Stock: Josh Stinson, Domingo Tapia, Johan Santana, Kyle Allen, Brian Harrison

9-2-11: - Stock Up – RP Josh Stinson – Stinny made a simply explanation about the difference of being a starter and a reliever’. “You relaly only need two effective pitchers when you’re pitching relief, bnot like the three you would need as a starter.” Well said and his major league professional debut Friday night was all aces. Kudos Stinny.




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 9-3-11: - Stock Up – SP Domingo Tapia – Brooklyn got it’s first taste of Domingo last night and they liked what they saw: 6.0-IP. 5-H, 0-R, 6-K, 0-BB, 0.00. Tapia will take his 100MPH show back to Coney Island next spring and is quickly becoming a real viable rotation option in the future.

9-3-11: - Stock Up – SP – Johan Santana - Look, you have to give the dude a little credit. He just as easily could have sit home all season and counted his money. Pitching two innings for St. Lucie just sends all the right signs that maybe, just maybe, he can earn his keep come 2012.

9-3-11: - Stock Down – SP – Kyle Allen – I hate to hit a horse while down, but we’ve been saying for quite awhile that Kyle Allen looks to be done. Tonight was probably the last: 0.2-IP, 7-ER. Kyle's a good guy who has given his

9-4-11: - Stock Up – 3B Brian Harrison – Harrison had a great game last night for Brooklyn: 3-4, 2B, BB, HR, 4-RBI. Brian played Savannah last year, but started this year on the DL and got pushed back to Brooklyn. I see him back in Savannah come the spring of 2012.

Stock: Jose De La Torre, Marcos Camarena, Kyle Allen, Gonzalez Germen, Sandy Alderson

8-29-11: - Stock Up – RP Jose de la Torre – Jose returned last night from the DL and pitched another scoreless inning for the Buffalo Bisons. Injuried have held him down to 19 outings this season, but he still produced a 1.14 ERA. The 25-year old definitely deserved his turn in the Queens pen, and it’s good to see him healthy again. Who knows, maybe a September call up.




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 8-29-11: - Stock Up – SP Marcos Camarena – we’re at the point of the season where every great outing gets you closer to a level promotion come next spring. I’m not sure what plans the Mets have for the 6-3 23-yr. old righty, but, hopefully he gets himself a juicy winter assignment and repeats nights like this one for a full season team. Tonight’s line: 5.0-IP, 1-ER, 5-H, 5-K, 0-BB.

8-29-11: - Stock Down – SP Kyle Allen – and then there is the opposite situation. Finish the season with a shit outing after a shitty season and… well, tonight’s stat line for Allen: 5.0-IP, 9-R, 0-K, 2-BB, 1-WP. You just might have read the last paragraph I ever write about this guy.





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 8-29-11: - Stock Down – SP Gonzalez Germen – and you thought the Allen stat line was going to be the stinker of the night? Well, check out GG: 1.1-IP, 10-H, 7-ER… it is only a matter of time before Germen would have been moved to the pen and this outing may just of done it.

8-31-11: - Stock Up – GM Sandy Alderson – Mr. Alderson did something Omar Minaya never did when he was General Manager of the New York Mets. He visited and attended a Savanah Sand Gnats baseball game in Savannah. Last night.

Stock: - Kyle Allen, Juan Urbina, Persio Reyes, Nick Evans, Chad Huchingson

8-5-11: - Stock Down – SP Kyle Allen – Look, I don’t like saying bad things about the kids, but, if you’re going to have a “stock up, stock down” feature, you have to have some down, right. Last night: 3.2-IP, 4-WP, 4-ER. Bottom line here is Kyle Allen is not going to be a successful starter in major league baseball, so maybe it’s time (like Brad Holt) to send this kid to the pen where he can concentrate on the positive aspects of his game.



8-5-11: - Stock Up – SP Juan Urbina - It’s been a while since we said something positive about prospect Urbina, but today is the day. Hopefully, he began a turnaround last night, going 6.0-IP, 1-ER, 5-H, 6-K, 1-BB for Kingsport. Let’s remember that he just turned 18-years old. ETA is 2015.


8-5-11: - El Stocko Upo – Persio Reyes – Frankly, there isn’t enough information coming out of the DSL system to determine whether or not someone is turning heads. All we have is stats and they are currently telling us that the 18-year old Reyes is turning some heads. Today: 4.0 scoreless innings. VFor the season: 3-1, 2.36 in 14 games. K/IP ratio isn’t there (47/61.0) but he’s worth watching.


