Just over a week into New York Mets spring training games, eliminations have begun. Three longshots to make the Opening Day roster have been reassigned. Alex Carrillo goes to Triple-A, officially. Anderson Severino and Matt Turner won’t make the cut as the lefty replacement for A.J. Minter.
Only Carrillo is a membrer of the 40-man roster and after last year’s performance in the majors, carrying him on the Opening Day roster was unfathomable. Severino came to the Mets in the offseason based largely on a successful Winter League performance while Turner joined via the minor league portion of the Rule 5 Draft from the New York Yankees who had signed him as a minor league free agent shortly before.