The 2026 DSL season is underway.
Sometimes, I wonder just how weak DSL teams actually are, talent-wise.
Are they as weak as your typical high school teams? I don’t think so, but some of the stats coming out of the DSL in the early going are just astonishing. It really shows a gross amount of unreadiness.
In the very early going, where most teams had played three games, and a few had played just two games, one of the DSL Braves teams had already been hit by pitch 10 times. Six more had been HBP 6 or more times. And 34 of the 51 teams had been hit at least 3 times in 3 games. Ouch.
Walks? Two teams had walked 31 times in 3 games. The Mets Blue team had walked 27 times.
A whopping 20 teams had walked an average of 7 or more times per game.
So, walks and HBPs combined on average must be around one per inning for the entire league in the early going.
Six teams had scored more than 10 times per game (Mets Blue was close, averaging 9 per, and had 27 runs).
28 of 51 teams had OBPs of .400 or higher.
Anyway, the Mets Orange and Blue teams had averages of .270 and .247. The Yanks’ teams? A far higher .333 and .276. Typical.
DSL Defense? In the aggregate (in terms of unearned runs) it was mostly not bad, with some allowing no unearned runs so far, but 3 teams had already allowed 10 or more earned runs in 3 games, with the Rangers team taking the cake by allowing 19 unearned runs in 3 games.
Good news. Their gloves arrive today.
Mets super stud Wandy Asigen is apparently injured. How badly? Dunno.
Too early for individual DSL Mets player updates.
Overall, the DSL seems high-schoolish.
I TELL YA…I GOT THE BLUES! IT’S ROUGH!!
I GOT THOSE BINGHAMTON BROKEN BAT BLUES
A discussion on Jacob Reimer’s woes took place on Friday on Macks Mets.
Reimer has really struggled this year.
The pertinent question is, what happens to your personal hitting success when your entire team, excluding AJ Ewing, fails to hit? How does it affect you?
My guess is, quite a lot.
I looked at the averages for players on Binghamton. Through June 4.
The numbers were just staggering:
Reimer .207
The others:
Schwartz .210
Lorusso .200
Smith .197
Ramos .196
Serrano .195
Suero .190
Parada * .184
Rudick * .121
Bowen .119
* AA stats only. Both are now in AAA.
Ten guys, with a huge proportion of the team’s at bats, hitting THAT POORLY 9 weeks into the season?
No wonder Reimer was struggling. Pitchers must think…why pitch to him?
Only Ewing (.349 in AA) and Wyatt Young (.232) provided any semblance of AA hitting ability.
And, Jaylen Palmer (.270) has helped a bit but in just in 37 return ABs.
Excluding Ewing’s 22 for 63, Binghamton was hitting .198 in 54 games.
Brooklyn is worse. Just .187 through Thursday, in 53 games.
I have never seen anything close to like it.
Two teams, 107 combined games, hitting .195?
And remember, when running comparables through your cranium, team-average-suppressing pitchers no longer hit.
Back in 1968, the year of the pitcher, when the anemic Mets scored just 2.9 runs per game, they still hit .228. But included in that was Mets pitcher at bats. Their pitchers that year hit .119 (52 for 437).
The regular Mets hitters in 1968 hit .237.
42 points higher than Brooklyn and Binghamton are hitting this year.
Last year, Binghamton had Benge and Ewing and Jett for a good while, and hit a solid .249 as a team.
Pressure in 2025 thus was off on Reimer. And off of Suero, for that matter.
Now, the 2026 hitting pressure is full bore.
Keep in mind…some guys can HIT in Binghamton’s Eastern League.
CF Jonah Cox (SFG franchise) has 27 steals and 22 XBH in 183 times up for AA RICHMOND
And is hitting .400.
The 2023 sixth rounder was picked far after the Mets selected Colin Houck, now playing in High A Brooklyn. Houck (32nd overall pick by the Mutts) has a .194 average and a career-destroying 79 Ks in 45 games.
Ten other Eastern League guys are hitting over .300.
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All my DSL sources have told me that this is the most talented list of IFAs maybe ever... and the top one hasn't even been activated yet.
I give you a watch list later this morning
Cool. The Mets desperately neeed a talent infusion.
The DSL Orange yesterday had what looked like a slugfest, in a 15-14 win. But…not so fast. The two teams had just 14 hits, but a stunning 29 walks and 7 hit batsmen.
Notably, though, Cleiner Ramirez cracked his first two pro home runs.
Ramirez is one of the uber prospects signed. Seven figure. SS with real power
Amazingly, the pitchers for the two DSL teams and the FCL team, in 3 games, allowed 37 walks. How can that be possible?
Interesting that Lorusso and Young both had 3 hits yesterday, boosting their Bingo averages to .214 and .247, respectively.
Jon Santucci dazzled, throwing 6.2 innings of one run ball. Ready to roll.
Is Clifford yesterday hitting his 14th home run, but fanning 2 more times, a good game or bad game for him? 87 Ks in 60 games (1.45).
Brett Baty, by comparison, fanned 95 times in 97 AAA games (0.98).
DSL players are very young, but they are selected talent. So it may be high school age, but more like an elite HS travel team.
We just have to stop talking about Clifford. He is not going to make it.
Too young to even spell CONTROL no less master it
Lorusso and Young are nothing more than AAAA players
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Who?
Mets had a 2029 IGA agreement with a player for a $1.5mil bonus
Tested positive yesterday
Rather than cut him, they cut the bonus in half
Rumor is he will sign elsewhere for more
Current age?
13
And these Mets suits go to church every Sunday
Maybe Maxwell Smart can be reconstituted to manage all that Kaos!!
My brother when he was their age would have mowed them down.
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