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Alex Carrillo is the New York Mets' newest relief pitcher, a right-handed out-of-nowhere prospect with MLB talent. He's 6-foot-2, 245 pounds with a whipping sidearm motion that he throws from about 10 o'clock.

A head of their series in Baltimore, the Mets are calling up right-handed pitched Alex Carrillo, per Anthony DiComo. The name may be unfamiliar to most Mets fans, as Carrillo was signed out of Venezuela last winter after pitching in independent ball for parts of the past four years.