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2011
This Week On The Mets Farm
An article by Hojo's Mojo
Mark Cohoon Debuts For Bisons
Left-handed pitcher Mark Cohoon has been promoted from Double-A Binghamton to Triple-A Buffalo, the team announced on Friday. Cohoon got the start for the Bisons on Monday against the Charlotte Knights and had a rocky debut. Cohoon lasted five innings and earned the win, but allowed five earned runs on seven hits. He walked two, hit two batters and struck out one..
Cohoon, 23, was 1-3 with a 3.81 ERA in nine starts and 52.0 innings of work (59 H, 17 BB, 44 K) at Binghamton. The southpaw has worked five or more innings in all but one of his starts and has allowed three of fewer runs in seven of the nine appearances. His 44 strikeouts lead the B-Mets.
Last season, Cohoon made 13 starts at Single-A Savannah and Binghamton. He was a combined 12-5 with a 2.57 ERA (161.1 IP, 142 H, 131 K).
Mets High On Schwinden
Chris Schwinden was kept from his team-high ninth start of the year for the Bisons last week while the Mets considered having him start in R.A. Dickey’s place on Today. That won’t happen now as Dickey convinced Terry Collins he was okay to start. Schwinden, 24, has a 2.36 ERA – the 5th best mark in the International League, and leads the Bisons with three wins and 41 strikeouts. He has limited opponents to 31 hits while walking 14 (two intentionally) and striking out 41 in 45 2/3 innings.
“He’s been doing a great job,” Buffalo manager Tim Teufel said. “This year he seems like he’s coming in with more weapons. He has a curveball now he’s working with, and a changeup. Plus, he’s got that regular fastball and a cut fastball. He almost uses that as a slider. He still needs to mix in his changeup a little bit more, and he showed me a decent curveball. If he can mix all of those pitches up, he’s been very effective up here so far doing that and keeping the hitters off-balance.”
All In The Familia
After posting a 1.49 ERA ERA in six starts with Class A St. Lucie this season, during which he held opponents to 21 hits, eight walks and one homer in 36 1/3 innings, Familia was promoted to Double-A Binghamton. With the B-Mets, the right-hander limited opponents to one unearned run in 14 innings over his first two starts while maintaining mid-90s velocity deep into the outings. He was not quite as effective in his third outing, allowing three runs (two earned) in five innings on Sunday against Harrisburg. Familia was tagged with his first Eastern League loss.
Jeurys Familia’s fastball has been electric for a while. The development of his curveball and changeup has been the most striking difference in the past two to three years, according to Binghamton catcher Kai Gronauer who also caught Familia in the Gulf Coast League and with Savannah.
Harvey Movin’ On Up?
According to Adam Rubin, Matt Harvey is expected to move to Double-A Binghamton as soon as this week.
On Friday, the Mets 2010 first-round pick tossed his best start of the season striking out ten batters and walking one, over seven scoreless innings to improve to 6-2 with a 2.50 ERA on the season.
In 54 innings pitched, Harvey has 62 strikeouts to lead the league while allowing just 18 walks. His 2.50 ERA ranks third in the league and he is tied for the league lead in wins with six. He has held FSL batters to a .228 batting average.
Cory Vaughn Making Noise
Another Met prospect who may be on the verge of a promotion is Savannah outfielder Cory Vaughn. The son of former major leaguer Greg Vaughn is hitting .335 with four homers and 26 RBIs, and has a .466 on-base percentage and .949 OPS in 176 at-bats with the Gnats.
Vaughn is hitting a ridiculous .376/.527/.565 in May with 10 extra-base hits including three home runs – all on the road. Against LHP, the 22-year old is batting .375 with a 1.003 OPS.
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hojo,
thanks for keeping us updated with what’s going on with the mets minor leaguers, i have to say, i am gaga goyy for familia, he’s OUR stud and ace of the future, along with harvey and mejia, we can have a rotation of santana, mejia, familia, harvey and felix hernandez (:-)hoping we trade dwright for him) by 2014, also, cory vaughn imo will be a good player for us, and last but certainly not least, cohoon, if you say it in spanish is a bad word!! lol..
tu tienes los cohoon-es bien grande!!
For the love of god alex can you PLEASE stop talking about King Felix to NYM for David Wright?
The only way that trade happens is if Pujols gets traded for AJ Burnett, Miggy Cabrera goes for Derek Lowe and Angel Pagan nets the Mets Matt Cain.
