My rankings
is solely subjective and based on nothing more than what is in my head at time
I’m writing this. I’ve followed the Mets minor league players for many years
and I feel I can recognize talent at various levels of their development. What
I have failed at is how to determine when this talent seems to diminish. It’s
amazing how many first round picks never make it in this game.
I’m old
school, so you won’t seem much SABR-discussion here, I do research and, when I
find a good quote or two, I’ll add them to my analysis, but, like I said in the
beginning of this post, most of this us subjective.
Let’s get
started.
#14 – RHRP – Hansel
Robles – 24-years old – Bonao, Dominican Republic
International
free agent singing (2008) – 5-11, 185 – R/R
2009
– DSL – 15-G, 9-ST, 2.91, 1.07, 58.2-IP, 60-K
2010
– DSL – 14-G, 12-ST, 3.09, 1.15, 67-IP, 51-K
2011
– K/Port – 15-appearance – 2.68, 1.19, 37-IP, 42-K
2012
– Bklyn – 12-starts, 1.11, 0.78, 72.2-IP, 66-K
2013
– GC/St.L – 18-G, 17-starts, 3.78, 1.32, 95.1-IP, 71-K
2014
– B-Mets – 30-G, 18-starts, 4.31, 1.36, 110.2-IP, 106-K
Last
10 games in 2014 – 10-G, 16.2-IP, 1-ER, 0.56-ERA
Robles has ‘been around’.
Fans of his will point out his ++ change up
while critics will say he’s had control problems at times. He came into the system during the time that
the Mets stocked their system with young, talented starters and the 2012
Brooklyn Cyclones, where he went 6-1, 1.11, in 11 starts, also included Rainey Lara, Gabriel Ynoa, Luis Cessa, and Luis Mateo.
He hit the starters wall at Binghamton (like
so many others) in 2014, and, since he’s been around so long (6th
season in the minors) some started to question his future with the
organization.
It was then that the pitching coaches in
Binghamton asked him to become a full time reliever and the “new, improved”
Robles was born. He could concentrate on this fastball control, knowing he wasn’t
going to be out there on the mound as much each outing. It got better and
better and, by the end of the season it literally became impossible to get a
hit against him (Last 10 games in 2014 – 10-G, 16.2-IP, 1-ER, 0.56-ERA).
Outlook –
I rank Robles one notch ahead of Akeel Morris
simply because of the work he has had to put in to get here. Scouts have always
said that he had the talent, but just lacked the ability to duplicate the magic
he found in Brooklyn.
He just might as a reliever, but he’s first
going to have to live through the nightmare called Las Vegas.
1 comment:
Pretty amazing we both have Hansel at 14. Great minds do sometimes intersect!
I do, however, give Akeel Morris the edge over Robles.
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