HOW DID THE NON-TOP 25 WANNABES HIT THIS SPRING?
A
few days ago, I did an article on how my top 25 prospects did in the shortened
spring training of February and March 2020.
I
did my prospects list just after the 2019 season ended, and a few of them
suddenly up and left. I replaced them
with Pat Mazeika, who I had just out of my top 25, and speedster Johneshwy Fargas, who
would have made the top 25 list if he had been around at the time. Both of them were having excellent springs.
Leaving
out guys who will be on the 26 man roster and journeymen types who are trying
to make the squad, remaining are a bunch of Mets minor leaguers who did not make my Top
25 Prospects List (see list in the right side bar).
Twenty
dudes in all qualified as "Non-Top 25 Wannabes", in point of fact:
Wagner Lagrange, Dave Rodriguez, Eddie Fermin,
Jake Mangum, Matt Winaker, Braxton Lee, Joey Terdoslavich, BlakeTiberi, Jake Hager, Tim Tebow, Luis Carpio, Will Toffey, QuinnBrodey, Will Astudillo, Austin Bossart, Carlos Cortes, Desmond
Lindsay, Luke Ritter, David Thompson,
and Jeremy Vasquez.
So how did these lower ranked fellas do? Not particularly well as a group, thanks for asking.
In total, those 20 players went just 23 for 133 (.173)
with a mere 3 doubles, a mere 2 HRs, and a mere 12 RBIs, with a decent enough 21 walks but a
lousy 52 Ks.
And the mostly young hitters combined to go 0 for
3 in steals!
How slow can you go? No steals, no triples.
Not meaning to insult turtles, I guess their favorite car
care product is Turtle Wax.
Essentially, no speed, no power, and no hitting
for average.
Impressive were Eddie Fermin (a hit and 4 walks
in 7 PAs), Rodriguez (on 3 of 6 times), and Tim Tebow (on base 7 of 18 times). That's it.
Strugglers with 10 or more plate appearances included
Quinn Brodey (1 for 10, 5 Ks) and Jake Hager (8 Ks in 25 PAs while hitting .190).
Once Corona goes back to only being a beer, and
games are once again being played, these twenty have plenty of work to do.
2 comments:
Do you mean to say that the Mets don't have any hitters in their pipeline? No, say it ain't so!
In not that few words, but...a lot of those bats ain't measuring up. Like I said, though, few ABs for each, and who knows how they were doing in non-MLB spring games.
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