Now that the Caribbean Series had ended, here is one final
winter ball update.
Not a lot of participation from Mets players and the ones
that did play did not stay for extended periods.
Probably the biggest Mets name in Winter Ball this past
season was Tomas Nido.
Catching and DHing for the Criollos
de Caguas in the Puerto Rican League, Tomas
was 7 for 28 for a .250 Avg, 1 double, 3 RBIs, 5 Ks in 8 games. He needed the extra at-bats after playing sparingly
this past year.
I would have liked to see him get more but the word is that Tomas was happy with his work in the winter and is looking forward to the 2020 season.
I would have liked to see him get more but the word is that Tomas was happy with his work in the winter and is looking forward to the 2020 season.
Also playing in Puerto Rico, Carlos
Cortes played for the Indios
de Mayaguez. The 2019
St. Lucie Met was now 1 for 9 in four games with a strikeout for a
.111 average.
Recently signed Met, Outfielder Johneshwy
Fargas, who played last year at AA Richmond, hit .207 in the Puerto
Rican Winter League, 32
games, 116 at bats, 2 HR, 13 RBIs, 8 Stolen Bases, 6 Caught Stealing. He has 235 Stolen Bases with 91 Caught
Stealing in 7 minor league seasons.
2019 Binghamton Rumble Pony and current minor league free
agent, Joshua
Torres, was 0-1 with a 4.80 ERA, 15 games, 15 innings pitched in the Puerto
Rico winter league. He also was 1-0 with
a 0.00 ERA in 2 games in the Caribbean Series.
Another recent Minor League Free Agent signee, left-handed
hitting outfielder, Sebastian
Elizalde, played in the Mexican Winter League and in the Caribbean Series. In
the Mexican Winter League, Sebastian
hit 10 HR, 37 RBIs in 60 games, with a .308 BA/.397 OBP/.507 SLG, 21 stolen
bases. In the Caribbean Series he had a
big three run homer to help Mexico with a game putting up a .231 BA/.286
OBP/.462 SLG in 4 games.
Francisco
Rios, yet another Minor League free agent signee, pitched
9 games in Mexico with 7 starts, 34 innings, 1-3 with a 3.71 ERA, 17 Ks, 24
Walks.
Juan
Uriarte played 24 games in the Mexican Winter League hitting .179 with 1
HR, 7 RBIs, .254 OBP/.268 SLG.
Phil Regan spent the winter as the
Pitching Coach for the Toros
Del Este, the team that eventually won the Caribbean Series this
past Friday. The Mets and Ex-Mets that
pitched for that team included Daniel
Zamora, Tyler
Bashlor, and recently signed Mets minor leaguer Pedro
Payano. Chris Mazza
also appeared before he was claimed on waivers by the Red Sox. Ex-Mets Tim
Peterson and Ramon E.
Ramirez pitched for Toros
Del Este right up to the Caribbean Championship game.
Daniel
Zamora: 0-0; 1.93 ERA; 10 games, 4.2 innings, 8 hits, 2 runs, 1
earned run, 2 walks, 7 Ks. Daniel
Zamora told
Stony Brook Athletics.com back in December: "I worked on my
fastball this winter with Phil [Regan]. Phil really got my confidence up a lot
from where it was earlier this year. So I plan to get my fastball going,
continue to throw my slider the way I throw it, and I honestly have a changeup
I can use now. I'm actually going to use it this year — not just, 'Hey, it's in
my back pocket.' It's in my front pocket. I'm going to use it."
Tyler
Bashlor: 0-1; 1.80 ERA; 5 games; 5 innings; 4 hits, 1 runs, 1
earned, 1HR, 0 walks, 8 Ks.
Chris
Mazza: 1-1; 4.50 ERA; 6 games; 12 innings; 19 hits, 7 runs, 6
earned, 2 walks, 13 Ks.
Pedro
Payano: 0-1; 7.71 ERA; 5 games; 4.2 innings; 6 hits, 4 runs, 4
earned, 3 walks, 5 Ks.
Ex-Met Raul
Valdes: 5-2; 2.52 ERA; 10 games; 61 innings; 22 walks, 30 Ks. Raul Valdes
started one game in the Caribbean series and went 3.2 innings giving up 6 hits,
4 runs, with one strikeout.
