First, Mets lost 9th out of 10, despite hot Nimmo and Soto bats. Yawn.
NOW…
MY TOPIC DU JOUR:
HEAT!
HOT IN NYC, BUT….
Most of the Mets minors heat emanates below dreary AAA in Metsville.
Hot hitters in AAA? A few, but not sizzling.
How about Yonny Hernandez? He struggled in AA, but when promoted to AAA, he has hit a (powerless) .324 thru Friday in 32 games. Little dude who fans little.
“Joey Doubles” Meneses has 25 of them through Saturday. His nickname should be the Daily Double.
Nolan McLean is awesome, of course.
AA?
Jett Williams - OBP up to .400; 21 steals
Nick Morabito - surged to .300; 28 steals.
Ryan Clifford - June OBP .395, June slug .522.
Kevin Parada - buried at .122 on May 14, exploded up to .230 by June 22.
- That is remarkable. I had given up on him. I was wrong.
Ryan Lambert and Anthony Nunez? 3.1 scoreless on Sunday with 6 Ks, combined 85 Ks in 54 relief innings in 2025. First full seasons. Insane.
Jonah Tong - best pitcher in the entire minors. Period. End of story.
Well, not the end. Let me expound a bit.
His first 2 outings were cold and windy.
Since then, 58 IP, just 22 hits, 5 earned runs, 96 Ks. Stunningly dominant.
- Best Mets minors pitcher in a season since Doc Gooden 1983. Period.
Zach Thornton - great all season, why stop now? Stay great.
Jack Wenninger -great all season, why stop now? Stay great.
In Brooklyn:
Jon Santucci - “Santucci the Superb” - 5 innings of scoreless, 1 hit 5 K ball on Sunday. Seven straight awesome starts, and he is a (superb) lefty.
Relieving for him on Sunday?
5-3, 2.27 righty Noah Hall, 69 Ks in 63 IP. Hall of a job. Hall of a season.
Brendan Girton and Joel Diaz doing awfully well on the mound, too. Others, too.
Hitters like Carson Benge (JUST PROMOTED 😀), AJ Ewing, Jacob Reimer (JUST PROMOTED 😁) and Jesus Baez in Cycloneville have cooled off a bit of late, but are still doing GREAT.
….and Crushing Chris Suero on Sunday jolted his 10th for a 1-0 win. He has a team-leading FORTY THREE RBIs and was a player of the week!
I think, combined, that Binghamton and Brooklyn are something like 50 games above .500. You don’t hear stuff like that every day.
In St Lucie?
Colin Houck (JUST PROMOTED 😃) - red hot, .252, 8 HRs, 38 RBIs. .317/.411./524 in June.
Trey Snyder? Tres Bien.
.385 OBP in May & June, 21 of 24 season steals. Age? 19. Upside? High.
And a little-known kid named Brooks Raley has thrown 2 scoreless innings, fanning 4. Maybe he is one of those rare prospects who will go from St Lucie to the majors in a week. (Oh, wait, he's 36?)
FCL Mets?
1B Randy Guzman has 5 doubles, 5 HRs, 21 RBIs in 28 games.
The team has struggled at the plate, but is hot and winning of late.
Pitching-wise, David Hurtado has been terrific. 19 IP, 8 H, 5 BB, 25 Ks.
On the DSL Blue squad, the 3 Y Boys - Yunior Amparo, Yovanny Rodriguez, and Yorber Semprun - combined in the early going (thru Saturday) are 21 for 50 with 7 XBH, plus 16 walks vs. a mere 8 Ks.
Also, not yet scorching hot, but of interest:
Vladi Guerrero has not played much, but raked a double and triple on Saturday. A positive development for him. Big and strong, and has that Guerrero DNA.
On the Orange team, Josmir Reyes and Yeider Mindiola, both listed as catchers, have gone 21 for 51, with 11 walks vs. just 3 Ks. Remarkably low K rate and high on base rate - so far. So far, so great.
In contrast, Mets Orange and Blue pitchers? Too early in the season to tell.
I read this:
Right-handed pitcher Yuhi Sako was signed earlier this year by your NY Mets. Per MLB.com's Anthony DiComo, Sako…excelled both as a starter and a reliever for the
He has 4 outings with the FCL Mets, 5.1 IP, 1 run, 5 Ks, so far.
I believe it is a rehab assignment. Everyone needs rehab sooner or later.
Wish him well, and BTW, he was born in 1999. That’s all I know.
