I
was disappointed on the lack of comments on my ‘Quid Pro Quo’ post this week.
This is a Mets minor league website. Is there little concern by most of
you that two Mets minor league teams may be discarded here? Or, do you think
that’s a good idea?
Let’s say Brooklyn replaces
Binghamton at the AA level and their Low-A team is eliminated. Add to this the
rookie level of Kingsport.
That would leave us the
four full season teams, the GCL-Mets, and two DSL teams.
My guess player placement
in year-one would not change what current projections the Mets have for their
AAA, AA, and A+ teams, but Columbia would have a huge bump up of talent since
the only other place for these players to go would be at the GCL level.
What would this make
their roster look like?
First, the GCL and DSL
teams would primarily be the home for new draft picks and international kids.
The Columbia team would
feature the lion share of red and blue prospects already tagged in our system.
The roster would include:
SP
- Josh Wolf,
Matt Allen, Junior Santos, Daison Acosta, Bryce Hutchinson, Michel Otonez
RP - Jhonfran Escalona, Yuedy Colon, Jared Biddy
C - Francisco Alvarez, Andres Regnault, Endy Rodriquez
1B - Warren Saunders
2B - Sheryren Newton. Federico Polanco
SS - Wilmer Reyes, Luis Castillo
3B - Brett Baty
OF - Guillermo Granadillo, Jake Magnum, Freddy Valdez
So, my question to you…
Is this a bad idea?
9 comments:
I wonder - more good players would get to sink at higher levels than now - let's say they flounder for a while - the good ones should adjust pretty quickly, thrive, and climb faster.
Which could be a good thing for quicker MLB player development.
Perhaps the other lesser players can play at those dropped locations without them closing - with hopes that they play really well and catch on to the real minor leagues.
We already have that to some degree, and have had indy league players Kevin Taylor and Matt Pobereyko do pretty well.
Local government pushback will be strong, though - a Cuomo in NY for instance will put a lot of pressure on baseball to not let cities lose their teams and perhaps have empty dinosaur stadiums.
The one thing I agree with is reforming these leagues geographically so as to make the travel easier and less costly. Secondly, it seems like they are trying to streamline these leagues to suit their needs what's wrong with that? A very small % of minor league players make the majors so the cuts they are talking about eliminate guys who aren't gonna make it. That plays into cutting the draft to 25 rounds which is part of this proposal. I like that too. This should actually help the guys who now dont get drafted in that they can try to "walk on" where they may find a better fit.
I hear you, Mack. I have my thoughts on this debacle in tomorrow's piece. I wonder, for example, will less development time have an impact on stats when people make it to the majors.
To "Unknown":
There are occasional draft successes after round 25 such as 34th round Seth Lugo. You wonder what he would be doing now.
Of course, if the draft ended at round 25, maybe the Mets grab him in round 25. But there is a real chance he'd slip through the cracks and never have pitched in the bigs.
Let's all remember that any players that are released due to something like this developing can always go play Indy ball.
Savannah replaced the Sand Gnats with an Indy team (Savannah Bananas) that is now is sold out for every home game.
The Mets have found some useful pieces in Indy ball these past couple of years.
I go back and forth on this issue.
I don't have a problem with reducing a team across the board, if that's what MLB sees fit to do.
Could be there's bloat in the system. Could be that this becomes more efficient. Could be that the current system isn't perfect.
I think you are looking at it through sentimental eyes.
At same time, I'm not informed enough to know if this is good for baseball or not. I do think that talent has a tendency to rise, to be discovered. Maybe we'll see a re-emergence of the old independent leagues, which were more entertaining overall anyway.
I guess I have no problem with contracting.
Jimmy
The Savannah Bananas are a Summer Collegiate League team rather than an Independent League team. It's a cut below but the same level as the Cape Cod League, rather than the same level as the Atlantic League.
Brian
Thanks for correcting me on that brother.
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