You gotta stop and move on, it just makes you look ridiculous to even mention it.
good morning to you too jesseP..
first of all, i don’t say anything when you post your crappy articles, and yet you have to insult me or try to blast me because i want the mets to trade a known choker for an ace?? can i for once make a comment that you resoect my opinion w/o trying to debate it or turn it into a jesseP/alex 68 bout???
Grandes Cohoon-es he has:)
“because i want the mets to trade a known choker for an ace??”
Yeah that pretty much sums up why your “idea” is just plain ridiculous.
Sorry, if you don’t want to get called out, try remembering that this isn’t MLB2k12. There is no chance in the world that the Seattle Mariners would trade a 25 year old DOMINANT starting pitcher who is signed THROUGH 2014 for a 28 year old 3B who is signed THROUGH 2012 with an option for 2013.
It doesn’t make even a slight bit of sense. None.
Not to mention the fact that the Mariners got a 24 year old highly touted 1B in Justin Smoak for a rent-a-pitcher in Cliff Lee. Now suddenly they will flip to incompetence and trade 3 guaranteed years of dominant pitching for 2 guaranteed years of “good” hitting?
Just move on from it. Get the idea out of your head.
ok jesseP, i thought you were gonna disagree with me when i said you’re fav player is a choker, and i don’t have a problem with debating, but since i always used to whip you, you went on a riot to get me to go away, coz u couldn’t beat me in any debate…
Wright and Pelfrey for Felix and prospect.
DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So I’m sorry are you trying to say that my point of view that the Mariners wouldn’t for a second consider King Felix for DWright and Cory Vaughn is the unrealistic one?
dwright, pelfrey. cory vaughn and jesseP for felix hernandez.. maybe i get rid of all the chokers at last once and for all lol!!!
I hope you have a job somewhere with the Mets for the Seattle GM. He’d need a job if he ever made that deal
you mean the same GM who acquire milton B, signed figgins to a atrocious contract, gave ichiro 20 million per, and got lee and traded within 1 year?? that GM.. ??
we’re giving them a cheap pitcher who at times (when his head is not in lalaland) can be good, an “all star 3b, a prospect with good projection in vaugh, and a writer from metsmerize who thinks is the next nostradamus!!
Pelfrey won’t be very cheap anymore. Arbitration is a you-know-what.
alex: Stop trying to demean Seattle’s GM to fit your ridiculous argument that trading King Felix for David Wright is a logical thought.
You know it isn’t. There’s absolutely NOTHING to gain by doing it. Nothing.
Tell me why Seattle makes that deal?
To have a debate with someone you actually have to have a lucid argument. You also don’t get respect for an opinion when you don’t give any respect.
Answer this, if the worst 3B in MLB history according to you, drives in 100 RBI’s a year and hits on or close to 30 hrs a year, who are these people he’s driving in? No player in the history of the sport is going to drive in the winning run in the bottom of the 9th every single time. That choke artist still holds the franchise record for driving in the winning run in more games they anyone EVER, so choke this.
Mike Francesa told us he’s a choke artist, therefor, he is a choke artist. Why is that so hard to understand?
And don’t give me no numbers, or stats, or records, or facts or accurate representation of reality. I’ve got this memory of this one time I think something happened.
did i hit a nerve?? are you one of those sabermetrics heads who don’t watch the game but the box scores?? i don’t even listen to francesa, he’s an idiot, but if you go or watch the games as I DO then you’d realize how poorly our “franchise player” is in the cluth!!!!
but, since you’re a fan, you won’t be able to see the truth, w/o reyes he was a polanco type of player 310 10 72, with reyes ata the top, beltran and delgado raking, he was consider a superstar… please.. trade him with someone or in a package for a stud pitcher, before the pressure REALLY sink the value he has..
I just don’t understand why you think Wright’s value is worth a “stud pitcher” yet you diminish his value all day long?
Let me put this clear to you
Wright is 28 years old and a good not great player.
You’re not getting a 24-26 year old stud starting pitcher for David Wright
Is that your M.O – if someone points out how foolish your comments are that makes them a sabermetrics head? WOW wonder where you got that one from.
Dude I watch every game, you obviously do not.
