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.
Depressing.
ReplyDeleteGus, 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..
ReplyDeleteI have also been very disappointed in the AFL season. Our guys have not been performing at all. I keep looking for a bright spot.
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