Good
morning.
The loss of Dumbo Mejia makes us take a second look at who are
current ‘on paper’ in the four full season bullpens in the Mets organization.
None of these are the projected guys to open up in Queens.
AAA – Las
Vegas (13) - Paul Sewald, Akeel
Morris, Josh Smoker, Dario Alvarez, Jeff Walters, Zach Thornton, Beck Wheeler , Chase Huchingson, Chase Bradford, Stolmy
Pimentel, Jim Henderson, Duane Below, Buddy Carlyle
AA –
Binghamton (8) - Kyle Regnault, Robert Coles, Mike
Hepple, Kelly Secrest, David Roseboom, Jimmy Duff, Tim Peterson, Domingo Tapia
A+ - St.
Lucie (7 ) - Luis Mateo, Paul Paez, Cameron Griffin,
Ben Griset, Alberto Baldonado, Christian Montgomery, John Mincone
A – Columbia
– (10 ) - PJ Conlon, Alex Palsha, Carlos Valdez, Craig
Missigman, Corey Taylor , John
Magliozzi, Brandon Welsh, Nico Black, Ty Williams, Jose Celas
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are far too many pitchers for four opening day pens but the Mets have always
found a way of placing around six of these guys on the DL with some phantom
7-day ailment.
We’ll keep
progress on this as spring training progresses.
Rob Rogan on Michael Conforto –
It will be exciting to see what
strides Conforto makes in 2016 considering he had no major trouble as a rookie
in getting close to what many deemed his ideal outcome. Does that mean he can,
once he gets more experience under his belt, perform at a level higher than
even his most positive scouting reports predicted? Possibly, but he’ll need the
playing time to do it.
Mack – I believe
the Mets will begin the 2016 season the same way they ended it… Conforto in
left, Yoenes Cespedes in
center, and Curtis Grandeson in
right. I also expect to see Juan Lagares in
the last two innings, replacing Cespedes, in all games are leading at that
point. Past that, I have no idea how the outfield at bats play out.
It will be
Conforto’s bat that will determine how much play that Alejandro de Aza gets.
It
was nice to see that Rotographs
had a paragraph on Dilson Herrera in
their ‘Rookie Second Baseman’ article –
Dilson Herrera, Mets: Like
Jose Peraza, Herrera could be ready to have
value at the big league value but he’ll open 2015 blocked by a more veteran
player. The organization acquired former Pirate Neil
Walker during the offseason and he’ll definitely be given every
opportunity to play regularly for the Mets. That will leave Herrera back in
Triple-A for a second showing despite producing an .893 OPS there last season.
He has the ability to hit for average, steal a couple bases and hit a few home
runs over the fence.
Mack – I expect
Herrera to come back to Queens when the first infield injury takes place, or in
September, whatever comes first.
Herrera will play
2016 as a 22-year old. It’s time.
Frank Pimental
on the Top 10 RHP in Baseball –
7. Jacob
deGrom – New York Mets - 2015: 14-8, 2.54 ERA, 191 IP, 205 K’s, 0.979
WHIP.
One could say 2015 was the year
of Jacob deGrom. Coming off rookie of the year honors in 2014, he picked up
right where he left off. He displayed his brilliant strikeout stuff on the
national stage where he took over the All-Star Game whiffing all three batters
he faced on just ten pitches.
DeGrom relies on his four seam
fastball to generate swing and misses, but will mix in his hard sinker, slider
and throws a very good changeup to keep the hitters on guard. deGrom, along
with the rest of the Mets astute starting rotation, carried the boys from
Queens to the Fall Classic, where they fell shy of a ring to the Kansas City
Royals. He was 3-1 in 4 postseason starts with a 2.88 ERA and 29 whiffs over 25
innings. Entering his third full season, I expect him to be right in the race
for the Cy Young with a very good Mets team looking to get back to the World
Series.
4 comments:
Zero degrees, let's play 2.
Conforto will smash the soph jinx and give us a very solid major league starting OF.
Lots of bullpen Injuns in the minors. maybe Akeel will step up. Maybe Walter. Maybe Sewald. Maybe Mateo.
Jake is great - s/b higher than # 7.
Mejia is stupid Very stupid.
So im sticking to my own goal of no longer mentioning name of a certain former Mets reliever.
Anyway, Hansel Robles I believe is under full team control, makes the minimum, and IMO is at least equal in talent and ceiling as a player as..............
I certainly agree about Robles. I've been touting him this off-season and feel he's pn the verge of a breakout season.
As for the "other guy", I've just got a strong feeling that there's more to the story than has been told. No matter how stupid he may be, his agents and others have to have been pounding the right message into his head since suspension #2. I just refuse to accept this at face value at this point.
I was going to gripe about Jake being 7th, but hard to argue with those in front - one of whom is Harvey
So the Mets have 2 of the 7 best RHSP in baseball
Plus Thor and a coming back Wheeler
So UNREAL when you see others rank them
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