Ex-Met Tim
Peterson: 2-0; 0.90 ERA, 8 games; 10 innings; 7 hits, 5 walks, 12 Ks
during the Dominican Republic regular winter season. He was 0-0 with a 2.25 ERA in the Caribbean
Series.
Ex-Met Ramon
E. Ramirez: 2-1; 10 saves; 2.20 ERA, 17 games; 16.1 innings; 9 hits,
12 walks, 16 Ks during the Dominican Republic regular winter season. He was 0-0 with 3 saves and a 2.25 ERA in the
Caribbean Series.
Ex Met Jenrry
Mejia: 1-1; 3.72 ERA; 8 games – 6 as the starting pitcher; 29
innings; 21 hits, 16 walks, 15 Ks.
Ex Met Jordany
Valdespin .340 BA (2nd overall in league)/.429 OBP/.486
SLG; 39 games, 144 at bats, 5 homers, 22 RBIs, 49 hits, 20 walks, 18Ks. In the Caribbean series he went .238 with a
homer and 5 RBIs. All 5 RBIs coming in
the semi-final game in a 5-4 win.
Adonis
Uceta pitched for the Leones
del Escogido. He went 1-0; 3.38 ERA; 10 games; 8 innings; 3 hits; 5
runs; 3 earned; 9 walks; 8 Ks. Adonis
Uceta was just about perfect all winter before giving up three runs
in two-thirds of an inning in his last outing.
Also for Leones
del Escogido:
St. Lucie’s Carlos
Hernandez: 0-1; 18.00 ERA; 2 games; 2 innings; 6 hits; 4 runs (all
earned); 2 walks, 1 K.
Recent ex-met Sam
Haggerty. In 2 games Sam went 1 for 8 with a stolen base for a .125
average with 3 Ks.
Pitching
for Gigantes del Cibao, Harol
Gonzalez: 0-2; 5.52 ERA; 6 Games; 14.2 innings, 25 hits, 11 runs, 9
earned, 7 walks, 12 Ks. More
about Harol here.
Ex-Met Jonathan
Niese: Jonathan
pitched just two games in the regular season without allowing a run. During the Round Robin Playoffs, Jonathan had
some mixed results. On January 9th,
Jonathan threw 7 shutout innings for Aguilas
Cibaenas giving up just 2 hits with 4 strikeouts and 1 walk on just
76 pitches. He also had a bad outing on
1/13 where he lasted just 1.2 innings and gave up 4 runs on 5 hits and a walk
in a 7-4 loss.
Juan Lagares,
recently
signed to a minor league deal with the San Diego Padres, played
26 games in the Dominican Winter League hitting .337 in 104 at bats, 2
doubles, 1 triple, 1 HR, 11 RBIs, 6 walks, 16 Ks, .373 OBP, .404 SLG.
Carlos
Gomez only played 7
games hitting .167 during the regular season in the Dominican Winter League
but played more in the playoffs. He
planned to retire after the winter season.
Ex-Met Minor Leaguer Matt
Pobereyko also pitched in the Dominican League. Matt pitched well
this winter going 4 and 1 in 29 games, 27 innings, 18 hits, 5 runs, 30 Ks, 11
walks, 1.67 ERA.
2019 Syracuse Met Arismendy
Alcantara, who
signed a minor league deal for 2020 with the Angels, played 37 games .267
BA/.319 OBP/.429 SLG; 1 HR, 13 RBIs.
Anderson
Hernandez, went 3 for 36 in 22 games for a .083 Batting Average. He
got one of those 3 hits off Chris Mazza.
T.J.
Rivera, who
signed a minor league deal with the Phillies, played in the Dominican
league where he hit .200 in 19 games and then played in Puerto Rico, hit .306
in 21 games, 1 HR, 9 RBIs, .376 OBP/.389 SLG.
In the Australian League: St. Lucie Mets Hansel
Moreno and Binghamton Rumble
Ponies Jeremy
Vasquez saw action.
Hansel
Moreno hit .222 in 9 games playing 8 at shortstop with 3 RBIs, 3
walks, 8Ks.
