Morning Thoughts
I’m starting to realize that Mets
17-year old shortstop, Elian Pena, might be “one” of
them.
He began his professional career young
and probably scared to death, hitting only .186 in June.
July has been a complete another story:
72-AB, 1-HR, 11-RBI, 15-BB,
.306/.425/.431/.856
And August (through 8-5) has been totally
sick:
.643/.688/1.000/1.688
The 17-year-old is now hitting
.290/.417/.490 with 20 stolen bases in 45 DSL games.
The Mets seem obvious to let him finish
this season in his home country and the question is which Florida team will be
the one he opens up with next spring.
I wouldn’t rush him, but I would move him along a little faster than this team is famous for.
Say St. Lucie on
opening day and finish the season in Brooklyn.
The Mets may really have a future
superstar here.
I’m confused.
The Mets promoted relief pitcher Dom Hamel earlier this week. This
was exciting for Dom. First time ever. Then, they sent him back to Syracuse to
be replaced by another righthanded pitcher. (???)
What happened here?
Did someone walk by
his locker, looked at Dom, and went back asking “what’s he doing here?”
What a mind fuck this must have been for
Hamel.
I guess someone high up must have read
what Brennan has been saying recently.
So instead another of the three
remaining starters in Syracuse, Justin Hagenman, replaced Hamel.
To quote, I thing, an old friend Jimmy Breslin…
Can’t anybody here
play this game?
The Top Performers From Last Week in Minor League
Baseball 7/28-8/3
https://www.justbaseball.com/prospects/top-performers-minor-league-baseball-news/
Brandon Sproat, RHP, New York Mets
Last Week:
1 GS, 5 IP, 9 Ks, 3 BB, 0.00 ERA
Over the
past few stories, one of the key themes that’s taken shape is the sheer
dominance of the Mets’ top prospects. This continued this week with Brandon
Sproat’s most recent start, as he was fantastic on the bump. He’s currently in
the middle of an electric stretch, one that could lead him to a big league
promotion.
In his
start last week, Sproat went five shutout innings, striking out nine while
walking three batters. Dating back to June 28th, Sproat has allowed just two
earned runs, a streak that only lengthened with his most recent start.
Sproat is
currently ranked as our 88th-best prospect, and he’s been looking more and more
like a big league-ready arm as the season has progressed.
Just
Baseball – Updated Top
100 Prospects – 7-29
https://www.justbaseball.com/prospects/top-100-mlb-prospects/#entry-112912
81. Jacob Reimer – 3B – New York Mets
Height/Weight:
6’2″, 205 | Bat/Throw: R/R | 4th Round
(119), 2024 (CIN) | ETA: 2027
HIT Plate Disc. GAME POWER RUN FIELD FV
40/50 60/60 50/55 45/45 40/45 50
A
California prep bat, Reimer was selected in the fourth round of the 2022 draft,
turned in an impressive first pro season in 2023 before injuries limited him to
just 21 regular season games in 2024. The Mets sent Reimer out to the Arizona
Fall League to make up for lost reps, where he posted mostly average numbers,
but started to make the mechanical adjustments that have him breaking out in
2025.
Hitting
Reimer
previously started with his weight stacked on his back side and back knee bowed
out towards home. Starting so stacked with his back knee at that angle likely
made it more difficult to hold his weight back as he began his launch,
resulting in some drift forward.
He now
starts more upright, coiling into his back side with rhythm along with his
barrel getting into a slot that is much easier to get on plane (he dropped his
hands too low with the bat more vertical as he loaded before).
These
improvements have Reimer’s barrel living in the zone much longer while putting
him in a more powerful position to hit. He has cut his ground ball rate by 10%
while his hard hit rate has jumped from 33% in 2023 and 2024 combined to a
whopping 49% through his first 50 games in 2025.
While
finding more barrel depth, Reimer has maintained solid contact rates while his
pitch recognition skills and feel for the strike zone stand out. There’s above
average power potential with the feel to hit and approach to get into it.
