6 NY Mets players who failed to take advantage of their spring training opportunity

6) Genesis Cabrera

A familiar name to anyone who has watched baseball and ventured outside of knowing everything there is to know about their ball club, the fact that the Mets were able to sign Genesis Cabrera so early on in the offseason and to a minor league contract came as a pleasant surprise. The hard-throwing lefty has had some control issues in his MLB career. Coming off of a peculiar year with a 3.59 ERA but a -0.1 WAR and frightening 5.13 FIP, those more hidden metrics suggest he was far worse than his ability to prevent runs showed.

An ERA that ballooned up to 8.31 based primarily on one rough outing, it was a death sentence for Cabrera to make the Mets out of camp. We have to unfairly look at only 4.1 innings to make a decision. Sadly for him, it means the minor league deal he signed will remain as such.

Cabrera will be a good lefty option to have available on the depth chart, buried in the minor leagues, and ready to deploy should the Mets need to. Anthony Gose outperformed him this spring, but with age on his side (Cabrera is in his age 28 campaign) the Mets have every reason to have continued patience. He has nasty stuff that the mad scientists in the pitching lab would surely like to tap into and milk dry.