11/4/24

Tom Brennan - The Haves and Have Nots


This guy, from age 17-19 in the minors, hit .362/.434/.609

What he would have done to the Arizona Fall League pitchers? 


The Arizona Fall League is a high octane affair. 

In part this is because franchises do not want their best arms (e.g., Sproat) to participate, but have no similar concerns as far as sending their top hitters.

As such the average AFL team has scored 142 runs in 187 innings.  

Or 7 runs per 9 innings.

On the team Mets hitters are on, the top 3 hitters so far are not Mets:

Josue Briceno .435

Sammy Siani .408

Adrian Pinto .389

They are THE HAVES.


The Mets’ hitters?

Jett Williams .224

Drew Gilbert .216

Jacob Reimer .182

They are THE HAVE NOTS. 

Collectively, the Have Nots are hitting .200 points lower than the Haves.

I dunno about you, but I find it kind of disappointing. Not to be a Negative Nellie, but it seemed all I wrote about during the past minor league season was how, once you excluded the hard-hitting AAA Syracuse offense which was largely propelled by former major leaguers, the rest of the Mets minors teams hit like a bunch of HAVE NOTS.

I was hoping this Arizona trio would be raking. 

Average-wise, at least, they HAVE NOT.

Which is one additional reason I would like to HAVE Soto as a Met. 

If anyone hits like a HAVE, it is Soto.

2 comments:

TexasGusCC said...

Depressing.

Tom Brennan said...

Gus, very disappointing indeed. I did not expect much from Reimer (having had little time at Brooklyn) and he is doing decently, all things considered. But the averages for the other 2 are disappointing in a real hitters' league..