In Search For An
Outfielder – San Francisco Giants
So far, we have
identified the following outfielders as possible targets for the Mets:
Atlanta – Reed Johnson
Arizona
– A.J. Pollock
Baltimore – Nolan Reimold
Boston
– Jerry Sands
Chicago
Cubs – Brett Jackson
Chicago White Sox - Dayan Viciedo
Cincinnati – Chris Heisey
Cleveland – Thomas Neal -
Colorado – Dexter Fowler
Detroit – none
Houston – J.D. Martinez
Kansas City – none
Los Angeles Angels – Mark Trumbo
Los Angeles Dodgers – Alex Castellanos
Miami Marlins – Gorkys Hernandez
Milwaukee Brewers – Khris Davis
Minnesota Twins – None
Oakland Athletics – Grant Green
New York Yankees – None
Philadelphia Phillies - none
Pittsburgh – Jose Tabata
Seattle – Casper Wells
San Diego – James Darnell
We now move on to the
San Francisco Giants, who have seven (7) outfielders on their 40-man roster.
Let’s approach this a
little differently by first eliminating two of them, both ex-Mets, switch hitting Andres
Torres and Angel Pagan.
This leaves us:
Grego
Blanco – lefty – ARB-1 – MLB – 393-AB, .244
Roger Kieschnick
– lefty – pre-ARB - AAA: 234-AB,
.295
Francisco
Peguero – righty – pre-ARB - AAA: 449-AB, .272
Hunter
Pence – righty – 2014-FA - MLB, 617-AB, .253, 24-HR, 104-RBI - RF
Juan Perez
– righty - pre-ARB - AA: 483-AB, .341
Pagan just signed a
4-yr, $40mil deal to play CF for the Giants
through 2016. That’s done. Pierce will obviously play right field this season
and should be a target this time next season in the free agent market.
On paper, Blanco will
split time with Torres and Peguero and the world will continue to wait for
prospect Gary Brown to arrive. THAT’S
the one you want. He hasn’t
played above AA, but you could start him off in Vegas and put him on the same
plane with Zack Wheeler around the all-star break.
If fact, he could be
the Zack Wheeler of outfielders.
The problem is… how
do you rip off a team again?
Mets target: Gary Brown – 23-yrs
old – 1st round pick in 2010…
2011: A+: .336, 14-HR, 80-RBI… 2012 AA: 538-AB, .279… 33-SB… natural
centerfielder…
4 comments:
San Fran will not trade Brown to the Mets. He will be moved to another organization to upgrade at areas of needs.
you're right; however, all I was trying to do was point out the excess of current outfielders that are still under contracts on all these teams... and, who I wish the Mets could target if they had the tools to pull off a trade
Brown is one of the most underrated players in MiLB right now. He wins CA league player of the year and then gets punched in the mouth a bit in the big bad Eastern. I don't think you can get him, but if the Giants needed middle infield help in the middle of the year, Daniel Murphy and maybe a lil somethun' might work. I doubt it though, the Giants love Brown, and he's finally working on his mechanics to adjust to advanced pitching.
PS - I love this series you got going Mack. I think its an interesting look at inventory and how MLB teams manage it differently.
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