Mack Ade – PM Report – 7-9-13 – Scarlyn Reyes, 16-inning games, Jack Leathersich, Tejesh, Alfredo Reyes

 

Scarlyn Reyes… 6-3, 190 RHSP, 21-yrs old… 1^st year in organized baseball for the DSL Mets… 3^rd start (July 8^th): 8.0-IP, 0-R, 10-K, 0-BB… 1.37 for the first three starts… where do these guys come from? You sign bonus Latin kids at 16. Reyes is 21. Where the hell has he been for the last five years? Look, he turns 22 in November so does it really matter what he does here? The Mets are not going to push aside all the pitchers in the system for one old Latin dude with a weird first name.  

Doesn’t it seem like the Mets have been involved in an awful lot of long distance games this year? I can’t seem to find any breakouts on each of those games, but last night (or was it this morning?) was the perfect example of a Mets extra inning game. The Giants had 14 hits. The Mets had nine. This season, or lack of it, has always come down to the bats. Let’s give credit to the Mets pen last light. That was eight scoreless innings after a halfway decent Matt Harvey outing.Harvey should have had this win because the game should have ended in the ninth inning, but, once again the Mets seem incapable of scoring more than three runs. Manaement must concentrate this trading season on correcting his. Try to imagine if you could have inserted Buster Posey’s five hit game into the Mets lineup. We’d all be asleep a long time ago. 

The wild card race did tighten up a little after Monday night. Both Pittsburgh and Cincinnatti (who currently qualify for the entries if the season was to end today), as well as Washington and San Francisco. The Mets are now tied in the loss column with the Giants and Cubs and could finish 7^th in the race to slot two teams by the end of tonight’s game. Clutching at straws maybe, but, what the hell.  

I want to tip my Mack’s hat to some of these Mets followers out there that seem to spend every waking hour on Twitter keeping us all up to date on what’s going on in Met-land…  guys like ‘Met945’… ‘Tej’… ‘Metro’… you know who you are and you are far more better than I am at tracking all this information these days. Keep it up guys. It makes an old dude’s job a lot easier. 

Look, let’s call a spade a spade. RP Jack Leathersich is getting his arse handed to him at the AAA level. Maybe this is a good thing. His career up to that point was sort of Superman like and, hopefully, he’ll have the off-season to put this all into perspective and come out with a new plan. It amazes me how ‘sure fire’ relievers like ‘Leather’ and Josh Edgin just seem to lose it overnight. It speaks to the thousands of times I have reminded all of you about the increase of talent at each level in this game (also, looks like D.J. Mitchell is now coming out of the pen).  

DSL bonus baby, 19-yr. old SS Alfredo Reyes, did have two more hits last night and raised his seasonal BA to .307. Does all this kids have to play shortstop? I’d sure like to see him moved up, but he seems blocked by Luis Guillorme at GCL, Amed Rosario at K-Port, and Gavin Cecchini in Brooklyn.