As he continues his tour of the Mets minor league system, for Mets Minor League Blog, Toby Hyde writes today about Mets 16–year-old OF Wilmer Flores.
Also, Hyde explains why the Mets should pull Triple-A RHP Brandon Knight from the Olympic team and, instead, start him on Saturday in place of Pedro Martinez, who is scheduled to miss the start while with his family.
In five starts since joining the Triple-A Zephyrs, the 32-year-old Knight is 4-1 with a 2.08 ERA.
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Hey Wilmer!!!
If Knight really is the best bet, do it, but I expect the Wil[pons won’t pull him from the olympic team.
I guess Lugo, although what about Aquilar?
The 40 man isn’t an issue, since there is plenty or room. It will probably come down to options as opposed to the best “option”.
I know it won’t happen, but purely out of curiousity, I wonder what Wilmer would do if they called him up now, and let him play everday?
Yeah, I know all about rushing guys and confidence, I really just would be interested to see if he could hold his own.
And of course, no chance it happens. But who knows, if this continues, in 2 years he is tearing up AA and is the next F. Mart.
I think he can’t play in the bigs until he’s 18… Is this kid really 16? This is crazy!
not crazy just stupid!
I don’t think that there is an age requirement for the major leagues. I know you have to be 16 in order to sign a contract, but once you are a professional baseball player, i don’t think that they have different requirements for each level.
and he only cost the Mets $750K. I think our intl scouts know what they’re doing.
There’s a good chance pitching in the Olympics is going to be Brandon Knight’s career highlight. I wouldn’t pull it from him for one spot start. Where is he anyway? The Olympics start in barely more than a week…haven’t they left for China yet?
Correcting myself…mets.com reports Knight is pitching for NO on Thursday….so does he have to be held off the Olympic team to pitch Saturday?
Jon Niese pitched this afternoon for Bingy, throwing a complete game shutout (7 inning game) He was so on his game maybe they should have had him pitching for the Mets today… ;)
and Ollie was even better….
So when did Flores become an OF?
he didnt, but we knew that ;)
Looks like Knight is the choice for Saturday. Good, let’s see what he’s got. Good luck Brandon.
For a team that’s supposedly barren down on the farm, there are some interesting prospects to watch in the Mets system right now. Flores’ numbers in A-ball would be impressive if he was 20 like the rest of his peers and he’s 16! Reese Havens was mashing with what seems to be one arm before they finally decided too shut him down. Holt threw 7 innings of no-hit ball in only his second start in Brooklyn. And of course there’s F-Mart and Niese who continue to show progress in AA. Consider that Pelfrey and Joe Smith are already up in the bigs and contributing big time in a pennant race, and I really don’t think this FO has damaged the farm system as much as some rival scouts and talking heads seem to imply.
And I still think guys like Kunz and Francisco Pena who scouts are down on because of up and down first years in the minors, can turn out to be something special. I read recently that defensively, Pena is already a big league quality catcher, he just needs some plate discipline.
the only reason that the mets farm system is lowly in other people’s minds is that there isnt a name that pops out at you like a tim beckham or a buster posey, but there are prospects, i think that they should hold on to their players and build on it through the years, like the red sox.
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