20
2012
Mets Add Wheeler Plus Five Others To 40 Man Roster
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The Mets announced they have added RHP Zack Wheeler, RHP Hansel Robles, RHP Gonzalez Germen, RHP Greg Burke, LHP Darin Gorski and SS Wilfredo Tovar to the 40-man roster.
The moves protect each player from being selected in the upcoming Rule 5 draft and today was the deadline for locking players in. The 40-man roster now stands at 39.
In a surprising move, the Mets opted to protect Greg Burke who they only signed to a minor league deal a few days ago, and leave their number one power prospect Aderlin Rodriguez exposed.
The third baseman hit 24 home runs and smacked 26 doubles in 125 games between Savannah and St. Lucie last season. He batted just .263, but had a .797 OPS and is just 21 years old.
Rodriguez was signed in 2008 out of the Dominican Republic and made his professional debut in the GCL in 2009, hitting .290/.389/.387 in 17 games. In 2010, he moved up to the Appalachian League batting .312/.352/.556 with 22 doubles and 13 home runs as an 18-year old. He has been tabbed as the organization’s best power hitting prospect for the last two years.
I was somewhat surprised by the move, but they must be really high on the 30-year old Burke.
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Yes it’s surprising, but can he make it on a big league roster for an entire year? Even defensively, his hitting might not justify it. I doubt there’s any teams out there who’s scouts are saying his bat could jump from high A to the majors.
At 1st glance you would think Aderlin would be protected but you make a good point. We will know soon enough.
In the MLB Phase, eligible players can be selected for a $50,000 fee (these players must be placed immediately on the 25-man roster)
In the Triple-A and Double-A phases, eligible players can be selected for a smaller fee ($12,000 and $4,000 from Single-A or lower, and do not need to be placed on the MLB 25-man roster
Much of that is news to me. Where did you uncover it? Is it from the CBA?
It’s confusing, but I remember last year the Mets didnt take any one in the MLB Phase or Minor League Phase last year. Rubin alludes to it. I think this is something new.
http://espn.go.com/blog/new-york/mets/post/_/id/37113/mets-lose-cruz-in-rule-5
I guess you know your stuff. Found this link of Rule 5 results:
http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20111208&content_id=26127288&vkey=news_mlb&c_id=mlb
Is this something that is new as I dont recall this 3-4 years ago?
Here is the rest of the Rule 5 results from 2010 through 2008.
http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/minorleagues/rule_5.jsp?season=2010
So if I am reading this correctly Aderlin would be eligible for the AA phase of the Rule 5 draft since he was in High A last season and the cost is $4K. There have been a total of 11 players taken in the AA phase of the Rule 5 since 2008. Hopefully Aderlin is not number 12.
This makes the Aderlin thing a bit more concerning. Maybe they can still add him before the Rule 5 actually starts.
No I believe today was the deadline.
Well I guess we keep our fingers crossed. He put up some nice numbers for a 21 year old. It would be shame to lose him, and they say he’s a slick fielder with great instincts at third.
Rodriguez certainly is protected from the Double A phase as that is the minor league portion of the Rule V for players not only not protected on the regular 40-man but also not on the AAA or AA roster which – combined allows a team to protect another 70 or so eligible players.
So, the only way Aderlin is lost is if a major league team picks him in the major league phase and keeps him on the 25-man roster for the entire season.
Now, while he’s far from a finished prospect with issues on defense and contact and realistically needs two more full seasons in the minors, the raw power is undeniable, so it’s certainly a risky move. A team like the Houston Astros could try to hide him on its MLB roster and then send him to Double A in 2014 at age 22.
Not that it’s likely. And not that it’s likely that Rodriguez ever ends up being a complete major leaguer. However, I would have expected them to protect an upside guy like him over a pitcher like Germen who is more advanced but seems to have a limited ceiling as a back-end SP.
Thanks Mr. North Jersey. I was trying to find how far this went back. I guess you learn something new everyday. I actually remember when the Mets selected Quintin Berry, I just didn’t realize it was a minor league Rule 5 pick. What a bust.
Wheeler’s head looks really out of proportion with his body in that photo.
Anyway.
I believe we lost Rhiner Cruz last year – and we could have lost McHugh, as well.
Non-tender Acosta and protect Aderlin Rodriguez. Can’t be too safe.
We could’ve lost Armando Rodriguez too, but luckily, everyone passed him over. The Mets wound up switching him to the pen, and it paid dividends.
eh, aderlin barely played well in high-a last year. I don’t think anybody’s gonna take him.
He was playing against older players. Much like Wilmer Flores.
You really need to change that name because when you say something stupid, it’ sounds funny saying: This is stupid, this is stupid.
Weren’t you the first one to defend Nimmo when I said he was 57th in the NYPL in batting with his .240 mark? Let me see if I could figure you out. Nimmo, Rodriguez, Nimmo, Rodriguez, Nimmo Rodriguez. Okay, now I see where you’re coming from.
way to misunderstand me guys. I know he’s a good prospect, but he’s nowhere near ready to contributing in the majors. Teams generally don’t take guys this raw unless their amazing(and those guys are always protected) or really good defensively(so they can use him as a defensive replacement for that initial year).
You really need to graduate from Metsblog before commenting here, kid. You always seem to be confused and out of your element or in the dark about things. This place is for the big boys.
and here’s borat telling you how well you constructed those sentences:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J88-RdWnNT0
Nah your never involved in these types of things….
so protecting the 30 year old RHP Greg Burke is a priority…but not the 21 year old good prospect.
that makes sense
Don’t bother damaja, I’ve determined this kid is just a couple of years passed puberty. I’ve seen some strange comments and asked him if he was old enough to drink yet and he ducked the question. His greatest Mets highlight is probably Jose Reyes’ batting title.
