One week left in the minor league season and two Mets teams who
play in New York State have a legitimate shot of making the playoffs, The Brooklyn Cyclones and the
Syracuse Mets.
After 9 straight wins, Syracuse fell to Rochester last
night, 6-2. Even
though the Syracuse Mets honored one of their former players who is now on the
Rochester Red Wings with a video before the game (you really should look
at this link), Rochester did not cut Syracuse any slack and scored 2 runs
in three successive innings (3rd, 4th, 5th) to
take a 6-0 lead against Ervin Santana.
The Mets bullpen held the Red Wings scoreless from there featuring 1.2
shutout innings from Nick Rumblelow in his Mets debut and another 1.1 shutout
innings from Matt Blackham who lowered his ERA to 1.35.
Luckily, Scranton/Wilkes-Barre also lost fell to Lehigh
Valley 7-3 on Saturday, leaving the Mets 1.5 games back. After they wrap up their series with
Rochester this week, The Mets are home for 4 games against the Lehigh Valley Iron
Pigs (Phillies affiliate) before heading to Rochester for 4 with the Red Wings
(Twins affiliate). Scranton/Wilkes-Barre
Rail Riders (Yankees affiliate) travels to Pawtucket to play the Red Sox before
heading home next weekend to play the Buffalo Bisons.
The Mets have been 9-1 over the last ten games while the
Rail Riders have been 5-5. If this trend can continue, the Mets will make the playoffs. However, with two of the Mets' best
hitters this year, Rajai Davis and Rene Rivera, now in Queens, it could be tough.
PC - Ed Delany |
My suggestion? Bring
up Patrick Mazieka and Andres Gimenez from Binghamton to join the other Rumble
Ponies recently called up to Syracuse, Ali Sanchez, Sam Haggerty, and Jason
Krizan. This would give the Mets some
reinforcements while also giving these players some pennant race experience.
The
Brooklyn Cyclones have been one of the best and most exciting teams in the New
York Penn League and the Mets Minor League system all year. Highlighted
by Wilmer Reyes, Yoel Romero, Jose Peroza, Jake Mangum, and solid pitching,
Brooklyn has been right behind the Hudson Valley Renegades (Rays affiliate) for
the division lead. After last night's 6-5
loss to the Connecticut Tigers, Brooklyn remained one game out tied with the
Aberdeen Iron Birds (Orioles affiliate).
Brooklyn starts a three home game series with the Vermont Lake Monsters (A’s
affiliate) this week, then goes to Aberdeen for three before wrapping up the
season with 3 against the Staten Island Yankees.
The crazy thing is that only 2 games separate all four teams
in the McNamara division as the SI Yankees are in last place just a game behind
the Cyclones and the Iron Birds and two games behind the Renegades. Also, while the Renegades and Cyclones have
been about .500 over the last ten games, the Yankees and Iron birds have each won
7 out of 10.
This is Syracuse’s first year as a Mets franchise and it will be great to give that dedicated fan base a playoff series. Brooklyn is trying to make the playoffs for the first time in seven years. It is an exciting circumstance at any level. Here’s hoping they can both make it happen.
9 comments:
The important thing about the minor league teams is not whether they win or lose each game.
The important thing is the development of the potential stars of this game.
On Syracuse, I currently have 0 Red Prospects, but I do list Harol Gonzalez, Matt Blackham, Stephen Nogosek, and Ali Sanchez as blue prospects.
On the Cyclones, I also have no red prospects, but I do have a list of blues that include Colin Holderman, Yeudy Colon, Jared Biddy, Wilmer Reyes, and Jake Magnum
Surprised Mazeika not promoted. Gimenez would not play.
Mack, I don't remember your definitions of "red" and "blue" prospects.
Please re-state them.
Bill
Red are top tier potential MLB Top 100 prospects
Blue are secondary prospects that have the potential to become red
Thanks. Do you have a current list of reds and blues that we can check from time to time?
Bill -
The 'reds' are listed on the right column on the blog.
the current 'blue' list (additionally to the Syr and Brooklyn list mentioned above) is:
Bing - K. Smith, D, Peterson, Uceta, Campos, Mazeika, Vasquez, Broady
St. Lucie - Ramos, Zabaleta, Valera, McGill, Mitchell, McGeorge, Humphreys, Cortes
Columbia - Acosta, Hutchinson, Newton, Granadillo, Rasquin
Kingsport - Santos, Regnault
GCL - Escalona, E. Rodriguez, Saunders, Consuegra, A.Hernandez, Ashford
DSL - Olivero, Rincones, Almonte,Ortega, Villaba, Huizi, Villegas, Villalobs, F. Polanco, L. Castillo, Berbesi, C. Dominguez, D. Campos, K. Corona
Thanks again.
Syracuse should bring up Andres Gimenez
Blackham currently has a decent ERA
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