SMILE - IT IS JUNE, AFTER ALL
Talked to bro’ Steve Brennan, a human truth barometer, about the Mets.
He thinks David Stearns did a terrible job putting this team together.
I reminded him that he can really draft players.
He drafted Jacob Misiorowski, after all.
While the “Mets guys pre-David” took Parada and Jett..
That JM dude is essentially prime time Jacob deGrom, PLUS 4 MPH.
Stevie reminded me that Stearns was the BREWERS GM at the time.
I told him to stop quibbling.
He told me everyone gets lucky occasionally.
Steve Brennan added that he finds the Mets unwatchable.
So he’s stopped doing so, until they are.
I replied, “Who hasn’t”?
But through Thursday, we were starting to see glimmers of hope.
NOT CARING ENOUGH?
Some guys just don’t seem to care enough to go all out to win.
I saw this posted in 2024, and presume it is correct:
“Per baseball savant the Mets' bottom 5 active player sprint speeds for 2024.
Mark Vientos - 6' 4" 185 lbs --- Sprint Speed 26.3 ft/sec
Jesse Winker - 6' 2" 206 lbs --- Sprint Speed 26.1 ft/sec
Pete Alonso - 6' 3" 245 lbs --- Sprint Speed 26.1 ft/sec
JD Martinez - 6' 3" 230 lbs --- Sprint Speed 25.8 ft/sec
Francisco Alvarez - 5' 10" 233 lbs --- Sprint Speed 25.8 ft/sec”
So…per this, Vientos was faster than Alonso. Not by much, but enough to get to 2nd base on a steal attempt at full speed about 6” faster than Alonso. And 6 inches sooner, in base stealing, is huge.
Why is it, then, that Vientos has just 4 pro steals in 14 attempts over 3,550 pro plate appearances, while over 6,866 pro PAs, Alonso has stolen 32 of 47 times?
Insufficient inner drive? Lackadaisical?
The even slower Alvarez, who probably is 18” slower on steal attempts than Vientos, is 13 of 21 steals in 2,600+ pro PAs.
Keith Hernandez, a pretty slow guy in his day, with tremendous inner fire, stole 98 major league bases, including 19 one year.
Mr. Slow Poke, the very competitive Rusty Staub, had 47 career MLB steals.
The ultimate snail, Daniel Vogelbach, stole 16 of 28 as a pro.
I will stop there. You get the point.
Mark’s aggressiveness quotient seems quite low.
By comparison, the Knick Jalen Brunson’s? Off the charts.
MV? He seems to saying through his actions that, base stealing?
“IT NO MY YOB.” Too much “lazy”, not enough “crazy”?
WHO NEEDS RANDY GUZMAN?
Randy Guzman, one of my favorite power hitters in the Mets’ lower minors, is unfortunately on the IL, limiting him to just 4 June games through Friday.
But who needs Randy Guzman the outfielder when you have….
Randy Guzman the pitcher?
In the DSL, the young DSL Orange Mets righty has thrown 12 scoreless innings with 15 Ks vs. just 2 walks, in a league where walks are issued like speeding tickets at month end to meet ticket quotas.
For instance, in the Blue Mets DSL game on Friday, the squad scored 8 runs on 4 hits? HOW? Of course, with 14 walks. Weird baseball going on in the DSL. Take any and all DSL stats with a few grains of salt.
BINGHAMTON BROUGHT IN A FEW RINGERS ON FRIDAY NIGHT
SO IT WAS TIME TO SHOW OFF!
The Ponies added 2 new bats Friday night that boosted their offense. Lindor went 1 for 4 and a RBI at SS, and Tyrone Taylor went 2 for 3.
Besides them, it is always good for the minor leaguers to impress MLB guys like that when they show up with your team to rehab.
Who did that Friday night?
29 year old righty Brian Metoyer.
The oft-injured but now healthy Metoyer has never given up, and Friday night, he fanned SIX IN TWO INNINGS.
He has had a few bad outings this year, but otherwise has been excellent. His former control issues are largely resolved, helping him to an 1.19 WHIP, and he has fanned a gaudy 43 in 26 innings.
I’d like to see him make the majors, even if briefly.
David: Don’t wait until he’s 40. Why 40?
He was, after all, a FORTIETH ROUNDER in 2018. He may be the last 40th rounder playing pro ball. Quite a “never give up” story.
