Future Met, this Mr. Rudick? Photo by Richard Nelson
What Has Matt Rudick Done Lately?
You be the judge.
The speedy 5'6" outfielder had a mighty hot final 28 games for Brooklyn last year:
Starting August 10, he started spraying a whole lot of hits and drawing a whole lot of walks, helping catalyze the Cyclones pennant surge as their lead off hitter.
Matt got on base 42 times in his last 19 August games, and 14 more times in his 9 September contests. 56 times on base…Twice a game on average over his final 28 games…what’s not to LOVE there?
In his first 5 games for Binghamton this year, through Thursday, 2 singles, 3 doubles, 2 HRs, 2 walks, just 2 Ks, 8/RBIs. So the last 33 regular season games, on base 65 times.
Geesh!
The lefty hitting 13th rounder in 2021 is picking up in 2023 right where he left off in 2022 - HOT!
BTW, his next career error will be his first.
Amazing, that’s what he’s done. Amazing stuff.
P.S.
Baty grand slam…single…walk. .400
Mauricio HR and double 1, double 2, double 3: .380. But 2 errors, too.
Vientos hitless again, 0-5, drops under .300.
The Mets faced an A ball team last night, the woeful As.
Mets rolled out their Mets-style offense. Six run 2nd inning on 5 walks and a Lindor slam against a desperate James Kaprelian who needed to get something over the plate. And, like Forrest Gump, they kept right on walking. Later, after a bunch more walks and a HBP in the 5th, the MLB-debuting Harris allowed a bases clearing double to Lindor.
Two inning with 6 runs and just one Lindor hit. Has to be a first-ever.
These endless innings wore out Kodai Senga, who was unable to quite go 5 innings, and hence missed out on the win. 4. Innings, 7 hits, 4 walks. 52 degree night. Nogosek has an absolute gimme to pick up the win, but he was Nogo-suck, so Dennis Santana got the gift win.
17 runs, 17 walks, 2 HBP, and 11 hits, one of which came from Escobar, which lifted his average back over .100 to .114. Those 30 times on BASE jumped the Mets to 5th in MLB OBP. Guillorme and Marte each had 3 walks and 2 hits.
Jeurys Familia pitched the 9th, looked sharp striking out Marte on 3 pitches, then went to 0-2 on Lindor …and walked him, then walked Pete, then walked McNeil, then walked Vogelbach, then Perez the catcher came in to face Escobar, who hit a 2 run double, then a Guillorme single, then Nido popped up a 50 MPH pitch, then Nimmo walked, and Tim Locastro was overmatched by the catcher and popped out to left on a 70 MPH pitch to end the damage. Five runs on 2 hits in the 9th.
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17 runs, 17 walks, 17...comments?
Mauricio .380/.436/.880, which reminds me more than a little of fellow large switch hitter Ken Singleton who in 1970 was .388/.513/.703 when the Mets called him up.
I like the guy too but it is hard for me to envision a 5'6" player roaming the outfield for a future Mets team.
I love Mauricio but he's having a hard time defensively this season at short.
I just can't understand that, if he his being challenged defensively at short this season, why can't he be either learning second or a corner outfield.position.
Am I wrong but isn't the.minors for development?
Mack, Mauricio should be shifted. My only guess is: his fielding is not affecting his hitting, and if Lindor got seriously hurt, they’d like him and not Luis play SS.
He actually.lines up better as a third baseman but that going forward is Baty's job
A year ago everybody wanted to trade him,now everybody wants to rush him to the majors! A shortstop,even a poor one should beto transition to LF pretty easily.
I don't want to rush him.
I want to reposition him
Mauricio deserves a gold star. Why? He lost 2020, but last year and this year including spring training, he has been up about 850 times. You do that, you're gonna improve fast. Real fast.
Imagine Of All The People
Lefty Starter 6'5" Joey Fuego - Now 2 wins-0 losses 2.30 ERA 15.2 innings 16 Strikeouts 1.15 WHIP
Josh Walker heating up.
Right there two pretty good lefties. One a starter and the other a reliever. Bingo Mack. Bingo!
It's elementary Watson.
1b Alonso 2b McNeil SS Lindor 3b Baty LF Pham/Vientos (after AAA grooming at this new position) CF Nimmo RF Marte C Duffy Dyer
I'd re-sign Piazza. He can still hit, I'm sure.
O.K. Max will miss another start and JV is coming back hopefully soon but will Quintana even pitch this year which is a giant maybe along with a very questionable CC so how is this really gonna work guys? Someone must talk to Alvy about his "swing for the fences" approach as it's gotten real bad as he's not even close to hitting the ball but with Nido doing his best McCann impression we should just play the kid. Hey Buck you watching this? Why not right handed DH and some LF for Mauricio because we need power badly and you know what why not? I get it's early but start working on it in Cuse now. Singleton is a good comparison.
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