Here is a continued look at Mets Prospects and Players
as we get ready for the 2021 Baseball season, today: Johneshwy Fargas.
Background: Outfielder,
Bats Right, Throws Right, DOB 12/15/1994, Drafted by the San Francisco Giants
in the 11th round, Pick: 26, Overall: 342, of the 2013 MLB June Amateur Draft
from Puerto Rico Baseball Academy (Gurabo, Puerto Rico). Signed by the New York Mets as a Minor League
Free agent on January 9, 2020; invited him to 2021 spring training on November
4, 2020.
Maybe it
is because “Chicks dig the long ball but dudes love speed” as Brian Joura of
Mets360 says but I like players like Johneshwy.
He has speed as evidenced by his 50 stolen bases
in the Double A Eastern League in 2019 and 47 the year before that in Single
A. After 7 years in the SF Giants minor
league system, the Mets signed him before the 2020 season. Unfortunately, no 2020 minor league season did
not give us the chance to see him play in Syracuse and Binghamton. He did show a good glove during the 2020
spring training and hit for the cycle one ca,e.
Per
Baseball Savant, he sprays the ball all around the diamond while pulling
his homers.
He just turned 26 this last December. He has
been playing CF and RF for the team in Puerto Rico this winter - and as we had
on the
Breakfast Links and reported
on the Brooklyn Trolley Blogger, “was voted this season's LBPRC's Most
Valuable Player unanimously. He hit .349
with six doubles in sixteen regular-season games, four home runs with 17 runs
batted in, and a .434 OBP.”
I think he could be a viable option as backup
outfielder this year on the Mets. Most
likely he will start the year in Syracuse or Binghamton as a depth piece should
there be an injury in Flushing.
¡Que clase de juego para el nuestroo! Nuestro Johneshwy Fargas (@Johneshwy) bateó para el Ciclo 🔥🇵🇷
— Béisbol de Puerto Rico (@beisboldepr) March 6, 2020
Logró sencillo, doble, triple (en el video) y jonrón.
Se fue de 4-4 con 2 CA y 2 CI 😬
🎥: MLB pic.twitter.com/wcKwa10JSa
Johneshwy Fargas reacts to his spring training cycle (via interpreter Alan Suriel): pic.twitter.com/8EmKslPekp
— Anthony DiComo (@AnthonyDiComo) March 5, 2020
On a Wilpon club, Fargas would have a real chance of making the team. But now that Cohen is here, the Mets are going to operate more like the Yankees have. Quite a few guys the Mets have called up over the years would not have made the bigs with the Yanks. So Fargas has his work cut out for him.
ReplyDeleteAnother guy that took a major hit with the COVID season washout.
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