Jacob Is A Mighty Good Name In Metsville
Jacob deGrom was a mighty good Jacob for the Mets.
But…does this franchise have the next David Wright?
* Baty? Maybe.
* Vientos? Possibly.
* Peroza? Maybe, just maybe.
How about a 4th candidate?
JACOB REIMER
6’2”, 205, 19 year old playing for St Lucie.
Turns 20 in lateFebruary 2024.
119th overall pick last year, which for a then-18 year old is mighty high.
Reimer this month?
First 19 games, .365/.467/.556.
Turned 19 years old, just 4 months ago.
Radar alert!
Reimer is on the Wright path.
TAIJUAN WHIPS METS, AND A SIMPLE MATH LESSON:
After the game, in which the Mets hitters produced a run on 3 hits against 8-3 Taijuan Walker, Steve Cohen sent his entire team overseas to play baseball in Taiwan for the rest of 2023.
Math lesson:
54 games is exactly 1/3 of a season. In the last 54 games (1/3), the Mets are 20-34. Multiply by 3 and you’d get 60-102. The terrible 1966 Mets went 66-95. And they faced Koufax and Marichal.
A MAN NAMED SAUL:
Mack will provide his minor league update this morning, but I love to note guys I haven’t before. It’s about a man named Saul. No, not Saul Berenson from Homeland.
Saul Garcia, a 20 year old righty for St Lucie, came in to relieve in the 6th inning after blazing Blade Tidwell was excellent for 5.
Over the last 4 innings, Saul fanned NINE.
He’s had a few bad outings this year, but in his last 2?
8 innings, 5 hits, 1 run, 15 Ks. That’s right, 15.
He is needed in a homeland - called Queens.
Except he needs to hone his control.
52 Ks in 36 innings are swell, but 23 walks? Uhh-uhh.
TIME FOR TWO TO IMPROVE - OR RETIRE?
Baseball hitters must make sufficient contact to survive. But if you’ve fanned 188 times in 427 at bats, that is (by any measure) sorely insufficient. Do the math…44%. Survival prospects are bleak.
Two Brooklyn hitters named Omar De Los Santos (soon to turn 24) and Jaylen Palmer (soon to turn 23) have fanned like that this year. The duo have compiled 2,600 combined plate appearances, but the K rate persists.
A successful K rate for true major league aspirants would instead be 88 Ks in 427 at bats, not 188 in 427.
Remarkably, the two have stolen a fine 45 bases this year. They have real tools.
But they can’t steal first base nearly enough.
A former Mets minors blur, and a clone of the two, Champ Stuart, made it to AA.
In High A and AA, Stuart fanned 478 times in 1,219 at bats, and despite his severe speed, which allowed him to steal 147 of 170 career attempts, AA was the end of the line for the excessively fanning Champ.
Fix it, pronto, fellas, or a conductor may soon announce, “End of the line.”
Palmer, for instance, could lose his job to…a promoted Jacob Reimer.
Or a recently blazing Jett.
First rounder Jett Williams in St Lucie has 12 hits in 27 ABs, 10 walks and 2 HBP in his last 10 games for St Lucie. 24 times on base in 10 games.
The 19 year old Jett is 3 months older than the 19 year old Reimer, just for the record.
Just call those two:
THE WRIGHT BROTHERS.
Hey
ReplyDeleteI like Saul Berenson
I like Saul Lipkowitz even more who owned a deli on Liberty Avenue
But I liked the Crosbay Theatre even more on the corner of Liberty Avenue and Crossbay Blvd
But even more loved was the bar named Tutties next to that theater on Liberty Ave.
Real old bar.
Rumor was Liberty Valance used to shoot people there
Is Marte th next Togo?
ReplyDeleteWoodrow, I have a friend who lived in Togo for 5 years.
ReplyDeleteMarte will take a LOT of salary eating. He is still owed 49 million smackers over the next 2.5 years. Would any team be willing to pay even $20 million of that?
Mack I used to go to Rumbottoms. The Mets are hitting rock bottom. Very quickly, very horribly, very brutally.
ReplyDeleteRumbottoms was a good club
DeleteUsed to hang with Eppy at My Father's Place
Mack, NY went into decline when you left. The Mets? Always in decline.
ReplyDeleteStunning was the trade news DURING the game last night that is if you can actually call it a game as our club didn't show up. I'm sure you all remember the almost trade of Wilmer during a game in 15' but last night was wow because it's still 6 weeks to the deadline. It was a shot across the bow and you could see how shaken Lindor and Buck were so who's next? What would it take to get that Elly De La Cruz kid from the Reds? LOL thats the kind of guy we need to be searching the world for Steve. In my lifetime of Met fandom there have been too many times when our club looked overmatched tired listless and frankly an embarrassment but never with a 370 million dollar payroll and having Walker beat us was salt in the wound. Eppy has alot of questions to answer starting with why not resign Bassitt and Walker who pitched great last year? I just hope it's not about trying to be "the smartest guy in the room" because Jeffy tried that and failed miserably. The white flag has been raised So guys were do they go from here?
ReplyDeleteCould be Vientos
ReplyDeleteBREAKING NEWS: AARP just bought the naming rights to Citi-field for next year!
ReplyDeleteMORE BREAKING NEWS
ReplyDeletePutting leaving Moscow on Presidential Jet
On way to Philly to join team as DTBNL (dictator to be names later) in Esco deal.
Shit
ReplyDelete*Putin
I hear the Mets are trying to make a trade for a bunch of white flags.
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