lot G can be accessed through Gate 1 on Seaver Way.

11 comments

  1. I swear if we lose Diaz because Sterns doesn’t want do a 5 year contract I’m gonna be pissed. He’s literally one of the only consistent closers in the game and you can say his absence was the entire reason the 2023 team fell apart. Plus closer is like the one position in baseball that guys don’t necessarily fall off a cliff of due to age

  4. I know it’s cherry picking, but if you take away that one monster game Nimmo had against the Nats where the game was over in the 4th and they threw their horrible pitchers / the Mets went with a 9 out save by Jose Urena, (4/6, 2HR, 9 RBI) his OPS actually goes down .17 points. From .760 to .743. That would be an OPS+ of around 106. Semien had an OPS+ of 97.

    The narrative so far has been that Nimmos bat is so far above Semien (in part to “both sides” it because Semien’s glove actually is that far above Nimmo’s). But the hitting delta isn’t as big as I think the popular narrative is just accepting it is, especially when Texas played as one of the most hitter unfriendly parks in baseball this year

    Semien also has almost double the career WAR Nimmo has. He’s a borderline hall of famer. If he racks up 10 more WAR over his career he’ll have 60, which seems to be the major threshold. He had 3.3 last year and has 3 years left on his current deal.

  7. Hearing Nimmo say he talked to deGrom and was convinced ‘WE’ are capable of winning a World Series.

    I had to take a sec to compute that in this timeline deGrom & Nimmo’s ‘WE’ wasn’t the Mets he was talking about

  8. NGL, have a feeling Duran will be a Met after the GM meetings coming up. Looks and feels like a sister’s player. His one big contract in Milwaukee was for Yelich. Duran has the Yelich look.

  10. Will continue to root for Nimmo from afar even if trading him was probably the right move. I think he’s a very underrated interview, tons of charisma and openness. Barring him being at the next January 6th the man definitely has a future in media and broadcasting once his playing days are done

  11. This is based on prospect hugging, fully self aware, but I hope in all the future moves they keep AJ Ewing.

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