3/14/20

Mack – FWIW – Brett Baty, Daison Acosta, Amed Rosario, Yoenis Cespedes, Second Base Ranking

SNY  had 4 Mets as part of their Top 100 prospects. One was:

            95. 3B Brett Baty

As a 20-year-old first-round pick from 2019, Baty already sits at a big 6-foot-5, 235 pounds, and has both agility and power in his arsenal. Because of this, the Mets started him out in the Appalachian League.

After stints with the GCL Mets, the Kingsport Mets (Appl) and the Brooklyn Cyclones (Short-A), Baty's first year in the farm system ended with slashes of .234/.368/.452. He also added seven home runs and 33 RBI, but struck out 65 times in 51 games/188 AB.

"It'll come down to contact and power for Baty, who has middle-of-the-order potential, and does have the bat speed and idea at the plate to keep that strikeout rate in check," Law said.


MLB.com broke out each team’s top prospect that just missed being ranked in their Top 30 prospect list.
#31 for the Mets was:

            Mets: Daison Acosta, RHP

A lean and projectable right-hander, Acosta, 21, has a low-90s fastball that he pairs with a high-spin breaking ball and a below-average changeup. He reached full-season Class A Columbia for the first time in 2019, pitching to a 3.78 ERA with 49 strikeouts and 26 walks in 52 1/3 innings (11 starts).


Fangraphs took a look at Amed Rosario:

This will be Rosario’s third full season in the majors. He’ll be four years younger than the average major leaguer, which continues a theme; the only time in his entire pro career where he’s been less than three years younger than the league average was High-A St. Lucie in 2016, and he hit .309/.359/.442 there in 290 PA before the Mets promoted him to Double-A.
Amed Rosario projects to be an average regular in 2020 with the potential for more. That probably feels like a story of redemption to Mets fans, who have been waiting for this breakout since Matt Harvey was still a going concern. But really, it’s not. It’s simply par for the course for a talented young player who was so good in the minor leagues that he burst onto the scene at a precocious age.


Radio.com wrote about the five underachievers in baseball. One was:

          Yoenis Cespedes, OF, New York Mets

We all know Robin Hood stole from the rich and gave to the poor. Yoenis Cespedes stole from the Mets and nobody knows where the money went, though I’d wager a fair chunk of it was spent on luxury cars, a noble steed who doubled as his ride to spring training, and of course, a $7,000 pig (may it rest in peace). Between golf injuries and boar attacks, not to mention his streaky hitting and erratic play in left field, it’s been one fiasco after another for Cespedes since his arrival in the Big Apple.


Rotographs ranked the second basemen in baseball:

2B Rankings for 2020

4 comments:

Tom Brennan said...

McNeil 10th in 2B rankings? Get real.

Cespedes working his toukas off to get back, only to be delayed by a delayed season? Amazing how this guy cannot get on the field.

Mack Ade said...

The virus delay may benefit him in the long way.

Things to think about... If baseball cancels the season will he then still be a FA in 2021?

bill metsiac said...

Not just him. Will all MLB contracts be revised so FA and Arbi statuses be revised?

bill metsiac said...

Baty is 20?? He was drafted out of HS a year ago. Why was he 19 when he graduated? That's the oldest HS student I know of, except for those that missed 1 or 2 years due to illness or other extenuating circumstances.