Hey Mack, don’t sweat the children dissing you on that other site. You’re the best Mets minor league site out there and everyone knows that, especially our boys over on the SNY Network sites.
I got a question for you.
It seems to me that the current rosters in the minor league teams are void of prospects. You agree?
Mack:
Thanks Joe, for your kind thoughts.
One of the writers on Mack’s Mets refers to the current crop of prospects that have graduated to Queens as “The Buffalo Soldiers”. I love it.
Joe, you are wrong.
I have a lot of respect for John Sickles and I love his rating system. For me, here are the Mets that currently rate in the A-B range:
Buffalo: - SP Jenrry Mejia, OF Kirk Nieuwenhuis
Binghamton: - 2B Reese Havens, SP Matt Harvey, SP Jeurys Familia, OF Matt den Dekker
St. Lucie: - 3B Jefry Marte, SS Wilmer Flores, OF Cory Vaughn
Savannah: - 3B Aderlin Rodriguez
Now, there are some close one’s in the high C range… SP Greg Peavey, 2B Josh Satin, OFs Cesar Puello, Darrell Ceciliani, and Fernando Martinez… but, that’s about it above the rookie level.
You add to this the fact that Ike Davis, Ruben Tejada, Lucas Duda, Daniel Murphy, Dillon Gee, Jon Niese, and Josh Thole have already made the transition in the last two years, and that makes 17 top prospects.
That’s a lot, Joe, and we have to tip our hat to Omar for all of this.
Isnt it amazing how many of these players were called up and contributed despite nearly every outlet, including baseball executives, saying the mets' farm system was void of impact talent. It tells me that if your a good ballplayer, with the stones to withstand the transition and anxiety that obviously comes with being called up to the major leagues, and you believe your talent, you have a real chance of success. Turner, Tejada, Duda, even Murphy who no one ever praised as a top prospect, Gee...these guys were all under the radar, yet somehow have uped their game and helped keep this team a float during a major crisis of injury. They're a team that has been sowed together by Alderson, via Omar's transactions, and has become like a perfectly blended drink. I'm, never surprised when a player seems to outperform his minor league career once he's been called up. I believe some of these guys might grow weary of the minors and perhaps underperform, believing they belong at the next level, so.when that time comes and they actually get their chance...it doesn't shock me if they show an ability to play better then most believed they could.
ReplyDeleteEvery team in every professional support have nothing but the top player, on a team, when they played in the schoolyard, junior high, high school, or college.
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All they need is someone to put it together.
So all it takes is one magical person to whip these minor leaguers into major leaguers? I really dont think all Wilmer Flores needs is the right coach and all of a sudden he's killing it in the major leagues. More like the right amount of marinating and a chance. Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb could've come back to life and been Butch Huskie's hitting coach, but if you cant hit a wrinkle once old Uncle Charlie comes your way...your going beddy bye.
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