Breaking Down – Mets Needs - Arizona Diamondbacks

Players Under Contract past 2012: -  CF Chris Young, RF Justin Upton, 2B Aaron Hill, RHSP Trevor Cahill, 2B-SS Willie Bloomquist, RHSP Trevor Bauer, SS-2B John McDonald

Free Agents After 2012: - SS Stephen Drew, RHRP J.J. Putz, RHP Takashi Saito, 3B-1B Geoff Blum, 1B Lyle Overbay, C Henry Blanco

Pre-ARB Players Doing Well in Majors: - OF Geraldo Parra, C Miquel Montero, 1B Paul Goldschmidt, 3B Ryan Roberts, RHSP Ian Kennedy, RHSP Josh Collmenter, RHSP Daniel Hudson,

Where Prospects will finish the 2012 Season:

MLB:

Wade Miley LHP   Born: 11/13/1986   Highest Level Reached: MLB Arizona Diamondbacks   2011 Combined Stats: MINORS: 8-3, 4.30ERA, 129.2IP, 44BB, 102K, .256BAA   MAJORS: 4-2, 4.50ERA, 40IP, 18BB, 25K, .304BAA 

AAA:

Trevor Bauer RHP   Born: 1/17/1991   Highest Level Reached: Double-A Mobile Baybears   2011 Combined Stats: 1-2, 5.96ERA, 25.2IP, 12BB, 43K, .257BAA

 A.J. Pollock OF   Born: 12/5/1987   Highest Level Reached: Double-A Mobile Baybears   2011 Combined Stats: .307, 41(2B), 5(3B), 8HR, 73RBI, 36SB

Tyler Skaggs LHP   Born: 7/13/1991   Highest Level Reached: Double-A Mobile Baybears   2011 Combined Stats: 9-6, 2.96ERA, 158.1IP, 49BB, 198K, .218BAA

Pat Corbin  LHP   Born: 7/19/1989   Highest Level Reached: Double-A Mobile Baybears   2011 Combined Stats: 9-8, 4.21ERA, 160.1IP, 40BB, 142K, .275BAA

Adam Eaton RHP   Born: 12/6/1988   Highest Level Reached: Double-A Mobile Bay Bears  2011 Combined Stats: .318, 22(2B), 7(3B), 10HR, 67RBI, 34SB

Evan Marshall RHP   Born: 4/18/1990   Highest Level Reached: Double-A Mobile Bay Bears   2011 Combined Stats: 0-1, 1.16ERA, 6 Saves, 31IP, 7BB, 31K, .217BAA (4th Round Pick 2011 MLB Draft)

Matt Davidson 3B   Born: 3/26/1991   Highest Level Reached: Double-A Mobile Baybears   2011 Combined Stats: .277, 39(2B), 1(3B), 20HR, 106RBI

AA and Below:

Archie Bradley RHP   Born: 8/10/1992   Highest Level Reached: Rookie League Missoula Osprey   2011 Combined Stats: 0-0, 0.00ERA, 2IP, 0BB, 4K, .143BAA

David Holmberg LHP   Born: 7/19/1991   Highest Level Reached: High-A Visalia Rawhide   2011 Combined Stats: 12-9, 3.44ERA, 154.1IP, 48BB, 157K, .236BAA

Chris Owings SS   Born: 8/12/1991   Highest Level Reached: High-A Visalia Rawhide   2011 Combined Stats: .246, 29(2B), 6(3B), 11HR, 50RBI, 10SB

Bobby Borchering 3B   Born: 10/25/1990   Highest Level Reached: High-A Visalia Rawhide   2011 Combined Stats: .267, 29(2B), 3(3B), 24HR, 92RBI

Andrew Chafin LHP   Born: 6/17/1990   Highest Level Reached: Rookie League Missoula Osprey   2011 Combined Stats: 0-0, 0.00ERA, 1IP, 0BB, 2K, .250BAA

Kyle Winkler RHP   Born: 6-18-1990   Highest Level Reached: 10th Round Pick In 2011 MLB Draft   2011 Combined Stats: Did Not Play In 2011  

Anthony Meo RHP   Born: 2/19/1990   Highest Level Reached: Rookie League Missoula Osprey   2011 Combined Stats: 0-0, 0.00ERA, 3IP, 0BB, 3K, .000BAA

Research:

http://topprospectalert.com/2011/10/18/2012-arizona-diamondbacks-prospect-rankings/

https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=tnUURWBOawaGbKXOD6W_Psg&output=html

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/teams/ari/stats?stat_category=mlb.stat_category.2

Needs:-    LHSP

Thoughts:   

A considerable amount of this team’s prospect talent graduates to the AAA level this spring.

Arizona has a considerable amount of players under contract for such a small salaried team.

For some reason, they keep signing shortstops.

Recommendations:

This is a very young team with a lot of players that have had very little national exposure. It’s a remarkable job of building a winner with very little money.

I’m surprised we haven’t heard about this team and the Mets seriously discussing Jon Niese. They have a ton of young talent that have no place to play and I could easily see trading for, let’s say, OF Pollack and LHP Skaggs.