Mack – Cole Gordon, Additional IFA Signings, Szapucki Misfire, Joe Genord, Transactions

Wednesday, July 3^rd –

A-Columbia made a number of moves that were officially announced on Wednesday. They were:

     IF Walter Rasguin came off the A-Columbia IL

PC - Ed Delany

The 23-year old former blue prospect hit .321 last year for three teams (GCL, Brooklyn, Columbia), but fell into the toilet this season so far for the Fireflies (115-AB, .148).

This could have been nothing more that a time out to recharge the batteries.

     RHP Christian Tripp transferred to the IL

RHP Cole Gordon transferred from Low-A Brooklyn to A-Columbia

Gordon is the 32^nd 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 3^rd –

      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

    

PC - Ed Delany

  Misfire – SP Thomas Szapucki seems to have returned to his crazy road to Queens. This time, hw got the first batter out. Then the next got on base on an error, He stole second and then scored on an error on the third batter.

      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, 3^rd 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, 5^th 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