Defense/Speed
Not
necessarily the fleetest of foot, Reimer’s range is fringy at third base, but
he has an above average arm and is comfortable throwing on the run and from
different angles. He may ultimately profile best at first base, but Reimer
should be able to provide passable defense at third.
Outlook
Earning
high marks for his work ethic and knowledge of his swing, Reimer followed an
injury-riddled 2024 season with tangible adjustments in the box and added
strength that have him breaking out offensively in 2025. Even if there is
limited value beyond the bat, Reimer has the offensive ingredients to get on
base at an above average clip and hit 20-25 homers.
The Top 30 Mets Pitching Prospects
4. Will Watson
FF: 60/70 | FC: 55/55 | SL: 55/55 | CH: 55/55 | SI: 50/50
| Control: 45/45 | Arsenal: 50/55 | Uniqueness: 60 | FV: 50
My breakout pick among Mets prospects this year.
Watson
showed big-time swing-and-miss stuff in 2024, posting a 3.93 ERA and 4.03 FIP
across 50.1 innings as a starter and reliever. His fastball topped at 97 mph
with 18 inches of IVB from a low 5.3-foot release, helping it generate a 21%
whiff rate. He also flashed a nasty changeup with 41% whiffs and a slider that,
while lacking elite shape, still missed bats. Originally a 20th-round pick by
the Mariners in 2023, he returned to school and looks like a much better
prospect than his draft slot suggests, limited mainly by control and reliever
risk.
While the slider is slowly improving, his fastball
projects as a 60-grade pitch with upside. If the cutter and changeup continue
to play, he could shoot up prospect rankings this summer.
Mets A
Mess
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6536011/2025/08/05/mets-sean-manaea-rotation-woes/
The Mets
are 63-50. They are 1 1/2 games behind the Philadelphia Phillies for first
place in the National League East. Three teams earn wild-card bids into the
playoffs, and the Mets sit in second, four games ahead of the fourth-place
team. It is the first week of August; not time to panic. Yet the Mets find
themselves in such a position mostly because of how well they played over the
first two months of the season, not the last two months.
Since
June, the Mets are 27-28. They are a different team than the one they were in
May. Back then, the Mets received solid starting pitching. Even early on,
getting consistently deep into games was an issue, but at least it wasn’t
something that all but one starter was allergic to.
These
days, the Mets’ rotation is a problem.
For as
much as Frankie Montas’ struggles have dominated the
discussion, concerns over Kodai Senga and Sean
Manaea hold more
importance. The Mets need Senga and Manaea leading them, along with David Peterson — they profile as the club’s playoff starters. Regardless
of the plan by then calling for designed shorter starts or not, the Mets need
to first reach the postseason. And to do that, they are relying on Senga and
Manaea being healthy and productive.
20 comments:
I don’t think, Mack, that my comments had anything to do with Hamel’s weird few days. In fact, I NEVER have dreams about the Mets, ever, but this AM, just before I woke up, I was on a buffet line behind Steve Cohen, just him and me. He ignored me, but as he was done, and walking away, he turned, paused, and flipped me the bird. I am trying hard to interpret that LOL.
ELIAN? He has two more DSL weeks to dazzle us. Next year, his stateside stardom begins.
I was just joking with ya
I'm having a hard time writing about this team right now. I can't figure out why...
Reimer since June 1 has hit .200. Maybe it is fatigue? Nick Lorusso, who gets no mention, is hitting .320 in July and August, .271 overall with 47 RBIS in under 300 at bats.
Scintillating is not a word I’d use to describe Mets performance over the last 8 weeks. Bad and dreary do work well, though.
The video.of McNeil sitting in the dugout after the game said everything
It was if he just witnessed a walkout against him in the 7th game of the WS
Tom, I have a few more choice words for the Mets play over the past 2 months and scintillating definitely is not one of them.
