B-Mets:
After last night's 7-2 loss to New Britain, Caleb Stewart and I were chatting in the B-Mets' clubhouse. I asked him what he wanted to see from his team in the final 2 1/2 weeks of the season. Stewart told me he wanted to see his team win as many games as possible, trying to get out of last place and maybe getting to 60 wins.That might be a long shot. Heading into tonight's game at Connecticut, the B-Mets are 47-75. A .385 winning percentageAs we've pointed out here before, the B-Mets need to win eight games to outrightly avoid the worst record in team history, the 54-88 record from 1999. But the B-Mets also need to finish strong to avoid one of the worst seasons in city baseball history.In 60 seasons in the Eastern League, Binghamton teams have finished with fewer than 60 victories just six times. Here are the worst Binghamton baseball seasons:1946 Triplets: 51-89, .3641947 Triplets: 52-88, .3711999 B-Mets: 54-88, .3801945 Triplets: 56-81, .4091927 Triplets: 57-81, .4131948 Triplets: 58-82, .414A couple notes out of this:
· The B-Mets need, of course, five victories to avoid the worst record in the city's history.
· At their current winning percentage, the B-Mets would go 7-11 over their final 18 games. That's a 54-86 record - tied for the fewest wins in B-Mets history and percentage points ahead of the 1999 team. Which is why, above, I say that eight wins "outrightly avoids" the worst record. Seven victories, for all intents and purposes, ties the worst record.
· With 75 losses, the B-Mets already have more losses than all but 14 teams in the city's Eastern League history.
Eat, sleep and breathe baseball.
It's the life that Carlos Guzman always dreamed about while he was growing up in the gritty East New York section of Brooklyn and attending John Adams HS in Richmond Hill.
Now that he's a right fielder for the St. Lucie Mets of the Single-A Florida State League, Guzman isn't just imagining; he's living his dream.
"Some people might wake up and say, 'Damn, I got to go to work,' but not me," Guzman said. "I'm getting the chance to play baseball every day. It's amazing, man."
Having played in 112 games (through Sunday) this season, Guzman is flashing potential.
"Carlos is a guy who shows some talent," said Tim Teufel, the manager of the St. Lucie Mets.
"He's a kid that can be a switch hitter. He has bat potential and power to the left side. It's been a rough year for him against lefties, but he's had a good year against righties."
Guzman was hitting a paltry .198 with 18 hits, four RBI and 17 strikeouts in 91 at-bats against lefties through Sunday. But against righties, he's hitting .302 with 14 home runs and 54 RBI.
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Gnats:
Gnats:
The 50 Youngest Low-A Players:
1 Wilmer Flores 17.7 8/6/1991 NYM
2 Jefry Marte 17.8 6/21/1991 NYM
28 Kyle Allen 19.2 2/12/1990 NYM
Clones:
1 Wilmer Flores 17.7 8/6/1991 NYM
2 Jefry Marte 17.8 6/21/1991 NYM
28 Kyle Allen 19.2 2/12/1990 NYM
Clones:
While the New York Mets are still searching for their first no-hitter since the team’s inception in 1962, the Brooklyn Cyclones, the Mets short-season Single-A team that was formed in 2001, already have a no-no.
Brandon Moore, a 23-year-old drafted in the 14th round in 2008, pitched seven hitless innings in the front end of a doubleheader sweep against the Aberdeen Ironbirds. In the New York-Penn League, doubleheaders are comprised of two seven-inning games.
Moore scattered three walks and struck out six in his history-making performance, as the team from Coney Island won the first game, 5-0.
Moore’s ERA dropped to 2.15, which leads all of the Brooklyn starters. He has done a great job keeping runners off of base this season, with only 47 hits over 71 innings pitched. He has 15 walks over that span, while striking out 63.
Mark Cohoon led the Cyclones to a win in game two of doubleheader, helping Brooklyn to a sweep of their McNamara Division rivals.
Cohoon pitched a complete game, allowing only one unearned runs as the Cyclones cruised 5-1 over the Ironbirds. He allowed four hits, two walks, and struck out six over seven innings
Lefthander Pat Misch has been optioned to Buffalo after his lengthy outing Sunday, and fellow lefthander Ken Takahashi will join the Mets from Triple-A Buffalo.Read more:
NYM: RHP Bobby Parnell (3-5, 4.74 ERA)Parnell's third start was a large step back from his second, as he allowed nine runs in three innings against the Braves on Wednesday. As in his first start, Parnell had trouble locating his offspeed pitches and was forced to go to his fastball too often, especially in an eight-run Atlanta second inning. Parnell has appeared in six games against the Phillies this season as a reliever, with an 0-2 record and a 3.38 ERA. Pedro Feliz is 2-for-4 off Parnell while Chase Utley is 1-for-1 with a game-winning home run.
PHI: LHP Cliff Lee (11-9, 2.72 ERA)Lee is 4-0 with a 0.82 ERA in four starts with the Phillies, who acquired him July 29 in a trade with the Indians. He has allowed just 18 hits and six walks in 33 innings. He has struck out 34. Opponents have hit .161 against him. He is 7-0 with a 1.09 ERA in his past seven starts, which include his final three with Cleveland. "It's similar," Lee said, asked to compare this seven-start stretch with how he pitched last season when he won the American League Cy Young Award. "It's kind of the same, I guess. Last year is over. This game is over. My job is to prepare for the next one. I don't really sit there and think, 'My last four or five starts I did this.' I really don't look at it like that."
1 comment:
I'll never forget a practice on the backfields at the St Lucie complex during spring training that had Carlos Guzman, Ambiorix Concepcion, Gabriel Zavala and Jesus Gamero in RF making throws to home. What started off as simple fungoes and IF/OF practice turned into a 15 minute pissing contest to see who could out-gun the others. It really didn't serve any point other than to see just how good these 4 guys were, and if I remember correctly, all 4 of them were in the trainer's room for the next week with sore arms, but what we all saw was amazing.
Carlos Guzman has the best arm I have ever seen in the outfield. He throws perfect line drives that can't be more than 4 feet off the ground and come in like missiles...I hope he can figure out how to hit from the right side because he is a really fun player to watch.
From a tools standpoint, the only tool that I've ever seen that was more fun to watch than Guz's arm was Carlos Gomez's speed. I put them both in the same class though in terms of how impressive they are
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