Showing posts with label Stephen Nogosek. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stephen Nogosek. Show all posts

6/10/22

Mike's Mets - Growing Your Own

 


By Mike Steffanos

One key to their success going forward will be the Mets' ability to develop arms for their bullpen.

There's a really good piece in The Athletic (subscription required) about New York Mets relief pitchers Colin Holderman and Stephen Nogosek using the 2020 COVID-19 shutdown to reinvent themselves as pitchers. It's paying off for the Mets this year, as both young men have contributed to the Mets bullpen this season.

Although both suffered hiccups in the Mets' awful series against the Padres, Holderman and Nogosek still possess decent stat lines. In 10 games, Holderman has a 3.18 ERA, 11.1 IP, 10 H, 14 K, 4 BB, and 0 HR. Nogosek has a 3.55 ERA in 7 games, 12.2 IP, 10 H, 8 K, 2 BB, and 2 HR. Developing talented arms into MLB relievers is something that I hope to see a lot more of from the Mets going forward. As I've discussed multiple times, it's an area where they didn't do very well under the previous owners.

Interestingly, neither pitcher was rated high enough to earn some hands-on work at the Mets' alternate site in Brooklyn during the pandemic season of 2020. The progress they made was in remote work with the Mets development staff.

Colin Holderman was a 9th-round pick by the Mets in 2016. Holderman had pitched a season for the Southern Illinois Salukis in 2015, appearing in 12 games, including 4 starts. He wasn't particularly effective there, with a 7.68 ERA in 38.2 IP. Holderman allowed 39 H, 21 BB, 16 K, and 3 HR. The Mets clearly weren't scouting the stat line when they drafted him.

Holderman wasn't a star in the Mets system. It didn't help that he missed the 2018 season after undergoing Tommy John surgery. In 2019, Holderman pitched at 3 levels of A ball in St. Lucie, Columbia, and Brooklyn, making 15 starts and 1 relief appearance. He wasn't terrible, but he walked 29 batters in 66.1 IP, striking out 49. At 24 years old in 2020, Holderman looked more like an organizational pitcher than a future major leaguer.

Steven Nogosek was also a 2016 draft pick, a 6th-round pick of the Red Sox. He came to the Mets with Gerson Bautista and Jamie Callahan in return for reliever Addison Reed in July 2017. Bautista was subsequently included in the Robinson Canó deal with the Mariners, while Callahan was released by the Mets in 2018. Nogosek pitched well in AA and AAA for the Mets in 2019, even earning 7 appearances with the Mets that season. Still, as with Holderman, he wasn't regarded highly enough to get time at the alternate site in 2020.

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1/19/22

Player Profile - Stephen Nogosek

Stephen Nogosek - Photo by Herm Card - Herm4444@gmail.com

Background, Stats, Videos.

Background: 

Stephen Nogosek, Relief Pitcher, Bats Right, Throws Right, DOB 1/11/1995, 6th round, 2016 Draft out of the University of Oregon. Acquired by Mets in the 2017 trade with the Boston Red Sox for Addison Reed that also gave the Mets Gerson Bautista and Jamie Callahan.  Resigned as a Minor League Free Agent January 2022.

2019 was a dream season for Stephen.  He was lights out for Binghamton (0.95 ERA, 11 games, 19 innings, 20 Ks, 12 walks).  In Syracuse he was almost perfect.  His first 23 games for Syracuse he was 3-0 with a 0.00 ERA in 30.1 innings.  In the last game of the season, the tie breaking game to win the division and go to the playoffs, Stephen ended up being charged with 4 runs and Syracuse ended up losing 14-13.  You can read more about that game here.  

His 2019 combined line for Binghamton/Syracuse: 3-0, 1.07 ERA, 35 games, 50.1 innings, 50Ks, 25 Walks.  His NY Mets 2019 Line: 0-1 10.80 ERA, 7 games, 6.2 innings.  

Syracuse.com: How a video game superstar sparked Syracuse Mets reliever to dominance. "Nogosek admired [Nick] Kolcheff’s aggressiveness and ability to shrug off both good and bad results in a bullish search for consistency."

Syracuse.com Surging Mets’ reliever Stephen Nogosek: ‘I’m not going to pitch scared’: "He compares an approach toward pitching to the daily instincts of a mule deer. That animal, he said, gets up every day to pursue the same simple urges of finding food and water and staying alive...The lives of pitchers can be a little more complicated, but the applicable lesson for Nogosek is that when it comes to a daily approach it’s best to not stray from the basics."

After 2019, Stephen was placed on waivers in order to make room for free agent Rick Porcello.  Since no other team claimed him, he was returned to the Syracuse roster.  

Then the Pandemic.  As he describes to Ernest Dove and Thomas Brice below, Stephen worked hard in 2020 to get his body back into shape.  In 2021 he started off back in Syracuse and was promoted to the Mets for one game in July where he gave up two solo HRs in three innings of work against the Reds getting tagged with the loss after coming when the starting pitcher was injured.  Stephen wound up getting himself injured with shoulder inflammation but came back later to finish the year in Syracuse.  He became a free agent in November returning to the Mets on a minor league deal on in January 2022.

Stephen Nogosek - Photo by Herm Card - Herm4444@gmail.com

In 2022 Stephen will serves as a depth piece in Syracuse but should injuries happen, he could get the call to Flushing.  Maybe this could be the year that he puts it all together and dominates the major leagues like he did in Syracuse and Binghamton in 2019.  

Here is Stephen Nogosek’s FANGRAPHS page.

Here is Stephen Nogosek’s Baseball Savant page.

Stats: 

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Videos:

Ernest Dove and Thomas Brice interview with Stephen Nogosek:









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