Rejoice, Mets fans — the Darin Ruf experiment is over. Despite tearing up opposing pitchers on the backfields in PSL, New York decided to designate him for assignment on Monday to make room for outfielder Tim Locastro. This also potentially clears a path for manager Buck Showalter to get Luis Guillorme involved on a regular basis.
At least, that’s what Newsday‘s Tim Healey said. A Twitter user asked him if this meant the recently-demoted Mark Vientos would actually be on the Opening Day roster:
Mark Vientos still is opening the year in Syracuse.