The Mets have an actual, positively
genuine outfield prospect. The problem he’s at least four years away. Vincente Lupo is an 18-year old hitting machine that
is ranked in just about every top five offensive categories anyone has come up
with. We all know far too little about these kids playing way down south and I
give the Mets a lot of credit not rushing him; however, I do expect to see him
play with Savannah next year for a full season. He’s second in the league in
homers (nobody hits home runs down there) and his stat line Tuesday was:
.349/.492/.629/1.121. Really?
Frankly, I’m very impressed here. I
was never that excited about his big numbers in Brooklyn (2011 - .355) because
of the age he played there. Then came the stupid 50-game suspension and I
thought we had seen the last of this guy. Well, we haven’t. He’s still playing
SS, hit his 6th home run of the season and going into Tuesday’s game
with a stat line of: .274/.369/.406/.775. I especially love the 35-BB in
234-official at bats and only 39-K. For the hell of it, he produced four hits
tonight while I was writing this (up to .286).
I can’t see Muno having any future
with the Mets at short, though there is no one in his way next spring there or
at second base in AA. I’m adding Muno to my ‘blue’ list and admitting I had
this kid wrong.
We got a live one in St. Lucie. 5-11,
205, 22-year old Jack Leathersich has now thrown… get ready… 106 strikeouts in
66.1 innings. ‘Leather’ totally dominated Savannah in the spring 0.75, 24.0-IP,
37-K, but the strikeout machine is continuing at the A+ level, with an
additional 64-K in 40.1-IP. I’ve met Jack and seen him pitch and he’s quite the
bully on the mound. He comes off much older and I can’t see him having any
trouble getting to Queens before the 2013 season ends. Once again… 106
strikeouts in 66.1 innings. This is very special folks and Jack is definitely a
member of the ‘red’ list.
I saw this on a Houston blog this
morning:
RHP Lance McCullers -
At 18, supplemental first round pick McCullers is the youngest of the group and
he has yet to win his first professional game, but with a 1.42 ERA and a 1.053
WHIP, it's only a matter of time. After four starts with the GCL team,
McCullers was promoted to Greeneville where he's made two additional starts.
Batters are hitting only .186 against him.
(The Mets drafted BOTH
Cecchini and Plawecki with McCullers still available)
The Mets drafted BOTH SS Gavin Cecchini and C Kevin
Plawecki with McCullers still on the
board. By the way, McCulllers high school ERA in his senior year: 0.18.
Cecchini is ready impressing no one in Kingsport and, while Plawecki is showing
some promise, one has to wonder how a sure fire pick like this was passed over.
John Henry
I worked for a guy like Boston Red
Sox owner John Henry. The holder of the major note for two Savannah radio
stations ‘hired’ me to turnaround a situation in which the broadcast-minority
owner, had run the stations into the ground under an incompetent General
Manager. I had to fly to Boston and meet with both of them and the broadcast
dude, Bill McCormick, wanted nothing to do with
me; however, it wasn’t his call. In return, McCormick made me address to the
staff on the first day at the radio stations my dependency problems, even
though I had been sober for 16 years. Nice way to start a job (note: turned
stations around in 2.5 years, produced $440K PCF, and sold stations to Dick Verne (ex-President of NBC who hired Howard
Stern) and I remained for three more years as minority partner). Bobby V should
tell these guys to go fuck themselves at the end of the year and go replace Fareed Zakaria on CNN.
