Wednesday, July 3rd –
A-Columbia
made a number of moves that were officially announced on Wednesday. They were:
IF Walter Rasguin came
off the A-Columbia IL
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| PC - Ed Delany |
This
could have been nothing more that a time out to recharge the batteries.
RHP Christian Tripp
transferred to the IL
Gordon
is the 32nd pick by the Mets, in this year’s draft, out of
Mississippi State. Jake Magnum’s alma mater.
Gordon
doesn’t have to be converted to a reliever. In 2019, he pitched in 30-games (no
starts), with a stat line of: 5-1, 3.80, 42.2-IP, 69-K
23-yrs.
old -
6-5 245
Fastball:
high 80s/low 90s, with cut
Nasty
slider
RHP
Briam Campusano transferred to Columbia from A+
St, Lucie
RHP
Alec Kisena transferred from Columbia to Low-A
Brooklyn
LHP
Jake Simon transferred to Columbia from A+ St.
Lucie
Additional
IFAs signed this week:
RHP
Juan Pacheco – bonus amount not disclosed
LHP
Jeremy Alfredo – bonus amount not disclosed
OF
Erick Santana - $375K signing bonus
OF
Yeral Martinez - $335K signing bonus
RHP
Jose Rodriguez – bonus amount not disclosed
Look…
signing 10 IFA guppies is an excellent haul for a team that, in the past,
seemed to ignore this whole process of drafting.
We’re
not the Yankees here, but we are getting better under the control of ‘The Boys
From Boston’ who head up our international drafting now. Remember… they
orchestrated the $500K received for the Broxton deal that gave us enough money
to sign last year’s holdout, catcher Fernando
Villalobos.
My
hopes are that when (no longer ‘if’) the Mets start sheading salary during the
trading period, they get either quality chips or International bonus money they
can use in the next draft.
Oh…
and one more thing. There is chatter on the net that the Mets purposely went
out to sign up a bunch of outfielders this year. Well, that’s not how this
search for talent works.
You’re not sitting in some war room waiting for your
turn to send the name of the player you picked. No, this is 30 teams sending 30
scouts to all these kids games and then sitting down with their rep and
throwing money at them. What comes back is what you sign and this year’s return
turned out to be pitchers and outfielders. Trust me. There were more than two
shortstops offered money here.
Wednesday, July 3rd –
AA-Binghamton
transfers IF, Gavin Cecchini, to AAA-Syracuse.
‘Ceech’
was hitting only .133, in 15-AM for the B-Mets (WTF?)
A-Columbia
sends OF, Chandler Avant, to AA-Binghamton.
Avant
was only hitting 90 points ahead of Cecchini: 166-AB, .233
Kudos
and Misfires –
Misfire: Why
would the manager of the DSL-2 team throw their best reliever, Marcos Villegas, into a fire where the team was
already losing by 10 runs?
Put in the relievers with a 5.00+ ERA and
pray for the game to end. Instead, the DSL-Brewers were amped up and pounded
out four more runs over 2.2-IPs.
Final
score: Brewers 16 – Mets 4
Villegas
stat line: 2.2-IP, 4-ER, 3.00
The Mets have two catchers playing for the
DSL-1 team. Both are prospects and only one can catch each game. So, the Mets
DH and rotate the two. Results after this game:
Francisco Alvarez:
3-4, .462
Endy Rodriguez: 2-2, R, 2-RBI, .389
Add Jose Hernandez, and Fernando Villalobos, who are now taking turn for the
DSL-1 team, and my guess is we don’t have to look for additional catchers on
this team.
GCL-1Mets CF, Kenedy
Corona: 2-4, R, RBI, .500
GCL-1 RP, Liam
McCall: 4-IP, 0-R, 4-K, 0.00
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| PC - Ed Delany |
What
did the Mets manager do? Pulled him after 12 pitches in which he gave up zero
hits and had an ERA of 0.00.
Will
search the wires to see if an injury is reported.
AA-Binghamton
SP, David Peterson: 7-IP, 2-ER, 5-K, 4.37
Excellent outing from our future SP-4
A-Columbia
SS-Ronny Mauricio: 2-4, 3-R, 3rd HR,
.289
A-Columbia
SP, Tyler McGill: 3-IP,1-ER, 5-K, 1.42
Low-A
Brooklyn 1B, Joe Genord: 3-5, 2-R, 5th
HR, 3-RBI, ,339
Genord
has now increased his lead, by one, in the league home run race.
Low-A Brooklyn 3B, Yoel Romero: 3-4, 2-R HR, 2-RBI, .296
9 comments:
Catcher news is good.
I prefer the quality over quantity approach in international ball - Yanks sign "the next Mike Trout" for $5 MM.
We've had a weak track record on DSL guys - Wilmer, Amed, Gimenez (is he a bust? Or just an off season?), Montero, Familia(?). Big spending seems to have more impactful results, getting teams stars. SO many guys signed by the Mets, little to show for it, relatively speaking.
That said, we'll see. Maybe this crop will blow us away.
One catcher who is SMOKING is HAYDEN SENGER of Columbia.
He hit well in his debut season in 2018.
After joining virtually the whole team in a horrendous start to the 2019 season, Senger is scorching with 22 for his last 45 with 8 doubles and 2 homers. WOW!
I REALLY hope "The Guys from Boston " kick ass because after the Brodie mess last off season we need serious help from somewhere. Look 8 times since Citi opened in 09' we've finished with win totals in the 70's....8 TIMES!!! not including this season but we do have talent on this team which was not the case on those other clubs for most part but having a newbee GM who totally screwed up last winter making the choice's is not reassuring but were stuck with it.
Tom -
I'm starting to think that Gimenez is a bust.
They kept saying that he's playing at 2 levels above what his age projected him to play, but did that theory hold up again the Braves kids? He's no longer a teenager so that theory doesn't hold water.
No, I would try to take the pressure off the kid by moving him to the outfield. We have no OF prospect in Syracuse this year and his natural athletic ability
Gary:
You see what I have pointed out about the talent currently from Brooklyn to the DSL teams.
Do you have the patience to wait this out?
Or, a good health plan?
Trust me... the "Boys' will trade for more Intl money they can use in the next draft.
They also have turned a blind eye at anything happening in the 4 full season teams.
They will feed from below and build a new Mets franchise regardless of who runs or owns it.
Mack, Gimenez hit lousy in the 2018 AFL and now all of 2019. I hate to say I have my doubts, but if he were rushed to the majors right now, would he hit .150?
He needs to go a ways to be on Ruben Tejada's level - quite a ways.
I got on Facebook the other day and some moron started attacking me again because this time, I suggested that the Mets might be better served if they could get a kid like the Yanks just signed, "the next Mike Trout." The guy was saying how do you know how a 16 year old kid will pan out, etc., etc. I told him I didn't know, how could anyone, but there is a track record of big bucks signings becoming, or touted to be, big future stars, which is what differentiates winning and losing orgs. He just persisted stupidly, irrationally - I pulled the post.
I like that we have intelligent commenters here. One that don't sugarcoat the moves of a 70s win franchise.
Tom -
5 mil for a 16 year old is a big risk to a team like the Mets.
We are not the Yankees
P.S. Francisco Alvarez promoted today to Kingsport
Mack, better than $110 million for a guy with bad heels and a lame brain.
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