Good
morning.
Mark Carig
wrote a story on how Jacob deGrom is giving TJS
advice to Zack Wheeler –
“I talked with deGrom in the
early stages,” Wheeler said on Friday, before pitchers and catchers began their
first official workout. “He tried to get his arm up, his elbow up a little
sooner. It puts less stress on your elbow and I found doing that you get your
hand on top of the ball also when you’re going to home plate. I think it will
help my command out a little bit, take a little bit of the tailing off of it
but it will still have movement.”
Mack – This is what
teammates do to other teammates they enjoy playing with and being around. I
think all five members of the projected July 2017 rotation understand the
potential of producing the best rotation in the league, possibly the best ever
in baseball. You’re going to see Wheeler joining their pre-game strut to the
dugout.
This is a team
within a team.
Some of you are
already revving up for the next draft and it’s no big secret that the Mets lowered
their prospect list by dealing off 11 pitchers last season.
Here’s the Top 15
starters that D1 Baseball (subscription needed) has listed. You might want to
tuck this list into your lower inbox for Draft Day –
RANK PLAYER,
SCHOOL 2015 STATISTICS
1 Alex Lange,
LSU 12-0,1.97,114,131-46
2 A.J. Puk,
Florida 9-4, 3.81, 78, 104-35
3 Connor Jones,
Virginia 7-3, 3.19, 115.2, 113-52
4 Mike Shawaryn,
Maryland 13-2, 1.71, 116, 138-29
5 Brendan McKay,
Louisville 9-3, 1.77, 96.2, 117-34
6 Dakota Hudson,
Mississippi State 1-1, 4.32, 16.1,
26-11
7 Logan Shore,
Florida 11-6, 2.72, 112.1, 84-24
8 Kyle Funkhouser,
Louisville 8-5, 3.20, 112.1, 104-45
9 Daulton Jefferies,
California 6-5, 2.92, 80, 74-17
10 Tanner Houck,
Missouri 8-5, 3.49, 100.2, 91-12
11 Alec Hansen,
Oklahoma 5-6, 3.95, 82, 94-44
12 Kyle Wright,
Vanderbilt 6-1, 1.23, 58.2, 62-23
13 Anthony Kay,
UConn 8-6, 2.07, 100, 95-26
14 Drew Rasmussen,
Oregon State 7-4, 2.80, 106, 82-30
15 Eric Lauer,
Kent State 5-4, 1.98, 86.1, 103-26
Disturbing news
coming out of Cuba. International agent Bart Hernandez,
who in the past repped players like Jose Abreu,
Jorge
Soler,
Raisel
Iglesias, and Yaisel
Sierra, has been indicted on human-
trafficking charges related to bring Leonys Martin in
from Cuba. This strangely comes at the same time that President
Obama will be making the first
official Presidential visit to Cuba since Calvin Coolidge.
David Wright –
“I want to be out there as much
as I can and I think it’s impossible to say ‘x’ amount of games. I think we’ve
come up with a plan that will allow me to get ready for a season.”
Mack – What do
reported expect Wright to say? “No, I plan on playing only 30 games… or let’s
play 162!” I think the plan on paper is 130 which seems like a good plan right
now, Let’s first get through spring training, then April and come back and ask
me this question again.
Two things were
removed for OF Brandon Nimmo.
One, was the boot he had to wear after a partial tear in the tendon of his left
foot. The other was his name in the Baseball America Top 100 Prospects list.
Nimmo’s career continues to go in the wrong direction and more than ever he
needs a big year in 2016.
There’s nobody
pushing him as an outfield prospect but he sure could be used in Queens as the
SP4 or SP5 in 2017.
4 comments:
Hope to soon say, best young starting staff ever. Next, best starting staff of all time. I agree, could happen.
Nimmo slug % was the same as Wilfredo Tovar's until there were about 2 games left in 2015. Far below Matt Reynolds. That is why he deservedly fell from Top 100. Time to put up AAA numbers like Ceciliani did last year, Mr Nimmo. THAT would be quite a (needed)leap.
Tom -
Good morning. Sorry for the late posting this morning. For some reason it was still in then'draft' section.
I really worry about the Nimmo pick. Always have.
Off to vote.
Ok Mack go make America great again by voting Trump ;)
Im still in the 'ya gotta believe' camp in regards to Nimmo. I don't know who ultimately makes the decisions but he kept showing up futures games each year in minors and he's still only 22yrs old. Hes got all year to play in aaa and work on everything.
We can argue all day about money and value but I think the Nimmo stuff is another added reason why Mets need to keep and not trade de aza. Hes a veteran who plays all OF positions and shouldnt be an embarrasement if out there starting as needed if anyone temporarily goes down
Hi Mack, you can be the swing vote in South Carolina today, so don't pull a Kirk Nieuwenhuis and swing and miss. Ernest, if all goes according to plan, the 5th OF might hardly play. I'd be happy with Cespedes, Conforto, Grandy and Lagares getting 99% of the at bats out there. Keeping de Aza could be great, but if he could be spun into an almost ready OF prospect might be better. and save the $
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