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10/29/12

10-29-12 - Adam Kolarek, Marcos Camarena, Ahmed Rosario, David Wright, Melky Cabrera



CF Darrell Ceciliani went 0-4 for the Surprise Saguaros of the AFL on Friday and his fall BA has now fallen to .200. RP Adam Kolarek added another scoreless inning (1-K, 1-H), lowering his ERA to 2.84.
On Saturday, CF Cesar Puello (.239) singled in 3B Danny Muno (.000). RP Ryan Fraser gave up a late run in the two innings he pitched (2.00). In the VFL, 3B Wilmer Flores continues to rake for Bravos de Margarita, going 2-4, 1-R, double in their 8-3 loss to Aguilas del Zulia. His BA is now .340.


It’s good to see that P Marcos Camarena got a few innings in for Tomateros de Culiacan (7-5 loss to Aguilas de Mexicali in the Mexican Fall League). Stat line: 2.0-IP, 1-H, 0-R, 2-K, 0-BB… Fall ERA: 0.00 Camarena is one of those ‘swing’ pitches that pitching coach Frank Viola just couldn’t figure out what to do with. In Viola’s defense, Savannah was loaded with starters and Camarena was simply the odd man out most of the time. He pitched in 30 games, 11 of which he started and produced: 2.92, 72-K, 104.2-IP, 16-BB. It’s not going to get any easier for him in St’ Lucie come spring, what with a projected rotation of Michael Fulmer, Domingo Tapia, Luis Mateo, Tyler Pill, and Jake deGrom. This still leaves Camarena, Alex Panteliodes, and Jim Fuller looking for a slot. Now, this is what is called a positive problem.


Joel Sherman/New York Post has come up with a figure of 7-yr, $127-mil, from 2014-2020 that he feels would seal the deal with David Wright. The current $16mil option would be in place for next season, and this deal would average $18mil a year over the length of the contract. That makes it: 8-years, $143mil. Sherman reached out to ten “officials” outside the Mets organization, which could range from a competing General Manager to his mother-in-law, and all felt this deal was doable. As I said yesterday, all Mets writers have very little to write about right now so we keep revisiting old subjects.


I just sometimes shake my head at young Mets fans. The Mets go and sign 16-year old SS Ahmed Rosario, give him around a $1.7mil bonus, and fans have expressed dissatisfaction that he’s not coming stateside this spring. Folks, he would be a sophomore in high school if he was stateside. You’ve got Leon Canelon, Gavin Cecchini, Phillip Evans, and Ruben Tejada ahead of him. It really doesn’t matter that there no longer is a GCL Mets team. Canelon would have been playing there anyway. If you want to get pissed off, how about expressing it to a management team that drafts a shortstop first in the same year they piss almost their entire international pool money to another shortstop (not to be confused with Phillip Evans, the other shortstop you drafted the year before.).

FanNation threw out an interesting name in the Mets search for an outfielder: “The Mets were one club that came up regularly as a potential landing spot for Melky Cabrera, as were the outfield-needy Phillies. The Mets need outfielders and don't have a ton of money to address their severe needs there. So if they could bag Cabrera as corner outfield insurance against Jason Bay and Lucas Duda, it could make sense, especially if they are unable to retain Scott Hairston. Probably at his worst, Cabrera would be a motivated fourth outfielder who always could hit righties well, with the possibility he is more than that if any of the improvements of the past two years are real.”

Joel Sherman had a spin on the salary: “But the large majority saw Cabrera having to take a one-year deal in the $2 million-to-$5 million range. He will have to use 2013 as a forum to prove he is a quality player.”

 I like it. These are the kind of picks the Mets have stayed away from and, in my opinion, they need to take some chances and bring in a couple veterans the way the Yankees successfully do every year. Players like these sell seats.


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