Mack Ade – Morning Report – 6-10-13

Good morning.

I took down the wild card race. This team isn't going to the 2013 playoffs.

I need to keep the focus here at Mack's Mets on the future of this team, not what's going on in Flushing. I've got some damn good writers here that can cover that portion of the Mets. Additionally, I've had some personal complications in the last 24 hours and the last thing I need to worry about is what inning is this team going to give it all back to the Marlins.

There's not enough here folks. I'm sorry, but the 2013 New York Mets are not a competitive team.

Sending down Ike Davis, Mike Baxter, and Robert Carson, and replacing them with Josh Satin, Colin Cowgill, and Josh Edgin isn't going to accomplish anything other than the fact that Satin will finally be given a proper amount of major league at bats to prove he should be there (it was interesting that Cowgill, who is hitting .268 at Las Vegas, got the nod over Andrew Brown who is hitting .366). I'm not sure if this is a reach into the future, anew spin on the present, or a combo of both. 

Me? Well, I would have liked a complete shift to the future. Bring up RP Jack Leathersich, Cesar Puello and Wilmer Flores. Move Lucas Duda back to first base and play Puello with Kirk Nieuwenhuis and Juan Lagares in the outfield. Jordan Valdespin can stand in as the 4th outfielder and Flores can pinch hit and play late inning defense...

Ha ha ha ha ha ha.....

We don't even have enough players to replace three guys sent down....

I'm not telling you to stop rooting for them, but there's more to life than living on Twitter writing one liners about these guys. I'll try to keep you up to date with what's going on down on the farm. You can feel free to visit other Mets minor league sites, but you don't have to. Eventually, it will all wind up on here.

I now return you to your normal life before you got caught up in all this...

I'm not exactly sure why Jim Fuller is still pitching at St. Lucie. The guy was drafted in 2008 which sounds like decades ago. This year, he's given up only three earned runs in 15 appearances for a skimpy 0.87-ERA. The problem though is he's slowing dying of old age at these lower levels and we're never going to find out what we have here. Please send him to the prospect AA level for a real test.

William James - to me

Hey Mack, hasn’t Michael Fulmer been out quite a long time for his torn meniscus? That should be a six-week job and done with. Any update on that? This has really hurt his development, because, in my opinion, I think he had an outside chance of reaching AA just like Syndergaard.  Imagine the prospect of adding those two guys to the MLB starting rotation mix at the end of 2014 beginning of 2015. It looks as if we will be pretty poised to have a top draft pick next year too lmao.

Hey Bill. I remember when I ‘exclusively’ reported this and said it could be a season-ending injury. Everyone told me I was nuts. The fact is a ‘torn’ meniscus depends on the severity of the tear and everyone’s healing process is different. Add to that the Mets conservative approach to healing and this is what you have. I have been told he tried to throw recently and it just wasn’t time. Me? Write him off until the St. Lucie rotation on opening day 2014 and anything before that will be a bonus

Gary Seagren to me

Good morning Mack, O.K. so where do I start, how about another loss to the Marlins who we always seem to make into the friggin 27' Yanks and oh by the way let’s take 20 innings to do it and if that weren't enough how about having our ace go down with an injury.....geez that's just plain ugly. So to do what us Met fans must always do to stay sane, or is it insane, let’s put a positive spin on this because there's still 3 and a half months left. Well for starters, they finally brought up Aardsma and DFA'd Ankiel (who will be replaced by Capt. Kirk) who for the life of me can't understand why he was taking up space on our roster to begin with but that seems to be the F.O. DNA this year. To think we have any chance of winning when they keep running out a lineup full of .200 and sub .200 hitters is frankly embarrassing and I'm giving Laguares and Spin a pass here because you can't show anything playing once a week. Like we spoke about y/day so many guys who won't be here next year taking up valuable playing time when we need to see what the likes of Laguares, Spin, and many others from Bingo to Vegas can do. While we're on the positive how about another outstanding Montero outing along with the continued hot streak of Puello and Taijeron. I know we're all familiar with Wheeler and Montero but what are you hearing about Puello and Taijeron and are they legitimate prospects? To take this a step further if we do sign Choo in the off season and going into spring training we could have a starting rotation of Harvey, Wheeler, Niese, Montero and Gee with Parnell, Leatherstich, Walters, Kolarek, Aardsma and Familia in the BP and figure a lineup of in no particular order: Choo, Murphy, Wright, Puello/Vaughn, T.A., Tejada, Duda but at 1st base and Laguares, Den Decker and Kirk fighting it out for CF because like we also talked about we need solid D in center. Now if we can add a power bat all the better but it's a start. So till next time Lets Go Mets.

                You seem to have this completely figured out.

The only problem is will this team have the talent to win 90-95 games. The ‘special’ rotation will put the Mets into more ‘win’ situations, but unless the bats don’t produce more runs, hits, and especially, RISP hits, it isn’t going to matter. You just have to look to the 20-inning fiasco with the Marlins.

The draft is over and the team has to make some room for some of these college juniors. You should start to see more move from people like Montero, Verrett, Leathersich, Walters, Kolarek, Puello, Syndergaard, Tapia, Fulller, Chism, Plawecki, Cessa, Boyd, and Ynoa.

In closing today, this is going to be tough. I had to take my bride to the emergency room last night. My daughter, son-in-law, and I thought she had a stroke but it turned out to be an accidental overdose on meds. The bottom line, after CAT scan, EKG, full panel, urine test, will be around a $2500 bill. We have no insurance for her. Please consider clicking on the donation button on the top of the first page of the block and help out any way you can. Trust me, a $5 donation helps. I’m sorry to ask again this year. Shit just seems to keep happening.