Here's an old scouting report that Seattle did in 1988 on the Mets pitching staff.
Keeping an eye on:
RP – AAA – David Aardsma – it may be
a small Mets sample (4-appearances, 4.0-IP, 1-ER, 2.25), but, combined with his
past 2013 PCL team, he’s 14-appearances, 1-0, 2.50, 18.0-IP, 16-K. Okay, he
does need to work on his control (13-BB), but the good news is most of those
runners are not crossing the plate. Injuries cost this guy the lion share of
2011 and 2012 but let’s not discount his major league stats of 2009:
73-appearances, 2.52… 2010: 53-appearances, 3.44. This is a big-time major
league relief pitcher that just needed some extra time to heal. He really
should be on the parent squad.
SS
– AAA – Omar Quintanilla – The Mets tried to explain that the reason they haven’t called up a
.328 hitter (Quintanilla) to replace a ,209 hitter (Ruben Tejada) is because
Quint is out of options and the team is “low on shortstop depth”. Really? What
about Brandon Hicks, Josh Rodriquez, Wilfredo
Tovar, Matt Reynolds, Phillip Evans, Gavin Cecchini, Jorge Rivero, Ismael
Tijerna, Leon Canelon, Ahmed Rosario, Alfredo Reyes, German Rosario, Anthony
Chavez, or Richie
Rodriguez?
SP
– A+ - Michael
Fulmer – threw an inning in extended camp on
Tuesday
C
– A+ - Albert Cordero –
Albert Facebooked me that he is back playing for St. Lucie. This gives Lucy a
real backup catcher to Cam Maron until Kevin Plawecki arrives from Savannah. After that, all bets are off
regarding who catchers where. Considering Travis
d’Arnaud is close to, and the Mets like to
carry three catchers per team, my guess around June 15th would be:
AAA
– d’Arnaud, Pena, Powell
AA
– Forsythe, Carillo, Gronauer
A+
- Plawecki, Maron, Cordero
A
- Glenn, Zapata, college draft pick
I got a roommate for Jordany Valdespin.
Tampa Bay suspended OF
Josh Sale (1st Rd., 17th
overall – 2010) for bragging on his Facebook page about throwing money at a
stripper in a local club. This follows a 50-game suspension last year for
methamphetamine and an amphetamine to be named later. He hasn’t played a lick
yet this season after hitting .264 in A-ball last season. Wait a minute… what
about a Spin for Sale swap?
I’m writing this on Wednesday night prior to the game
and, yes, I agree with Terry Collins. These four games do have the feel of a World Series. It
seems to me that it is vitally important that the Mets win one of these last
two and take this series. This is probably going to be the second biggest
highlight of the year, first being Matt Harvey starting in the All-Star game at CitiField. Even my wife
who prides herself on her lack of baseball knowledge asked me if Harvey was
pitching again tonight. Wouldn’t that be great if that could happen? I mean, it
use to on our chose up team after school. Jimmy
Armet always pitched, so why can’t Harvey.
Oh yeah… it was soft-pitch softball, but still…
While I’m on the World Series, what about a vote for Daniel Murphy? I just read
somewhere that he hasn’t had an error in, like, 38 games in a row. He went into
Wednesday’s game with the 14th top BA (.304) in the National League,
the third ranked second baseman to Marco Scutaro
(.372) and Matt
Carpenter (.309). Obviously Scutaro has
earned the starting slot, but what about Murph coming in for the back innings?
Get that ballot out.
Great baseball story:
As a youth, Puerto Rican slugger Carlos Delgado drew great
attention from international scouts. Among them was Toronto's Epy Guerrero, who recalled
working with Blue Jays GM and future Hall of Famer Pat Gillick to sign
Delgado. "Pat tells me he's got no money. I say, 'Find it. It's going to
take a $100,000 bonus or Atlanta is going to sign him.' Pat comes down. He's
got to ask the owners for money out of next year's budget. We sign him."
Soon they saw the Atlanta delegation. "We say, 'Don't bother. We signed
him.' They don't believe us - till they go to Carlos's house." - LINK
Joel Sherman wrote a piece
on the top sophomores in baseball. The top five were ranked as follows:
1. Mike Trout,
Angels
2.
Brett Harper, Nationals
3. Manny
Machado, Orioles
4. Yu Darvish, Rangers
5. Matt Harvey, Mets: Yankees hitting
coach Kevin Long said what distinguishes Harvey
is most hurlers want to make a pitch look like a strike, but ultimately the
hitter swings at something that breaks out of the zone. Harvey “throws four
pitches in the zone and beats you with each,” Long explained.
1 comment:
Murphy has been good enough at second that I think he needs to stay there. I've heard people suggest that, if Ike was demoted, Murph should move to first and Valdespin to second. I would prefer moving Duda to first and playing Valdespin in left or center.
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