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1/27/24

Tom Brennan - Time for a Nice Tebrake? & Braves’ Pitcher-Laden Top Prospects


Dylan Tebrake Photo From His Creighton Days


I love tea, and I love tea breaks.  

How about you, old chap?

Dylan Tebrake should get some love from we old Mets fan chaps, too.

The 6’3”, 225 righty was a dazzling 21-5 with Creighton before the Mets grabbed him in the 8th round in 2022.

A few IL stints in 2023 cost him 6 weeks and limited his 2023 pro innings, but he finished out the season pitching, so hopefully his baseball health is much better in 2024. 

60 innings in relief in 2024 would be nice.

Tebrake in 2022 and 2023 got in 22 games, fired 36 innings, went 2-1, 2.27 ERA, with 55 Ks and NO homers allowed, and briefly pitched in AA.

Apparently he throws 95. Not bad.

From Creighton University’s web sit as it concerns Tebrake:

2021 (Sophomore)

  • In his second year as the Bluejays’ ace, Tebrake went a perfect 8-0 in 12 starts (72.2 innings) with 75 strikeouts while holding opponents to an .220 average in 72.2 innings of work. 
  • Dylan was named BIG EAST Pitcher of the Year and First Team All-BIG EAST after posting a 1.52 ERA with a 5-0 record in six starts against conference opponents. 
  • In his 41.1 innings pitched in the BIG EAST, Tebrake punched out 46 and permitted an opponent average of just .171.
  • Tebrake was nearly untouchable in April, not allowing a run in his first three starts of the month with just eight hits allowed to 17 strikeouts across that 19.1 inning span. 
  • Dylan earned BIG EAST Pitcher of the Week after throwing a seven-inning complete game shutout on April 23 at Georgetown with eight strikeouts, yielding only three base runners.
  • Tebrake closed out April with another career performance in a home win over St. John’s (April 30), allowing just one run behind a career-bests 8.1 innings pitched and nine strikeouts. 
  • Dylan tossed 8.0 shutout innings with six strikeouts in a win over Seton Hall on May 14.
Why not anticipate Tebrake as a Mets reliever by 2025, or even later this year?  If all breaks well for Dylan, a 2024 Tebrake debut can’t be ruled out.

It would boost hot and iced tea sales at Citifield, no doubt.  Mets fans certainly need a Tebrake.

Moving on....

METS NEED PITCHERS, BUT HAVE MANY HITTING PROSPECTS

BRAVES, MEANWHILE, ARE LOADED WITH PITCHING PROSPECTS

Here are the 17 pitchers (68%) in their Top 25 prospects (last updated in November - and especially note their top 5 are all pitchers).  Seems like more of what we see too much of...perfect Braves execution…a lethal current major league line up, already strong pitching....and a ton of pitching prospects to continually feed their team.

#1: RHP AJ Smith-Shawver (in MLB Top 100)

#2: RHP Hurston Waldrep (in MLB Top 100)

#3: RHP Spencer Schwallenbach

#4: RHP JR Ritchie

#5: RHP Owen Murphy

#8: RHP Drue Hackenberg

#10: RHP Jhancarlos Lara

#11: RHP Cade Kuehler

#12: RHP Blake Burkhalter

#15: LHP Dylan Dodd

#16: RHP Seth Keller

#17: RHP Daysbel Hernandez

#19: RHP Dieder Fuentes

#20: RHP Allan Winans

#21: RHP Garrett Baumann

#24: LHP Luis De Avila

#25: RHP Hayden Harris 

We may like our Mets pitching prospects - but the Mets have fewer, and NONE are in the MLB Top 100.  

Will the Mets EVER catch the Braves? Perhaps in your great-grandkids' lifetimes.

18 comments:

  1. Tom… please stop ruining my mornings by telling us how far behind the Braves the Mets are! LOL.

    SMH, it appears the gap is a canyon. Why did the Blue Jays fire Anthopoulos again? Idiots! He would have been the Yankees’ problem!

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  2. And the reason you writing about them is???

    The Braves have a far worse farm system than the Mets

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    1. This is Tom. True, but we need pitchers. They have more. They don’t need ANY hitters for a while.

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    2. Tom, I wish you'd use a different handle than "anonymous". Even if you just chose "Tomonymous", we'd know if it was you posting instead of the other multiple anonymouses here.
      Please consider it. And the same request is for the other anonymouses.

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  3. Parada. Rocker is a two pitch pitcher that was injured. The Mets instead used the opportunity to draft a star catcher and try to develop him. He isn’t injured and he is putting in his work to learn like all catchers do. It’s no comparison.

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  4. Terrace is one of my BLUE prospects. One step behind RED

    I have no RED relievers on my list but I do have other BLUE ones. Let me know if you want me to add them in a comment here.

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    1. This is Tom. Please add them.

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    2. My post tomorrow is on relievers

      I will.add them there as my first comment

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  5. This was a very interesting profile Tom. It appears that many organizations hold back on the press that some of their prospects get to avoid the pressure or the attention of other teams. For example, Montero got all the love but he and DeGrom came up together. The support group of prospects is what teams use to trade, such as the Dodgers just did with the Cubs.

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  6. I think we have a nice selection of pitching prospects in our pipeline.

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  7. A rotation is simply 5 guys + backups. A team with an excellent Top 3, even with mediocre backups (think Seaver/Kooz/Matlack) can go a long way. And every year there are top SPs who become FAs. As long as an owner is willing/able to spend, the farm becomes less significant, though it's good yo have a productive one.

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    1. Bill, I present to you Harvey, DeGrom, Syndergaard, Matz and Wheeler. Where did they go?

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  8. Tom,
    It is being reported that the Mets have re-signed Adam Ottavino to a one year contract pending a physical.

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  9. DJ, just got back from a long drive. Good news.

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  10. Bill, I usually don’t use that phone, and I have to get my account working on it. It comes up as anonymous. On my to-do list.

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  11. Ray, I agree. How MLB ranks, not sure but the top 2 Braves arms are ranked around 50 and 90, and none of our arms are in the Top 100. Never a criticism of our guys, my disappointments are directed at the hierarchy.

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