6-8-12 - Daily Mets Minors Report

Date: 6-8-12

 

Woman caught cooking meth inside a south St. Louis County Walmart

 

Mets:

Mets starters are 10-2 with a 2.07 ERA (25ER/108.2 IP) over the last 16 games... 

Rob Whalen‏

Today is the day! Ready to sign and begin my professional career as a New York Met!

 Something will have to give in New York. Keeping Duda in the outfield robs him of half his value, and keeping Davis in the major leagues right now might be robbing him of the chance to improve. Since the team is currently competitive, the guess here is that Davis will go down to Triple-A, Duda will move to first, and the overload of first basemen will be solved. For now. http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/the-mets-first-base-situation/

Arkansas JR 3B Matt Reynolds: line drive machine who lacks present strength and swing plane for big power, but makes up for it with consistent hard contact all over the field; above-average speed that plays up on bases; outstanding defender with a strong arm and enough athletic ability to play up the middle at times; could even be tried at catcher, though I think a more likely conversion would be to 2B – could even be tried as an everyday SS if a team is feeling especially frisky; I think a player in-between Kyle Seager and Chase Headley is a realistic ceiling for Reynolds – some speed, some pop, but lots of value tied up in defense and on-base ability; 6-1, 200 pounds http://baseballdraftreport.com/

 In the beginning of his account of a 1962 spring training game involving the Yankees and the Mets, New York Times writer Louis Effrat, speculated, “Sometime in the distant future there may be an all-New York series between the Mets and the Yankees.” Well, time is a relative concept, and whether 38 years is “distant” or not is debatable. In the future, there may well be more such subway series and, if not, at least there is still the annual prospect of interleague play. But Effrat was privileged to be assigned to cover this particular match-up on March 22, 1962, for it was the first contest ever between the Yankees and the Mets. http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/article/yanks-vs-mets/  

Draft Grade: A-  =  Overview: The Mets' first five picks are some of the strongest among all teams, as they landed a healthy mix of high-upside positional talent and college players who should reach the major leagues. Basically, for every prep player they selected, they balanced it out with a safer college player. - http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1211956-2013-mlb-mock-draft-early-predictions-for-entire-first-round#/articles/1212812-2012-mlb-draft-grades-final-team-by-team-report-cards-and-results/page/18 

AAA – Buffalo:

Josh Satin cleared waivers, returning to AAA Buffalo.

CL Fernando Cabrera leads the International League with 13 saves.

RP Manny Acosta on Thursday night - 15 pitches 10 strikes. FB 94-96. Both K's on FBs

A leadoff home run against Matt Harvey by ex-Met Ezequiel Carrera… Harvey hit 99 in the first inning…

RRP Josh Edgin pitched another scoreless inning and has settled in at the AAA level. He’s given up only 3-ER in his last 11-games and 14.2-innings.

AA-Binghamton:  

Heard back from RP Brandon Moore last night. He’s thrilled to be back, but:

                        “Gotta get back In the grove though..”

From the “WHY Not” department, 2B Reese Havens (.162) led off tonight…

There’s no reason for any Mets minor league team to be rotationally pitching anyone with a 5.00-ERA…

Jefry Marte (.295)  hit his 5th HR, a 3-run bomb in the 1st… I don’t know what to do with this guy. Wilmer Flores is ready to play here, but is the 20-year old Marte ready for AAA?

Interesting welcome to AA for Ryan Fraser – 0.2-IP, 4-ER, 54.00… can’t stress how AA separates the men from the boys

A+ - St. Lucie: -  

Rained out…

A – Savannah:

RHP Rafael Montero last 5 starts: 1.38 ERA, 32.2 IP, 22 H, 6 R, 5 ER, 1 HR, 4 BB, 24 K, opp AVG .200 more – Toby

A super-duper first four innings for Jacob deGrom, but the fifth proved costly…

On a positive note, Randy Fontanez (5.02) pitched 2.2 scoreless innings in relief.