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Mets trade V. Diaz to Rangers

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=ap-mets-rangerstrade&prov=ap&type=lgns

The Texas Rangers acquired outfielder Victor Diaz from the New York Mets on Wednesday for minor league catcher Mike Nickeas.

Diaz was on the Mets' opening day roster and hit .182 (2-for-11) in six games before being sent to Triple-A Norfolk, where he hit .224 with eight home runs and 38 RBS [sic] in 103 games. Diaz spent parts of the last three seasons with the Mets.

Texas assigned Diaz to Triple-A Oklahoma. The Rangers made room on their 40-man roster when outfielder Adam Hyzdu was outrighted to Oklahoma.

Nickeas split the season between Double-A Frisco and Class-A Bakersfield.

For a man whom I predicted on this very site would be "comparable to Danny Tartabull," this is... not so good.  Very rarely will you see someone's game collapse so completely and so quickly.  For a guy who seemed major league ready to go down to AAA and put up a 606 OPS almost makes no sense.

Nickeas has some good walk totals, but not a whole lot else.

Strange story, this Victor Diaz fellow.  I guess we'll see how it plays out in Texas.

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Good luck to Diaz. He'll be able to play his natural position (DH) in a hitters haven, and hopefully he'll lay off the cheeseburgers too. I wouldn't be surprised if he becomes a productive player there. I think if he wants to he will be...

by MetfanBren on Aug 31, 2006 7:41 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

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Omar broke his will.  If he can regain some hope that he'll have a chance at making the big league roster, maybe he'll turn it around.

by OneHitWonder on Aug 31, 2006 10:07 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

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