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The Mets announced the signing of first-round pick SS Reese Havens and supplemental first-round pick RHP Brad Holt at Shea Stadium yesterday.
According to the team, both players will next report to Single-A Brooklyn, who will begin their season on June 17 against the Staten Island Yankees.
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Excellent. I look forward to getting out there and seeing them in person. The Cyclones put on a good family friendly show. Curious to see where they play Havens.
It’s STATEN Island yankees! Not State Island Yankees! I hope that was a typo Matt!! I hate how everyone seems to forget that Staten Island IS a part of New York City! Nevertheless I still hope the Cyclones beat them.
I wish the other 4 boroughs could kick staten island out
As a Staten Islander I wish they would too, right to Jersey. This way Jersey will get half of the Verazzano toll and all you Long Islanders will have to pay $10 more a day for the LIRR, which the Verazzano and Staten Islanders who have to use it subsidize.
staten island is to nyc as beltran’s mole is to his face.
the most important part, most crucial to his success?
New York and New Jersey flipped a coin to see who would get Staten Island. New York lost.
lmao good one
staten island is meaningless.
Have any of you even been on Staten Island???????????????? It’s actually a really wonderful place to live. It feels like a suburban town without any the hustle and bustle of bronx queens and brooklyn, yet manhattan is very easily accessible.
Even the commute to shea is only an hour and a half by Public transportation or an hour by car. Stop trashing Staten Island if you don’t know anything about it cause I’m sure it’s much nicer then whatever community your living in!
one summer i worked a canvassing job that entailed visiting nearly every neighborhood in Staten Island–I saw much of the geography and met many of the people. It is a horrible place. That is all.
When does Ike Davis fall into the picture? Still working on a contract or something?
Yes.
So, according to Fred Wilpon, Havens and Holt have now reached the pinnacle of their careers — New York’s premier baseball offering — the Brooklyn Cyclones. We can hope they play well enough not to be banished to that “other” team — you know, the one that wears frigging Giants’ hats. . . . .
we need to Sign Davis…sign the damn contract Davis!
i think he started working on contract stuff later than the other 2 guys because he was in the college world series playoffs
Hopefully they dont stay there long, the NYPL is rather below their supposed talent levels…
But, see, it’s not about them, it’s about the Cyclones.
Conspiracy theory aside, however, don’t draft picks usually play in a short season league to start, no matter what?
Not always, but it does make some sense to group the new guys together. A high draft pick like Ike Davis should report to St. Lucie, play with the GCL team for a couple days and then spend the rest of the season with the FSL team if he signs at all.
Its debatable where Holt should go, but the NYPL is probably the worst place for him to start out. He should either go to the GCL and work on secondary pitches, or be a one pitch reliever higher up the chain than Brooklyn if the Mets think he can help them out this or next year.
Havens should probably be in St. Lucie as well, if not Savannah. The Mets never send draft picks to the SAL team though, because they have the Cyclones.
Joe Smith pitched almost the entire rest of the year with the Cyclones when he was drafted, getting a really short stint at AA at the end of the year. He should have been in St. Lucie the whole time instead…
The GCL is the lowest level of the farm system and you want these guys to go there first before going to St. Lucie? You were kidding right? How about Kunz? Their top draft pick from last year out of college? Played in Brooklyn all year after he signed and now where is he? In Binghamton AA. See, the college pitchers have been pitching since January. The Mets dont push college pitchers coming off their college seasons. Most teams dont. They’ll send him to Brooklyn and limit his pitch counts. The other guys they send to Brooklyn to give them their first taste of professional ball and to give them confidence, and if they show they’ve adapted quickly, they send them up.
Send Davis to St. Lucie and he’ll only be splitting time there with Duda who was already splitting time there with someone, between first, LF, and DH. He has to get used to hitting with wood and part time in St. Lucie wont help. Brooklyn is as good a place as any to do that. Definetly better than the GCL and all the high school players that are down there.
I think the most important things now are to get them acclimated to the organization, and to get the organization familiar with them on a very basic level. I don’t think you need to worry about the level of competition quite yet.
Did Alou get to give them some conditioning tips last night?
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One good thing about the Cyclones season starting is that players like Alou will have somewhere to rehab for a couple games rather than attempt to come off the DL cold like he has twice already this year.
why does is seem Alou has the say over his rehab or lack thereof? Does he just really dislike St. Lucie?