Mack Ade – Morning Report – 5-3-13

Mack’s Mets continues to tighten up.

                We have begun our daily 12noon Feature Writer post. So far, we have scheduled:

                                Tuesdays             -            Matthew Silva

                                Wednedays        -              Michael Scannell

                                Thursdays           -             Reese Kaplan

                                Fridays                  -           Luis Tirado Jr.

We’re first looking for someone to fill the Monday slot. After that, it would be great to have two more writers for Saturday and Sunday. The subject would be the Mets. You’re on your own from there … the parent team, the minors, the past, the future, baseball in general, fantasy, baseball cards, pro, con, Jody Arias… well, no, not that.

If interested… please email me at: macksmets@gmail.com .

Remember… it does take a weekly commitment of at least 500 words



Rumbles... first we learned that Andrew Brown was being promoted to Queens to fill the open slot on the 40-man roster. Now, we see that Josh Satin started his first career game in the outfield. What will be interesting is to see who gets demoted. If it's Juan Lagares, Satin goes back to first. If it's a pitcher, look for Alan Dykstra to get a much deserved promotion from Binghamton. Additional movement at first base seems to be beginning with both the Satin move to OF and 
's promotion from St. Lucie to Binghamton. Brian Harrison is also on the DL and, on paper, Lucy doesn't currently have a first baseman. Look or the first promotion out of Savannah to be Jayce Boyd or the Mets might move Travis Ozga directly out of extended camp to fill the void.

Hi Mack.

Interesting view on all that Twitter junk. I've never used it and don't plan to. As you know of course there are just too many writers sportcasters and bloggers who are only interested in getting noticed instead of informing us of just Met news and not their personal agenda's. Now on to the important stuff.

A very good point, Gary. Some sites love to stir the spoon and get under thin skinned writers they consider competition. I’ve never considered myself anybody’s competition. I’m just some old fart dude that writes in between hits on my oxygen tank (more sic) and eating my pablum (remember that? Is that how you spell it?). There are a couple of blogs that do this 100% through humor (i.e. Metstradamus) and, what’s wrong with them, right? Others just trash players each and every day and yet still claim to be great Mets fans as well as the Blog-Kings of the Mets world. Wow, what a great thing to be!

For “those” of you reading (obsessing over) this… I am not a Mets fan.  I write about the Mets and comment about what I am asked about. I target the Mets minor leagues, but I frequently am asked questions regarding the parent team.

But, for all you self-absorbed bloggers out there. Stop reading me and worrying about me. I had 2 comments yesterday. I had around 200 exclusive readers after 8 years of this. I have no press pass. I have no advertisers. In the scheme of things, I am nobody in the real Mets world, which means I am not welcomed to hang out on that stupid bridge with all the overweight bloggers.

Thank God.

The Big club just escaped being totally embarrassed in Miami and all the talk for days was about ZW and his having to get used to the dry air and altitude of Vegas and this is real news? Leave the kid alone for a few more starts and then lets see him in Citifield. Does Ike have compromising photos of some Mets higher up to keep himself with the big club or what? My guess would be their hoping he hits 12-15 hrs by the trade deadline and move him for an OF prospect because they have to be tired of his act by now. Mack what's up with the following: Tapia is out after 1 inning, Nimmo's not in the lineup and Montero gets shelled on top of us playing totally crappy baseball for the last few weeks. The lone bright spot is ZW although it’s a big bright spot anyway hope all's good with you. Thanks, Gary Seagren

                Gary, you’re starting to sound like the bloggers…

                There are a lot of great things going on in the system past Zack Wheeler:

Rainy Lara, Stephen Matz, Logan Verrett, Domingo Tapia, Luis Cessa, Gabriel Ynoa, Rafael Montero, Noah Syndergaard, and Collin McHugh are all throwing up quality outings.

Kevin Plawecki and Jayce Boyd are dominating the Sally league.

Brandon Nimmo, even though he’s in a deep slump, still has quality numbers.

Blake Forsythe is reborn in Binghamton.              

Josh Satin and Alan Dykstra continue to prove they will be an asset to another team someday.

Just some examples…

                               

Buffalo’s Josh Thole - .379/.438./.570

Carlos Gomez currently leads the majors with a 2.3 WAR

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Michael Viccaro -

                And you may not buy what the GM is selling. But unless you plan on being miserable all summer, it is at least helpful to concede that however you feel about Sandy Alderson’s Plan, it is the only one the Mets have now. There are pieces already here, some of them succeeding, some struggling. There are the pieces on the way. There is the pledge from on high that there will be looser purse strings next offseason, an oath they’d better be ready to follow through on. It doesn’t mean you should blindly accept the daily dose of bad baseball you were given the last week. The Plan may not work, but it hasn’t yet failed. Collins may not be the guy who gets to see if it blossoms or wilts. There may yet come a time to cast him aside. Just not yet. Just not now. link

My Thoughts on Round 1 continue. Yesterday’s picks:

                #1 – Houston Astros – 3B/OF Kris Bryant – San Diego.

                #2 - Chicago Cubs – RHSP Mark Appel – Stanford

                 #3. Colorado Rockies – RHSP Jonathan Gray – Oklahoma

Today’s picks:

4. Minnesota Twins – Draft Pool: 12 - $9,503,100 – 2013 Team Salary: $ 82,010,000  – The Twins have always loved toolsy high school outfielders and there are two great ones still on the board when they pick #4. Last year, they went the big buck route, picking Baxley, Georgia High School outfielder, Byron Buxton. This year, the will stay in Georgia as well – OF Clint Frazier – Loganville H.S. (GA)

5. Cleveland Indians – Draft Pool: 9 - $ 6,188,800 – 2013 Team Salary: $ 80,605,733 – The Indians only have nine picks this year and want to make them count early. They could go the under-slot way, like they have in the past however, I expect them to try to fill in some of their holes. They will go ‘by the book’ and pick the best player left on the board – LHSP Sean Manaea – Indiana State

6. Miami Marlins – Draft Pool: 12 - $9,503,100 – 2013 Team Salary: $ 50,526,900 – Now, it gets interesting. Miami doesn’t want to spend any big bucks on this team anymore. They cut their 2012 salary in half and it may get  lot less before it bottoms out. I look for  major under-slotting here, for a Hispanic player that can hopefully raise the home attendance to at least 5,000 per game. Boy, the league needs to step in here – SS Oscar Mercado -  Gaither H.S. (FL)