Morning Report – May 14th – Minors Moves, Eric Young Jr., Dan-Chat, Brandon Allen

        Coming Later Today –

               10 30 am -  Reese Kaplan - You Can't Tell The Players Without a Scorecard   

                12 noon  -  Top 12 3B in 2014 MLB Draft - - Updated 5-13-14 

                

                5 pm - Top 13 1B in 2014 MLB Draft - revised 5-10-14

                8 pm – Jacob Bukauskas, Touki Toussaint, Alex Verdugo, Max Pentecost, Aaron Nola, Michael Gettys



Thoughts on last night's game - it's funny... I never felt like the Mets were winning this game, I guess I've gotten used to following a pitching based team, and there was enough bad pitching here to lose a couple of games... Zack Wheeler never had enough control, though I did see him throw around 10 perfect 93-94 mph fastballs in the middle, lower portion of the zone. Not one was hit, yet these were the only time I saw these pitches... Dice-K proved he can't get past two solid innings and Jeurys Familia did not have the command needed to be a successful closer... still, the team won because the bats became the second coming of Willie Mays and Mel Ott.... don't get me wrong... I'll take it... makes up for one of the many lost on the last pitch.

Louisville Nick Burdi – 3.0-IP, 0-R, 6-K

Pepperdine Aaron Brown – 9.0-IP, CG, 0-R, 7-K, 1-BB

San Diego State Michael Cederoth – 1.2-IP, 0-R, 1-K, 0-BB

On additional bonus about replacing Jenrry Mejia with Rafael Montero in the Mets rotation… Montero’s innings limit this year will be around 180 compared with Mejia’s 100-125 range (much better suited to relief role).

John Looby to me

Hey Mack, I noticed that you briefly put your GM's hat on when looking at the current 'pen situation and what you would do. Taking this a step further and looking through the entire organization, what moves would you make? I'm not just talking who to bring to the big club, but what moves would you make throughout the minors. Are there players there that you would cut completely as they are clogging up the system. Are there players that you would move up to challenge them?

        Hey John –

To continue with my moves in the minors, let me state again… it is too early to make any of these moves, but, since you asked, and I’m pretending it’s sometime in early June.

I also never worry about who I’m either moving aside or demotion. The goal of ‘my team’ is to reward the players that are playing the best and move along the prospects in a timely manner.

That being said, here’s some of the promotions I would make, at various points between 5/15 - 6/15:

        SP Noah Syndergard from AAA to MLB

        

        LHRP Josh Edgin from AAA to MLB pen (21.6 in last 10 outings, hasn’t given up a run in his last seven)

        SS Matt Reynolds from AA to AAA

        SP Darin Gorski from AA to AAA

        SP Greg Peavey from AA to AAA

        RP John Church from AA to AAA

        C Kevin Plawecki from AA to AAA

        RP Cody Satterwhite from AA to AAA

        2B/1B T.J. Rivera from A+ to AA

        CF Brandon Nimmo from A+ to AA

        SP Stephen Matz from A+ to AA

        SP Mathew Koch from A+ to AA

        SP John Gant from A to A+      

This list does need polishing (you can’t move three SPs from AAA and replace them with only two from AA) ; however, off the top of my head, these are the guys that deserve to move up first.

Regarding what happens to the guys they replace… well, there’s no reason for me to go there. My philosophy is much different than the Mets on this subject. I would cut a lot of dead wood and, frankly, give some of these guys a chance to catch on with another team. The Mets just seem to like to keep everyone around a little too long.

I’m also not that big on the whole AAAA thing, so guys like Dana Everland, Buddy Carlyle, John Lannan, Giancarlo Alvarado, Brandon Clark, Matt Clark, and Omar Quintanilla would have a hard time surviving my first cut.

One more thing… when all is said and done, my parent team bullpen would be Rafael Montero, Jenrry Mejia, Jeurys Familia, Josh Edgin, Scott Rice, Carlos Torres, and Gonzalez Germen, with Zack Thornton and Vic Black in the wings.

(there is more concern out of Vegas on Black, who came in yesterday to close out the 9th... instead, he gave up a double, a sac bunt moving the runner to third, then a passed ball ties the game up

He has 15 walks in 15.2 innings pitched. He will never work his way back to the majors with these kind of results)

TTF –

        After a promising start, the New York Mets have spent early May losing low-scoring games and leaving runners on base. This is correlated directly with the removal from Eric Young Jr., their resident Energizer Bunny, from the lineup. I’m well aware the correlation doesn’t necessarily equal causation, but in this case, the causal arrows seem clear. In 10 games without EY in the lineup, the Mets are 2-8; they score 3.2 runs per game, hit .222 and are 4-for-5 in stolen base attempts. In 25 games with EY in the lineup, the Mets are 14-11; they score 4.2 runs per game, hit .226 and are 25-for-32 in stolen base attempts. When Eric Young is in the lineup, the Mets’ batting average doesn’t improve dramatically, but they score a run per game more and they’re more aggressive on the bases. Juan Lagares has hit well this season, as have Daniel Murphy and David Wright; the problem has been leaving runners on base. Young’s speed and ability to manufacture runs can make up for their poor hitting with runners in scoring position, because Young is more likely to score on any kind of hit, whichever base he’s on. http://throughthefencebaseball.com/mets-need-eric-young-back-leadoff/42881#zAz1Iqqmj0t2k0WU.99

Dan-Chat -

Comment From Jon - How do you see the LA outfield logjam playing out? Is Joc Pederson playing every day by the all star break?

Dan Szymborski: I just can’t see Pederson getting full-time play this year in the majors. If we’re in July and the Dodgers are still looking up at Rockies and Giants, I think he’s in a new uniform.

Comment From Chicago Mark - Hey Dan, Who do you see signing Kendrys Morales and Stephen Drew? How soon after the draft do we see them signed? Thanks

Dan Szymborski: I think they sign first couple weeks of June. Mets have more of a reason to revisit Drew.

Comment From Lady - Do you think Rafael Montero will be good if he steps in for the ole mets?

Dan Szymborski: I think he’ll be OK, his command has been a little spotty at times. I’m not a Mets fan, so I’m not eternally primed for self-immolation.

Brandon Allen –

        Brandon Allen has had his share of big moments in baseball, but few can rival the rarefied feat the first baseman helped the 51s achieve Thursday night in Salt Lake City. Allen was the fourth consecutive Las Vegas batter to belt a home run — following Allan Dykstra, Zach Lutz and Taylor Teagarden — in the fourth inning of the 51s’ 16-4 romp over the Bees. It was only the fifth time in Pacific Coast League history a team had hit four straight homers, and it has been done only seven times in the majors. For good measure, Allen finished 5-for-6 for his second career five-hit game. http://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/baseball/51s/51s-allen-doing-lot-damage-lately