Peter Hyatt - Assistant GM on Rosario Call Up

                                   
                                    So, what's the hold up?

"He needs more time."

Is this truthful?

"He has not played enough minor league games above A"

Is this truthful as the reason for not calling him up?

"He's too young." 


Reyes was 19 when he was called up and David Wright was 21.  

Both played less games than Rosario and Michael Conforto was called up a year after leaving college. 

Listen to assistant GM Ricco's words:

Ricco said the Super 2 consideration was “not a dominant part of the equation” in assessing Rosario and determining when he may become a Met.

This tells us it is part of the equation but not the "dominant" part.  We now look to see if his words will affirm this as truthful, or weaken its assertion.  

“Throughout the game, people just assume that because it’s an easy thing to say,” he said of the Super 2 issue. 

Here he feels it necessary to respond to "people", which is likely the New York Media and explain why they say it.  He tells us that they say it because its easy to say.  This is quite an assertion given Rosario's production and the failure of Astrubel Cabrerra.  

Does he believe his own words?

“I honestly don’t think that’s the prevailing thought. We’re not sitting here saying that he should be up there. I’m being honest when I say that the evaluation is that he could use more time.”

Here we see indicators of deception within speech.  

When one feels the need to qualify any assertion with "honest", it is an indication that the person really wants to be believed because he is not always honest.  This means that habitually, he is not honest and here he could be telling the truth. 

Yet, when it is repeated, the sensitivity increases dramatically.  

Now we add on his choice of wording:  body posture. 

Speed of Transmission 

Ricco is a very intelligent man.  He likely possesses a personal dictionary of more than 30,000 words. 

When he speaks, he must go into this personal dictionary and choose which words to use, what information not to disclose, where to place each word next to each other to make sense (syntax) and which tenses to use.  

This process takes place in the brain in less than a micro second of time.  This is how deception detection is done.  

He does not pause and ask himself, "should I use the word "honestly" here?  

Body Posture

Note the difference here:

"My boss said for me to be on time."  

This is very simple communication.  

Yet another says, 

"My boss stood and told me to be on time."

The latter affirms much more authoritative communication as the body posture of the boss is given (extra words = extra effort which means increased importance) and "said" it changed to "told."  The word "said" is used more in casual conversation while "told" is authoritative and even used in one way communication. 

That Ricco used body posture is an indication  of an increase in tension in this statement. 

Analysis Conclusion:  

Rosario gets called up when the Mets feel that the Super-2 date has safely passed.  

Internal debate may have gone from mid-July to mid-June, with lots of tension (pressure, sensitivity in language) with Astrubel's poor defensive play giving way to pressure from NY media.  

Astrubel has been the beneficiary of some very generous scoring, to the point that he should have been credited with at least 3 more errors. 

Expect Rosario call up to happen sooner than later, barring unforeseen circumstances such as injury, slump or reemergence of either Cabrerra or Reyes, defensively and offensively.