Tom Brennan: Recap of Mets System Action

“HEY! HOW'D IT GO LAST NIGHT?” 

Mets score 8 but surrender 10.  Jose Quintana (1-3) gave up 8 runs in under 3 innings and has a seeming extreme aversion to winning games.  

How else do you explain this jaw-dropping stat for Jose:

Just 10 credited wins in 63 starts and 22 relief outings (85 total outings) from 2020 thru 2024?   Heck, Reed Garrett won 5 games in a month!

Brett Baty awakens with a 3 run jack and 3 hits.  May this will propel him.

Double and 2 RBIs for Francisco Lindor.  He now has 17 RBIs, an incredible number considering his hitting collapse in the season's first 2 weeks.

Dedniel Nunez was nice in long relief. 2.1 IP, one hit (solo HR), 3 Ks.  6.1 innings for the 27 y/o rookie so far, 10 Ks.  Like it.  Hard throwing Dedniel missed all of 2021 and most of the first 2 months of 2022, and of course all of 2020, which is how he becomes a 27 year old rookie.

AAA

10-1 ugly loss.

Mark Vientos, in first at bat since his demotion, was hit by a friggin' pitch and came out of the game.  Dude can't catch a break.  I've seen no report yet on that.

Justin Jarvis struggled but threw 4 scoreless innings.  

Then Griffin got shelled.  8 runs in a short span.  ERA of 19+

Then Steve Blass came in.  Funny, for some reason, Blass looked just like Shintaro Fujinami.  Four walks and a wild pitch in 2 innings.  39 pitches, and if you guessed that 23 were balls, you win the prize.

After his 4th walk, a mound visit.  Then, Yolmer Sanchez took over and threw two straight 47 MPH curves, the second of which resulted in a single.  Ultimately a 10-1 loss.

AA

7 run late inning rally and Bingo won 7-2.  Without that surge, it would have been a very low scoring night in the Mets minors.  JT Schwartz (.256) had 3 singles and an RBI.  Kevin Parada hit and walk (.188).

High A

Brooklyn only had 2 runs on 5 hits, but Cyclone pitchers shut out the opponent on one hit.  It was surrendered by the great Brandon Sproat, who fanned 8 in 5 innings.

Drake Osborn had 2 more hits and continues his awesome season start.

How awesome?  .381/.490/.538 in 14 games.  

Amazing that the righty hitting catcher hit just .179 in Brooklyn last year, and now is exhibiting this level of elevated stick work early on. 19th rounder in 2021.  He has an excellent opportunity this year to shoot up if he can keep hitting, as the catchers in AAA, AA, and High A, other than him, are not hitting.

He and 1B Nick Lorusso are a combined 36 for 109 (.330) for the Cyclones.  The rest of Brooklyn is hitting just 120 for 618 (.194).  

Can't blame Cyclones Park this time for the team's overall .201 hitting - the team is hitting just .191 on the road so far.  But their lowly .201 compares to a league high team average of .238 and a low of .193, so hitters clearly trail pitchers in general in the SAL.

A Ball

St Lucie lost and had just 1 more hit (6) than its 5 errors, 3 by Baez.

FSL Player of the Month Nick Morabito sat this one out, keeping his .411 average right where it was.

David Peterson went 3 innings, 1 hit, no walks, 4 Ks in his 2nd rehab outing.