Low grades abound….
An Overall D+?
The season is far enough along now for me to give out player “in progress” grades.
Grades are based on my perception of players’ actual performance vs. my own preseason expectations for them. I use 5 grading categories.
A few of the 36 guys below have played very little so far, and so were hard to grade, but, what the heck, I graded them anyway:
A) Well Above Average, Compared to expectations (9):
Weaver, Benge, Ewing, Young, Holmes, Scott, Warren, Brazoban, Pintaro
- where would this team be without them?
B) Above Average Expectations (2):
Edwards, Gerber
- VERY slim pickings
C. As expected (5):
Soto (I am overlooking his injury), McLean, Meyer, Torrens, Slater
- Soto and McLean should jump up soon.
D. Below Expectations (12):
Alvarez, Baty, Melendez, Morabito, Tong, Peralta, Manaea, Williams, Kimbrel, Thornton, Semien, Mauricio
- the Dirty Dozen
E. Well below expectations (8):
Lindor, Robert, Polanco, Vientos, Taylor, Peterson, Senga, Bichette
- Not good at all.
In the worst category just above are 8 guys who were heavily counted on going into the season to contribute a lot. They’ve contributed a lot of grief, instead.
Fourteen “key” guys in the two lowest categories. That’ TOO MANY.
No wonder, going into Wednesday’s game, that the Mets are 8 games under .500 and 15 games behind the Braves.
IT COULDA BEEN WOISE.
DSL METS BLUE OFFENSIVE EXPLOSION
I love offense.
The Mets Blue squad had 8 innings of offense on Wednesday.
They were, to say the least, quite productive.
As in 22 runs, 19 hits, 15 walks.
Their slacker opponents only managed to score 14 runs on 10 hits, 9 walks and several hit batsmen.
Home plate was worn out and replaced after the game.
Mets lose 9-2. Peterson stunk again. Just 3 hits? Oy vey.
Elsewhere:
A night after St Lucie threw a no hitter, they lost 17-0, and had one hit.
Binghamton shut out also, on 4 hits.
The FCL Mets were shut out also, 10-0.
Syracuse and Brooklyn won, however. Can’t lose them all.
The rest of the night for me? Wembanyama vs. Knicks. What a game.
15 comments:
Those 36 runs scored in the DSL game occurred in just nine half-innings. In the other 8 half-innings, the pitchers allowed no runs. That’s baseball.
Jerry Lewis would have staged a Walkathon with these DSL teams.
Mets Blue team is averaging 8 walks per game. 56 walks, and 2 home runs. That only has them 5th highest in walks. Two or more teams averaging 10+ walks per game. Pro ball?
31 of the 51 DSL teams have OBPs ranging from .400 to .489.
FCL Mets team is hitting well, but has 22 HRs in 26 games, while FCL Yanks have 40 in 28 games. Odd how Yankee farm teams always are superior in home run production.
I think you were being generous in your evaluations.
I do not understand (if the reports are true) that the FO is going to wait as long as possible to see if the team can get back into the race before trading assets. This is bizarre for several reasons. That time has come. Best to trade now while lots of teams think they can still make the playoffs, for example, every team in the American League. Why wait until that can be sorted out and thus fewer potential competitors bidding for your players. You may even be able to trade Baty and Vientos to someone at this point. Also, you want the most teams with the best farm systems bidding on some of your talent and also those who normally don't get involved in these deadline trades as buyers. Worse, it shows the Mets are still trying to do two things at once and thus lessening their chances of doing either well.
C'mon guys, a little common sense would go a long way here.
Common sense in Queens? In very short supply.
The Team stats are deceiving. They are not that negative in terms of runs scored versus runs surrendered. But that is primarily due to four or five games where they scored a lot of runs. Otherwise, they’ve been terrible. They also look at it like Lindor may be back soon, meaning in about 10 days, and perhaps senga too, and who knows about Robert. If Lindor came back on fire, perhaps they could put something together, but I think that their record is better than what this team really is right now. So, I do not see them suddenly flipping a switch and winning 60 or 65% of their remaining games. Plus, is this team ever really healthy?
Also, most of the average and above are not truly key players. If I did this with only key players, it would be a D or D-
You are probably right that I overrated - one guy in particular is Baty. He had big power projections when drafted. So, how on earth does he have just 3 HRs in 225 plate appearances? I should have had him at well below expectations. Another Mets regression player, a franchise specialty.
You can’t blame Citi dimension…he has just one HR on the road.
in fact, i think you should do the listing again emphasizing 'progrssing' regressing and disappearing as categories
Lets hope the Mets are not stupid enough to sign Peralta to an expensive contract. Trade him, he is not an ace.
You’d have to add Rehabilitating
100%.
Very generous rankings Tom. You must have been in a great mood after the Knicks' furious comeback. I would drop Weaver, Holmes, and McLean by a category.
The problem is that a B- should have the team 9 games over .500. Instead, they are 9 under. That is a D or D+. Weaver has been mostly strong, Holmes was great until his unfortunate injury, and McLean has slumped but he will be fine this year. It would help him if the bums behind him could produce more offense for the team’s pitchers.
But the team is tied for 8th in ERA, which is fine, but only about 10 runs from being the lowest scoring team, which is horrible. 105 fewer runs scored than the Nats.
Meanwhile, in the Bronx, Judge is out and somehow the Yanks win 4 straight.
Lets face it we suck and to make matters worse DS in in charge of this mess God help us.
What’s our magic #, Gary?
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