According to Elias, Matt Harvey is the 1st P since 1900 to win each of his
first 3 starts of a season, w/ at least 25 Ks & 6 or fewer Hs
LHP Adam
Kolarek transferred from Binghamton (AA) to Las Vegas (AAA)
RHP Cory Mazzoni
placed on disabled list (right elbow neuritis), retroactive to April 11
RHP Luis Mateo
transferred from St. Lucie (High-A) to Binghamton (AA)
LHP Shawn
Teufel transferred from Extended Spring Training to Binghamton (AA)
Regarding Boston, never take this country for granted. Incidents like this happen every day in some nations, yet we see them once every, what, five years?
Still, places like baseball stadiums become more of an open target every day. Look for increased security measures if more events like this one happen.
Regarding Boston, never take this country for granted. Incidents like this happen every day in some nations, yet we see them once every, what, five years?
Still, places like baseball stadiums become more of an open target every day. Look for increased security measures if more events like this one happen.
I love spring baseball, much more than
the heat of summer down here in Savannah. That being said, who in God’s name
scheduled a baseball game in either Minneapolis or Denver? Worse than that, schedule it in an un-domed
stadium. What exactly do you do in a stadium like that in Denver? Ice shaking?
Penquin grazing? Nope… baseball. It will
be interesting to see if the majority of the Mets- Colorado games get weathers
out. When would you make them up? On the all-star break? Such an easy mess to
avoid come scheduling day.
Young arm update:
Everything
seems to be on target for a killer 2015 rotation.
Zack Wheeler has been struggling due to a blister
on the middle finger of his pitching hand. That’s all healed up now and he
threw eight strikeouts in his last outing. There still seems to be about a 33%
chance that we might see him in Queens come the all-star break.
Rafael Montero was doing just fine… 3-games, 2-0, 2.16, 16.2-IP, 21-K. He is
currently projecting to AAA by the end of the season and could be ready for
Queens on opening day 2014.
Noah Syndergaard has also gotten off to a good start,
this one being in St. Lucie: 2-games, 0-0, 2.00, 9.0-IP, 13-K. He probably will
pitch most of the season at this level and finish off in AA-Binghamton, where
he will open up the 2014 season with. ETA remains opening day 2015.
Luis Mateo has made a bump on the list, getting
promoted to Binghamton to fill in for the Cory Mazzoni injury. Mateo was
impressive in his first A+ outing: 0.00, 6.2-IP, 9-K. His ETA is also OD 2015... but did not pitch well last night after being rushed to AA due to the Mazzoni injury.
There are others (Jacob deGrom, Cory Mazzoni), but, right now, these are
the four top pitchers that have a shot of breaking through the Mets rotation in
the 2014-2015 seasons.
With no injuries:
OD 2014 –
Harvey, Wheeler, Niese, Gee, Montero
OD 2015 –
Harvey, Wheeler, Niese, Montero, Syndergaard
Positional update:
1B
– Lots of pleasant surprises here. Josh Satin (AAA - .419) moved over from second and
third and offers the Mets soe good emergency relief for one more year. Richard Lucas (AA - .412) is also an ex-third base
prospect who has caught wind at the AA level. And Jayce
Boyd (A - .368) has returned to his great FSU hitting days.
2B
– It’s a small sample and it‘s far too early to get excited about, but Reese Havens (AAA - .333) is both healthy and
producing.
SS
– Matt Reynolds (A+ - .300) has stepped up as a
primary prospect option at both third base and short.
OF
– Andrew Brown (AAA - .366) and Juan Lagares (AAA - .340) both offer the Mets utility
alternatives in Queens. True prospects Gilbert Gomez (A+
- .303) and Brandon Nimmo (A - .405) are on target.
C
– Prospects Travis d’Arnaud (AAA - .912-OPS) Kevin Plawecki (A - .410) as advertised.
Hi Mack, I went to the St Lucie game
against Bradenton on Sat. and similar to Michael Baron's post in MB I came away
very impressed with Syndergaard. He was in the mid 90's with his FB and mid
70's with his off speed stuff. After breezing through the first 3 innings he
struggled some in the 4th with a couple of singles and 2 walks but all and all
2 runs given up in 9 innings so far
after missing a good portion of spring training is impressive. I also caught
Harvey's game (thank God for DVR's) when I came home and what can you say
except he's amazing! In 50+ years of watching the Metsies there have only been
two pitchers for us who were "must see" and now could it be we
finally have a third? If Wheeler is
supposed to be better than Matt I better start making plans next year to make
it back up to N.Y. for W.S. tickets . As
far as our new found offense it's really not that surprising ( o.k. Buck IS
surprising) when you consider how dreadful Bay, Torres and whoever was catching
was last year and Wright and Davis haven't started hitting yet. This should
certainly be an interesting week coming up if they can dig out the field in
Colorado. You asked about who to interview this week and how about Matz and
Plawecki who both have looked very good far. Have a great week, Gary Seagren
Ken Rosenthal - @Ken_Rosenthal 36m
Yes. RT @HCharara17: @Ken_Rosenthal
You think Mets would trade one of Wheeler/D'Arnaud for Stanton
The 6-foot, 170-pounder (a Pedro Martinez-like frame that doesn’t fill the
typical power righty mold) made four stops that year culminating in a two-game
cameo with the Brooklyn Cyclones. He was named the organization’s minor league
pitcher of the year for 2012 — over the likes of Zack
Wheeler — after blowing through the low-A South Atlantic League and
high-A Florida State League en route to his innings limit (combined 2.36 ERA
and 110 strikeouts in 122 innings).
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