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Top Mets Prospects –
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| PC - Ed Delany |
Position: RHP Age: 23 DOB: 11/08/1995 Bats: R Throws: R Height: 6' 3" Weight: 190 lb.
Drafted: 2017, 4th
(127) - NYM
Scouting grades:
Fastball: 60 |
Slider: 55 | Curveball: 50 | Changeup: 55 | Control: 45 | Overall: 45
After two nondescript
years at Kennesaw State, Dibrell jumped on the radar with a strong junior
season, building off an All-Star campaign in the Cape Cod League the previous
summer. The top college prospect in Georgia in the 2017 Draft class, he was
taken by the Mets in the fourth round and given a slightly above-pick value
bonus to sign. Pitching in relief in the short-season New York-Penn League
during his debut, Dibrell struck out 12.8 per nine innings, then followed it up
with a solid first full year in the South Atlantic League, once again striking
out better than 10 per nine.
With a quick arm and
a strong frame, Dibrell can run his fastball up to 96 mph and sit at 93-94 and
while his velocity had dipped after heavy use in his last college season, he
proved durable and effective over his first full season, finishing with 131
innings pitched. He's fiddled with different versions of a breaking ball in the
past, but now features a hard slider/cutter that has good, late life.
Dibrell can spin a
curveball with good depth and has aptitude for throwing a changeup. His
fastball, slider and changeup all can be plus pitches at their best, so he has
the ingredients to start. In order to succeed in that role as he moves up the
Mets' ladder, he will have to continue to refine his overall control and
command (3.7 BB/9 through 2018).
Fangraphs
top 100 prospects -
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| PC - Ed Delany |
While evaluations of
his defense are universally strong, assessments of Gimenez’s bat vary
significantly depending on when he was seen. He looked like a well-rounded,
first-division player while he was hitting with pleasantly surprising power
(.282/.343/.432 with 30 extra-base hits in 85 games) at Hi-A St. Lucie during
the season’s first half, but like much less of one during a rough six weeks in
the Arizona Fall League. In Fall League, Gimenez looked physically overmatched
at the plate, likely due to exhaustion. He was still 19 when the Mets promoted
him to Double-A for the season’s final six weeks, and his sophomoric body had
endured a 122-game season against older, more physically developed athletes
before he had even set foot in Arizona.
It’s fair to project
Gimenez to add strength, but because his frame is small, it’ll probably be just
the kind of strength that gives him season-long stamina, not huge raw power.
But while big raw power is unlikely, if his feel for contact is refined in a
way that prioritizes lift, it’s possible that Gimenez will end up hitting for
more power than we project in the same way Ozzie Albies
has. Gimenez has excellent natural bat control and can pull his hands in
to get the barrel on pitches that would jam other hitters, and he has feel for
fully extending on balls away from him and roping them into the opposite-field
gap. If he does, he might end up hitting a ton of doubles and out-slug our
projections without hitting a lot of home runs, or he may naturally start
lifting the ball like Albies did.
In general, we like
Gimenez as an above-average defensive middle infielder with advanced contact
skills. We think he’ll be a solid-average everyday player, and while we think
it’s unlikely, we can see a developmental path that leads to better production
than that.
Ranking
the five best off-seasons –
The Mets added plenty
of star power this winter, in Robinson Cano, Jed Lowrie,
Wilson Ramos, Edwin Diaz, and Jeurys Familia. But they also addressed some of their
depth concerns through small trades and signings. Justin
Wilson came cheaper than his late-inning experience and high velocity
and spin rate suggested he would, while J.D. Davis and
Keon Broxton both have hit-tool concerns but
could provide some utility off the bench -- Broxton with his speed and glove,
and Davis with his pop (he's essentially the Matt
Davidson starter kit, down to his pitching past).
Could this winter go
wrong in typical Mets fashion? Absolutely. Lord knows Ramos hasn't been a
bastion of good health; Lowrie looked done as recently as 2016; Cano has been
outstanding forever, but he's coming off a season in which he was popped for a
masking agent; and so on. Even Diaz could stumble, the way so many great
closers seem to at random.