Jeremy
Vasquez had 11 at-bats in 4 games with 2 walks and 2 Ks for a .091
average.
Former Mets
#1 draft pick, Gavin Cecchini also played this winter in
Australia. In 19 games and 72 at-bats he
had 20 hits for a .278 BA/.303 OBP/.417 SLG.
No current Mets played winter ball in the Venezuela League but
there were some notable ex-Mets:
Wuilmer
Becerra in 41
games hit .325 with a .393 OBP and .413 SLG with 2 homers and 19 RBIs.
Wilfredo
Tovar was
over .300 for a large part of the season.
He ended up at .293, 2 HR, 20 RBIs, .331 OBP, .414 SLG.
Ronny
Cedeno hit .230 in 38 games, 135 at bats, 3 HRs, 18 RBIs, .298 OBP,
.341 SLG.
2018 Binghamton Rumble Ponies Catcher, Jose
Garcia, played just 5 games in the Venezuela Winter League, for a .125
BA/.22 OBP/.125 SLG.
Other Ex-Mets that saw action included César
Puello, Rymer
Liriano, Ryan O’Rourke,
Mike
Antonini, Hector Santiago, and Juan
Centeno.
Hope you enjoyed the winter updates. We look forward to bringing you more next winter.
12 comments:
John
Thank you for keeping up with this, this season.
I have done a much less comprehensive version of this in the past and I know how much work it is.
Again, thanks,
You are the ROY of Mack's Mets.
Thanks Mack. Pleasure being here. Thanks for letting me be part of the team.
Did you forget the ROY hazing ritual? :)
Great compilations for the past few months on this - and Jordany Valdespin should be eternally grateful someone was getting his name in posts almost daily!
That said, not too many who are currently Mets property impressed in this off season.
No comments from Reese about his favorite ex-Met? 😞 If Valdy only went to the Wizard for a brain, he might still be ours.
John-- Thanks again for the great updates. You mentioned small participation by current Mets. Is this typical for most ML teams, or do they send more players?
Jon Heyman of MLB Network reported the Lagares-SD deal would be worth $1.4 million if Lagares is on the major league club.
Big drop from his Mets annual salary.
No surprise, after comparing his 2019 stats to those in the year he signed the extension. You could say the same about many contracts, including current Mets Porcello, Wacha and Nunez.
Bill, looking at the box scores everyday, the winter league was mostly comprised as life long AAA players and players looking for another chance like Hanley Ramirez, etc.
Outstanding summary, John.
Thank you.
I also want to pass along my gratitude and admiration for the work put in to keep us informed. As a Valdespin fan, I also liked it.
Too, the Morning Links are the best morning update of any Mets blog! Kudos!
Thanks Gus and Hobie.
Everyone has spilt milk. Trades that were not made and should have been. Trade that went through where the team trading regrets doing it. Player personnel moves are not always a 100% definite.
Let it go man. Live for another day.
Sure, I would right now like to have Dunn and Kelenic back, but it ain't happening. Forget about it because we got players back too. Be happy with what you have Theodore Cleaver. Take a look.
1B Peter Alonso
2B Robinson Cano/Jeff McNeil
SS Amed Rosario
3B Jeff McNeil/JD Davis
LF JD Davis
CF Brandon Nimmo
RF Michael Conforto
C Wilson Ramos
Okay then, point out (for me) one single weakness to the above lineup Sherlock Holmes. Isn't one. And here's the bench five backing them up.
OF Yoenis Cespedes/Dominic Smith
INF Matt Adams/Luis Guillorme
C Not sure yet (Nido maybe)
Pretty decent I think.
SP There are six good ones. Wacha, Syndergaard, Matz, and Porcello are all under age 30. All six have had some success.
RP Betances, Familia, Lugo, Gsellman, Diaz, Wilson, Brach...
Fans and the Media (to some extent) need to try and stop complaining so much with this 2020 NYM team. Because it's actually really good. NO team is ever perfect and disappointing player personnel moves can happen unexpectedly. Look at other teams and then contrast their blooper moves to here and see what I mean.
Instead maybe accentuate the positive. Wasn't there a song way back to this affect?
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