Extended Camp:
The unspoken addendum is that scouts assigned to the Mets say there's little they find attractive. Aside from four core prospects - pitchers Brad Holt and Jenrry Mejia, shortstop Wilmer Flores and outfielder Fernando Martinez - scouts have found little enticing. Mejia is currently on the minor-league DL, too.
The second-tier prospect group is highlighted by lefthander Jon Niese, who actually has turned things around at Triple-A Buffalo and was named International League Pitcher of the Week, as well as first baseman Ike Davis.
One scout who recently watched the Mets' high-A St. Lucie team told the Daily News: "I cannot, in good conscience, write up anybody here. There's not a single major-league arm on the pitching staff." The scout went on to say that Reese Havens, the first-round pick from the University of South Carolina last year, has too long a swing and is out of position at shortstop.
ProjectProspect’s Top 10 MLB Prospects:
1. Matt Wieters, C (BAL)
2. Derek Holland, LHP (TEX)
3. Jason Heyward, RF (ATL)
4. Tommy Hanson, RHP (ATL)
5. Brian Matusz, LHP (BAL)
6. Carlos Santana, C (CLE)
7. Justin Smoak, 1B (TEX)
8. Buster Posey, C (SF)
9. Chris Tillman, RHP (BAL)
10. F. Martinez, OF (NYM)
International League
International League
Jonathan Niese, Buffalo1-0, 1.06 ERA, 2 G, 2 GS, 17 IP, 10 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 3 BB, 14 SOMets prospect Jonathon Niese threw his first complete-game shutout of the season July 5, allowing just five hits over nine innings. He also fanned a Buffalo season-high 10 batters. After getting off to a rough start this year, Niese has won his last four decisions, improving his record to 4-6.
http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090706&content_id=5727990&vkey=news_milb&fext=.jsp
http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090706&content_id=5727990&vkey=news_milb&fext=.jsp
B-Mets:
Eastern League
Dylan Owen, Binghamton1-0, 0.00 ERA, 2 G, 2 GS, 13 2/3 IP, 9 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 3 BB, 8 SODylan Owen didn't allow a run over his two starts, which spanned 13 2/3 innings this week, and picked up his first win of the season for the B-Mets on July 4. Owen was the Mets' 20th-round selection in the June 2007 First-Year Player Draft.
Gnats:
SEEING STARS: For five innings, the drama centered on whether Savannah starting pitcher Robert Carson was going to throw a no-hitter. Then it all fell apart for the left-hander in the sixth, when the Drive collected four runs on their first four hits to provide the difference. Carson (6-6, 2.53 ERA) didn't make it out of the inning and took the loss. The Gnats showed the resiliency managers like by scoring in their next at-bats, but then Greenville matched that run with one of its own in the bottom of the seventh ... Second baseman Josh Satin had given the Gnats a 2-0 lead with a two-run homer in the fourth for his third of the season.
DECISION MAKING: Carson allowed the four runs (earned) with two walks and three strikeouts ... Fabian Williamson (6-2, 2.61 ERA) earned the win in relief of starter Hunter Strickland (five innings, two runs, one earned).
GNATS GNOTES: Savannah had taken the first two games of the four-game set at Greenville, which won the first-half title in the South Atlantic League's Southern Division to lock up a postseason berth ... The last no-hitter for a Savannah pitcher was Clyde Keller against Augusta, a 4-0 win on Aug. 22, 1989.
http://www.savannahnow.com/node/748943
Kai Gronauer C (Mets) - He has the tools to be a good denfensive catcher. He needs to show that he has the stick to move up and is currently hitting .239 with four homeruns in the Low A league. He has hit .289 in his last ten games so perhaps his stick is coming alive. He is getting regular playing time so the Mets must like him.
New York-Penn League
James Fuller, Brooklyn2-0, 0.00 ERA, 2 G, 2 GS, 13 IP, 14 H, 1 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 11 SO
Mets prospect James Fuller has thrown 19 shutout innings over his three starts to begin the short-season. Fuller tops the circuit with his flawless 0.00 ERA and 3-0 record. The southpaw was selected by the Mets out of Southern Connecticut State in the 21st round of the 2008 Draft.
Mets Alumni:
Florida State League
Deolis Guerra, Fort Myers1-0, 0.00 ERA, 1 G, 1 GS, 7 1/3 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 6 SO
Twins prospect Deolis Guerra tossed 7 1/3 innings of one-hit ball to earn the win on July 3, and that one hit didn't come until the eighth inning. He struck out six batters and walked just one. Guerra's Friday start also marked his longest outing of the season.
"I know I can play at the big-league level. I know I can be on the big stage," Lastings Milledge said. "At the same time, I have to put together a great season. Last year was solid, but I think I can do better, and I think this organization knows that."
In 2008, his first full season as Washington's center fielder, he batted .268 with 14 home runs.
"The Pirates know I have a really high ceiling," Milledge continued. "But all of that is really irrelevant unless you put the work in."
Which brings us back to that 0-2 count...
Strike one: While with New York, he was ranked the Mets' top prospect by Baseball America when promoted in 2006 at age 21, but he quickly ran himself out of town by, among other things, high-fiving fans after his first career home run, performing on a profanity-filled rap album and, in a general sense, infuriating some teammates by behaving nothing like a rookie.
Billy Wagner, New York's veteran closer, once hung a sign above Milledge's stall that read, "Know your place, rook!"
PITCHf/x data, such as pitch speed and spin movement, are based on nine inputs—location, velocity and acceleration, each in three coordinates (x,y and z, corresponding to side-to-side, rubber-to-plate and ground-to-sky respectively). Two cameras are used to capture the ball's flight; estimate those initial nine inputs and calculate the ball's flight characteristics. Once we know what those are (speed, spin etc.) we can classify the pitch. Gameday does it in real time, which is amazing. Not 100 percent accurate, but getting better all the time. Still, post-hoc classifications are usually more accurate, and can be used by MLBAM to tweak its own classifications.While the values produced by MLBAM's Gameday are estimates of the pitch location and movement, they happen to be incredibly accurate estimates. Still, there is a problem—the cameras are almost never in the same location from park-to-park. This limits our ability to compare outings by the same pitcher, often forcing researchers to narrow down to a single park to dodge the noise created by combining parks. This is no silver bullet, as parks have been adjusted over the years and even during games. Still, release points, movement and even speed can vary within and between parks such that the same pitcher throwing the same way may look radically different to two different PITCHf/x configurations.
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