Daily Mets Minors Report – 8-2-12

Date: 8-2-12

                        Leonard Nimoy‏ -  Goodbye to Gore Vidal. What a mind !!

MLB –

Ryan Dempster: I never turned down Braves deal

The 61-40 Nationals are the 1st DC team to sport MLB's best record at least 100 games into a season since the AL Nats finished 99-53 in '33

AJ Burnett is 13-3 in 19 starts for the most wins by a Bucco starter in his 1st 19 starts since Dock Ellis went 15-3 in 1971.

MLB - Mets:

Matt Harvey - “I don’t like to lose, so obviously I’m not happy about it. In my eyes, if we scored one run, I should have done my part and gotten zeroes, but I didn’t do that tonight. I didn’t do my job.”

Adam Rubin‏ -  Elias: Most K by Mets pitcher in 1st 10 IP of career -- Matt Harvey, Josh Edgin, Nolan Ryan

C.J. Nitkowski - “To be honest with you, when I first got here, everybody was really young and looked in really good shape. I haven’t been around professional guys in a long time. They all looked kind of big to me. From playing in Asia the last four years, and being around the high school kids the last four years that I’ve been training with, to get here, I was taken aback for a second. But it only takes a couple of days, and then things feel back to normal.”

Jason Isringhausen – MLB - 36-G, 3-0, 2.83

Oliver Perez – MLB – 16-G, 1-2, 2.57, 15-K, 14.0-IP, 4-BB

Batters with 2-strikes facing Matt Harvey -  0-25

Orioles 2B Omar Quintanilla has a 7-game hit streak & is hitting .462 (12-for-26 ) w/ 4 multihit games, .464 OBP, 1.118 OPS in that span.

Joel Sherman  -  METS — They were in the horrible middle ground of not good enough to buy and with nothing really alluring enough to sell. There was an awful lot of discussion about Scott Hairston, and I think the Mets should have dealt him for as good a secondary prospect as they could get, but he is a righty bat vs. lefty starters and the return is not good on that narrow job. The Mets couldn’t even get a few good weeks from Jason Bay to see if they could eat salary and get rid of him, like the Astros did with Lee. The Orioles and Indians were among other pseudo-contenders stuck in the middle who did not really act one way or the other. In fact, ironically, the Orioles and Mets made one tiny deal with each other — Baltimore buying Omar Quintanilla. -  http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/more_sports/winners_and_losers_of_deadline_deals_0JDJWJhQ4dd965NhfQYg1I#ixzz22J0qbcFh

Josh Edgin - Edgin showed promise out of the bullpen and has earned the confidence of Terry Collins as a result. His 16 strikeouts, four walks, and no home runs allowed produced an FIP of 1.98, and the difference between that and his 2.70 ERA can basically be explained by a .400 batting average on balls put in play. Edgin has struck out 12 of the 23 left-handed hitters he’s faced, five with a fastball that has gotten as high as 95 miles-per-hour. The others came via a nasty slider that breaks down and away. Edgin has been very efficient in putting lefties away with that pitch in two-strike counts. He’s thrown it 10 times to a lefties and gotten seven strikeouts and a flyout. The flaw in his game is that nine of the 20 righties he’s faced have reached, five on hits and four on walks. http://espn.go.com/blog/new-york/mets/post/_/id/53190/julys-up-and-comers-harvey-edgin-spin?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Kevin Kernan‏ -

    Q - Please tell me we add 1 above avg OF in off season.

    A -  That's really a Mets must

AAA – Buffalo:

Pittsburgh has signed RP Eric Turgeon to a minor league contract.

Buffalo was off today (thank God…)

AA-Binghamton:  

Kevin Goldstein‏ -

    Q - How far off is Wilmer Flores? Is he in the 80-100 range?

    A -  Not Top 100 for me.

RHP Gonzalez Germen (6-7, 4.60) makes his first start since returning from a brief stay with the Buffalo Bisons (AAA). Germen earned the win against the Louisville Bats in his only game in the International League on July 26. The righty allowed four runs on seven hits over seven innings to collect the victory. Germen lost his only previous start against Harrisburg, falling to the Senators in his Double-A debut on May 4. He allowed five runs on eight hits, but struck out nine over six innings.

