Tom Brennan: Binghamton Rumbling Pitchers’ Season Stats

(PLEASE ALSO SEE MY 6 AM ARTICLE ON BINGHAMTON HITTERS)

BINGHAMTON CATCHERS CAN WEIGH IN ON THEIR FAVORITE METS AA PITCHERS - JUST GIVE ME A CALL

First of all, I hate trying to work with data tables in this website, so this hopefully will only look a little flukey.  I did not want to push my luck with both hitter and pitcher flukey tables in one article, remembering what happened when Crowdstrike posted some online security code updates, causing Delta Airline’s system to temporarily become unworkable; hence, one article posting at 6 AM for hitters, the other (this one) at 7:30 AM for pitchers had less chance of causing the apocalypse.

The fringe hitters and pitchers (those with few at bats and innings) were excluded, so if the lazy guy you liked pitched just 3 AA innings, you won't find him below.

That said, here are the pitching stats for your viewing pleasure.  

The team as a whole pitched to a 69-67 record, with a 3.83 ERA.   League's team lowest was 3.18, and league's team highest was 4.44.  Clearly, this is more of a pitcher's than hitter's league.

Pitcher Strikeouts? 1,233 in 1,177 innings (6th). 

Sounds like a lot, until you realize Binghamton hitters easily led the Eastern League with a dreadful and far higher 1,325 Ks. There are no good optometrists in Binghamton - maybe the hitters had double vision. Just speculating here. The key for hitters to experience a whiff of success…is not to whiff. 

Just as a point of comparison, in the last 9 seasons of his MLB career, HOF Joe Sewell had roughly the same number of at bat as our Rumble hitters. He fanned a total of 48 times vs. their 1,325. 

My biggest takeaway, getting back to Bingo pitching, is that AA success has not remotely been an indicator of AAA pitching success. Consider those Mets farmhands that were promoted from AA to AAA this year, or who were in AA last year and spent the 2024 season in AAA. 

Most did much worse in AAA (Suarez, Tidwell, Hamel, Sproat, and Jarvis, to name 5).

Jonah Tong, not as far along, had a few rough games in A and briefly in AA this year, but mostly flat-out dominated in 2024.  3.03, 160 Ks in 113 IP.

Very nice.  Tong Terrific.

Same could be said for Brandon Sproat - until he got to AAA’s meat grinder.  

 It all, of course, occurred in Sproat's first pro season. He is only human.

Only one is inhuman: 

Paul Skenes (10-3, 2.07 in MLB in his first pro campaign). Seaver II.

Sadly, Stuart was traded away for Jesse James Winker, as was Paul Gervase for Tyler Zuber.  I'd like a do-over on that last one, for sure. And they lost 6’9” and 6’10” dudes in those two. There goes the hoops squad.

Lastly, in his limited foray into AA, Jordany Ventura did very nicely, portending well for him in 2025.

If I had to pick the 5 most likely to pitch meaningfully for the NY Mets in the future, they would be Sproat, Tidwell, McLean, Tong, and Ventura.  

I’ll add a 6th: reliever Trey McLoughlin.

The list would have been longer had not Stuart and Gervase been dealt.

So, please, all you readers:

Look over these Bingo pitcher stats, and "pitch in" and share your observations. Please note that finishing strong was Nolan McLean, the Eastern League pitcher of the week. 

		W		L		ERA		G		ST		SV		IP		H		ER		HR		BB		Ks &  WHIP
J SUAREZ	9		5		3.92		23		21		1		119.1		107		52		12		29		118		1.14
	3		7		4.27		25		19		1		103.1		103		49		12		41		107		1.39
L MORENO
	3		7		3.96		17		17		0		84		85		37		8		20		90		1.25
T STUART
	2		8		4.19		18		18		0		81.2		76		38		10		32		80		1.32
N MCLEAN
	4		1		2.45		11		11		0		62.1		39		17		6		15		77		0.87
B SPROAT
	4		2		3.64		27		9		1		71.2		74		29		7		33		68		1.49
C FOSTER
	5		1		5.37		33		0		1		53.2		65		32		6		15		60		1.49
N CLENNEY
	3		2		3.25		22		0		5		27.2		16		10		3		17		46		1.19
P GERVASE
	5		2		2.9		10		5		1		40.1		29		13		4		7		45		0.89
J JARVIS
	4		1		4.99		31		1		1		52.1		49		29		6		26		45		1.43
J SANTOS
	2		4		2.41		7		5		0		37.1		29		10		1		11		44		1.07
B TIDWELL
	4		6		4.15		17		8		0		60.2		65		28		6		20		42		1.4
J GEBER
	2		1		3.72		28		0		3		38.2		28		16		6		14		42		1.09
C GUZMAN
	3		1		3.2		28		0		1		39.1		35		14		5		23		40		1.47
C ROBINSON
	1		0		1.89		28		0		5		33.1		20		7		2		17		39		1.11
TMoCloughlin
	3		3		3.18		7		7		0		34		26		12		2		10		34		1.06
J PINTARO
	2		3		5.09		34		0		0		35.1		34		20		3		21		33		1.56
D JUAREZ
	2		1		1.65		23		0		9		32.2		25		6		0		13		31		1.16
W RAMOS
	3		4		3.92		13		0		4		20.2		17		9		2		4		30		1.02
TJ SHOOK
	0		0		1.13		10		0		0		16		9		2		1		4		21		0.81
J CORNIELLY
	0		1		6.30		14		0		0		20		27		14		3		5		17		1.60
J HEJKA
	0		0		5.75		7		5		0		20.1		22		13		3		9		17		1.52
T MILLER
	0		0		2.89		2		2		0		9.1		4		3		1		4		14		0.86
J TONG
	0		0		0.00		5		0		0		9.1		3		0		0		4		11		0.75
J VENTURA
J Colon	1		0		2.45		6		1		0		14.2		14		4		2		7		10		1.43

Before I go, Syracuse used 6 pitchers in a 9-8 loss last night.  

Williams and Gilbert each had two hits, as did Cortes, who is on a "hot homer" streak and smacked his 16th in well under 300 at bats.  Azocar had 3 hits and 3 RBIs.  Shocker - Brett Baty returned, and while he was o-4 with 3 Ks, he is available to the Mets, it seems, if needed.  He was the DH, so I do not know his fielding status.

None of the 6 pitchers pitched well, and Zuber took the loss with another bad outing. All pitched in a mediocre fashion and Hartwig and Zuber coughed up 4 late runs. Ugh, the phlegm.