Still, give the Mets
credit for making the offseason fun. That's more than most teams did.
Baseball’s
Shifting Financial Equation: Long-Term Security Over Free Agency –
Proof that baseball’s financial
equation has fundamentally changed isn’t in the number of free agents still
available, or Bryce Harper and Manny Machado’s continuing unemployment. The
most telling sign is in the behavior of the young talent that isn’t yet on the
market.
Tim Tebow
was asked about people not liking him –
"You’re always going to have
critics and naysayers and people that are going to tell you that you won’t,
that you can’t, that you shouldn’t. Most of those people are the people that
didn’t, that wouldn’t, that couldn’t."
5 comments:
Queens needs a guy named Tony Dibs. Fuggedabotit
I hope Gimenez does not disappoint
Tebow hitting rockets
If a few like Lowrie get hurt, the Mets' # 2 offseason might just turn into...# 2
Love that answer by Tebow. Pretty sure no one had him pegged at playing as well as he did at AA last year before getting hurt. I'm not saying he's a major league player but I love the drive.
It's only 1 game plus, but I like seeing our boys using the whole field. Is it Chili's influence, the examples set by the veterans (notably Ramos and Cano), or just co-incidence?
Whatever it is, the ABs of Alonso and Tebow in inning one today are very encouraging. Maybe this year we'll be able to do much better vs shifts than we have in the past few years
David Peterson had a bad inning today.
Those who are impressing to watch this spring...
It's spring training. Sometimes people forget that. It's a time to showcase, get ready, and work on the skill set. The "sports critics", the media and all of us, sometimes forget this I think.
Example
The fly ball that popped out of Tim Tebow's glove while he was sliding to catch it out of bounds the other day. The critics swarmed in immediately as they always do, having probably nothing better to do. To the critics you know, there is no difference between preseason and the World Series.Again here, they probably never played baseball and simply do not understand.
What probably really happened...
Tim tried his best to grab it, there were people assembled there that had to move out of the way, folding chairs, and a bullpen mound to contend with. If you ever played any corner outfield in preseason, then you know the last thing you want to do is get hurt making a play like that out of bounds prior to Opening Day. So you slide under it so as not to do a header.
Every stadium you play in is different out of bounds unfortunately, there are no set norms or standards for this across the league like in other sports. The critics all pounce, but what I just told you above is probably the truth. I have done this same exact approach in practice and preseason myself. You make a solid effort and play it safe for your body. As Allen Iverson once said, "It is practice. Practice" Why end your season over a folding chair, a ball boy or a mound.
Who am I watching right now...
Pete Alonso. Offensively he is really, really close to another David Wright. Same power stroke, same contagious excitement, same love for this game. Hard not to notice. He's got whatever this all is. Most don't.
On his defense, it is still somewhat a work in progress, but it is improving all the time. To me, just needs to play games in the bigs. Experience.
Rymer Liriano. Never even heard of the guy but on his homerun at bat, I thought somehow Yoenis was back. No question Rymer has a nice power stroke and confidence. Worth consideration, only 27. Might make more sense to have another homerun outfielder, instead of two carbon copy center fielders.
David Thompson. He ain't dead people. At 25, David also deserves some serious consideration. The boy has power, and a nose for the game.
Wilson Ramos. I really like this Ramos better than AJ. After watching the second preseason Mets game, I already have complete confidence in him. It's nice to have a real catcher again, I had forgotten what that was actually. I can get sleep now.
There is something to Mack's nephew Anthony Kay, no relation to Danny or so I have been told. I just like the way he is, and I like his fastball especially for a left handed starter. I leave him in the starter mold and forget about the bullpen transformation thing these NY Mets too often like to try. 95-97 mph people, and sky the limit for Anthony Kay, no relation to Danny.
Anthony Kay has the confidence, the skill set, and the Mets need one more young hard throwing starter.
Ain't it great to have NY Mets baseball back?
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