HITTERS WANTED!
David Stearns has had a fine bumper crop of prospects this year.
Pitching and hitting.
The focus here is hitting.
The top hitting prospects (you know who they are) have done very well.
Many early season boppers were promoted from Brooklyn to Binghamton during the year. Their stats are not listed here. They’ve escaped Brooklynites and are thriving, no one more than AJ Ewing.
The ones left there, or recently promoted to Brooklyn in their place, are scuffling.
In 3 September games, the Cyclones are hitting just .124 with one HR.
That one HR, by Corey Collins, was very well-timed, as it came on Thursday night in the 8th inning of what otherwise would have been a no hitter against Brooklyn. Brooklyn finished up with one run and one hit.
In August, the Brooklynites only hit .206. Scuffling.
Sink or swim. Several got promoted earlier than they would have, if those promoted upwards from Brooklyn hadn’t gotten quickly promoted in such quantities.
Keep plugging, dudes. You are in the home stretch. Finish strong.
Hey, you’re getting to play more, against higher level pitching.
That beats not playing.
One struggling Brooklyn player is Eli Serrano. He bats lefty. Lefties generally find Cyclones Park excruciating. Eli does, too.
He is hitting .189 at home, .255 on the road. So, don’t look at his .222 overall average. I envision him right now as a .255 hitter.
Greensboro has to be a great SAL hitters park. As a team, they’ve rocked 338 homers the past two seasons. Brooklyn in the SAL has hit just 157 HRs over the same period. That differential is heavily due to the respective home parks of the two teams.
Greensboro hitters on the road in that period have hit 63 more HRs.
But Greensboro hitters at home in 2024 and 2025? 196 HRs.
Brooklyn hitters at home over the same time span? 78 HRs.
A 118 HR difference at home.
Fix the park dimensions in Brooklyn.
METS/REDS PERSPECTIVE
The Mets have scored roughly 1.5 runs per game more than the Reds after the ASB.
May it continue as such this weekend.
JUST ONE WIN AND EIGHT LOSSES
That is the combined record of Helsley, Soto, and Rogers since they were acquired. Ouch.
You want to open the trash bin and dump, right?
After all, if these guys were at the top of their games, and were 8-1, the Mets might be leading the division right now.
But remember Paul Sewald.
He was 1-14 as a Met.
Got dumped. Felt good, right?
But then, Seattle reached into the dumpster, snatched him out, and gave him a shower. And new duds.
Put shiny Paul, who at that point was 0-0 pitching for other teams, on their mound.
And lo and behold, Paul is 20-12, with 83 saves, since.
Opening the dumpster lid to “toss in some trash” can be hazardous.
23 comments:
Tom - Serrano is hurt and possibly done for the year. Playoffs start for Brooklyn next week.
FYI, the Albany Independent League team out draws Brooklyn on a per game basis. Move the team to Albany.
I’d prefer seeing if Cohen could swap parks with the LI Ducks in Islip. The ducks would then be near the ocean.
I wondered about Serrano not playing over the past nearly 2 weeks, but still being on the active list.
Tom, those comments on the trade acquisitions just make it worse for Stearns. Any other GM would have probably been fired, that's how bad they were.
Soto: has he stranded even 1 inherited run so far?
Taylor: has done reasonably well, but the cost was ridiculous.
Hensley has been putrid
Mullins: just didn't make a sense at all. He totally acquiesced to the pressure.
Like that last word. Pulled that out me arse. Most have all those smacks from the nuns in grammar school.
Cohen sold the Cyclones. I predict the new owners will want to operate in a cheaper location at some point. Islip makes sense but Albany gives them great proximity to Binghamton and Syracuse - very easy to move players between teams.
Baro is out for year as well. Think he is still in the roster
Don’t acquire those who will acquiesce.
That said, we will be thrilled, or crushed, down the stretch. The pre-playoff playoffs begin tonight.
Make or break, I am happy the trio of aces have been called up. 5-0 so far for the 3.
In 2016, three call ups (Lugo, Gsellman, Rivera) saved their bacon. We need a repeat.
John, good points. I’d love to see Brooklyn, Binghamton, and Syracuse play one series each in Islip. Long Islanders would love that.
Guys, you know what I don't understand, we have a beautiful complex down in Florida. Why don't we let AAA play there. It's a 3 hour plane ride as opposed to a 4 hour car ride.
Why in the world would we have a team in Syracuse or Binghamton? Why would we expose our top pitching prospects to that weather. At the very least they should keep them in Florida until it warms up.
I would love for one of our teams to play on L.I. It makes to much sense.
How many other AAA or AA teams are in Florida? With Cohen selling the minor league teams, travel between other ball parks matters to the conglomerate that now owns a majority of these teams.
The Ducks would need to sell to the conglomerate to make that happen.
Brooklyn was gutted after they recently Baez via trade, plus Benge, Ewing, and Reimer to promotions. Tough for any franchise to recover in-season from that kind of talent exodus.
2026 will be exciting, Trey Snyder, Mitch Voit and Jimenez will be there all season, with an outside chance of Elian Pena making his debut there later in the summer. Giddy up!
John, I did not take traveling into consideration honestly. There has to be more teams down south than frigid upstate NY...no?
Hoping that Eli Serrano can channel his inner Pedro Serrano next season
And Randy Guzman, Mike. He has come out of nowhere to put up strong #’s.
JoeP, maybe there is a reason that a deal can’t be struck on Islip. Frankly, I am OK with Brooklyn if they made the dimensions hitter-neutral. I have never gone to a game there because I am 55 miles from there, part of which is the Belt Parkway. I am 10 minutes from Islip. I don’t go there,because I want to see MY GUYS play.
On Florida, I agree. One International League team is in Jacksonville. also in Charlotte, Memphis and Nashville. Get them out of Syracuse Siberia.
One year, I watched MILB TV games. In April, they crazily play night games. The few fans behind the plate were wearing extreme weather garb. Not fit for man nor ball player.
Yes, see my response above. I’d even be open to playing early season AAA games in Florida until May 1.
Only Eli Serrano II could do that. We have Rocky III.
I still remember a game in Buffalo we got on TV in April and Harvey was pitching in the SNOW and a couple of fans in the seats were so bundled up it was hard to tell if they were people or snowmen but what was running thru my mind was why would we subject our top prospect to those weather conditions?
Marlins have a AAA team in Jacksonville and Braves in Gwinnett ( excuse the spelling). waBrooklyn's league mostly has teams in the mid Atlantic. Your weather argument makes sense though.
And that was when the AAA season started in Mid April. Now it starts the end of March
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