MACK - Tuesday Morning Observations

 

Mathew Brownstein                    @MBrownstein89

 

Highest single postseason OPS in New York #Mets history (min. 40 PA): 

Carlos Delgado: 1.199 (2006)

Daniel Murphy: 1.115 (2015)

Rusty Staub: 1.096 (1973)

Mike Piazza: 1.045 (2000)

PETE ALONSO: .999 (2024)

MARK VIENTOS: .998 (2024)

  

John Mayer             @JohnMayer

Thank you Francisco Lindor

Thank you New York Mets. You never know when you’re going to find a new source of inspiration, and Francisco became that inspiration for me this year. You could see the dedication in his eyes, in his plays - you could even see it in his strikeouts; it wasn’t a case of “couldn’t,” only “didn’t that time.”

My Sphere concerts this summer became games in my mind. Wins were when the music was cooking, when the notes matched the intention, when the zone could be found. Every weekend was a series, and every show was a home game.

When I injured my finger and looked down to see half the nail sheared off and bleeding, my first thought was how to play with the other three fingers. That was what Lindor would have done, and so that’s what I did.

The Mets’ talent makes them aspirational, but their humanity makes them relational. It means that it’s never out of the question what’s being done on that field could be done by you and I in our pursuits, too. 

 

Jim Koenigsberger            @Jimfrombaseball

Conway Twitty was first drafted by the Phillies after HS, before being drafted once again into the US Army. While stationed in Japan, he kept both his dreams alive by forming a band and  playing on the local Army baseball team. His first band, the Fuji  Mountain Boys represented their Yokohama unit & won the 1954 All-Army Talent Competition. Twitty changed the band’s name after their big win to The Cimarrons.

 

SNY                @SNYtv       

Jesse Winker says "it'd be incredible" and "amazing" if he could return to the Mets next season:

"I said it was a dream come true and it really was. Hopefully I could come back because it was really special to be part of this team and this organization"

Benny BKG               @BennyGreenberg)

Should be an interesting Winter for the #mets...

FREE AGENTS

1B Alonso

INF Iglesias

SP Quintana

SP Severino

CF Bader

OF Winker

RP Raley

RP Ottavino

RP Stanek

RP Smith

DH J.D. Martinez

OPTIONS

SP Sean Manaea, $13.5M player option

RP Phil Maton, $7.75M club option

 

Arizona Fall League Update (thru Sunday):

            RP Saul Garcia – 0-0,  0.00-ERA

            RP Noah Hall –   0-1,  3.18-ERA

            SP Jonathan Pintaro – 0-0,  3.00-ERA

            RP/SP Jawilme Ramirez –  1-0,  7.71-ERA

            RP Dylan Ross –   0-0,  32.40-ERA

            2B Jacob Reimer –  0-HR, 4-RBI, .154

            SS/OF Jett Williams –   0-HR, 2-RBI, .192

            OF Drew Gilbert -  1-HR, 2-RBI, .083

 

Jim Koenigsberger            @Jimfrombaseball

"We wept, Brooklyn was a lovely place to hit. If you got a ball in the air, you had a chance to get it out. When they tore down Ebbets Field, they tore down a little piece of me. The field was even greener than my boy's mind had pictured it. In later years, friends of ours.  -  Duke Snider

In order to make Satchel Paige eligible to receive his pension, Braves President Bill Bartholomay signed Paige to a contract running through the 1969 season as the Braves pitching coach. Satchel would actually suit & pitch a couple of innings during two exhibition games early in the  spring`69, but he’d spend the rest of the season “coaching” from his living room in Kansas City.

After reaching his 158 required days, Paige left the Braves  organization & less than three years later, began drawing that Major League pension.

Satchel Paige received $250 a month.

 

Every organization's Hitting and Pitching Prospects of the Year –

https://www.mlb.com/news/prospects-of-the-year-for-every-org-2024?partnerID=web_article-share –

 

Mets

 

Nick Morabito, OF (No. 19)

A dream leadoff hitter, Morabito led Mets full-season Minor Leaguers with his .312 average, .403 OBP, 135 wRC+, 142 hits and 59 stolen bases in 119 games between Single-A St. Lucie and High-A Brooklyn. It wasn’t particularly close on the basepaths either, no one else in the system swiped more than 45 bags.

 

Jonah Tong, RHP (No. 10)

The 2022 seventh-rounder was one of the breakout stories in any system as he climbed three levels from Single-A to Double-A in his age-21 season. Tong struck out 160 in 113 innings, finishing third among MiLB full-season qualifiers with a 34.2 percent K rate, and posted an organizational-best 3.03 ERA in that span.

 

Mack – Look, no one will argue that the Mets had a disappointing minor league season with their top prospects. The one (surprising to many) ray of sunshine was infielder Luisangel Acuna when he was an emergency call-up.

I have no problem with either of these two, though I would have given strong consideration to St. Lucie starter, Douglas Orellana (13-G, 9-ST, 1.86, 38.2-IP, 49-K).

Morabito has nothing more to prove in Brooklyn and will start the 2025 season in Binghamton, joining Tong.

 

Kevin Kernan           @AMBS_Kernan

 

Get off the iPad fellas and get on the field. Take some popups, work on fielding the ball in the outfield. You know, basic Little League stuff. Throw strikes.

It always comes down to fundamentals       

https://ballnine.com/2024/10/17/best-of-the-worst/

Mack - Kevin and I first met in the Mets ST clubhouse. We have stayed X friends and he also was a contributor to Mack’s Mets.

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