Can't remember a time when so many of the core players have underperformed to such an extent. At least when some of the old teams stunk, that was because the players actually were not good.
This right now is unwatchable.
The Cedric Mullins trade was ridiculous. A waste of 3 prospects.
They should have cut Taylor and tried Gilbert. Frankly, the idea of Siri and Taylor asco-CFs was stupid. Great defense, awful offense. Taylor’s OBP over the past 4 years is around .270. Same for Siri. That is dumb.
I loved the Cohen/ Sterns combo but lets face it last winter and this years trade deadline sucks big time. Who the hell were we competing with for Montas? Maybe they have Rick Peterson on the payroll and he'll fix him in 10 minutes yeah right. Siri Taylor was a save money deal as Bader cost to much and we see how thats working. Quintana's 9 and 4 with a 3.57 ERA and he's only getting 4 mil this year and don't get me started on Mullins. DS is the golden boy but when I think of all the former Mets playing for other teams and playing much better than what we have it burns me up! Also why aren't Sproat and McNeal up yet ?
I'm right there with you Gary. I must have said this several times on past posts, what team was going to give Montas more than 1 year/10m.
Mullins, absolutely mind-numbing trade.
I actually like Stearns but to me the bloom is off the rose. As I've stated several times, his downfall will be that he believes he's the smartest guy in the room.
As for Cohen, love his commitment to making us great. All I have to say is you may be a brilliant businessman, BUT STAY THE F***
OUT OF BASEBALL OPERATIONS.
Thanks for that 15 year gift that you forced down Stearns throat.
Joe
You need to get more definitive in your opinions
To Tom, JoeP, and Mack, from Jim Bowden in The Arhletic in his article yesterday about giving out awards:
Biggest overpay: The Mets trading prospects Blade Tidwell and Drew Gilbert and reliever José Buttó to the Giants for Tyler Rogers. Trading three future major-league players (Buttó joined the Giants and is controllable through 2030) for a two-month rental seemed like an overpay, especially if Gilbert develops into an everyday player. I thought dealing two of those three for Rogers would have been fair.
Now, to be fair, Bowden doesn’t have a job in MLB but I actually said the same thing. I really don’t like this trade, and I hope we don’t continue to see foolish trades as we try to capture the Holy Grail of baseball, because the Dodgers didn’t become “the Dodgers” that we are chasing by overpaying.
I think Peña will make his debut at St. Lucie, similar to recent preps Jett, Reiner, Ewing, and Snyder. If he performs like Jett did he’ll be up to Brooklyn in short order. I’m curious who he’s going to be paired with initially and which prospects ahead of him will be slow tracked as the Mets anticipate his rapid progression.
The broadcast was clear that the roster spot will be a rotation of pitchers that can provide innings. If you pitch in the game it will be for multiple innings and then a fresh arm (Hageman, in this instance) will be brought up.
This is how you have to reach when your starters are failing and you have built a bullpen of divas that all go one inning…. And you over pay for them.
Secret: I rarely watch them. I did whenthey were 45-24.
Mike, good question…for the off season. I’d like to see Pena make his Mets debut by mid-2028. We will see. I thought Alex Ramirez would rocket up, too.
Gus, if those trades don’t win us the division, or at least get us into the playoffs, that will be a long-regretted trade. I’m willing to overpay a bit (or a bit more than a bit) to get to a World Series.
Mack good point about Pena and big question is will he push all the kids
Look at churios in Milwaukee
No holding him back
And Reyes was up at 20
When they are special let him be special
I do have a question
How many 5 million dollar international players are busts?
They are usually the cream of the crop of that year’s international market
Even the Martian I would not call a bust
What I would say is his value was not maximized…
They should have traded the Martian for premier value in return
(This is why to me kelenic trade will never be viewed as a success.
We traded for Diaz because we took the cano salary
So kelenic should never have been part of that deal… who else would have paid cano)
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