Toby Hyde @tobyhyde
- Dilson Herrera has played 19 games at
SS at advanced-A St. Lucie entering today.
Mack – Let’s face it folks. We all hope every day that we
are going to read that the Mets traded for someone named CarGo or Tulo, but,
the bottom line is that this team remains owned by a family that isn’t going to
pour anymore money into this team until the fans return and spend enough money
to pour more money… well, you get the picture… the definition of insanity is
doing the same thing over and over.
The future New York Met shortstop is probably somewhere
within the organization, just like every other position.
This is the way it is so we better fall in line behind the
players and separate this from a management and ownership problem.
Moving Hererra to shortstop could be done at the AA level, if
the Mets return Matt Reynolds to his natural third base position for Las Vegas (filling Zach Lutz slot) and L.J. Mazzilli replacing Herrera in St.
Lucie.
More importantly, there is some pretty decent prospect and high ceiling youth playing short in this organization right now. Phillip Evans was having a very nice season for St. Lucie before he went on the DL earlier this month. Gavin Cecchini is looking more like the top prospect Mets officials thought he was when they drafted him. We all know the potential of Amed Rosario, but there are also two very highly rated DSL bonus basy signings, Yeffry De Aza and Luis Carpio, that could develop into major league talent.
Moving a 'bat' like Herrera to short can only brighten the picture, but my concern still is what happens if everything goes well and you develop one of the AAA league leaders when they are still one of the youngest players in the league. Does it get you called up to the Mets to sit on the bench? Is it called the Wilmer Flores Syndrome?
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Lol.....if ownership thought attendance against small market brewers was low, wait until we get a number in attendance in this nobody cares westcoast team Padre series..
Mack -
I was going to mentionMatt Reynolds in the SS discussion, but after looking at his stats I'm starting to understand why you never bring him up as an alternative for SS at the ML level. I know defensive stats don't really give you a picture of a player's ability, but his RF/G does seem to indicate a limited range, and it's been declining every year. Going to offense, even though he's not hitting for power, he does have an OPS of..838 with an OBP of .439 this year - both quite a bit higher than his career stats. It looks he's buying into the system hitting philosophy, and he's been sacricing some power for OBP. - he has historically had a lot more doubles. He looks like he'd be worse in the field than Flores, without Flores' power potential. With Ruben's upsurge, I could almost keep him at SS if he keeps it up. I hate to think it, but I don't see our friends in high places keeping Murph. He's going to be too rich for their blood. Flores is probably going to be at 2nd next year. I've just gotten to where I expect the worst from our FO.
One question - was Matt drafted as a 3B? I see he's been playing short throughout the minors.
Flores is getting limited time to prove himself right now and other than that one grand slam, he's failing at his tryout.
Tejada is predictable which half the time isn't a bad thing.
I like Reynolds, but like T.J. Rivera, I don't see them as starter material in the majors. Maybe utility or definitely AAAA, but not a starter.
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