Rick Peterson - @RickPeterson3P
Best of luck to Greg Burke
42 Mets minor leaguers have been
invited to the ‘top-prospect’ camp that opens on Friday. This is when you learn
that the team thinks you have a future with the team. This year’s list is:
P – Matt
Bowman, Luis Cessa, Jacob deGrom, Miller Diaz, Michael Fulmer, Erik Goeddel, Chase
Huchingson, Matt Koch, Jake Kuebler, Rainy Lara, Luis Mateo, Steven Matz, Alex Panteliodis,
Greg Peavey, Tyler Pill, Chris Schwinden, Noah Syndergaard, Domingo Tapia,
Logan Taylor, Logan Verrett, Gabriel Ynoa
(not invited – Mark Cohoon, Angel Cuan, Julian Hilario, Cory Owalt, Chris
Flexen, TJ Chism, Adam Kolarek, Taylor Whitenton, Jeff Walters, Tyler
Vandenheiden, Zack Dotson, Carlos Vasquez)
C – Albert
Cordero, Blake Forsythe, Jeff Glenn, Kai Gronauer, Cam Maron, Francisco Pena,
and Kevin Plawecki
(not invited – Tomas Nido, Nefli Zapata)
IF – Eric
Campbell, Gavin Cecchini, Phillip Evans, Richard Lucas, Danny Muno, Matt
Reynolds, Aderlin Rodriguez
(not invited – J.C. Gamboa, Y. De La Cruz, Rylan Sandoval, Robbie Shields,
Ismael Tijerna, Brian Harrison, Cole Frenzel)
OF – Darrell
Cecilliani, Gilbert Gomez, Alonzo Harris, Dustin Lawley, Brandon Nimmo, Travi
Taijeron, Cory Vaughn
Zack Wheeler threw from the mound on one of the fields
yesterday and basically stopped everyone in their tracks. There aren’t that
many players that can make Jon Niese, Matt Harvey, Ike Davis, and David Wright stand
there and watch the future throw by them. Some comments by Mets:
Marlon Byrd - “It’s not just him looking like a big leaguer, it’s him looking like a
No. 1”
Justin Turner - “That’s the first time I’ve seen
him throw in person and he’s got some late life on his fastball. It kind of
jumps on you, and we’re talking the late explosion that [Stephen] Strasburg has
on his fastball. I was impressed.”
Terry Collins - “He’s the real deal, there is no
doubt. There’s a tremendous light at the end of the tunnel here.”
Metstradamus
But is it any surprise that
ridiculousness reigns when the Wilpons are involved, whether it's proclaiming
that your financial woes are over after almost everybody has been signed (like
calling somebody when you know they're not home when you don't want to speak to
them), yet can't even sign Jose Valverde unless
they can get him for free. Or calling David Wright your
version of Jeter just months after he called Wright "not a
superstar". Or when Jeffy continues to awkwardly talk smack to players
like he's a part of the team when the Chief Operating Officer couldn't operate
an Office Depot much less a baseball franchise. The Mets play the Nationals on
Saturday. And not a moment too soon. Because when the biggest development to
come out of the first two weeks of spring is that Jenrry
Mejia's name is actually Jenrry Mejia, it's time for games to start.
I
love John’s writings. He hides behind humor so well, yet, at the same time, his
criticisms can be quite biting. Coppinger can say the same thing as, say, Mark Healey, and he comes off cute while Mark sort of hits you with a
hockey puck in the middle of your skull. If I wrote this way they'd say I'm some old crusty fart.
We’re all seriously in need of a
baseball game and the spring schedule that starts this weekend should give us
some new material. I was reminded of just how down I am on this team this week
when I took place in an interview (see the post ‘Negativity’ later this week).
We need to all get past this Wilpon shit and get back to baseball.
Unlike the majority who see the
darkness in this poem, I take the positive from it. I don’t try to dwell on the flaws this team
of ours have. We know it as well as a
geneticist knows what composes DNA. The
Mets are in our DNA, it’s who we are, for better or worse and as long as
there’s a hope for the future –and there almost always is even in our team’s
darkest days—we stand true. We argue we
root, we hem and haw. We sometimes take
it too far and retract, remembering our roots.
But we come. Every Spring, we
come.
Anthony DiComo - @AnthonyDiComo
Four Mets officials, including
Wilpon, crowded around to see Hansel Robles throw. Front office has been raving
about him this spring.
Yesterday, it was Zack Wheeler.
Today, it was the 5-11 RHP Robles who went lights out (6-1, 1.11, 12-G,
12-starts, 72.2-IP, 66-K) for Brooklyn last year. @013 will be the fifth year
in the system for Robles (23-yrs old in-season) and was put on the 40-man to
make sure the Mets evaluate this one correctly. So far, so good:
2009
– DSL -
5-4, 2.91, 15-G, 9-Starts, 58.2-IP, 60-K
2010
– DSL -
3-3, 3.09, 14-G, 12-Starts, 67.0-IP, 51-K
2011
– Kingsport – 3-1, 2.68, 15-G, 0-starts,
37.0-IP, 42.K
2012
- Brooklyn – 6-1, 1.11, 12-G, 12-starts,
72.2-IP, 66-K
My guess is he will bypass Savannah
and leave his Cyclone buddies behind. The fastball sits in the 91-92 range, and
can hit 94. He throws a slider and curve, but neither is a + pitch. No, it’s
the downhill plain fastball that could get him to the majors, probably as
either an 8th inning guy or a closer. Until then, he’s start and
work on his secondary slider and curve.
3 comments:
Mack,
I agree that Robles SHOULD bypass Savannah and go to Port St. Lucie, but where?
So far i have Fulmer, Syndergaard, Tapia, DeGrom, and Verrett off the top of my head without looking at the rest of the roster.
Looking at your post I still have Pants to place somewhere the bullpen for PSL. There just isnt room for Robles to start the year....we'll see him there when Syndergaard moves up to Binghamton.
Who says Stndergaard is starting in Lucy? He did pitch lights out in high A last year...
Charles,
Synder spent the whole season in the Mid-West League which the equivalent of the SAL Savannah team aka normal A.
My assumption is that they'll start him in St. Lucie and bring him up to Binghamton in June when the weather is nicer.
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