The latest Mets trade ends the tenure of overused and overexposed free agent signing

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Throughout the movie Clerks, Dante Hicks, a worker at Quick Stop, repeatedly says, “I’m not even supposed to be here today.” Michael Tonkin had an identical experience with the New York Mets. Following a strong debut, Tonkin was asked to enter the game twice in extra innings, but the Detroit Tigers destroyed him each times. As a result of the rainouts, the games would end up being back-to-back with two days between them. With two losses and eight runs allowed against him, but only two earned, he departs the Mets. It was 37, at least.

Tonkin was called in to carry out his duties in an environment he didn’t belong in, just like Hicks in the first Clerks movie. Hicks was meant to be off that day. Tonkin was merely.

 

Is it better for the Mets to have kept Michael Tonkin in the minor leagues?
It was a difficult time for all of them. He was DFA’d for another reason: the Mets needed new bullpen arms. Tonkin would have lost the balance of his contract if he had requested his release since he lacked the necessary MLB service time. Now that he has been transferred to the Twins, he will receive the money. It translates to one unsuccessful free agency signing for the Mets.

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