Stats in the minors are great. I appreciate them but every situation is different. You and I do not know if Nimmo’s coaches had him work on certain things that may have impacted his performance. It’s the same thing with pitchers, just because they have worse minors stats doesn’t mean they are terrible – it could mean their pitching coach has them working on weaknesses more.

Here’s an example as to why I cannot hold minor league stats of Flores as end all be all.

An 18 year old rookie ball hitter hit .230 in 57 games with a .695 OPS in 2001 compared to Flores’ .310 with a .842 OPS.

That 18 year old turned out to be Robinson Cano. Now Flores could one day turn into a Cano type hitter, who knows – but I’m not gonna look at those two comparisons and say “Flores is gonna be so much better than Cano!”

Again let me make this clear for you – I think Flores is a better prospect right now. But I also think you’ve “seen” Nimmo in 79 games and you seem to have your mind made up that he’s no good.

Imagine if Jeter’s first 58 games in the minors in which he hit .210 were what decided his future?

Wilmer at age 18 had better numbers in St. Lucie ( a higher league ) against much older competition

Wilmer at age 19 had better numbers in Savannah ( a higher league ) against much older competition

Wilmer at age 20 had better numbers in Binghamton ( a higher league ) against much older competition

Nimmo is 20 and barely handling the NYPL

Wilmer is 20 and is handling AA ball very well

Not to mention WIlmer has had to learn 3 different infield positions in 3 years b/c genius in the front office doesnt know where to put him…AND HE STILL HAS BETTER numbers than Neemo

Let Neemo play SS, then 2B, then 3B and try to keep his numbers up

This isnt even a debate

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” It’s easy to take 5 names based on the 2012 season and go from there. That’s how Fred and Jeff Wilpon decide their Sterling Award winners. ”

and yet you still say “I will consider all opinions”

- Craig Lerner

lol ok

I like both but Flores is closer to the majors, so he gets the nod.
Of course, imho one could also make a good case for Michael Fulmer, Rafael Montero and Domingo Tapia in this conversation who all had very good seasons in A Ball and have legit SP upside.

The only people that have him ranked high were folks reading scout PROJECTIONS based on their PERCEPTIONS of his tools.

Scouts also compared Lastings Milledge to Willie Mays, Ken Griffey Jr and Hank Aaron

http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2003-05-24/sports/0305240245_1_tigers-strike-zone-bases

I want Brandon Neemo to be the next Hank Aaron just as much as the next Met fan…but right now Jose Fernandez is making Depo, the genius who ran SD’s draft’s, look like a COMPLETE idiot

In three years at Alonso, Fernandez, who courageously defected from Cuba at age 15, went 30-3 and struck out 314 batters in his 3 years of playing HS ball and was ranked one of the top HS pitchers in the whole country

We picked a dude who had arthoscopic surgery a year before he was drafted than during the draft workouts he could not complete some of them because he had tendinitis in the knee he had surgery in..

AND WE STILL DRAFTED HIM

and in his first year of pro-ball…he had sub-par production…

and this is the guy you think is better than Flores

LMAO

ok

Curtis Granderson was drafted at age 20, had his first cup of coffee at age 23….did not get crack the starting lineup til age 25.

Fernando hit .314 with 13 HR and a .814 OPS this year.

Flores is ranked higher in the org than Neemo

We all pray that they both turn out to be Hall of Famers who start and finish their careers as Mets

The End

Metsie…..just who are ” they all”? Who is saying this?

BMF….why must it always turn into this with you? You are really obsessed with this.

Actually it’s a trick bag type of question when you take into account that Flores has already proven everything that Nimmo hasn’t. And saying that Flores is the better prospect with any kind of affirmation is almost like cheating to me because of all we know about him already.

All I’ll say is that Nimmo as a high first round pick was a tremendous risk….a real roll of the dice. But sometimes thats how you have to roll.