20
2012
Mets Shuffling Around Some Prospects, Who Wins and Who Loses?
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Travis Taijeron earns a promotion ti Binghamton after a hot start.
Earlier today we posted on the promotions of Wilmer Flores and Cory Mazzoni from St. Lucie to Binghamton. You can read more about that here.
No surprise there as we expected Flores to advance very soon and in fact we speculated that Cory Mazzoni would get the start in one of the games in tonight’s doubleheader.
However, these moves, like most minor league moves, led to a small chain reaction of other moves at the lower levels, specifically at St. Lucie and Savannah.
And possibly a few more moves to come tonight or tomorrow at Brooklyn. Let me break it down.
Today’s Transcations
From High-A St. Lucie to Double-A Binghamton:
- 3B Wilmer Flores
- 2B Wilfredo Tovar
- C Francisco Pena
- SP Cory Mazzoni.
From Single-A Savannah to High-A St. Lucie:
- OF Travis Taijeron
- SS TJ Rivera
- SP Rafael Montero
- RP Jeff Walters
Who Loses?
- C Kai Gronauer – Batting a pitiful .195 on the season, Francisco Pena could certainly make him expendable. Juan Centeno isn’t doing so hot either, but compared to Gronauer he looks like Johnny Bench.
- 2B Reese Havens – Wilmer Flores getting reps at 2B last week may have been a lot more than just a coincidence. They sure as hell aren’t going to tamper with 21-year old Jefry Marte who is having a solid season at third base for Bingo. The other thing is that Flores gets some PT in left field where lets face it, Juan Lagares and Pedro Zapata haven’t exactly been setting the world on fire. But Wilfredo Tovar also getting promoted means bad news for Havens.
- RP Erik Turgeon – He’s having an awful season and a demotion or even an outright cut could be in his future. Ryan Fraser, who has also struggled since being promoted to Bingo, could also find himself going back to St. Lucie.
Who Gains?
- SS Phillip Evans – Evans could get the call to replace TJ Rivera at shortstop for Savannah. As Pete pointed out, he had a solid season for Brooklyn in 2011 and he seems up for the challenge. It would make sense to move him to Low-A now.
- IF Juan Gamboa - He moved up through three levels of the Mets system in 2011 and finished off as a member of Savannah’s post-season roster. He may find his way back to Savannah by this time tomorrow.
- SP Luis Mateo – Shot in the dark here, but he had a solid season in the DSL in 2011 and what a debut so far with ‘Clones striking out nine batters in 5.2 innings while picking up his first win of the season. Remember, when we signed him, he was considered to be one of the best Dominican pitchers available at the time.
I love days like this…
You could speculate to your heart’s delight and have some fun trying to figure out who lands where…
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Promotion time in the minors are always a fun time for those whom follow the farm. Gives you a sense of what the FO thinks of some of its prospects development.
In regards to the vacant SS spot with Savannah I think Matt Reynolds whom we drafted this year with one of our 2nd rd picks has to factor in this equation as well, not for the Gnats but he would be the replacement for Gamboa or Evans in Brooklyn…He supposedly is a good defender and can play 2B,SS as well as 3B.
Right now Aderlin Rodriguez is being left behind by Marte and Flores.. He is still real young and has look good as of late hopefully he continues to improve.
Dustin Lawley and Tyler Pill should be the next 2 promoted from Savannah
I think Mateo is a stud.
Pill was already promoted to PSL. Hasn’t done so hot through 2 starts but he’ll get through it.
I mentioned it before, but it’s a shame Verrett got hurt when he did, as well as Estarlin Morel, because those two would’ve gotten promotions as well.
and yes, Mateo is a beast. Hopefully, he’ll be the next best thing coming through the system.
They should promote aderline to st Lucie since wilmer got the promotion, and he’s swinging a hot bat.
I’m not sure if Reynolds has signed yet and Pill was already promoted a couple of weeks ago. He pitched well for St Lucie tonight.
Ooops! My mistake I meant to say Degrom dont know how I got that mixed up….He had a late start but has been dominant in Sally with a nice K/BB ratio.
I was surprised the Mets pushed Estarlin back to the Sally this year after doing a decent job in the FSL in 2011. As for Verrett it does suck for him but if he stays healthy he should catch up by this time next year.
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Looking at some of the Minors Box scores and congrats to Mazzoni on his 1st win in his AA debut. 7 innings of 1-run ball throwing 94 pitches 68 for strikes. Wheeler pitched well but not as dominant as I’d begun to get accustomed to. Pitched 6 innings of 2 run ball (1 earned) throwing 99 pitches 63 for strikes.
Wilmer Flores projects into a corner infielder or outfielder. The rap against him in the past is that he hit for little power. That’s all changed. This year at St. Lucie he hit 10 homers and had a .289 average.
With all the injuries Reese Havens has experienced, the Mets must be wondering when the other shoe will drop. He got off to a terrible start this year, probably due to all the time he’s missed. But in his last 8 games, he’s compiled hits in 7 of them while posting a .296 average. He still hasn’t put up power numbers like he’s done in the past.
Havens would appear to be trade fodder next month.
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