Comments on: Note: Wilpon Misinformed, Farm System is ‘Thin’

By: zen

zen — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:09:53 +0000

wilpon didn’t want piazza. doubleday forced it so you can drop 1999 and 2000 from the mets successes

By: guierllNO MOta

guierllNO MOta — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:19:04 +0000

Does anyone remember when Brazell was in Binghamton? The Mets sucked and everyday in multiple papers all you read was how they needed a shot in the arm like Brazell with all of his “power”…I’m sorry that you can go look up stats at baseball reference but its amazingthe short term memory of some fans….

Think back to 2003 and remember what the state of this team was and the buzz around Brazell and how Mo Vaughn was old and not good anymore…if this does not sound familiar to you, you became a Mets fan after 04 or took a couple years off when they sucked.

By: NJMike

NJMike — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:14:18 +0000

If Carp is projected to be a DH maybe trade him to AL team for something we can use this year?

By: theperfectgame

theperfectgame — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:15:19 +0000

Well, you get that sometimes at that level, especially early in the season. And after all, you can’t control who you play, just how you play.

By: metsfanatic

metsfanatic — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:54:24 +0000

Another 30 year old rookie who if you note was released by the Washington Nationals. LOL

By: haplo

haplo — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:44:24 +0000

Brazell didn’t start dominating the EL until the second half of his age 22 season. Carp’s a full year younger than that right now, and he’s doing better than Brazell ever did. Believe it or not, that year makes a huge difference when you’re trying to separate the prospects from the career minor leaguers. My guess is that Mike Jacobs is the better comp, hopefully with more of an ability to hit LHP.

If there’s any knock on Carp, it’s that he’s a EL repeater (that’s what might make Evans the more exciting prospect, esp. since he’s begun to hit RHP). Contrary to what people have said, he needs to be promoted to AAA soon so the Mets have a better idea of what they have. That leap from AA to the bigs is pretty huge, and Carp has a history of starting out slow on a new level.

As for Pascucci, I think people are looking for the next Jack Cust. The similarities are definitely there; Cust homered, struck out and walked a ton in his monster PCL year in 2006, and that’s what Pascucci is doing now (and the three true outcomes are the ones most likely to translate to the big league level).

By: patrick

patrick — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:32:09 +0000

In the age of Google, please do not make things up to sound important.

Brazell NEVER looked like a minor league hero and while he was 23 in his second season at AA struggled to have an OPS slightly above .800 and k’d 5 times as much as he walked.

m’kay

As for Huber he put up decent numbers in AA but the fact is players can’t be compared in your heroic vacuum.

By: patrick

patrick — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:25:29 +0000

you answered my sarcasm with this?

By: patrick

patrick — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:24:31 +0000

You’d prefer he hit what? .460?

By: theperfectgame

theperfectgame — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:14:48 +0000

All wildly hyped prospects as they were progressing through the minors, right?

“Big name” does not equal “outstanding talented”. My point is, I’d rather have a handful of non-hyped prospects who have performed well in the minors (like we do) than a select few can’t miss prospects (like Bill Pulsipher and Alex Escobar).