Wilmer Flores, Las Vegas
(.382/.389/.971, 8 G, 13-for-34, 2 2B, 6 HR, 16 RBI, 12 R, 1 BB, 4 K)
It's been a yo-yo-type of season for the 22-year-old shortstop, who batted .225 in 25 games in the Majors before being sent back down to Triple-A in late June, but it certainly seems like his production is on the way back up. In 12 games since rejoining the 51s, he is 19-for-51 (.373) with 10 extra-base hits and 20 RBIs. He closed out last week with homers in five straight games and had six long balls total during that stretch. "When he first got back from the bigs, he struggled a lot in his first two games," Las Vegas manager Wally Backman told MiLB.com. "To come back was a good thing, for his age. He needed to get at-bats so that he could develop. They did the right thing to send him back for the development part."
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1 comment:
Don't get sick (or sprain your ankles) when you're called up. When he got sick, Ruben got his foot back in the door. he played very sporadically and was sent down.
Flores is, IMO, going to hit really well and with plenty of doubles and his share of homers, in the bigs. Let's see if he gets to do that with the Mets. As well as Ruben Tejada is doing, I wish they gave Flores a real chance to play every day and have Tejada back him up/late inning replacement.
I ask myself, why couldn't he be the next Edgardo Alfonso?
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