Mack Ade – AM Report – 8-14-13 – Young Players, Dominic Smith, Jose Abreu, Ted Page

Chris ‏@tpgMets  -  Mets have 36 players on their 40-man roster under control for next year, 2 under contract

 

We always seem to complain that the kids that Sandy and Company are, either drafting or signing, just not producing at the levels we feel they should be producing. Yes, the system is filling with kids hitting below .220 or pitching with inflated ERA’s, but, you’d be surprised how many aren’t.

So, let’s not be surprised anymore:

16/yrs. old –

                SP Jose Medina – 8/25/96 – Rookie/DSL – 12-ST, 2-0, 0.35, 0.79, 52.0-IP, 41-K

17/yrs. old –

                RP  Merandy Gonzalez – 10/9/95 – Rookie/DSL – 12-G, 1-ST, 3-1, 2.31, 1.13, 39.0-IP, 27-K

                SP  Darwin Ramos – 11/23/95 – Rookie/DSL – 10-ST, 3-2, 2.84, 0.97, 38.0-IP, 37-K, 4-BB

18/yrs. old –

                C  -  Jose Maria – 11/30/94 – Rookie/DSL - .273/.341/.383/.724

                1B Dominic Smith – 6/15/95 – Rookie/GCL - .252/.362/.382/.745

                SS Luis Guillorme – 9/27/94 – Rookie/GCL - .255/.336/.274/.610

                3B Jhoan Urena – 9/1/94 – Rookie/GCL - .297/.347/.351/.698

               3B Pedro Perez – 8/31/94 – Rookie/K-Port - .261/.315/.365/.680

               SP Marcos Molina – 3/8/95 – Rookie/GCL - 8-G, 4-ST, 3-3, 3.72, 1.16, 38.2-IP, 33-K

                P Casey Meisner – 5/22/95 – Rookie/GCL – 7-G, 2-ST, 1-2, 3.93, 18.1-IP, 18-K

19/yrs. old –

                C Jeff Diehl – 9/30/93 – Rookie/K-Port - .276/.331/.417/.748        

                SS Gavin Cecchini – 12/22/93 – Low-A/Brooklyn - .282/.315/.342/.656

                SP Chris Flexen – 7/1/94 – Rookie/K-Port – 8-ST, 6-1, 2.39, 1.02, 49.0-IP, 39-K

                SP Robert Whalen – 1/31/94 – Rookie/K-Port – 9-ST, 2-1, 1.72, 0.90, 52.1-IP, 57-K

                P Andrew Masse – 1/27/94 – Rookie/K-Port – 7-G, 5-ST, 1-1, 3.90, 1.18, 32.1-IP, 16-K

                P Corey Oswalt – 9/3/93 – Rookie/K-Port – 3-G, 2-ST, 0-1, 3.46, 1.15, 13.0-IP, 11-K

20/yrs. old –

                SP Michael Fulmer – 3/15/93 – A+/St. Lucie - 8-ST, 3-3, 3.59, 42.2-IP,39-K, 17-BB

                P Craig Missigman – 8/5/93 – Rookie/GCL – 6-G, 0-1, 3.55, 12.2-IP, 13-K, 3-BB

                P Persio Reyes – 3/17/93 – Rookie/K-Port – 8-G, 7-ST, 4-3, 3.35, 1.03, 45.2-IP, 38-K

                P Ricardo Jacquez – 5/6/93 – Rookie/K-Port – 12-G, 2-0, 0.55, 0.67, 16.1-IP, 27-K

                SP Gabriel Ynoa – 5/26/93 – A-Savannah – 19-ST, 13-4, 2.78, 1.05, 116.2-IP, 98-K

                SP Robert Gsellman – 7/18/93 – Low-A/Brooklyn – 16-ST, 5-5, 2.69, 90.1-IP, 60-K

                OF Brandon Nimmo – 3/27/93 – A-S/Savannah - .270/.385/.362/.747

                OF Joe Tuschak – 10/17/92 – Rookie/K-Port - .289/.335/.430/.765

                OF John Mora – 5/31/93 – Rookie/DSL - .293/.388/.366/.754

 

 

We talked last week about one of ‘our’ 19-year old prospects (SS Gavin Cecchini) and how he’s starting to put together some decent numbers. Well, another 19-year old, 1B Dominic Smith, also is coming around during his first professional year. He has two hits on Monday (two on Sunday also) and finished the day hitting .252. I’ve said this a number of times… you have no idea how hard it is for these kids to convert from high school ball to what they call in professional baseball, ‘the grind’. It’s a combination of so many things they aren’t used to… baseball every day… warm-up for 4-6 hours before each game… roommates… everybody telling them they have don’t everything wrong their whole life…  .252 by a 19-yr. old in the same year you were drafted easily translates into a .300+ season. Exciting stuff from our number one pick.

 

Gary Seagren –

 My big question today is after reading about the defection of Cuban 1st baseman Jose Abreu why shouldn't WE be included in the ESPN article about interested teams?

Mack – Well, the short answer is probably because the team isn’t interested. I never have been successful in figuring out the Mets stance on international prospects. Both Cuba and Japan don’t seem to exist to them. And, by the way, there’s no way they could be negotiating with this guy in secret. These kind of things always leak out. My guess is the Mets have mentally given back first base to Ike Davis for 2014 and beyond.

 

Ted Page -

“Terrible Ted” played on 12 teams in the Negro Leagues during his 14-season career. A solid hitter and tough competitor, it has been said that Page “could beat you at the plate, on the bases or in the field.” As one of the fastest, most feared and intense base runners in the Negro Leagues, he played for two of the greatest teams of all time: the 1931 Homestead Grays and the 1932-34 Pittsburgh Crawfords.  After an injury forced his retirement in 1935, he eventually became an owner of Hillview Lanes and later a partner in Meadow Lanes in Pittsburgh. For years, he wrote a bowling column for the Pittsburgh Courier. He later worked as a public relations consultant for the Gulf Oil Corporation. Page was inducted to the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame in 1977. Retired, he was brutally beaten to death by a handyman in his home, at age 81, in 1984. He was interred at Allegheny Cemetery in an unmarked location — not far from Hall of Famer Josh Gibson's final resting place in the same cemetery. In 1975, Page and Pedrin "Pete" Zorrilla located Gibson's unmarked burial plot at Allegheny Cemetery and, with help from Pirates star Willie Stargell and baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn, purchased a red granite headstone that reads "Josh Gibson, 1911-1947, Legendary Baseball Player."   http://sabr.org/latest/join-us-negro-leaguer-ted-pages-grave-marker-installation-ceremony-august-17