Bruin Agbayani

Not gonna get it done.

Bruin Agbayani hitting, uh, 091, so the Mets are also struggling.

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Uh, yeah, no, no notable pitching.

But AJ, though, was nails.

And between the New York Mets and the Minnesota Twins, in which the Mets acquired a big bopper of a home run hitter who strikes out a lot but hits a lot of bombs too, and Billy Amick, as well as Bruin Agbayani, Benny's son, in a trade for AJ, who was a rental reliever, 45 total total innings this year for the veteran southpaw the unage of 32 and 8k per nine to a dazzling 1.58 walks per nine the home run rate was up this year at 1.77 and that continued as he went on to the minnesota twins and gave up bombs to guys like aaron judge in the second half a two and a half year rate a 3.8 expected rate 4.4 fip and a 4 expected fit listen this is aj's Real first big sample back since, you know, this first half of the 2024 season because he only pitched 11 innings with the Mets before going down with the element in 2025.

AJ was fantastic here, embraced the environment, embraced the market for, you know, a guy that... long-time atlanta brave becomes a new york met and finds himself having success he embraced what it meant to be a met he really enjoyed his time here so did his wife from everything that we saw and i really loved aj's uh end of tenure comments stating how you know what if he can bring back a nice little prospect or two he'll be happy to do that for this mets team so no l well between the two sides no bridge burned and if aj does have the appetite to go back to flushing queens this is absolutely, I think a relationship that could be rekindled because it does feel like that there's a level of unfinished business.

And speaking of unfinished business going on from AJ mentor, let's get onto another reliever today, but this would be the lone player in today's discussion, which the Mets would actually have to trade for after they traded him away.

This would be insane for the New York Mets.

Ronald Acuna, one of the most talented players in the league, is being talked about as being a trade candidate, and one popular webpage has developed a trade involving Mets pitcher Zach Thornton and prospect Bruin Agbayani.

Would David Stearns make a move like that? Would the Braves be open to moving one of their most impressive pieces to a division rival? Or is all of this just smoke and mirrors? We'll get into all of that today on Mets Digest.

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Um, and then he had something else, uh, go wrong with him this season, so he re- he really had some issues.

Bruin Agbayani, Benny's son, is-

That was an interesting one.

I think that's more development.