Easily forgotten former NY Mets player joins the Braves on a minor league deal

At this rate, the New York Mets are bound to run into an ex of theirs on the Atlanta Braves. The greatest NL East rival of ours south of the Mason-Dixon Line couldn’t stop at being the team to give Luis Guillorme a deal last year. On a much smaller scale, they’ve been loading up on former Mets as if they know they’ll rip our hearts out in the hunt for a NL East title.

The team added Eddy Alvarez to the roster earlier in the offseason. A “no big deal” type of feeling from this move because of how short-lived his Mets career was last year had this free agent addition flying way under the radar. They also brought in Chasen Shreve to compete for a bullpen spot on a minor league deal. Again, so what?

This week has been a little different. The Braves signed Jake Diekman and Dylan Covey to minor league deals. Diekman is the exact type of player we can all picture doing some damage in a big spot. Covey never actually pitched for the Mets, but shortly after getting DFA’d, he found a new home rather quickly. As if this wasn’t enough, the Braves have added Jake Marisnick to a minor league deal.

Jake Marisnick is back in the NL East after a year spent entirely in the minors

All we ever got from Marisnick was 16 games in 2020. He hit well, batting .333 with a pair of home runs. But the problem was he spent more time on the IL than on the field. He has bounced around the league ever since, representing the Chicago Cubs, San Diego Padres, Pittsburgh Pirates, Atlanta Braves, Los Angeles Dodgers, Chicago White Sox, Detroit Tigers, and most recently the Los Angeles Angels. A growing favorite in Immaculate Grid, he never did make it out of Triple-A when he was last with the Braves in 2022.

The minor leagues was where Marisnick spent all of last year, appearing in 59 games total for the Angels. He took advantage of playing in Salt Lake City, a minor league city that makes pitchers reconsider their career choice. Smacking 12 home runs in 231 plate appearances and batting .283/.368/.551 was still never enough for the Angels to promote him to the show.

Blow for blow, the Mets still have the greater edge on the Braves in terms of exes embarrassing them. A.J. Minter is by far the most notable to go from one team to the next. What are the odds of a game-winning Marisnick hit off of Minter? Speak it out of existence.