Mack - 2019 Mets Transactions, Kudos, Comments, and Draft Update

Monday, June 24^th –

DSL-1 DH, Federico Polanco: 2-4, R, 3-RBI, .349

DSL-1 SP, Luis Moreno: 3.2-IP, 1-ER, 1.04

Moreno had pitched 5 scoreless innings in his first two games and the Mets are attempting to convert him to a starter.

AA-Binghamton P, Mickey Jannis: 8-IP, 1-ER, 1.13

           Jannis finished off a game that was suspended from an earlier game that David Peterson had pitched one scoreless inning.

AA-Binghamton SP, Joe Zanghi: 4-IP, 0-R, 2-K, 1.71

           Interesting. Our blue-chip reliever seems to be being converted to a starter. Love this to work out. We are thin right now in the pipeline for quality starters and it would be great to see both me and Jannis step up this year for Binghamton

AA-Binghamton RP/CL, Stephen Villines: 1-IP, 0-R, 1-K, SV-4, 0.00

           Stephen is going to have to put his toe back in the AAA pool to become a legitimate candidate for the majors next season.

           Remember… what you do at these levels means nothing in the majors. Just go look at what Stephen Nogosek is punching out (or not punching out) in Queens.

AAA-Syracuse SP, Anthony Kay: 4-IP, 2-ER, 4-K

A-Columbia SP, Simeon Woods-Richardson: 4.1-IP, 2-ER, 4-K

           Both Kay and SWR have had miserable seasons at the level they are currently pitching at, but these two starts are baby steps back. Don’t look back guys and stay away from the stat pages/Twitter

Tuesday, June 25^th –

           AA-Binghamton RP, Austin McGeorge, placed on IL

           AAA-Syracuse transferred RP Eric Hanhold to AA-Binghamton

           A+ St. Lucie promoted RP Jacob Rhame to AAA-Syracuse    

                 Kudos –

           The GCL-Mets played their first game of the season and, boy, if the first game is any indication of what the rest of the season turns out to be, it’s going to be fun following this team.    

           Our 1st round draft pick, 3B Brett Baty had a double on his first professional at-bat.

           2017 top IFA pick ($1.5mil bonus), OF Adrian Hernandez, went 2-5, 2-R, HR, RBI in his first stateside game

           And last year’s top IFA signee ($2.7mil), catcher Francisco Alvarez jumped DSL and opened up stateside: 2-4, 2-R RBI

           Not to be outdone, this year’s 21^st round pick, DH (SS) Braden Fryman went: 3-4, 2-R 3-RBI

          

           DSL-2 RP, Marco Villegas: 1.1-IP, 0-R, 2-K, 0.00

                 That’s now 11.2 scoreless innings over 7 games

           DSL-1 DH, Freddy Valdez: 2-4, R, RBI

           DSL-1 RP, Jose Valdez: 2-IP, 0-R, 3-K

           AAA-Syracuse 2B, Luis Guillorme: 2-3, game winning RBI, .305

           A+ SP, Tony Dibrell: 6-IP, 1-ER, 4-K, 2.58

           Rookie-Kingsport RP, Christofer Dominguez: 2-IP, 0-R, 3-K, 0.00

           AA-Binghamton C, Ali Sanchez: 3-4. 2-RBI, .300

          

           Low-A Brooklym 1B, Joe Genord: 3-4, R, EBI,.333