Today’s Non-Roster Invitee player should be familiar as Nogosek saw a cup of coffee with the Mets in 2019 and in 2021! Between those two years the right handed pitcher totaled 9.1 innings over 8 games, allowing 10 runs from 15 hits and 2 walks while striking out 11 batters.
Nogosek was originally drafted by the Red Sox in 2016 and he was acquired during the Mets partial tear down during the 2017 trade deadline. He was sent over to the Mets with Gerson Bautista and Jamie Callahan for Addison Reed. The flame thrower Bautista debuted with the Mets in 2018 and was part of the Robinson Cano/Edwin Diaz trade that sent him to the Mariners. He is currently a free agent. Jamie Callahan, who debuted with the Mets in 2017 was most recently in the Giants farm system and hasn’t pitched since 2019.
So the last man standing from the trade is Nogosek! Nogosek had a terrific 2019 campaign. He pitched in 11 games, 19.0 innings in Binghamton posting a 0.95 ERA. Then he went to Syracuse and posted a 1.15 ERA over 24 games and 31.1 innings. Then the pandemic happened. Last year he posted a 5.14 ERA and a 1.457 WHIP over 27 games and 35.0 innings.
He heads into Spring Training this year not on the 40 man roster and as a righty. Both things working against him seeing time this year. But he has gone to the majors twice already in his career and he’s already 27. If the Mets are in an injury crush and don’t want to rush someone up (or disrupt one of their starters lengthening out their arm in AAA) he is a candidate for a short call-up.
The total amount of prospects the Mets received in the 2017 and 2018 sell-off’s are starting to dwindle. We are hoping that Nogosek shows his 2019 self this spring and starts to make some noise in the Mets system.
