New Met:
The Mets signed Jim Ed Warden, 30, out of the independent Atlantic League and assigned him to Binghamton. The 6-7 righthander debuted with the B-Mets on Saturday. Warden had a league-best 13 saves for Southern Maryland. He split last season between Double-A and Triple-A with the Nationals and originally was a sixth-round pick by the Indians out of Tennessee Tech in ’01
The Herd:
Jon Niese finally is putting things together with Triple-A Buffalo. The 22-year-old lefthander tossed 7 1/3 scoreless innings Friday, limiting Durham to two hits and three walks in the Bisons’ 1-0 victory. Niese picked up his first win, after opening the season 0-6. While he still has a 6.31 ERA, Niese has allowed two runs, eight hits and four walks in 13 1/3 innings over his past two starts
B-Mets:
A scout who covers the Mets' system said he believes their best prospect is 19-year-old Jenrry Mejia, a righty who was recently promoted from Single-A to Double-A. Despite his young age, Mejia had just a 1.64 ERA in his first two starts at Double-A and between the two levels in 2009, he was 4-2 with a 1.91 ERA.There have been many projections that because Mejia is just 6-foot and does not weigh even 170 pounds that he is going to end up as a power reliever. But this scout disagrees saying he sees Mejia as a starter. The scout said think a 6-foot version of Roger Clemens or Curt Schilling.
"This kid has a muscular, powerful body," the scout said. "There is power to his body. I have no issues with his perceived lack of height. He held his velocity at 95 mph through seven innings. I don't see him wearing down just because he is not 6-foot-4. He also has a good mound presence. He has a plus changeup, and an average slider and curveball. So he has a change that is very good and his curve might be better than average. He just doesn't have to use it much right now. So he has two plus pitches, and a couple of average ones. So he starts for me."
THE SEASON SO FAR: The Mets are 26-36 and in last place in the Northern Division, 8 1/2 games behind Connecticut.
THE GOOD: The B-Mets broke a three-game losing streak in style June 10 by tying a season-high with 10 runs in a 10-7 win over Harrisburg. RHP Eric Brown picked up his first win of the season as a starter, going 6 1/3 innings and limiting the Senators to four runs on seven hits while tying a season-high mark of six strikeouts. ... Brown was supported by 15 hits from the Mets' offense, including three-hit performances from INF Jose Coronado, C Josh Thole and 3B Shawn Bowman.
THE BAD: The B-Mets pitching staff got pounded in Thursday's rain-shortened contest, which was halted in the middle of the seventh. RHP Jenrry Mejia took the loss after allowing four runs in as many innings. RHP Nick Abel took over and gave up 10 runs on 11 hits in just 2 1/3 innings as the Senators recorded 18 hits in the game with their top six hitters in the lineup notching multi-hit days. Not helping the matter was the fact that the B-Mets' defense committed three errors in the game.
SEEING DOUBLE: The string of three consecutive Saturday doubleheaders continued last week for the B-Mets as they split a twinbill with Trenton, winning the first game, 4-0, but losing the second, 5-1.
DID YOU KNOW: Thursday's rain-shortened 16-2 loss marked the largest margin of victory for an opposing team all year and also notched the highest run total surrendered by the B-Mets since last season. ... Over the first 55 games of the 2009 season, the B-Mets had yet to be shutout -- until losing, 3-0, on June 9 as they succumbed to four different Harrisburg pitchers.
Shortstop Reese Havens, an ’08 first-round pick who is on the DL with St. Lucie, is close to seeing his first action since May 30. He expected back following the weekend Florida State League All-Star break.
Righthander Jake Ruckle, who opened the season on the DL following shoulder surgery, made his first ’09 appearance by tossing three innings for St. Lucie on Saturday.
Clones:
Already signed and on board with the Cyclones from this year’s draft are outfielder Joey August (20th round, Stanford), righthander John Church (23rd, West Florida), righthander Wes Wrenn (35th, Citadel), lefthander Lance Hoge (36th, Kansas State) and lefthander Brandon Sage (37th, South Alabama).
International:
http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/story/11861882 has reported that the Dodgers have signed Korean Tae-hyeok Nam to a minor league contract. The 18 year old is the first Korean high school player signed by the Dodgers. He hit .314 with 22 homeruns and 43 RBIs in his 65 games for his high school team, Jemulpo High School. The Dodgers signed Chan Ho Park who ended up being the first Korean to play major league baseball.
This can’t make the Koreans happy. There was some discussion of changing their draft system to commit the younger players because too many Koreans were signing with major league teams right after high school. MLB does not have the same gentleman’s agreement with Korea that they have with Japan. Both the NPB and MLB will not sign players in that country until after their respective drafts. If players are still available after each organiaztion’s draft then it is fair game.
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