8/26/14

FLASH: Mets Announce Participants for 2014 Arizona Fall League



     The New York Mets have announced 6 of the 7 players that will be assigned to participate in this year's Arizona Fall League competition. The Arizona Fall League is an fall competition league owned and operated by the MLB. The AFL generally attracts many of the top prospects in minor league baseball who their respective club feel need additional work in preparation for a big promotion the next season. Most of the players are AA and AAA minor leaguers, although, each club has the option of sending up to two players that are currently assigned to a club that below AA.

     Mets prospects combine with prospects from the Philadelphia Philles, New York Yankees, Pittsburgh Pirates, and San Francisco Giants to play for the Scottsdale Scorpions. Clubs generally send 1 or 2 coaches to assist as well.

This season the following Mets will be participating:
OF Brandon Nimmo
SS/2B Matthew Reynolds
LHRP Dario Alvarez
RHSP Robert Whalen
RHRP Paul Sewald
RHRP Julian Hilario
SS/2B LJ Mazzilli

The full Scottsdale Scorpion squad is listed below thanks to Baseball America. For a listing of the other AFL teams please click here.

SCOTTSDALE SCORPIONS
Pitchers
               ORG
  B-T   
HT     
WT
DOB
SP- Clayton Blackburn
SF- AA
L-R
6-2
260
1/6/93
RP- Erik Cordier
SF- AAA
R-R
6-4
250
2/25/86
SP- Caleb Cotham
NYY- AAA
R-R
6-3
215
11/6/87
SP- Tyler Glasnow
PIT- A+
L-R
6-7
195
8/23/93
SP- *Tom Harlan
PIT- AA
L-L
6-6
215
3/7/90
RP- Julian Hilario
NYM- A+
R-R
6-1
190
8/17/90
SP- Nick Kingham
PIT- AAA
R-R
6-5
220
11/8/91
SP- Cory Mazzoni
NYM- AAA
R-R
6-1
200
10/19/89
RP- Colton Murray
PHI- AA
R-R
6-0
195
4/22/90
RP- Nefi Ogando
PHI- AA
R-R
6-2
185
6/3/89
RP- Steven Okert
SF- AA
L-L
6-3
210
7/9/91
RP- Ryan O’Sullivan
PHI- AA
R-R
6-2
190
9/5/90
RP- Branden Pinder
NYY- AAA
R-R
6-3
225
1/26/89
SP- Joely Rodriguez
PIT- AA
L-L
6-1
200
11/14/91
SP- Adrian Sampson
PIT- AAA
R-R
6-3
200
10/7/91
RP- Paul Sewald
NYM- A+
R-R
6-2
190
5/26/90
RP- Alex Smith
NYY- A+
R-R
6-3
200
9/29/89
SP- Ethan Stewart
PHI- A+
L-L
6-7
235
1/19/91
RP- Hunter Strickland
SF- AA
R-R
6-4
220
9/24/98
SP- Rob Whalen
NYM- A+
R-R
6-2
200
1/31/94
TBA
 PHI
Catchers
ORG
B-T
HT
WT
DOB
C- Elias Diaz
PIT- AAA
R-R
6-1
175
11/17/90
C- Logan Moore
PHI- AA
L-R
6-3
190
8/22/90
*TBA
NYY
Infielders
Org
B-T
Ht.
Wt.
DOB
RF- Josh Bell
PIT- AA
S-R
6-3
213
8/14/92
1B- Greg Bird
NYY- AA
L-R
6-3
215
11/9/92
SS- Matt Duffy
SF- AA
R-R
6-2
170
1/15/91
2B/3B- Dan Gamache
PIT- AA
L-R
5-11
190
11/20/90
3B- Eric Jagielo
NYY- A+
L-R
6-2
195
5/17/92
UT- Blake Miller
SF- AA
R-R
6-3
195
4/25/90
SS/2B- Matt Reynolds
NYM- AAA
R-R
6-1
198
12/3/90
TBA
NYM
Outfielders
Org
B-T
HT
WT
DOB
RF/1B- Tyler Austin
NYY- AA
R-R
6-1
220
9/6/91
RF- Aaron Judge
NYY- A+
R-R
6-7
230
4/26/92
CF/LF- Brandon Nimmo
NYM- AA
L-R
6-3
205
3/27/93
CF/SS- Roman Quinn
PHI- A+
S-R
5-10
170
5/14/93
CF/RF- Daniel Carbonell
SF- A+
R-R
6-3
196
3/29/91
* Denotes “taxi squad” member activated only on Wednesdays
Embargoed names listed as TBA

12 comments:

Mack Ade said...

it will be interesting to see what position Reynolds plays

Anonymous said...

Probably will be dependent on who the Braves, Pirates, and Giants assign.

So far between Mets and Yanks he's the only SS

Charles said...

Think Mets want to see if his crazy BA continues in a tougher prospect league.

Steve from Norfolk said...

I know Thomas is happy to see Reynolds get some attention from the FO!

Mack Ade said...

Attention Thomas -

Here's where you find out which players the Mets think have a future in this game, on this team... however, it also is a place Mets trying to get their pitchers to work on an additional pitch.

Still, Hilario's name alone here warrants him guppy status.

Anonymous said...

Whalen is a bit of an aggressive assignment, but I like if. If he shines in the AFL at his age, his stock would take a nice jump.

Mack Ade said...

My guess is Whalen is assigned to get some of the innings back he lost this season due to injuries

Anonymous said...

I agree with Mack.

Whalen is currently at 58.1 IP. Club would have liked him to be at around 100 IP this season.

Anonymous said...

Whatever the reason for Whalen, I am excited to see how he holds up against higher competition. If he holds up strong, it will sexy up his resume, even if the main reason is to get more innings.

Tom Brennan said...

Very cool on Whalen. Other than his time out with the infected hand, he's been outstanding.

I would speculate Reynolds won't be a Sept call up if he is going to AFL?

Is the TBA someone from Tommy B's A list of guppies?!! Where's my coffee?

Great to see Nimmo pushed, Sewald rewarded, and let's see Mazzoni dominate.

Hilario is someone I'll confess I have not focused on, but his choice certainly is interesting. I'll have to check him out.

Anonymous said...

@Tom

Well there's two things we can speculate about the TBA

A) The Scottsdale Scorpions have "him" listed as an infielder.

B) Teams are only allowed to send 2 player below AA level and the Mets have already committed Hilario and Whalen.

So the TBD person could very well be 1 of the following:

Wilfredo Tovar
TJ Rivera
Dustin Lawley
Dilson Herrera
Brian Burgamy
Jayce Boyd
Brandon Allen
Allan Dykstra
Daniel Muno
Josh Satin

My money is on Herrera. Organization will want to see if he's truly the long term answer at 2B to replace Murphy

Hobie said...

I hope it's TJ.