8-5-11: - Stock Up – Nick Evans – Evans was promoted to Queens for the 6,687th time in the past three years. He fills the slot opened when C Mike Nickeas was sent back to Buffalo. My hope here is the Mets play Lucas Duda in right field for the rest of the season, and use Evans on first. This would also allow the Mets to play Daniel Murphy the rest of the season at second base.


8-5-11: - Stock Up – Chad Huchingson – it’s going to be interesting to see how this kid is showcased next season. He started out as a starter in Savannah, but has been a steady influence in the pen since the all-star break. He also has done very little wrong at either job. Hutch produced three more scoreless innings Friay and lowered his season ERA to 1.70 in 21 games (8 starts).

Robin Ventura, Albert Cordero, Mike Baxter, Kyle Allen, Mike Carp

Robin Ventura:


One third baseman that deserves more credit for his accomplishments as a Met than he has gotten is Robin Ventura. Before signing with the Mets, Ventura had spent a decade with the White Sox from 1989-1998. During his time there, he won five Gold Glove Awards and made the All-Star team in 1992. In one memorable moment in 1993, Ventura got hit by a pitch from the legendary Nolan Ryan and charged the mound. However, it was Ryan that punched Ventura six times in the head before the two were separated. - http://bleacherreport.com/articles/770405-new-york-mets-top-10-third-basemen-in-team-history#/articles/770405-new-york-mets-top-10-third-basemen-in-team-history/page/8  


Albert Cordero:


7-24-11: - http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20110724&content_id=22219694&fext=.jsp&vkey=news_milb#&tcid=tw_share - After struggling for the first three months of the season, Albert Cordero continued his solid start to the second half of the season Saturday. The Mets catching prospect went 4-for-5 with a homer and a career-high six RBIs as the Class A Savannah Sand Gnats rallied for a 7-6 victory over the Lexington Legends. Cordero, who signed as a non-drafted free agent in 2008, had never recorded more than three RBIs and had plated only six runs in his previous 29 games with the Mets' South Atlantic League affiliate.


Mike Baxter:


OF Mike Baxter: 3-4, 2B, R, 2 RBI, BB; Baxter was a nice waiver steal by the Mets on Friday when they nabbed him from SD, no doubt another player DePo kept an eye on. The 26-yr old Queens native was originally drafted in the fourth round in '05 after playing at Columbia and Vanderbilt. He's no stud -- as evidenced by a career .278 average in the minors -- but he had an excellent .301/382/.517 year at Triple-A in 2010 with 18 hrs and 22 sb's. He's got a nice power/speed game, he doesn't strike out much and best of all he's got outstanding plate discipline from the left side. He was also added to the 40-man so look for him to log lots of innings with Buffalo and, probably at some point in 2012, battle for the 4th-5th OF role. - http://www.amazinavenue.com/2011/7/24/2290654/new-york-mets-daily-farm-system-report-7-24-11-lagares-to-double-a


Kyle Allen:


7-24-11: - http://scoutingthesally.com/sally-stock-watch-kyle-allen-slade-heathcott-will-middlebrooks-matt-thompson - Kyle Allen, P, New York Mets – Back in 2009, I was extremely bullish on Mets farmhand Kyle Allen as an example of the type of player the organization should be drafting instead of the low ceiling, small college pitchers they had developed a reputation for. Injuries derailed his 2010 season and he is currently assigned to Port St. Lucie working to regain the form which once earned him placement as one of the Mets top-10 prospects. Since 2009, Allen has averaged just a shade under five walks per nine innings. However, his last start was the best of his young career as Allen tossed eight scoreless innings allowing no walks, no runs and six strikeouts. Additionally, his GO/AO is once again more than 2.0 and his strikeout totals have crept back above 6.5 per nine innings.


Mike Carp:


Mike Carp homered in a second consecutive game Saturday but the Mariners fell to the Red Sox. Carp smacked a three-run homer off Red Sox reliever Franklin Morales on Friday night and took Josh Beckett deep on Saturday. The promising young outfielder was promoted from Triple-A Tacoma in mid-July and should continue seeing more playing time. Seattle, however, has now lost 14 straight games. - http://www.rotoworld.com/headlines/mlb/334268/baseball-headlines?r=1