5/24/13

Mack Ade – Morning Report – 5-24-13




The Marlins have released Jon Rauch


cp (reno)- I know you are not a fan of Joc Pederson but can you tell me why?

Keith Law - I was way off on him. Saw him in AFL, he looked bad - slow across the board, not that athletic, struggling with pitch recognition - but perhaps he was just fatigued from the long season. My error for downgrading him so much off that look. He's much better than I thought.


SP Domingo Tapia comes off the DL to pitch tonight for St. Lucie… SP Hansel Robles went on the DL with a right shoulder strain… P Marcos Camarena came off Lucy’s DL and sent to Savannah and the Sand Gnats’ SP Rainy Lara sent to St. Lucie.


There seems to be a problem developing with SP Noah Syndergaard. Put simply, he can’t hold runners. He gave up four stolen bases last outing which is making it very difficult to keep his ERA down and allow his team to keep a lead. All reports are that he’s a great pitcher but he just has too slow of a delivery working out of the stance. I’m not sure if the Mets will attempt to correct this during the season or wait until the winter to work on it. Remember, changing one area of a pitcher’s game can fuck it all up. We call it the Brad Holt Syndrome. A portion of this problem will work itself out when Kevin Plawecki replaces Cam Maron behind the plate. You might remember that Maron led the Sally league in least amount of successful throw-outs to second base. His slow added to Thor’s delivery exasperates the problem. The Mets are having patience with Maron who is having a bad year after hitting .300 for Savannah last season and being a Sterling winner the year before. He was blocked by a hot hitting Blake Forsythe, who has tailed off severely in May. And, having Juan Centeno, Albert Cordero, and Travis d’Arnaud on the DL can’t help  either. Anyway, back to Thor… we’ll keep an eye on the amount of SBs he gives up the next couple of outings.



Excellent story on PEDs from Maury Brown

As of today (Thurs, May 23, 2013) there have been no positive tests in the Majors and 20 positive tests in the Minors for a total of 1,050 games. At this point last season, there were two players that had been suspended as part of the MLB drug testing policy (Guillermo Mota of the Giants and Eliezer Alfonzo, although he had his 100 game suspension rescinded based on chain of custody that was in the last CBA). In the Minors, suspensions were more than twice as many by this date as we’re seeing this year. As of May 18, there had been 42 drug suspensions in the Minors for a total of 2,100 games.So, is the system working? - link


The draft is two weeks away.

I will be issuing my last mock sometimes in the next week. It will be at least the top 250 players, probably the top 300. Some last minute thoughts before we start working on the culmination of a year’s work.

1 – I am never even close about this process. The best I ever predicted was four of the actual top ten picks to the actual team that chose them and seven of the top ten somewhere in that ranking.

2 – I have never quessed the Mets first round draft pick correctly and I’m quite proud of that. My picks would have built a World Championship by now. They are what they are without me.

3 – The college kids are climbing up the projected first round picks. Teams seem to fall behind the NCAA playoff process and pick a college junior they can project immediately into their A+ team.

4. Injuries have set back early guaranteed first round players like Robert Kaminsky, Austin Wilson, Ryan Boldt, and now, Sean Manaea. Teams get real conservative when they are about to hand out the big bucks. They would rather pay it to someone they can fuck up later on in the process.


5. Some specific projected guaranteed top 10 picks are RHP Mark Appel, Jonathan Gray, and Kohl Stewart… catcher Reese McGuire… third baseman Collin Moran and Kris Bryant… and outfielder Clint Frazier and Austin Meadows. That’s eight locked picks.

6. Both Frazier and Meadows continue to drop and threaten to be available at the 11th pick. It would be interesting if they were.

7. Others continue to climb out of obscurity a month ago: Good examples would be RHRP Phil Bickford, LHP Matt Krook, catcher Nick Ciuffo, SS John Paul Crawford, and outfielder Hunter Rentroe

8 – Players falling off the first day board have been LHP Stephen Gonsalves, and A.J. Puk, RHP Dylan Covey, Clinton Hollon, and Adam Plutko, SS Chris Rivera, and OF William Abreu and Tony Kemp.

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