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Over the weekend, the Mets announced that 2B Anderson Hernandez has been named their Minor League Player-of-the-Year, while RHP Kevin Mulvey earned Pitcher-of-the-Year honors.
Hernandez hit .301 in 554 at-bats with 84 runs scored, 28 doubles, five triples, five home runs, 42 RBI and 16 stolen bases in 128 games for Triple-A New Orleans.
The 22–year-old Mulvey was 12-10 with a 3.20 ERA in 27 starts between Double-A and Triple-A.
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Too bad Anderson can’t hit MLB pitching.
AHern player of the year. Wow, Omar will really fool another organization with that one. Carp last year, Hernandez this year. Mulvey? What a dismal farm system.
A dismal farm system?
They have had players like Wright, Reyes, Heilman, Milledge and Gomez come up in recent years. And Carp is a decent prospect, he is only 21. Name 5 teams who have had players like that come up in the last 3 years. Also, most POY aren’t the teams best prospects.
D-Backs, Twins, Yankees, Rockies, Phillies, Tigers. Need I go on? Geez, overestimate the Mets talent a bit? Heilman–kidding, right? Millz, TBD.
Wright and Reyes are the two best players brought up in the last 3 years.
Dbacks : Young, Drew and Upton all havent proven anything.
Twins: Morneau and Mauer thats one team
Yankees: Cano and Wang, Chamberlain and Hughes havent proven much, thats two
Rockies: Tulowitski and Francis not as good as Mets
Phillies: Howard Utley both older than Reyes and Wright Theres 3
Tigers: Granderson, Zumaya, Verlander theres another thats 4
Thats 4 teams out of 30 in baseball, I wasnt saying they had the best system in the game but it isnt dismal. The do have an above average system.
Heilman is a good reliver, not great but I would take him over 75% of the relievers in baseball.
I got bored naming teams. Wright and Reyes are here, who else has come up and made an impact? Joe Smith? Gomez has done nothing and is far from ready. The best players are probably in Brooklyn, years away. I couldn’t care less about what other teams have, the talent at the upper levels of the mets farm if anything is totally overrated.
Here’s some more – more obvious teams:
Angels: Casey Kotchman, Howie Kendrick, Jered Weaver
Dodgers: James Loney, Andre Ethier, Matt Kemp, Jonathon Broxton, Chad Billingsly
Brewers: Braun, Fielder, Gallardo
Braves: Saltalamachia, Franceour, Matt Diaz, Brian McCann
In terms of Reyes and Wright, they have easily (outside of Fielder, Braun and Hanley Ramiriez) made the largest impact at the youngest age. But beyond that we are a whole lotta what if’s.
Gomez has done nothing?? Did his catch at Yankee Stadium not make a difference??
I’m not saying he’ll be an All Star in 2008, but let’s not be an extremist on the other end, either.
You forgot the Brewers, D-Rays and Braves as well.
Heilman..lol…he is freakin 28 years old too.
I left the Braves off because I didn’t want to get into a childish discussion of rubber and glue.
I still think we wasted Heilman. He has been good for the bullpen up until this up and down 2007; but as a starter we could have gotten significant value trading him. Young talented starters don’t come around very often. When he was 25 there were plenty of teams willing to give us talent.
My point is that the mets aren’t dismal, I never said they were great but Wright, Reyes, Heilman, Milledge, Gomez, Mulvey, Pelfrey, Humber, FMart, Carp and Guerra. they have a slightly above average system
So Ruben Gotay hits AAA pitching to a .256 tune and then gets called up and hits above .300. Hernandez is the opposite.
Go figure.
As much as Castillo has been a perfect fit for the team, I’d be inclined NOT to give him a big, multi-year contract and take our chances with Gotay and A-Hern.
I agree. He had a decent stretch, but has cooled off a bit. Given his total lack of pop, his age (32?), and the chronic knee issues, he is a disaster waiting to happen.
Maybe bring him back on a real short term deal, but not for a big money 3 year guarantee.
At this point, A hern might be almost as productive! And if Gotay can go on a crash course on defense ofver the winter, he could do the job, and add quite a bit of pop.
Depending on what happens next year, they could be ver light on power. If Alou does retire, do they play Gomez? Milledge, should hit for at least modest power, but that is 2 OFs that don’t mash.
Add in 2B and C, and seeminly SS, you are only left with DW, Beltran, and sorta Delgado that are good for a HR on a regular basis.
Lots of speed though!
Great point about the perspective lack of HR production, although I think Milledge will ultimately develop into a 25-30 HR threat, and perhaps a good five hole guy behind Beltran. In any case, Castillo wouldn’t solve that problem, and it’s unlikely that they’d find a slugging 2nd baseball (are there any beyond Utley and Cano?)… so, again, I’d be comfortable with a Gotay and A-Hern.
Personally, I think you’re going to see a small shift back towards speed and defense. With baseball cracking down on roids and rumors of blood tests for HGH, teams are going to have to rely on the old tried and true: pitching, defense, speed, and timely hitting.
Look at how Epstein has remade the Sox. He brought in Lugo, Drew, and Pedroia to go along with Crisp, Lowell, and Youkilis. None of those guys are mashers. Not to mention they have Ellsbury waiting in the wings.
According to Adam Rubin’s book, the purpose of the minor league awards is to pump up the value of b-level prospects.