Today in weird baseball: the New York Mets.
Related: Kyle Farnsworth was released by the team Sunday to avoid paying the $100,000 retention bonus to send him to the minors.
Tuesday, the veteran reliever was on the team's bus to Space Coast Stadium in Viera - about an hour away from Port St. Lucie - to face the Nationals.
Problem: Farnsworth isn't actually a Met right now.
From ESPN's Adam Rubin:
The Players' Association mandated a waiting period to re-sign so that Farnsworth could look for offers from other teams, and the Mets could not so easily evade the $100,000 payment. So Farnsworth had not officially been re-signed yet when he got on the bus Tuesday.
Rubin noted a deadpan exchange between reporters and New York general manager Sandy Alderson when discussing Farnsworth, who was actually listed on the lineup card early Tuesday morning.
"He was on the bus. He was scheduled to pitch. But somebody forgot to tell him he wasn't a Met," Alderson said. "... I would expect he'd be re-signed very shortly."
LOL. Cute prank, Sandy.
