SOON, IT WILL BE...ARIZONA FALL LEAGUE TIME
To the tune of the song My Sharona, everyone reading this, please sing along:
A-A-A-Arizona!!!
The land of the Arizona Fall League, where some form of Mets baseball occurs in October and November for its Mets-all-year-round fans. Last year, Pete Alonso did well there. Maybe you heard of him.
This year, the Mets assigned players join others in playing in Scottsdale.
And an interesting list it is:
Andres Gimenez, SS/2B - Andres is finally heating up this season for Binghamton and ready to work further on his skills as he hopes to reach the Mets in some capacity in 2020.
David Peterson, LHP - Peterson has had some real quality outings and others that have disappointed, and this would be a chance to position himself as a solid AAA starter at the beginning of 2020
Thomas Szapucki, LHP - the fireballer has made a very solid, low inning comeback from Tommy John surgery - the fall league assignment should challenge him against real tough hitters and add to his 2019 innings total, as I imagine he hopes to accelerate his progress towards Queens. What better place to add accelerant than in Arizona.
Ryley Gilliam, RHP - the reliever was hot-hot-hot until hewas not-not-not in Syracuse, due to injury. Seeing how he does healed up and getting more quality innings in a tough hitters' league should be fascinating.
Ali Sanchez, C - with his hitting steadily improving the past two seasons, his bat can use as many at bats as possible to keep the growth coming.
Patrick Mazeika, C has hit with lots of pop after April in AA - Arizona is a good place to see swinging in hopes of getting better.
Luis Carpio, SS/2B - Carpio's power slid back somewhat this season but he has hit solidly while moving higher...a good chance to keep that going.
Should be fun to follow them - I plan to be checking in. I hope I'm not "alone-a" in that regard.
This is close to my choices. I would have picked the OF Brodey over Carpio.
ReplyDeleteI hope they play Carpio at second. There really is no future for him as a Mets shortstop
Brodey has improved lately. And made some real progress over 2018. But still nothing that wows me. Carpio has had a solid but unspectacular year.
ReplyDeleteEither would be fine.
I would have preferred Haggerty over either of them. But not by a lot. He's had a nice 11 games in AAA.