Scarlyn Reyes…
6-3, 190 RHSP, 21-yrs old… 1st year in organized baseball for the
DSL Mets… 3rd start (July 8th): 8.0-IP, 0-R, 10-K, 0-BB…
1.37 for the first three starts… where do these guys come from? You sign bonus
Latin kids at 16. Reyes is 21. Where the hell has he been for the last five
years? Look, he turns 22 in November so does it really matter what he does
here? The Mets are not going to push aside all the pitchers in the system for
one old Latin dude with a weird first name.
Doesn’t it seem like the Mets have been
involved in an awful lot of long distance games this year? I can’t seem to find
any breakouts on each of those games, but last night (or was it this morning?)
was the perfect example of a Mets extra inning game. The Giants had 14 hits.
The Mets had nine. This season, or lack of it, has always come down to the
bats. Let’s give credit to the Mets pen last light. That was eight scoreless
innings after a halfway decent Matt Harvey outing.Harvey should have had this win because the game
should have ended in the ninth inning, but, once again the Mets seem incapable
of scoring more than three runs. Manaement must concentrate this trading season
on correcting his. Try to imagine if you could have inserted Buster Posey’s five hit
game into the Mets lineup. We’d all be asleep a long time ago.
The wild card race did tighten up a little
after Monday night. Both Pittsburgh and Cincinnatti (who currently qualify for
the entries if the season was to end today), as well as Washington and San
Francisco. The Mets are now tied in the loss column with the Giants and Cubs
and could finish 7th in the race to slot two teams by the end of
tonight’s game. Clutching at straws maybe, but, what the hell.
I want to tip my Mack’s hat to some of
these Mets followers out there that seem to spend every waking hour on Twitter
keeping us all up to date on what’s going on in Met-land… guys like ‘Met945’… ‘Tej’… ‘Metro’… you know
who you are and you are far more better than I am at tracking all this
information these days. Keep it up guys. It makes an old dude’s job a lot
easier.
Look, let’s call a spade a spade. RP Jack Leathersich is
getting his arse handed to him at the AAA level. Maybe this is a good thing.
His career up to that point was sort of Superman like and, hopefully, he’ll
have the off-season to put this all into perspective and come out with a new
plan. It amazes me how ‘sure fire’ relievers like ‘Leather’ and Josh Edgin just seem to
lose it overnight. It speaks to the thousands of times I have reminded all of
you about the increase of talent at each level in this game (also, looks like D.J. Mitchell is now
coming out of the pen).
DSL bonus baby, 19-yr. old SS Alfredo Reyes, did have
two more hits last night and raised his seasonal BA to .307. Does all this kids
have to play shortstop? I’d sure like to see him moved up, but he seems blocked
by Luis Guillorme at GCL, Amed Rosario at K-Port, and Gavin
Cecchini in Brooklyn.
