Minors: Five Minutes with Ike Davis
In a post to Baseball Prospectus, David Laurila spent five minutes with 21–year-old Brooklyn 1B Ike Davis.
Davis, on playing in New York, not Atlanta, whose compensatory pick the Mets used to draft him, as quoted by Laurila:
“It would be a lot different. I don’t know where their minor league system is, but I wouldn’t be up here in New England right now, and I don’t know their rules. But it would have been cool either way. I’m really excited that the Mets drafted me. It’s a big organization and they like to win; they try to do everything they can to win.”
Among other things, Laurila asks Davis about who he best compares to, what is his approach at the plate, hitting lefties compared to righties, and advice from his father, who was a former major-league pitcher.
