7-10-10 from: - link - **I've received several questions this week about Mets third base prospect Aderlin Rodriguez, who has hit seven homers in his first 16 games for Kingsport in the Appy League, giving him a .292/.329/.692 line, four walks, eight strikeouts in 65 at-bats. Sample is tiny, of course, but a fast start is always better than a slow one, and I like the fact that he is combining a low strikeout rate with this much power production. Defense remains a problem: his .878 fielding percentage is awful, but is admittedly better than the horrifyingly Lovecraftian .774 fielding percentage he had last year in the Gulf Coast League. I suspect he'll end up in right field eventually, but the bat looks very promising to me. He's just 18 and hopefully the Mets won't rush him as badly as they've pushed some of their other prospects in recent years.
7-9 from: - link - Jeurys Familia - RHP Age 20 New York Mets High-A (FSL) - 26.3 K%
15.7 BB% 0.3 HR/9 1.59 GO/AO - What an inning will look like: If Familia pitches — and I’m guessing that’s no sure thing since he threw yesterday — we will see a lot of fastballs. The great U.S. offense is likely to draw a few walks off Familia, as he’s the most wild pitcher in this game. He’ll pitch into the mid-90s with a heavy fastball, but he doesn’t really know where it’s going. What he profiles as: A reliever, if a Major Leaguer at all. It’s hard to believe that some pitching instructor can’t help Familia harness his stuff, but it wouldn’t be the first time it didn’t work out.
7-9 from: - link - Jose Reyes told Constantino Viloria at the Spanish-language New York paper La Opinion that he is open-minded about his future with the Mets. As in past interviews, Reyes dismissed the possibility that he would play anywhere but with the Mets, the organization that scouted and signed him as a teenager in the Dominican Republic… Reyes added a new twist by telling Viloria that while he would prefer to stay at short, he "hasn't ruled out" changing positions. More specifically, Reyes mentions that "I played several games at second base for the Mets," referring to the 43 games he logged at the keystone in 2004.
7-9 from: - link - Team: Double-A Binghamton (Eastern) - Age: 22 - Why He's Here: .545/.564/1.091 (18-for-33), 3 HR, 9 2B, 9 RBIs, 13 R, 4 BB, 6 SO, 1-for-1 SB - The Further Adventures of Kirk Nieuwenhuis: After stealthily leading the high Class A Florida State League in doubles, extra-base hits, OPS and runs in a breakout '09 campaign, our hero embarked this season on a mission to Double-A, his most dangerous to date. While Nieuwenhuis homered 10 times for Binghamton during the first three months of the season, his batting line stood at a pedestrian .275/.317/.468 through 265 at-bats. Then July dawned. Nieuwenhuis went 0-for-3 on July 1, but a doubleheader against Portland the next day ushered in the hot streak you see above. That's unheard of: 18 hits in a week, 12 of them for extra bases. And wouldn't you know it? Nieuwenhuis now leads the EL with 26 doubles, 41 extra-base hits and 66 runs.
7-9 from: - link - 3. New York: Citi Field and Yankee Stadium - In a city where two teams compete, your game-time selection boils down to loyalty: Yankees or Mets? The Mets Citi Field resides in Queens, where the 41,800-capacity stadium made a smooth transition from Shea's Stadium. The Yankees got new digs too, thanks to Rudy Giuliani, who ordered a new park to be instated in the Bronx, where a Red Sox-loving worker buried a David Ortiz jersey in the cement, and was made to retrieve it. Both ballparks celebrated their first opening days in 2009.
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