We continue
our organization positional analysis with shortstop.
This is
going to be fun.
For now, Ruben Tejada and Wilmer Flores
are the two Mets shortstops. Frankly I don’t see that changing for 2016
because I don’t expect the Mets to look outside their organization for their
future shortstop. My guess is Flores gets first shot here next season to play
every day.
There seems
to be an infinite amount of shortstop prospects in the Mets system, four of
which are scheduled to play in each of the full season teams.
They are: Gavin Cechinni (AA - .317), Amed
Rosario (A+ - .257), Luis Guillorme (A -
.318), and Alfredo Reyes (Brklyn - .228). The
will play, respectfully, Las Vegas, Binghamton (a probable repeat for Rosario),
St. Lucie, and Columbia.
Who’s the
best? Well, Reyes projects as the least talented and his age (22) is also
working against him.
According to
the scouts, don’t discount Rosario’s stats. This was a 19-year old playing in
the prospect AA level at an age far younger than the vast majority of the
leagues.
That being
said, the defensive specialist Guillorme made tremendous progress with a bat that
turned out to produce the second best batting average in the Sally League.
This
was quite impressive for the 21-year old former 10th round pick (no,
he wasn’t a free agent signee out of Latin America) out of Coral Springs,
Florida.
Lastly, the
21-year old Cecchini impressed everyone with his rebound year in Binghamton.
He’ll move on to Las Vegas for opening day 2016 and we’ll probably see him in
Queens come September.
I ask again,
who’s best? The experts say Rosario but I’m going with Guillorme’s complete
game.
Past these
guys are seven more international bonus baby prospects that simply are too
early to project. They are Yeffry De Aza ($475K
bonus in 2013 – GCL: .313), Edgardo Fermin ($250K
bonus in 2014 – GCL: .262 ), Hansel Moreno ($50K
bonus in 2014 – DSL-1: - .210), Gregory Guerrero ($1.5mil
bonus in 2015 - DNP), Andres Giminez ($.2mil in
2015 - DNP), Kenny Hernandez ($1mil in 2014 –
DSL-1 - .196) and Yoel Romero ($300K in 2014 –
DSL-1 - .194).
It’s obvious
that the Mets are making a conscious effort to solve their long term woes at
this position.
Others still
plugging around are Matt Reynolds (AAA - .267) and Wilfredo Tovar (AAA
- .283) on the Las Vegas squad, and Milton Ramos (K-Port
- .317) who might wind up on the South Carolina team.
Summation –
As Howard Cosell used to say, there is a
plethora of talent on this report and any one of these guys could wind up with a
primo job on the Mets.
My money
right now would be Flores in 2016, a battle of Flores vs, Cecchini in 2017 and
Guillorme taking over full time in 2018 while Rosario becomes a major trade
chip to restock the pitching prospects.
I could be
wrong with the names of the players I have chosen but not with where they have
come from. There is major shortstop talent in the Mets organization well past
the beginning of the next decade.
Grade – A+
3 comments:
Wilfred Tovar (the slick SS with the same.350 +% slug % as can't miss prospect Brandon Nimmo in 2015), was dropped from the 40 man roster. Nimmo is, however, a very nice guy. Mets lead the majors in nice guys. That's nice.
Whoops. My first comment vanished, so let's try again.
I am OK with Flores and Tejada in 2015.
Cecchini needs to really tighten up his D in 2015.
Rosario in 2016 could blossom with bat like cecchini did in 2015.
MVP Guillorme really turned a lot of heads in 2015. Hopefully he can get up to Tovar-like pop this coming year.
Matt ReynoldsxalmostcmakescthecMets out of spring in 2015, now looks around at thousands of SS competitors.
Danny Muno just shouted, "I can play SS too." then he noticed the same crowd of shortstops.
Jeff McNeil played some shortstop but not a lot, due to the burgeoning crowd of them. He just might make a very good one.
Very very nice depth. Iam eager to see what Guerrero and Gimenez can do
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