Minors: Mets Fall League Video
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.
