22
2011
Mets Sign Adam Loewen To Minor League Deal
An article by Craig Lerner
Matt Eddy of Baseball America has reported that the Mets have gone ahead and signed minor league free agent outfielder Adam Loewen to a minor league contract.
The former pitcher and Orioles first round pick, ran into some major control problems and bouts with wildness and is now reinventing himself as an outfielder, much like Rick Ankiel before him. His major league line as a pitcher was 8-8 in 29 starts with a 5.38 ERA over the three year of 2006-2008.
As a right fielder, Loewen batted .306 in 134 games for Triple-A Las Vegas in the PCL. In 585 plate appearances he posted a .377 OBP and an impressive .508 SLG for a combined .884 OPS.
At 27-years old, Loewen could make his return to the majors as a hitter as soon as this season, especially if he maintains a similar level of success in Triple-A Buffalo for the Mets.
This could be a nice under the radar signing for the Mets and one to keep a close eye on.
About the Author: Craig Lerner
I'm a data analyst and researcher for a leading news agency who loves life and is hooked on the Mets. I love following the Amateur Draft and have a particular fondness for the Mets Minor Leagues who I follow each day. Give me a cold beer, a summer day, and a Mets game, and I'm good to go.
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To be fair to Loewen, his control problems stemmed from major injuries to his throwing elbow.
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DID EMAUS NOT TEACH US THAT LAS VEGAS OFFENSIVE STATS ARE AS RELIABLE AS VIETNAM ERA U.S. MILITARY ESTIMATES ON ENEMY KIAs?
IMO, THIS IS NO MORE THAN A POSITIONING MOVE AS TOO MANY OF OUR OWN TOP OUTFIELD PROSPECTS MISSED TOO MANY GAMES LAST SEASON & PRIDIE HAS DEPLETED THE RANKS BELOW JUST AS DUDA’S PROMOTION HAS SHOULD F-MART, & CAP. KIRK HAVE SIMILAR ABSENCES IN ’12 OUTFIELD DEPTH BELOW WILL BECOME A CRITICAL ISSUE QUICKLY. SOMETIMES THESE MiLB SIGNINGS HAXE LITTLE TO DO WITH MLB PICTURE THAN IT HAS TO DO WITH PROVIDING ADEQUATE SUPPORT TO THOSE CITIES IN WHICH WE TRAIN OUR FUTURE WHERE WE MUST REMAIN IN GOOD STEAD TO MAINTAIN OUR CHANCES AT RECEIVING LOCAL GOV’T CONCESSIONS AS A PERCEIVED + TO THAT CITY’S OUTLOOK. DO OUR TEAMS HOUSED THERE INCREASE CITY REVENUE? ARE WE BETTER TENANTS THAN THEY COULD SEEK ELSEWHERE? THERE ARE MANY EXTRANEOUS CONSIDERATIONS WHEN TIGHTENING THE NOOSE, ERR, I MEAN BELT.
So what does that mean for the current outfeilders in the Majors? Trade bait? Highly unlikely & they have eyes on Endy “The Catch” Chavez. Wouldn’t it be funny if Omar gets the Toronto job and the Mets can trade the Canadian to them. Just a thought.
probably nothing to the current ML guys. He should, however, add to the competition for a spare OF spot in ST, considering some of the internal options finished the year injured (F Mart, Kirk). Both those guys should really be in the minors to start anyway.
I would still love to see bay platooning (and if he continues to hit like Ray Ordonez vs. RHP, it will have to happen). Preferably in RF. So they will need a guy to match up with him.
From your lips to Gods ears!
Every team has to sign some filler pieces for the minors and/or ST roster spots. This is an interesting guy though. Still relatively young, and developing as a hitter, so there is potential for him to get better and actually become a ML player.
better than just signing low talent 33 YOs just to fill out the MiL rosters.
If nothing else, if he ever makes the Mets, with him and Ike they will be covered with live armed position players for blowout mop-up duty!
another case of Sandy trying to find lightning in a bottle by scraping the bottom of the barrel.
You don’t win that way. Period.
Of course Craig Lerner will bow down and repeat 5 times “we’re not worthy” to anything Sandy does.
Sounds like the new Jason Pridie to me….yawn,………
Just MiL roster filler with a ST invite. every team signs a bunch of that over the winter. At least he still has potential to develop into a real player.
Not including this signing Any there has been about 36 players signed to either a Major or Minor League contract so far and 18 of them have been Minor League signings. Needless to say there is a ton of players left to be signed to MLB contracts.
There you go, pencil pushing with your numbers again. ITS ABOUT WINNING!
And don’t bother mentioning things like the new CBA isn’t even official yet or that agents are following the Boras model of waiting towards the end of the year to make deals recently.
It’s funny how some fans (i.e. BayonneMetsFan) go crazy over anything Alderson does. It’s a minor league deal, calm down.
