The Daily Mets Minor League Update - June 30th

Morning. 

If the season ended today,the Mets would have the 8^th pick in the 2024 draft.

 

Jon Heyman (@JonHeyman) 

Steve Cohen and David Stearns haven’t said a word about it (either publicly or to each other) but baseball people are convinced Stearns will be Mets top target this off season (here’s why, and why he may accept)

https://t.co/RDmqOSl6rg  

 

Gina (@gina_scooter) 

If the Mets are gonna insist on not firing Buck then they can’t keep giving him toys like Danny Mendick. There’s absolutely no reason Baty should be platooned in a loss season. Especially not platooned with a career mid minor leaguer 

 

MetsAvenue (@MetsAvenue) 

People were laughing at this tweet, but Buck pinch hit for Baty with Mendick due to some analytical garbage. It literally happened in the same game, didn’t even have to wait for tomorrow 

 

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 New York Mets 

Far from a final deadline decision, the Mets revealed a blueprint for what Aug. 1 could look like by paying almost all of Eduardo Escobar’s salary to land two pitching prospects from the Angels last week. New York could sell in a few different ways: It could send out rental pieces like David Robertson and Tommy Pham for smaller returns, it could try to work out a complicated, salary-eating deal for Max Scherzer or Justin Verlander, or it could contemplate a larger-scale teardown that would have been unfathomable at the start of the season. The last option remains difficult to conceive even today, but the first two have to be on the table. In his State of the Mets address Wednesday, owner Steve Cohen said his management team is “preparing for all contingencies,” but if the Mets’ position in the standings doesn’t improve in July he said it’d be “pretty silly” to be buyers. 

Unreal 

  

Tranactions: 

LHP José Quintana has his Major League rehab assignment transferred to Syracuse 

 

Player Of The Day - 

Cyclones RHP Blade Tidwell continies to put his poor start this season in the rear view mirror. Last night:  7-IP, ER, 11-K, 3.53. Key stat here is 86-Ks in 58.2-IP. 

I told ya about this guy.

 

Syr: 

Going into the game…

 

Ernest Dove (@ernestdove) 

Carlos Cortes is slashing .268/.353/.518/.871 in June with more walks than Ks (8/7).

 

Both Jose Quintana (2.2-IP, 2-ER) and Joey Lucchese  (5.1-IP, 6-R) had poor outings last night. 

2B Luke Ritter - 2-3, R, 2^nd double 

Notables - 

1B Mark Vientos - 0-4, .320, 1.063-OPS

LF Ronny Mauricio - 0-4, .303, .852-OPS

CF Rafael Ortega - 1-4..313, .905-OPS

(call this guy up as soon as you dump Marte)

 

BMets - 

2B Wyatt Young - 2-5

SS Branden Fryman - 2-4, R, 2-doubles (3) 

Notables - 

3B Jose Peroza- 2-3, R, 10^TH HR, .294, .905-OPS

(the mets should promote his guy to AAA, as soon as possible)

 

Cyclones: 

Notables - 

RHRP Paul Gervase - 2-IP, 0-R, 3-K, 1.10

RHSP Blade Tidwell - 7-IP, ER, 11-K, 3.53

C Kevin Parada - 1-4, R, 8^TH HR, RBI, .267, .802-OPS

( the good news here is that Parada is hitting a fair amount of his recent homers at the dreaded home Cyclones park. You can easily add an additional 20% output in homers when he reaches upstate New York) 

 

St. Lucie: 

LF Dyron Campos - 2-3, R, 2^ND HR 

Notables - 

CF Jett Williams - 2-4, R, 4^TH HR 

 

FCL:. 

Game suspended after 3 innings 

RHSP Jonah Reid Tin Chee Matthew Tong debuted here last night as the starter… 0.2-IP, ER, 13.50

DSL: 

B Team - 

Lost 9-0. No stars here last night.

 

O Team -

 Going into the game… 

Ernest Dove (@ernestdove) 

Mets have a 17 yr old DSL prospect named Julio Zayas  slashing .305/.364/.576/.940 with more XBH than Ks (10/8) Defensively he's played C, 1B and 3B so not strictly a catcher.

 

RF Jeffry Rosa - 3-4, 4-R, 2-HRs 2-RBI, .269, 1.385-OPS 

Notables - 

3B Railin Reyes -   dnp

C/DH Daiverson Gutierrez - 1-5, R, .143, .470-OPS

SS Christopher Larez - 1-4, R, .254, .751-OPS

DH/C Julio Zayas - 3-4, 2-R, 4^TH HR, .333. 1.029-OPS

LHRP Arlison Rodriguez - 4-IP, 0-R, 3-K, 1.13, 0.63-WHIP

(A-Rod ver6.0  now has 7-apps an 16 innings under his belt.)