DSL WILDNESS, AND FREDDY WASN’T STEADY EDDIE
The 2 DSL teams continued their extremely wild ways yesterday, surrendering 25 runs on 11 hits. Not a misprint.
Freddy Peralta’s trade value slid a tad yesterday in their 15-3 drubbing at the hands of the Filet Mignons. Well, a lot more than a tad.
BEN RORTVEDT IS HOT
On base 5 times for Syracuse last night, in an 11-10 win. Good for him.
Season slash line now .236/.320/.449.
Teammate Ryan Clifford: .202/.289/.421.
14 comments:
Tom,
Do you trade Peralta now and not wait until July 31 and look for a better group of prospects? If you wait does his value go down even further?
Another site posted that the Pirates are willing to trade their Competitive Balance draft choice, # 34, to get veterans who can help them make the wild card. If that is true, do the Mets pursue a trade with the Pirates? Thoughts?
Mission is a perfect example of a late first/second rounder proving the experts wrong
1. Wait on Peralta for his next decent outing. Then trade him for that pick
I don’t think they do anything with Lindor probably back for the next series. But once the calendar turns July 1…
I think Peralta needs to wash the stink away with a strong rebound outing. Trading him right now would have to be a sell-low move.
Read this: through his first 16 starts as a Met, Peralta has hardly resembled a frontline starter. After the Phillies bashed the right-hander for a career-high 10 earned runs Saturday over 2 2/3 innings of a 15-3 loss at Citizens Bank Park, the right-hander’s ERA rose to 4.83.
That placed him 59th out of the 66 pitchers currently qualified for the Major League ERA title.
Why? He’s a Met.
Couple of thoughts. The FO appears to have decided to wait till the last minute to figure out what their approach will be at the deadline. So they will be waiting for Lindor and Taylor and, Polanco (?). Who knows. To me it feels like having decided to wait for Godot? Psychologically, it may be even more deflating to wait for the 'big guns ' to return, only then to trade everyone. I prefer decisiveness based on the realization that whatever the quality of the long term strategy may be, this iteration of executing on it is simply not working. Don't wait for a triggering event. Do a deep dive, figure out where you are and be honest, then go forward. Some moves have to wait till the offseason for any number of reasons, but some do not. Optimize the use of time between now and the deadline.
You know why most strategies fail, other than the fact that many of them are unrealistic or otherwise misguided? Two factors. 1. They require devising executable plans to be realized, and most plans that are constructed are not executable. 2. Even when plans are executable, those who are the COOs of the plans give up on them or lack required discipline or think they should abandon them when what they need is to modify them and so on. 3. There is insufficient 'ownership' of the plans. Every plan needs not just overseers and creators of the plan but those who are relied on to execute various parts of it. People are always talking about getting others to 'buy in
on the plan. I hate that phrase because it suggests that the relationship between the chiefs and the workers is 'transactional' -- which is a weak bond in these conditions. What you want is 'ownership'. 'shared ownership of the plan' -- a sense of working together to a common end, which requires joint commitment and mutual support. It's a lot easier to get buy in than it is joint ownership; and it's also a lot easier to lose it.
Tom -
I know I have been not following anything Mets related over that last 2 months. Looked at Reimer. Noted that he has been getting sporadic playing time and not in the line-up at all the last week. Cannot find a reason why. Can you (anyone) enlighten me? Know the line looks terrible, but sporadic playing time / sitting does not help
My favorite minor power hitter is Jose Ramos, currently mashing for the Binghamton Rumble Ponies.
Spell check fook up
Jules
As of last night... EVERY SINGLE METS MINOR LEAGUE STARTERNIS IN THE TANK
Steve, I think he was hurt at the start of this month. Reimer is doing a few things right. A .332 OBP is not bad, 13 of 15 in steals, and just 5 errors in 48 games in the field show his defense is improving.
I think the coaching has all of these AA hitters being overly selective and getting themselves into bad counts too much. As a team, they are 23 points lower than the next to last Eastern League team, and 37 points below median, Beyond that, perhaps hitting in a sub par line up talent-wise is putting too much weight on Reimer’s shoulders.
My current favorite minor league power hitters are on other teams
.183 in 60 at bats this month, though.
The Yankees’ Somerset AA team has scored 400 runs. Binghamton has scored 279. Nearly 2 runs per game less. Remember the next time someone criticizes Santucci that he does not get to face weak Binghamton hitters.
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