Mack Ade – Morning Report – 6-24-13

 

Matt Harvey through 16 starts: 2.05 ERA, 121/24 K/BB in 110 IP.

R.A Dickey through 16 starts last year: 2.15 ERA, 116/25 K/BB in 113 IP.


Jared Diamond ‏@jareddiamond - asked Zach Lutz about Ike today -- said he has been swinging without the hitch. The recent HR, he said, we NOT Vegas specials. Bombs.

Mike Puma ‏@NYPost_Mets  - Was told yesterday that if Wilmer Flores has to fall down to make a play, it's a hit, because he can't get up and throw the runner out. 

I have absolutely no problem with Noah Syndergaard's first AA outing. He didn't give u his first walk until the 5th inning and had six strikeouts through five. This is all virgin territory for him and giving up only two runs in a shaky third inning in which he yielded three hits in a row. 3.00 ERA... excellent first AA outing.


Brooklyn signed, and pitched, a new starter yesterday. Dario Alvarez was an undrafted international free agent that the Phillies brought to their DSL team in 2007. He pitched there for three years, disappeared (like so many of these guys do) for two years, and resurfaced yesterday for the Clones. The 6-1 lefty is now 24-years old and pitched well at this level far below where he should be at: 4.1-IP, 1-ER, 5-K. 


I loved when Carlos Gomez when he pitched as a starter three years ago for the DSL Mets (7-2, 1.47). Naturally, they then turned him into a reliever the following year for the GCL team and, after eight games (1.59) when down for the rest of the year and all of 2012. Well, he's back now for Kingsport and he's starting again. Yesterday: 5.0-IP, 0-R, 0.00.


Derek McKnight  to me -

Mack. Now that the short season rosters have been set and games are being played, who are you surprised to see on each team? Good and bad? Last year a couple of the college draftees went straight to Savannah but none this year so far, does that mean the Mets are slowing everyone down?  Any international prospects you see the Mets targeting this July? Thanks.

                Hey Derek

Last question first. Nobody ever shares what International prospects are being looked at. Baseball America comes out every year with a top ten 16-year old prospect list, and, to the best of my memory, the Mets have never signed one this high. They did trade last year for RF Wuilmer Beccera, who I seem to remember was ranked either 11^th or 12^th a few years ago. I haven’t seen this year’s list yet and, when I do, I will post it.

Most of my surprises were disappointments. Top Latin IF prospect, German Rosario, never was assigned to either DSL team or came out of extended camp… 22-yr. old 2B Leon Canelon is playing GCL, far too down the ladder for someone that age… college outfielder Jared King wasn’t assigned to Savannah. Saddest for me is no assignment for one of my local boys, ex-prospect pitcher Zack Dotson. Dotson’s Mets days look to be over.

Regarding the college boys, you may see Matt Oberste in Savannah before the season is over. The pitchers are blocked by the current Savannah rotation (that’s blocked by the St. Lucie rotation).

Oranizational Update – Rotations

We wrote Sunday about the positional players. Today we’re covering the rotation pitchers, specifically those that are considered either ‘prospects’ or are wht we call ‘pre-prospects’… pitchers that could develop.

The Mets system has many:

                        AAA – RHP Rafael Montero

                        AA – RHP Noah Sydergaard, RHP Logan Verrett, RHP Cory Mazzoni

                        A+ - RHP Domingo Tapia, RHP Matthew Bowman, RHP Rainy Lara, LHP Alex Panteleodis

                        A – LHP Steven Matz, RHP Luis Cessa, RHP Gabriel Ynoa,

Considering the fact that RHP Mike Harvey, RHP Zack Wheeler, LHP Jon Niese, and RHP Dillon Gee are already in Queens, this is considered the deepest pitching system in baseball.

This is 10 more (if everyone is healthy) starters than this team is going to need over the next four seasons, which means there should be plenty of opportunities to trade for every day players plus an additional upper-level lefty starter.

Additional movements that should happen this season:

                        Move from AAA to MLB – Montero in September

                        Move from AA to AAA – Verrett and Mazzoni

                        Move from A+ to AA – Bowman and Panteleodis

                        Move from A to A+ - Matz, Cessa, and Ynoa

Some of the relievers have begun to be bumped up (Jim Fuller to AA, Bret Mitchell to A+), but there looks to be plenty to go. He is a partial list of guys that seem to have earned a promotion before the season ends (notice the proliferation of lefties):

AAA – LHP Justin Hampson – 35-appearances, 3.63, 1.62

            LHP Sean Henn – 24-appearances – 3.81, 2.04

                                    (by Vegas standards, these are pretty decent stats)

AA – LHP Chase Huchingson – 24-appearances, 2.21, 1.28

            RHP John Church – 27-appearances, 3.09, 1.19

            LHP Adam Kolarek – 21-appearances, 1.71, 1.14

            RHP Jeff Walters – 28-appearances, 2.59, 1.15

A+ -   RHP Randy Fontanez – 23-appearances, 3.73, 1.53

            LHP T.J. Chism – 25-appearances, 2.08, 1.35

            LHP Hamilton Bennett – 25-appearances, 1.50, 1.20

A -      RHP Julian Hilario – 22-appearances, 3.63, 1.16

            RHP Hunter Carnevale – 23-appearances, 2.79, 1.14

            RHP Beck Wheeler – 21-appearances, 1.59, 0.85