Amen! Well said Alex.
schwinden sounds like a guy that is just putting it all together (with the added pitch, etc.) but that really would be well served working on getting the details down (and fully comfrotable with all his pitches) in AAA, and not getting rushed up to the majors while he is fine tuning his craft.
let him pitch the bulk of the season in Buffalo, and hopefully he will perfect the change/curve/approach. And if he does, and starts to really dominate, call him up at the end of the year for a taste, and to get a feel if he might be in the mix for next season.
bringing him up now just smells like a bit of a rush job.
AGREE, same with Familia, Harvey, Vaughn. Maybe Vaughn can be our LF for a while. Last one that we had for more than 3 years was McReynolds, I think.
jay payton was here for … 4 1/2 years, although 2 1/2 as a regular LF.. but i get what you mean, our LF since mcreynolds have always Suck!!!
alou, bay, agbayani, etc…
jesseP,
i said many times, to get a stud pitcher like felix or an ace, the mets should trade wright, and a package, he along could net us oliver perez and luis castillo as this point…
alex68: To get a stud pitcher like a Felix, the mets will need more than Wright. Wright isn’t 25 years old. Nobody is trading a young stud SP for a 28 year old non HOF bound 3B.
To get a stud pitcher the Mets need a stud farm system. They aren’t getting Felix Hernandez, so just get rid of that dream… you’ll be happier in the end
You can tell him that 100 billion more times, but dense is dense, he just doesn’t get it, not now, not ever……..
A few thoughts…
As far as Mark Cohoon goes, I don’t like the decision for him to be called up to AAA Buffalo. He has been struggling badly his last few starts in Binghamton and was starting to become pretty hittable. Then again, everyone in that starting pitching staff (except Familia) has struggled. It was way too soon for Cohoon to be called up now. Seeing his line from his AAA debut, my point is proven.
How much longer is Cory Vaughn gonna stay in Savannah? He’s far and away the best all-around player on that team and all he’s done is fluctuate between .335 and .350 this season. At one point, his OBP was near .500! AA Binghamton needs someone with punch offensively & someone defensively. Vaughn needs to make that jump before June ends.
alex:
we’re giving them a cheap pitcher who at times (when his head is not in lalaland) can be good, an “all star 3b, a prospect with good projection in vaugh, and a writer from metsmerize who thinks is the next nostradamus!!
For starters on Pelfrey: He pitches in the NL, in one of baseball’s best pitchers park and he still has problems. What happens in the AL?
Secondly, he’s OLDER than King Felix!
Are you honestly trying to tell me that for the Seattle Mariners it makes sense to trade 25 year old Felix Hernandez signed THROUGH 2014
For 28 year old David Wright signed through 2013 and 27 year old Mike Pelfrey who is making more than $3mil in arbitration?
To top it off, King Felix can block a trade to 10 teams. Do you even know if NYM is one of them?
Your magical trade doesn’t even save the Mariners money! They aren’t trading King Felix to spend the same amount of money+have a worse pitching staff+ plus have a 3B who is a free agent in 2 years.
Seriously do yourself a favor and let all thoughts of King felix to the Mets escape your brain, especially for David Wright and Mike Pelfrey. It’s just unrealistic.
3 or maybe 4 players for 1, wouldn’t YOU do it!!??? mr. gm!????
also, again, i am not saying it’s gonna happen, but is a thought it has crossed my mind, my wishful thinking, and yet, when you propose trades and ideas, you’re 100% right, but when others do, they’re either wrong, stupid, idiotic or plain just unrealistic, yet, the mets haven’t done 1 single trade in the past 4 years that makes sense, guess you’re not that “know it all” as you say you are, live and let live bro.. you’re not smarter than anyone here, you’re just a whiny coward who thinks is somehow a stronger person behind the desk of a comp. respect other opinions bro, i am sure you’re not this insulting face to face are you?
is my idea, and ifg you don’t like it, well shove it up your A-ss, i can care less what you think, move on bro…
alex: No… I wouldn’t. And you won’t find a single person who knows even a little about baseball to say they would. You don’t trade quantity for quality.
Your response makes me wonder why in the world Joe D banned you for a year?
Sorry, if you’re gonna come on here and talk about how much you hate DWright and how much of a terrible player you think he is; then you can’t come here and say he should be the key to a King Felix trade.
Felix is one of 5 elite young arms in the entire sport (Lincecum, Price, Kershaw, Felix, Josh Johnson although he’s escaping the “young” group probably)
I recommend getting guys like David DeJesus. I don’t come on here and say how terrible our roster is and then think they are good enough to trade for one of the best pitchers in the entire sport who is under contract for LONGER than the guys I recommend trading for.