A member of the Mets organization in the offseason only, it looks like they were right to move on even if his ERA says otherwise.
A New York Mets player on paper but not in practice, the team added Michael Hobbs back in December via the Rule 5 Draft’s minor league portion. This part of the draft doesn’t require the same sort of commitment as the major league one where a player must be kept on the active roster or offered back to the team he was stolen from in exchange for financial compensation.