Where on earth do you get a kid in AAA is worth more than a kid in AA when everything is equal. That’s so far from the truth it’s not worth debating. You dominate AA you open as many eyes as if you dominate AAA which is full of has beens and ML insurance policies.

You think if Wheeler gets promoted to AAA it increases his value? His value shot up when he dominated AA. They can’t keep Wheeler off the radar unless scouts suddenly decided to all live under a rock at the same time.

Flores is at AA not AAA. They moved him to 2B cause his bat would be twice as valuable as a middle infielder than it would as a corner, not because they want to get scouts to shy away. There’s not a scout worth his salt that doesn’t know about Flores’ talent level. They would be looking to showcase his strengths if anything. Strange post.

By the way, no GM in their right mind would put a top prospect or any player for that matter in a position to fail all for the sake of deterring teams from asking for them in a potential trade. If anything GM’s want all their prospects to over achieve to increase their value so they could get back more in a deal.

With that being said the Mets “Will Not” trade any of their prospects for a bullpen arm. That would be asinine and a terrible investment.

As far as Familia goes….yes he has struggled this year but that doesnt mean he should be banished to the bullpen. His biggest issue is commanding all his pitches which most raw prospects whom have nasty arms have.

An interesting article that I read from Mike Harris whom covers the Bisons for BisonNews(dot)com regarding the struggles of Matt Harvey & Jeurys Familia this year shows their home and away splits. They both pitched WAY better on the road than at home and he contends that the weather in Buffalo could be the problem,which may or may not be…but for the Sabr-Goons out there he provided “STATS”.

Here’s the article: http://blogs.buffalonews.com/insidepitch/2012/05/familia-harvey-find-home-on-the-road-for-bisons.html

The guy I’ve been paying attention to lately is Maron. I think Catcher is definitely somewhere that needs to be improved in the system; this explains why so many were drafted in 2012 a few weeks back. But if Maron keeps hitting he’ll show that maybe the dearth wasn’t nearly as bad as most of us thought.

Mets send Wheeler, Flores to Futures Game
http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20120621&content_id=33686002&vkey=news_nym&c_id=nym&partnerId=rss_nym

But I do happen to think that many of the MiL moves and promotions we are seeing (or not seeing as the case may be) are really setups for the trade deadline negotiations.

A kid in AAA is worth more than a kid in AA when everything else is equal.

Moving Flores to AAA and 2B might be as much about him likely struggling at 2B while he aclimates making scouts shy away from pointing him out as a trade commodity. It also stops havens from hurting his value anymore than it is.
Wheeler is staying in AA (IMO) to keep him off the radar as much as he would be at the more heavily scouted (at least during deadline time) AAA level.

Mejia and Beato have been good (won’t say great) enough to be the reliever they get back in a trade for a closer, Bring them up and have them struggle and they aren’t anymore.

I feel the reason Familia is still starting is due to the increase in value a starter has in trade over a reliever.

Guys like Harvey, Wheeler, Den Dekker are probably our top untouchables. And they will get away with that provided they have enough quantity to get away with it.

So I think they are making these promotions and making the moves (and non-moves) they are making to bolster the available quantity they have for a buy at the deadline.
Once they have made thier move they will promote the guys we all think should be here (Beato, Mejia et al) because we will be done dealing until the offseason and then it’s about building up thier value for the offseason trades.

The reason being the deal they are most likely to make is for Bullpen help and they will likely have to trade one of them to get the deal done. And if they bring them up now and they struggle it will hurt their trade value.

As for Leathersich, on Tuesday night he pitched 1.2 innings and gave up 2 earned runs on three hits and two walks. Knowing that, I couldn’t include him in this edition of Who’s Hot. Sorry.