3/27/13

Mack Ade – Morning Report – 3-27-13



The Mets signed SP Shawn Teufel.

Would somebody tell me where all these pitchers are going to start?

Projected AAA – Wheeler, Mazzoni, Laffey, Owen, Cohoon, McHugh, Schwinden, Gorski

Projected AA – Montero, Tapia, deGrom, Pill, Huchington, Verrett, Teufel, Cuan, Peavey, Goeddel

That’s 17 starters for two teams (not counting the 2 on the DL) and now there are 18?

Please help me out… I do this for a living and I have no idea what’s going on here


Well, I pulled off my first Google+ webcast... sort of.

It started at 8pm last night and i had one guest, Metsmusings Mack. We talked for about a half an hour when I noticed one of my contributors, Eric Hudson come in the room. Just then, my computer shut down, informing me that my Windows program was shutting down for reconfiguration and an update. I felt so Jay Horwitz-like. By the time I got back up, everyone moved on and the show was over.

I'll give it another shot next week.


The Mets rotation seems to change hourly. As of now, Santana is out, Mejia is not an option for 6-8 weeks, Marcum is 7-10 days away, Heffner dodged a big one, and Laffey is the emergency SP6. The Mets don’t need a fifth starter until the 9th game, April 10th. If you spot start that with, say Laffey, you don’t need Marcum until April 16th. The last game before the all-star break is July 14th. Everything changes then.


Now I hear Marcum may go on the DL and the Mets are trying to trade their "non-prospect" members of the 40-man (Gonzalez Germen, Darin Gorski, Reese Havens, Juan Lagares, Cesar Puello, Elvin Ramirez, and Hansel Robles).

What do they expect to get for these players other than some other team's 'almost prospects'?

And how would you like to be either Puello or Lagares and find out the Mets don't want you even though you are an outfielder?



I’m no a big fan of this time of the pre-season year. Most players have already been picked for the 25-man and teams tend to use minor leaguers so no one gets hurt (though Heffner still did). The kids get a chance to impress, but a bad outing can set them back their whole career. I am sure that P Randy Fontanez wishes today that the WBC was still on: 0.0-IP, 5-ER, 3-BB, ‘infinite’-ERA. On the upside, Armando Rodriguez (2.0-IP, 0-R), Hamilton Bennett (1.0-IP, 0-R), Darrell Cecilliani (1-1, .667), and Matt Reynolds (1-1, 1.000) did good.



A nice new feature each week by Perfect Game on the winners and losers of College baseball - link


The Red Sox released Lyle Overbay.

Brewers sign INF Yuniesky Betancourt

Yankees Claim Danny Otero

Dodgers send Dee Gordon to Triple-A Albuquerque and Yasiel Puig to Double-A Chattanooga

The Giants purchased the contract of pitcher Chad Gaudin

Kevin Kernan - @WheresKernan - It's essentially a tryout camp anyway. RT @JohnMackinAde: @WheresKernan - Kev, if u were Yanks would you bring in Overbay?

Phillies release Aaron Cook.

Astros Release Tyler Greene

Stories you might have missed:

          Jorge Castillo on Pedro Feliciano - link

          John Delcos on Jenrry Mejia - link


2013 Outlook:  link - For the first time in a long time, the Yankees are in danger of having a sub-.500 season. Injuries have already taken out what feels like half the team, and even when those players come back, more are likely to go down. It certainly is too soon to count the Yankees out of the running, but at the moment there are at least two, and maybe three or four, teams that could finish ahead of them in the East. Bold Prediction: Robinson Cano wins AL MVP, Youkilis and A-Rod combine to hit .285 with 30 home runs, and Vernon Wells...oh who am I kidding Vernon Wells will be awful.


In draft news:

Austin Meadows after 11-G:  .600/.676/1.200, 6-2B, 4-HR, 16-RBI, 11-SB

Louisville RP Nick Burdi – 9-G, 12.0-IP, 27-K, 40-batters

C- Reese McGuire:  6-G, .500/.636, HR, 4-2B, 5-BB, 0-K

OF Clint Frazier 12-G, .564/.638/1.256, 7-HR, 23-RBI

Cullman HS (AL) RHP Keegan Thompson: 46-K/2 BB, 28.2-IP

Mater Dei HS (CA) 3B Ryan McMahon:  7-G, .435, 3-HR

Walton HS (GA) OF Stephen Wrenn – .487/.667, 2-HR, 19-SB

Yukon HS (OK) C- Jon Denney: 120G, 12-G, .581/.720/1.258, 5-HR, 22-RBI


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