I do though have a comedian/singer friend named Wild Willy Sacco.
I hope Sako pitches as well as my great buddy Sacco makes people laugh.
OTHER BRENNAN BLATHER:
Mets also signed 29 year old lefty Dicky Lovelady - “no joke”, Sleepy Joe told me.
Has MLB experience: 101 innings, 5-13, 5.26.
Experience, I am guessing, with the ladies, too.
You research him further. I’ll pass.
And…Travis Jankowski up, LA Acuna down.
LAA comes from a stingy family. His selfish big brother, Atlanta superstar Ronald Acuna, is hitting .408 as I write this. He hogs all the hits.
Share a few darned hits with your little brother, Ronald, don’t be a hog.
I wish our superstar Juan Soto would hit .408. But I love his 17 HRs.
Parting question: Will the Mets win more games than the Rockies?
SUPERSTAR REALITY
We drank the Kool Aid.
Chugged it until we retched…
(Gulp, Gulp) Francisco Alvarez will be the next Johnny Bench, Yada Yada.
Well, Alvarez had just 3 homers before his demotion. Burp…
Meanwhile, a real superstar did this:
“Catcher Cal Raleigh hit his 32nd for Seattle in the win over Minnesota.”
32 Homers. And it is still a week before the calendar turns July. Superstar.
Mets in last 10 games: 1-9.
ReplyDeleteRockies in last 10 games: 5-5.
Many Mets are Rockies-quality players. The Mets Big 4 (Soto, Lindor, Pete, Nimmo, maybe add Marte) have obscured the very weak hitting everywhere else on the team.
I expected much better from the rest of the very soft-hitting bunch.
This will keep Mets ahead of Braves:
ReplyDeleteLHP Chris Sale Injury: Fractured rib cage
IL date: June 21 (15-day, retro to June 19). Expected return: Unknown
Sale was injured during his June 18 start after making a diving stop in the ninth. There's a sense he'll return at some point in August, but it's too early to pinpoint a certain week he could rejoin Atlanta's rotation.
Saw this - should the Mets give this guy a minimum wage whirl? I would say, probably no. Seems washed up.
ReplyDelete“The Reds better have a strong stomach because they’re eating a lot of cash. Cincinnati designated veteran infielder Jeimer Candelario for assignment, almost halfway through his 3 year, $45 million deal inked before last season. “At the end of the day, you have to look at it as a sunk cost because you can’t bring a player that’s not going to help his team win,” Reds president of baseball operations Nick Krall told reporters.
He's potentially better than anyone else on this team being used as a DH
DeleteI'll have more on Clifford at 11am
ReplyDeleteLots of moves yesterday but not the ones I had hoped for. Is Binghamton players blocked by all the players the Mets have demoted lately.
Regarding Raley's age...reminds me when aging Warren Spahn asked a young kid why he wanted his autograph, the kid answered "because my father said you are old and going to die soon and your autograph will be worth some money."
I’d release Singleton, Walton, and Villar - if only 2, keep Singleton in case of MLB injury. Then promote. I’d even promote Clifford and replace Singleton with him. Syracuse has been good enough to go 31-44. Which ain’t good. Clean house. Promote.
DeleteThere could even be a benefit of the team becoming youthful, and spurring one another on, perhaps catapulting a dormant Drew Gilbert into better play. When I saw some of the Syracuse televised game this weekend, they seemed lifeless.
I would keep Luke Ritter around. He has hit .316 in June after a terrible (frigid?) season start. But his power has evaporated this year.
If Rhylan Thomas had been kept, he would perhaps bea 5th OF right now for the NY Mets - 317 with 5 HRs and just one K every 23 times up. Contact. How refreshing. .338/.398/.554 in June. To be fair, we did get Ryne Stanek for him, but I wonder if Seattle would have taken someone else in that deal.
I may be wrong but I think Singleton is history
DeleteThe father was right about the value of autographs.
ReplyDeleteIf Candelario would sign a deal saying he’d be in the minors for a maximum of 2 weeks, and if not called up, become a free agent…I’d sure give that a whirl.
My bad. Left out high draft pick Nate Dohm, who has a 1.64 ERA (6 outings, 22 IP) since being promoted from St Lucie. Good job.
ReplyDeleteMay update my current top 10 Mets prospects
DeleteAnd Brian Metoyer, who has been brilliant in relief after so many health trials, and PROMOTED to Binghamton.
ReplyDelete