Morning Report – 3-5-14 – Dan-Chat, Tovar, Noah, Ynoa, ST5

Coming Up –

          9:30 am – Pre-Game Notes

          11 am - #4 Cesar Puello

12 noon - FANGRAPHS - Top 10 Oakland Prospects

2 pm - John Sickles/Minor League Ball - Top Prospects – CWS

4 pm - MLB Draft Insider - Top 14 in 14 - Houston Astros

6 pm - A Quick Look - LHP - Sean Newcomb – Hartford

8 pm - Brady Aiken, Jack Flaherty, Grant Holmes, Ti’Quan Forbes

Mack’s Mets writer Luis Tirado Jr. has decided to shut down his own web site and also turned in his ‘resignation’ to Mack’s Mets. He has decided to write exclusively for his new job with Rant Sports.

We wish him well.  

Matt Gad ‏@JustGaddy16 Protected Tweets  - After a few months, I'm announcing that I'll be leaving Mack's Mets due to conflicting writing opportunities

  Mack's Mets ‏@JohnMackinAde  - @JustGaddy16  - am I worth an explanation here?

Mack – I’ve called for a special session of the United National General Assembly to consider sactions on the exodus on Mack’s Mets writers. There seems to be a concerned effort to recruit the young member of the staff writers I have the site.

As you know the future of this muli-mega site (sic) that produces a tremendous more money than the gross national product of small to medium nations (double-sic) is of grave concern to the stock holders of Mack’s Mets.

Anderson Cooper will be flying to the home of Mack Ade to report live from his front porch on this story...wait a minute...  I don't have a front porch.

Who's next? Will Herb leave to  write for The Christian Monitor? Or will Craig Mitchell decide that being a professional writer and comedian is only a precursor for a life in politics? 

Stay tuned...

Jeff Sullivan ‏@JSully12 - My No. 1 HS prospect Michael Gettys goes 3-3 tonight with a HR, Double, Single and a walk. 3 RBI and 3 SB.

Source – I’m being told by an onsite reliable source that SS Wilfredo Tovar came to camp this year out of shape, which may be the reason for him early injury (just what we needed was another out of shape shortstop). You would think, if this was true, that the poor boy would have kept up with the Tejada drama and hit the weight room a little during the off-season.

The baseball world is waking up to Noah Synergaard. Most of the Atlanta Braves that faced him on Monday are quickly spreading the world to their friends on other National league teams that the Mets have found a third ‘ace’ to go along with Matt Harvey and Zack Wheeler. The good news for these teams is they won’t have to face him in a real game until sometime after the all-star break, but 2015 is a whole new ballgame for the New York Mets!

Jonathan Mayo –

Breakout candidate: Gabriel Ynoa - There might be top-end pitching talent near the top of the system in guys like Montero and Syndergaard, but there's also some very exciting arms lower down in the system.

It's hard to say a pitcher is primed for a breakout after leading the organization in wins and finishing fifth in ERA during his first taste of full-season ball. But Ynoa, a 20-year-old Dominican, has the chance to jump on a fast track in 2014.

Ynoa is a strike-thrower extraordinaire, one who walked just 16 in 135 2/3 innings a year ago. He's not a soft-tosser, though, with a fastball in the 93 mph range and a very good feel for a changeup. The No. 16 prospect in the organization still has plenty of room for improvement, and the Mets feel it's coming. http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article/nym/improved-farm-system-has-mets-future-looking-bright?ymd=20140303&content_id=68610986&vkey=news_nym

"He has a great feel for pitching, he's always in the bottom of the zone, pitches to both sides of the plate," Scott said. "He's always thrown strikes, but his stuff has just gotten tighter. He'll start in the Florida State League, but we'll try to get him to Double-A."

Tony Clark –

"Let me offer you this: If there are concerns, what often ends up happening is we have an opportunity, along with Major League Baseball, to sit down and discuss perhaps what the game plan might be or could be going forward. Is New York one of the marquee franchises? Yes. Will they always be? Yes. Are we paying attention in general? Yes."

Mack – Clark is the union rep (ex-Met) who visited the clubhouse on Tuesday… don’t read anything into this. A representative of our current Commissioner, discussing the Wilpons, is like Obama talking about Putin. All hot air.

Dan-Chat -

Comment From john - Terry Collins says that EY Jr will start and be his lead-off guy. Now says that Dice-K is his favorite for the SP5 spot. Is it a waste to have a FO with Alderson and co with a guy like Terry Collins who clearly doesn’t care about stats and only wants to coddle veterans?

Dan Szymborski: Yeah, I’ve noticed these decisions. If this is the kind of decision-making the Mets make during the spring, might as well give everyone an extra month of vacation and ask them to show up bright eyed and bushy-tailed on March 15th.

Tuesday ST Highlights –

        SP Zack Wheeler opened the game with a 1-2-3 1^st inning (his curve looked a little hittable)… gave up a double in the 2^nd on a fastball that only hit 91… ended the 2^nd with a 94 mph strikeout, but it was his change-up and curve that got him through the two innings. Needs work on the fastball… a great throw by Chris Young threw out a potential double in the 3^rd… and Wheeler got his 3^rd K for the 3^rd out in the 3^rd with another 94-mph FA…  A for effort.

        That was a nice display in the first by the OF combo of Young, Young, and Granderson… walk, double, home run… 3-0 Mets.

        Regarding Grandy’s two home runs… remember… the dimensions of this field are the same as Citi Field…

RP Kyle Farnsworth pitched the 4^th… I just don’t see this guy making the club with his sub-90 fastball…

We probably have seen the last of RP Erik Goeddel this spring…

Vic Black… three pitches… last, a large curve for a looking strike three… that’s exactly what you want for a setup guy… but… three walks in the next inning got him pulled