Comments on: Minors: Composite Mets Top 10 Prospects

By: Joe

Joe — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 22:11:21 +0000

Joe…

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By: thrilledge 4 prez

thrilledge 4 prez — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 22:03:34 +0000

If bunting was never introduced to the game, carlos gomez would be flipping burgers at BK.

By: thrilledge 4 prez

thrilledge 4 prez — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 21:58:40 +0000

are those church’s numbers?

By: thrilledge 4 prez

thrilledge 4 prez — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 21:55:57 +0000

all i know is that thrilledge mashed at every level!!!!these two guys are the spanish jay payton and gary mathews without juice.

By: gowrightgo

gowrightgo — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 21:40:30 +0000

LAstings is going to be very good. I don’t care that he has too little plate discipline right now. He can hit. YOu can see it. It is plain as day. Plus he can field and throw. His speed has been overestimated. Seems very good speedwise in the field but on the bases…not so much.

I hate that we dumped him in favor of the win now approach. Further….I hate that we sold him so low on his value scale when we ended up with decent but only slightly better than average players at the positions.

By: gowrightgo

gowrightgo — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 21:38:25 +0000

I’ll jump back in on this one. I totally agree that if they are to become MLr’s…then they need to eventually be able to handle harder and tougher competition. But it is not entirely necessary to push them quite so hard. 21 is still very young for most positional prospects (Gomez). It is even younger for almost every pitching prospect as it is understood that pitching is a craft that takes time to get and master. Certainly it is agreed now that AA is the precursor spot to the bigs and most teams just glance their best prospects with a taste of AAA before moving them to the bigs. AAA has become a place to stash ready help in the form of former MLrs and lesser prospects who are getting too old for the lower levels.

There is no reason to test an 18 yr old in AA when conceivably he could still be at the level at 21 and be young for the development scale.

Fmart and Gomez and Pelfrey and Humber would all have benefited from slowing their progression through our system and their numbers would likely be better. Eventually they must graduate through the system but you do not have to take a brilliant 13 yr old in 8th grade and have him take the SAT and college level courses to see if he can be an average student but young for his grade or college career.

Let him gain the experience and keep his confidence all the while keeping or perhaps inflating his value.

at 25, you need to have graduated the sytem as a positional player. I’d say 26 for the pitchers. But not 18 – 19 or 21 – 23.

Patience may win the long battle and keep the trade possibilities alive

By: gowrightgo

gowrightgo — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 21:28:01 +0000

I just checked over at the Yanks system report. If you think ours is bad…2 of their top 7 did not even play last year due to injury. Both had Tommy John surgery. You think our system sucks….how about that one

By: pochemunyet

pochemunyet — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 21:27:52 +0000

Teach Isiah to spell his name right!

Then fire him!

By: dannyb

dannyb — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 21:03:31 +0000

Like my friend Borat would say, “Eh, that was a Wise signing NOT.”

“That was a Wise signing pause not.”

By: tinathemetsgrl

tinathemetsgrl — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 21:01:18 +0000

yeah, Paige is pretty good.

Fire Isiah!! Fire Isiah!! The 20 straight misses last night was really funny.

ooh wfan said we just signed matt wise!! the signing we’ve all been waiting for!!!!!!