Good morning.
It’s Sunday so it’s a
light schedule in Port St. Lucie.
Training camp continues,
but today is Mike Piazza day. Piazza spent the
early portion of his stay walking around and getting familiar with Mets
players, especially guys like Yoenis Cespedes and
Curtis Granderson. All the catchers gathered
around him for their pop up drill, something I’m sure Mike is glad he doesn’t
have to do anymore (best pop up hitter – Tim Teufel).
One fan yelled out ‘show em’ how it’s done, Mike’… ain’t gonna happen.
Pizaa to Cespedes - "I
don't care what you drive as long as you drive in runs."
Piazza
also wants to talk to Cespedes about taking your walks and not being overly
anxious as he was in World Series
Then, catchers had to
locate their mitt, find the ball in the air, and catch the ball.
Mack – can you imagine the rush of someone like Tomas Nido, Raywilly Gomez, or Nevin Ashley getting one on one advice
from the future Hall of Famer. You can’t pay good money for this.
Wilmer Flores worked out at first base today.
Noah Syndergaard
threw a bullpen session.
Ruben Tejada primarily worked out on third base
today.
The Mets did announce
pitching for some of the upcoming spring games –
3-1
Intrasquad Team Blue – Sean Gilmartin, Logan Verrett,
Zack Thornton, Chase Bradford, and Akeel Morris
3-1
Intrasquad Team Orange – Robert Gsellman, Duane Below,
Seth Lugo, Josh Smoker
March
3 – vs. Washington – Rafael Montero, Gabriel Ynoa, Jeff
Walters
March
4 – vs. Miami – Logan Verrett, Buddy Carlyle, Zack
Thornton
David Wright and Curtis Granderson
led other Mets putting on a clinic for more than 100 Special Olympic
athletes.
From Fangraphs... here's how they rank faming from backup catchers -
BP Framing, 2015
NAME | Level | Framing Chances | CSAA |
Josh Thole | AAA | 3261 | 0.023 |
Austin Hedges | AAA | 1233 | 0.022 |
Kevin Plawecki | MLB | 3963 | 0.021 |
Austin Hedges | MLB | 2712 | 0.021 |
Chris Stewart | MLB | 2470 | 0.019 |
Max Stassi | AAA | 6176 | 0.018 |
Tyler Flowers | MLB | 6317 | 0.018 |
Jose Lobaton | MLB | 2492 | 0.014 |
SOURCE: Baseball Prospectus
4 comments:
Exciting group of pitchers in those intrasquad games. Wish I were there.
Plawecki will frame well and hit well in 2016.
Driive in runs, less wild swinging on strike 2, and more swinging on fat zero strike counts, and Cespedes could be great.m
So tha best framers get 2-3 Called Strikes Above Average per game (figuring 120 pitches). I guess that's significant, idk.
I wonder if there are CSAA stats for umpires? Anybody know?
Hobie -
I don't know how important or accurate these kind of graphs that Fangraphs runs all the time but the important thing is it gives us (the fans) and the team addition information on their team.
Pitch Framing is a nice concept...The Stat is pure Bullshit
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