Pitch Profiler @pitchprofiler
Betting on
Clay Holmes becoming a starter for the Mets is starting to pay off!
New
York Mets @Mets
We have
made the following roster moves
Just
Baseball @JustBB_Media
The 2 best
players in the month of June so far? Juan
Soto and Pete Alonso.
The Mets
duo has been MASHING
Brooklyn
Cyclones @BKCyclones
Will Watson with an impressive outing in his Coney
Island debut. Struck out 8 over 4.2
shutout innings.
Mets Analytics @MetsAnalytics
Law of
averages working out for Brandon Nimmo?
The
longtime Met has been crushing the ball all season - his average EV and hard
hit rate trail only Alonso and Soto - but either on the ground or right at
fielders.
Even with
the recent hot streak, Nimmo’s true outcomes (.328 wOBA) still trail far behind
expectation (.348 xwOBA). But Nimmo is, quite simply, making some of the best
contact in baseball, with his highest squared-up rate since Statcast’s public
data began.
It all
speaks to a change in approach for Nimmo. Once upon a time, he was known as one
of the highest OBP guys in baseball. He had a walk rate above 10% in every
season from 2017 through 2024 - and it used to be even higher, above 14% from
2017-2021!
This year,
though, he’s walking (and sprinting to first thereof) only 7.9% of the time -
not just low for him, but below MLB average. So, what gives? Did his eye get
worse?
Sometimes,
patience and a good eye are not the same thing. Nimmo’s swinging more and
earlier in counts, but that also means he’s swinging at better pitches to hit
than ever before. He’s swinging at 65% of strikes, a career high, and so his
quality of contact is skyrocketing to career highs too. His previous best for
barrel% in a season was 9.5 and his average is 7.7; he’s at 11.5% thus far in
2025.
Is it a
foolproof change in strategy? Not necessarily, and his true outcomes are still
below his career norms. But if the quality of contact keeps up, over the long
run he could be in for the best power season of his career!
Thomas
Nestico @TJStats
MLB Daily
Whiff Leaders - 2025-06-12
Team
Defensive Runs Saved
Defensive
Runs Saved Leaders – Catcher
Defensive
Runs Saved Leaders - Third Baseman
Defensive
Runs Saved Leaders - Left Fielder
Defensive Runs Saved Leaders – Pitcher
Ernest
Dove @ernestdove
Mets OF
prospect Nick Morabito now performing well 2 months in a row
after a slow April at the AA level. Also
has 22 SBs in 55 gms.
Defensively
hes played majority CF but has also played some RF, LF.
Power is
not his game so curious how this plays out for him as a future role.
SNY
Mets @SNY_Mets25:
For the
first time since Citi Field opened in 2009, the Mets are in the top 5 in MLB
average home game attendance
Mets trade deadline primer
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6417807/2025/06/12/mets-trade-deadline-primer/
Is the
Mets’ farm system better equipped to facilitate deals than in the recent past?
Let’s
return one more time to 2021, when the Mets made that ill-fated deal with the
Cubs involving Crow-Armstrong. New York struck out that week in its efforts to
acquire Minnesota’s José Berríos, largely because its farm system was too
top-heavy. The Mets had the front-line guys other teams wanted, but they didn’t
have the depth pieces to either polish off a trade or make it more palatable
for their system.
That farm
system is in better shape now, although it is still not one of the very best in
baseball. The Mets will likely want to stay away from trading from the very top
of their system, but they now possess intriguing talents, especially on the
pitching side, up and down their affiliates — the kind they can package
together to consolidate into one good major-league player coming back the other
way.
1 comment:
Just how good is this farm system? Top 5? Top ten? Just average?
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