Kevin Mulvey RHP - Drafted by the Mets in the second round of the 2006 draft then traded to the Twins as one of the players in the Johan Santana trade, the Twins gave up on him and the Diamondbacks were able to pick him up on waivers. You know your top ten list is weak when players start appearing there that have been claimed on waivers. He got his major league debut last year and was ripped for a .299 average and 8.14 ERA with five homeruns in 24 innings. His fastball had a little more juice when he was with the Mets. In six starts with Reno Mulvey is 0-2, 4.09, with four of his six starts quality starts. At 25 he is what he is, a back of the rotation starter or a middle relief man. - link
2010 performance: .281/.406/.539 - Preseason projection: .305/.391/.502 - Score it another win for CHONE. A sky-high .258 ISO has fueled Wright's excellent season (thus far), and those questions about his diminishing power are long gone. Wright, once again, looks every bit the promising young star we thought he was. Unfortunately for the Mets, he can't solve the pitching problems plaguing the Mets. This is something of a different David Wright from the player we came to know; that 38.3 percent strikeout rate is shocking. -
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Another player on the Brewers DL, centerfielder Carlos Gomez (strained rotator cuff), will play two games with Class A Wisconsin on Wednesday and Thursday and will rejoin the team in Minnesota when it starts an interleague series against Gomez’s former team, the Twins. Gomez was asked how happy he was to be back in time for that three-game series, and he simply stared and smiled before saying the start of the series was the first day he was eligible to be activated, so it was out of his control. But he did acknowledge it was great timing and answered questions about his feelings on being traded. “This is the perfect moment to (come back),” Gomez said. “I don’t have to prove nothing. Everybody knows I can play here; I belong here. “It’s good for me that they traded me because if I stayed in Minnesota I would be a backup, not an everyday player. Here I can play every day and I’m happy.” — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - link
Wilmer Flores, SS, Mets (Low-A Savannah) - Breakout confirmed? The Mets expected Flores to take a big step forward this year after getting a feel for full-season baseball in 2009, but the advancements so far have been nothing less than staggering, as Flores is 19-for-36 in his last eight games to lift his season averages to .364/.419/.589. The key to everything has been in his approach—his walk rate is way up and his strikeout rate is way down—and scouts are universal in their belief that this is all very real. The continuing thickening of his frame leaves almost no chance of staying at shortstop, but the bat is starting to move into that special category, as Flores is still the same age as many potential high school draftees next month. -
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1st Round Catchers:
From 1988-2002, thirty-one catchers were drafted in the first round of the June Amateur Draft. Ten draftees would never play in the Major Leagues, a group that includes six high school picks, the one junior college player, and three college guys. Another eight picks can safely be called busts, having produced between -2.4 and 0.1 WAR at the big league level. This group consists of five college players and three high school busts. This leaves 13 players that have produced 2 WAR or greater in the Majors. Here they are, ranked by their pre-2010 career WAR, according to Rally’s historical database: - link
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What impresses me this season watching Wilmer Flores is how relaxed he is when he has two strikes on him and he has the ability to hit the ball in play with two strikes.
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