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Jonathan Mayo, prospect guru, has a new video up on the main features section of the front page of MinorLeagueBaseball.com featuring interviews with Mike Carp and Eddie Kunz, two of the six Mets playing for the Scottsdale Scorpions of the Arizona Fall League.
Speaking about this past season, Carp says:
I learned a lot this year; this year was a bit of an up and year for me and stuff, so I learned how to deal with those struggles and what I need to do to help prepare myself for next year and keep myself on top of my game.
Carp is hitting .230 in the AFL thus far. He hit .251 with 11 homers and 48 RBI in an injury shortened season for Double A Binghamton this year. He was left off Baseball America’s top 10 Mets prospects, a list that was released today, after being included last year.
In seven games, and eight innings, Kunz has a 12.46 ERA for the Scorpions, allowing 12 hits and 14 runs. He was the Mets’ supplemental first round pick out of Oregon State in this past June’s draft.
A few nights ago, lefty Adam Bostick, whom the Mets acquired from the Marlins last off-season, threw five shutout innings for Scottsdale. He has a 1.42 ERA in Arizona this fall.
As for the Mets playing in Hawaii Winter Baseball, 1B/OF Lucas Duda and 2B Hector Pellot both went deep for Waikiki. Duda, a 7th round pick out of USC, is hitting .324 with four doubles and two homers in 34 Hawaii at bats, after hitting .299 with 20 doubles and four homers for Brooklyn, a show of the raw power he had trouble displaying in college. Pellot is hitting .286 in Hawaii after hitting .275 between low A Savannah and a brief stint in A+ St. Lucie.
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Any word on whether or not the Hawaii league is more hitter friendly?
14 runs in 8 innings for Kunz? hes still better than sele.
“I learned how to deal with those struggles and what I need to do to help prepare myself for next year and keep myself on top of my game.”
Carp is hitting .230 in the AFL thus far.
-if only the play matched the talk. I don’t expect Carp to reach the heights of Jorge Toca and Craig Brazill; and that’s not exact reaching towards the sky.
I noticed clicking on the link that Brazell lead all Minor leagues in HR last season
Of course it was for the KC affiliate as he is no longer a Met prospect
Useless factoids of the day: Craig Brazell was drafted by the Mets in the 5th round of the 1998 amateur draft, 8 slots ahead of Tampa Bay picking Aubrey Huff.
Brazell has 162 lifetime career minor league homeruns. Huff has only has 61 career minor league homers (plus 156 major league jacks).
Crash Davis better watch out.
I was under the impression that Bostick was starting to improve a bit towards the end of the season in AAA. Here’s to hope there’s something to show for Owens/Lindstrom.
He is going to be well worth it, my friend.
Based on what knowledge?
I like this Duda kid. I’ve seen him play. He has a sweet swing. He seems like as a major leaguer he could be like Wright with a little less average and a little more pop.
As for Kunz, I think that he has some electric stuff and would be good if he didn’t hang his pitches up the middle, or anywhere for that matter. I think Nick Carr will move through the system a little more quickly.
Carp is like Burnitz in his days as a Met, and that’s his absolute potential. If he hits the majors he’ll probably be like Shane Spencer or Shelley Duncan.
I have yet to see Pellot, but based on his numbers so far, it seems that if he hits his potential he’ll hit 15 HRs, 75 RBI, .280/.350/.440 wtih around 30 SB.
Mike Carp = Jorge Toca