He’s roster filler, not the center piece of the line up. If he performs, he’ll most liekly be on the Buffalo shuttle a few times this year.
It wouldn’t really be terrible if he became a Jason Pridie/ Nick Evans type.
There you go, pencil pushing with your numbers again. ITS ABOUT WINNING!
And don’t bother mentioning things like the new CBA isn’t even official yet or that agents are following the Boras model of waiting towards the end of the year to make deals recently.
sure go ahead and make fun of people who want to win. I’ll bet you’ll consider it a successful season if the Mets save more money than anybody else.
You have no clue.
Maybe if we had a GM who wanted to be competitive with the budget he’s given things would be different but he’s not even using his budget wisely either. He has shown NO indication whatsoever that he wants to win. You wouldn’t even know what the hell to do within those parameters anyway. Like I said you’d be good for handling the calculator while the big boys make decisions on how to compete for the wild card with whatever budget that is allotted to us.
Bayonne, all you ever do is complain after people get signed or traded for.
I don’t see you having ideas of players to acquire or sign before they go elsewhere or that have any bit of a chance of actually hapenning.
You don’t know more about baseball than Sandy Alderson yet to continue to pound your chest and act as though Sandy needs to sit down and chat with BayonneMetsFan.
All the guys that have been signed aren’t 10-20 million a year players. Cause that’s the only thing he wants. Yankee Payroll + 1 dollar, here we come!
I’m going to repost my response to the other guy who said the same thing because like Maniac said obviously we have people that are just not getting the message – for whatever reason.
So let’s try this again:
I don’t see anybody here saying spend, spend, & spend like there’s no money problems.
I haven’t seen one poster suggest that at all. I think if anyone suggested that we would know about it. I think everybody here by now knows the Mets have money problems.
What I DO see is people proposing deals and making suggestions for good signings within our financial constraints. And I’m one of them. Including last year’s terrible off season Alderson has not been spending whatever budget he has wisely. He’s been doing an awful job of it so far and if this was 20 years ago he’d be raked over the coals.
That’s the difference and it’s a BIG difference. I have not seen ANYBODY say spend spend spend and spend. But spending wisely? That’s what’s being suggested and to tell you the truth I haven’t seen that either so far.
So again Bayonne, I will ask you
What moves have you suggested the Mets make in this off-season BEFORE the player signed else where. Therefore, guys like Henry Blanco don’t count.
So who do you want?
Who ya got?
Go on record. You can’t complain that people dislike your ideas if you speak vaguely and hold your tongue until players sign elsewhere.
Jessep, since Bayonne is not GM of the mess or any other mlb team he does not know who is available or at what cost. u can provide a list of free agents but you cannot provide what they have been offered and you do not know who is available for trade and what it would take, so that question is just your way of ignoring the facts that sandy sucks as gm, just collecting a big payday and the fact remains the mets are worse off since he took over because they are further away from winning, since all they have is a tripe A roster and they are not sigining anybody besides some recycled trash and at the end of the day it is about winning the ws not how much it costs but i know u don’t care about winning it all, you just love selling sandy and the ownerships bs.
“I don’t see anybody here saying spend, spend, & spend like there’s no money problems.
I haven’t seen one poster suggest that at all. I think if anyone suggested that we would know about it. I think everybody here by now knows the Mets have money problems.”
Load. Of. Crap.
You and certain other parties are the ones complaining about “moneyball” and how it is disgraceful that a NY team can only have a $100 million payroll and crying about not signing relievers to $12 million deals and on and on
Here’s hoping that Alderson gets fired and BayonneMetsFan is named new GM. With his years of coaching little league, I’m sure he will bring the Mets back to their glory days.
Agree Donal, he’s not centerpice of our team. He’s another big boy maybe the second coming of Duda!! No but, theres some insurance within our system if injuries hit..if he’s peforming and Ike or Duda go on DL at least we have somone in our system thats AAA proven that can come in and potentially contibute and then there the 1 in 100 he’s better then we think..
A high-risk high-reward situation. I like the move though. A possible “lightning in a bottle” guy for the Mets.
I like the signing, but we have an abundance of good hitters from the left side: Davis, Murphy, Duda, Havens, Valdespin, Niewenhuis, Thole, Den Dekker, Dykstra, and now Loewen.
It is a good signing, however. If anything, we’ll be able use our surplus – perhaps package two with a pitching prospect – to fill another of our several needs.
lots of lefties, but only a few OFs on your list, and 2 of them (Kirk, Den Dekker) are not a 2012 real option (kirk, maybe later on if he is OK after surgery). And Duda should be starting.
I don’t think this guy is going to make any kind of impact – He K’d 136 times in 134 games in the minors last year…and his other two years in the minors, he also had more K’s than games played.
And I know it was just 32 AB’s, but after this guy got called up, he hit .188.