RHP Kevin Pucetas (6-4, 3.65) makes his 24th appearance of the season and ninth start. The righty started the season in the bullpen, but was added to the rotation in early June. Pucetas suffered the loss in his last start against the Trenton Thunder on July 27, allowing five runs on six hits over just 3.1 innings. As a reliever, Pucetas went 2-1 with a 1.71 ERA in 15 outings. He is 4-3 as a starter with  a 5.10 ERA in eight games. The South Carolina native has never faced the Binghamton Mets. Signed by the Nationals as a minor league free agent in March 2012, Pucetas was named to the Eastern League All-Star Game, but did not pitch due to a knee injury

Wednesday – Loss, 2-3

This was a good outing for SP Gonzalez Germen: 7.0-IP, 6-H, 2-ER, 7-K, 1-BB. Germen is a workhorse who does what he’s told and goes where he’s ordered.  This was a very impressive K/IP night, raising his season totals to 92-Ks in 115 innings (combined St.Lucie-Binghamton-Buffalo). The Mets love having this guy in the organization and I expect him around for a long time pitching AAA ball, beginning next spring.

CL Frank Framcisco continued his rehabbing: 1.0-IP, 1-H, 0-R, 3.86.

I’m sort of getting sick of breaking out 2B Reese Haven’s stats each night: 0-3, BB, .224.

A+ - St. Lucie: -  

Wednesday – Loss, 3-7

Two former ‘pre-prospect’ pitchers threw at Lucy today. Eric Goeddel opened up with: 4.0-IP, 5-H, 3-ER, 5-BB, 3-K. His seasonal ERA is now 4.15. He has started 15 games for St. Lucie and his seasonal ERA is now 4.15. He went into this game with 66-Ks and 33-BB and the five walks he issued today isn’t helping his case to get promoted next year to Binghamton. Remember, Goeddel was a relief pitcher at UCLA and posted a 3.06 ERA in 36-appearances for the Bruins in his junior year. He also had K/BB problems that year and his past three year BB9 are: 2010 – 4.14 - 2011 – 3.01 -  2012 – 3.89. One has to wonder…

The other is Yohan Almonte, who may only have come in for a relief stint because Goeddel lasted only four innings. Almonte wowed them in 2010-Brooklyn (1.91), creeped up in ERA in 2011-Savannah (3.91), and has fell off the mountain (are their mountains in Florida?) for Lucy (6.59).

It’s far too early to speculate who’s pitching where next season, but both these guys need to turn things around post haste if they want to keep, as they say, wearing the uniform.

Offensively, CF Alonzo Harris (.274) hit his 5^th home run of the season and 3B Robbie Shields (.239) went 3-4, 1-R, double.

A – Savannah: -

Doubleheader –

    Game 1 – Win, 5-2

                                           SP Michael Fulmer did not command on Wedneday… 7-H, 2-BB, only 2-K in 4.2-IP, but he didn’t give up an earned run. ERA does to 2.38. This was about as bad an outing as it gets for him since June 4^th. Doesn’t turn 20 until next March. Amazing.

Michael pitched 68 innings for Deer Park High School, before now pitching 86.0 for Savannah, totaling 154 innings.

CF Gilbert Gomez (2-4) keeps sneaking up the BA (.267).This is a really nice person.

    Game 2 -

A-Low – Brooklyn:

Michael Diaz‏ - Mets have a very good prospect who has quietly had an outstanding season.. RHP Rafael Montero: 10-5, 2.53ERA, 114.3IP, 16BB, 105K.

Wednesday  – Win, 3-2

The Clones struck early when catcher Kevin Plawecki (please be for real…) doubled in Phillip Evans and Jayce Boyd.

CF Brandon Nimmo (2-4) now up to .258… .293 in past 10 games.

Rookie – Kingsport:

RP Hunter Carnevale (1.0-IP, 0.00) was activated after being on the DL all year recovering from right elbow surgery.

Wednesday – Loss, 4-7

I look at the box score for this team every night and I’m never happily surprised by a breakout game by some bat. It simply doesn’t happen. Kingsport went into this game dead last in team batting average (.224), dead last in ERA (5.97), and dead last in WHIP (1.61). They also led the league in rainouts which means God didn’t even want to see this team play. Do you have any idea how hard it is to play this bad?

Do you really care what happened here?