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2012
Zack Wheeler, Wilmer Flores To Represent Mets In All-Star Futures Game
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It.s been a busy week for Wilmer Flores… First he has a huge game if the FSL All Star game and is named MVP. Next, he learns that he’s been promoted to Double-A Binghamton and follows that up with a game-winning hit in his last game as a St. Lucie Met. And today came the announcement that he has been named to the MLB Futures Game as one of two Mets, the other being top Mets pitching prospect, Zack Wheeler.
Both Flores and Wheeler will showcase their great talents and represent the New York Mets at next month’s All-Star Futures Game in Kansas City.
The game can be seen live on MLB.TV, ESPN2 and ESPN2 HD and followed live on MLB.com’s Gameday on Sunday, July 8, at 5:00 PM Eastern.
Wheeler, 22, is 6-3 with a 1.88 ERA this season for Double-A Binghamton.
Flores, 20, is hitting .289 with 10 home runs in 64 games for Single-A St. Lucie.
Congratulations to both of them!
Original Post 6/20
According to Adam Rubin of ESPNNewYork.com via twitter, the Mets are planning to promote top-prospect Wilmer Flores to Double-A Binghamton and could make his AA debut as early as tomorrow in the series finale against the Akron Aeros.
Flores was batting .289/.331/.464 in 63 game for the St. Lucie Mets with ten home runs and a team-leading 41 RBIs. In his fifth season with the Mets organization, the 20-year old finally has started to put it together offensively in his first full season at third base.
In other Mets minor league news, Flores’ former teammate Cory Mazzoni has been announced as the starter for the second game of tonight’s double-header, making his Double-A debut. Earlier this week, it was reported right here that Mazzoni would be getting the call to Binghamton, but today the team officially announced that he will make his debut tonight against the Akron Aeros.
Mazzoni was 5-1 with a 3.25 ERA in 63 2/3 frames for St. Lucie in 2012. Alongside Flores and six other Mets, Mazzoni was selected to the 2012 Florida State League All-Star Game and surrendered a run in an inning of work for the South.
Finally, Ruben Tejada’s rehab assignment has been moved back to Triple-A Buffalo. Tejada was 1-9 in his rehab stint with the St. Lucie Mets after aggravating his quad in Buffalo last week.
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WTG Congrats Flores.
I swear I think Petey Pete has a real crystal ball or something. He looked ahead to this double header and told me I bet Mazzoni gets promoted and starts that game, and sure enough… I’ve been working on a post on Wilmer Flores the last few days, I will now have to update it, gladly I might add.
Maybe, as some have compared him body type to Migule Cabrerra, he could be the RH power bat this lineup needs in the coming years.
WTG, congrats to Wilmer, it’s been a long road but playing a kids game then being promoted to play against better competition should help push him to greater goals.
I meant Miguel
FINALLY! Like Sarge was bringing up, before this year, I thought it was the ol’ Mets hype machine comparing Flores to Cabrera. Didn’t see it at all. Now? While I still don’t see him as the next Cabrera, I can definitely see him as a big time player & the next 3rd baseman of the Mets should they choose to deal Wright.
Congrats kid. Now please do me a favor and make up for the 3-year wait in PSL by raking in Binghamton? That’s all I ask.
Congrats to wilmer and it took long enough even though they waited until he was slumping.
I thought it made sense to promote Wilmer whn he was on a hitting tear. Right now he’s in a slump, he probably would’ve been better off going there already in a groove like Lagares did last year and he ate up AA pitching when he got there. Cory Vaughn was promoted in the middle of a funk last year and never recovered at St Lucie. I hope the same doesn’t happen to Wilmer who seemed to find himself after his stock fell from last year. I still see him as a corner position defender though, hope he sticks at 2B.
You don’t see him as a 3rd baseman? I still see him as such and see him at higher value than Marte. I agree on the point that the Mets wait till it’s too late to promote somebody. By that same accord, when Taijeron was tearing it up in Savannah, they never brought him up to PSL for some strange reason. He’s come down a bit, but they definitely missed the boat.
so if to was going to cool off, you don’t think he would have done it just as much, if not more, in the next level?
The promotion should be based on the overall evaluation of him being ready, not because he is or is not on a hot streak.
“In addition, Rubin says Travis Taijeron, T.J. Rivera, Rafael Montero, Cory Mazzoni, Wilfredo Tovar, Francisco Pena and Jeff Walters have been promoted to Double-A as well.”
Okay, I stand corrected. My boy Taijeron got promoted as well! WOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!
His overall numbers are pretty much the same as they were when he was in that hot streak and he was showing that he could finally handle advanced A pitching so it wouldn’t have just been based on that hot streak but his overall production. Point is he’s going up there ice cold and may get into a deeper funk trying to prove he belongs and getting away from what got him there in the first place. And Evenflow, I said I still see him at a corner position but I hope he does stick at 2nd.
Makes sense. he had plenty of PT at Lucie.
the interesting piece will be where he plays. So much more intriguing if he can stick (and perform) at 2B. And hopefully a much quicker path to the show!
Glad for Flores, he earned it.
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Moving On Up!
AdamRubinESPN: The promotion trickle-up includes Travis Taijeron, T.J. Rivera, Rafael Montero and Jeff Walters moving from Savannah to St. Lucie.
Damn you! Beat me by 3 minutes lol
Shame Verrett got hurt when he did because you know he would’ve been part of that wave of prospects being promoted.
Montero has been awesome to watch.
I thought Francisco Pena was released? Wasn’t he a big bust so far? Tony Pena’s son?
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Nice… COngrats to Both…. Nice to see flores do good after having bad year…
It’s an accolade and honor they deserve but in the back of my mind I dread anytime one of our promising players is named to play in some extra-curricular game (Like this or the ASG) where they can get lost or hurt for a significant time with nothing to be gained from them being there and at risk…
As an example while it will be fun to watch Dickey be the NL starter for the All Star Game it won’t equal all the fun I will lose out on if he gets hurt and not able to win games that get the Mets into the playoffs.
If it falls on his regular days of rest to pitch or when he would normally have a bullpen workout session it’s one thing.
But I hate taking the risk on losing him in a game that means nothing to the Mets other than maybe Home Field advantage if they manage to get to the World Series.
Call me a worry wart!
I agree that I never want to see a met pitcher in the ASG (maybe a closer, since they are used to being used like that). Same reason I hated the WBC.
It’s funny though…I love that they get recognized for thier accomplishment but I’m just too damn selfish to share them with anyone else unless it benefits the Mets! LOL
On the flip side if they never get named to the ASG I would probably be the first to cry foul! LOL
Can’t really please me I guess!
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Do they get a full ring or is 1/3 cut off?
Also, are the refs also getting rings?
LMAO, HI HATER, BYE HATER!!! LMAO… SUCK ON THAT!!!!!
I’m really glad one of your Miami “teams” kind of won a partial season championship.
And all it took was collusion, a lock out shortened season and the most blatantly terrible officiating since the Montreal Screw Job.
Now nothing suprises me anymore , a heat fan , bandwagoner . Lebron should enjoy his ring , next year D. Rose will kill them , or the thunder, the Pacers , hell maybe the old celtics .
Not only you don’t know baseball… It seems you’re lacking knowledge in basketball as well..
dude i am the one with the crappy english thats for sure, but i have a lot of knowledge about the NFL and NBA .
Too bad that will be the only Miami team winning anything in the near future.
Can’t wait to see these two in the futures game!