Hey hey hey – I can’t drink yet lol.
He’s still at risk of being taken in the Minor League portion…huge risk, in my opinion. I would jump on a guy with his kind of power.
Hahaha No hard feelings Satish. You and Connor are the exceptions to the rule. You guys blow anyone in that Metsblog peanut gallery away.
Sure you Can…just not Legally!
Yeah I’m not old enough to drink. boohoo.
What are you talking about? The kid hit 24 HR’s, 26 2B’s, 80 plus RBI’s playing at Savannah and St Lucie, 2 tough hitters parks. He improved tremendously from the previous year and just turned 21 the other day. He hits HR’s outta sight.
Mets don’t need any power, plus A-Rod didn’t fit the organizational philosophy.
and the 30 year old RHP Greg Burke does ?
I think it’s safe to say Kmaxx is being facetious.
He’s two years away from big league ready. If a team can waste an entire roster spot on a kid who hits .250 in high A, and that’s considered a good developmental year for him, then so be it. You can’t protect everyone.
Now, this is the Mets here. Houston will grab him because they’re 5 years off from competing anyway and he’ll bat .250 and launch 25 hrs on his way to becoming a hall of famer.
You know, that’s gunna suck big time.
Nah, he ain’t ready.
Or is he!
Oh, no…
No worries…RHP Greg Burke will make it all feel alright…
I don’t think it’s a big deal with Rodriguez. No one would pick him.
If you let things run their course what no one wants is to have the Mets lose any Rule 5 player that winds up being more productive in 2013 for another team than what keeping Burke does for the Mets in 2013. Something that no one will know until much later in the season. Though that won’t do anything to stop people from venting until then.
Really? I’d be shocked if the Astros or Marlins dont scoop him up and keep him Double-A all year.
He needs to be on the 25 man rooster. So that would make those teams carry 24 players all year?
If Aderlin Rodriguez changed his name to Greg Burke and his residence to Hicksville, he would automatically shoot up 10 places in your top 10 met prospects list…
but since he’s Aderlin Rodriguez, he must be the next Fernando Martinez…who was the next Alex Escobar…
Manny Acosta is being non-tendered too which means either Burke, Torres or some other scrap heap RH reliever picked up by Paul DePo or JPR has to be on the Mets 40 man and 25 man roster at the start of next season. I doubt Elvin Ramirez breaks camp with the Mets. However, there was no reason to jump the gun with Burke now. Aderlin is still light years from the bigs, if ever and I doubt he gets claimed in the Rule V draft.
Here’s Burke’s stat line, courtesy of The Baseball Cube:
http://www.thebaseballcube.com/players/profile.asp?P=Greg-Burke
He appears to alternate very good years with very lousy ones, which is likely due to arm issues. Doesn’t appear to be someone that needs protection on a 40-man roster, however, as he’s toiled in the minor leagues for years with intermittent stints in The Show.
Yeah, I could see the Marlins or Astros pulling Aderlin from our roster, for no other reason than to tweak the Wilpons.
This latest oversight by Mets Brass only adds to the ill-wind blowing out of Flushing.
Let’s see… allowing Reyes to walk without any sensible compensation, Wilpon hinting that DW & RA could follow suit, jacking up opening day ticket prices…
,,, it’s official – I HATE the Wilpon-run NY Mets.
Chone Figgins – available
Ivan DeJesus – Available
Ivan DeJesus ( 2B/SS )
age 20 – A+ – 2007 – hits .287
age 21 – AA – 2008 – hits .324
age 22 – 2009 – injured
age 23 – AAA – 2010 – hits .296
age 24 – AAA – 2011 – hits .310
age 25 – AAA – 2012 – hits .304
This kid can hit…
Sandy, Wilpons and front office are clueless..Sure expose one of our own homegrown and best power prospects but protect another 30 scrub 4A player with no future. That makes sense how? Also anyone else notice how the Mets have become Padres east? Sigh! Dear Mr Selig please make the Wilpons sell this team!
Aderlin did not hit well for average, so i guess that really concerns the FO. his OBP was just horrendous so it doesn’t fit the phylosphy of sandy alderson and co. who cares if he hit 24 HR’s in 470 at bats last year with 83 RBI. Nimmo hit 248 with 6 HR and is better so, suck it mets fans and move on ok… Gregg Burke is a great addition to this pitching staff, He hasn’t pitched in the majors since 2009 and even though it was the padres, arguably the WORST team since 2009 he was not given a chance, last year he pitched very well, so forget that he had (in the minors nonetheless) ERA of 5.70 and 5.68 in back to back 2010-2011. Sandy knows what he’s doing guys. I mean, we don’t sign our draft picks, overspend on POS relievers and obviously now we care more about his former padres picks that are now rejects than what minaya gave us.
Let’s go METS!!
Another Ex-Padre LMAOOOO
Thank God our GM is a nice clean cut Harvard mililtary lawyer instead of some glorified bodega owner like that Omar guy we had before..
That Omar guy before showed so much preferential treatment by hiring all his ex-players that were latino…
Our no-nonsense Harvard military plays no favorites…
You can tell that he hired DePo and JP strictly on their credentials.
He signed Brad Eamus, not because he was a JP draft pick….
after he released Brad…and then the Rockies released Brad…
Politics had no part in the Mets picking up Brad Eamus again…where he is now collecting a pay-check playing 2B in our AAA team
Politics had NO PART in the Mets releasing the 21 year old Fernando Martinez
Thank God we have a no-nonsense Harvard graduate military lawyer as our GM
Just Da Damaja: How come everything you seem to post needs to have info on a persons ethnicity and not merit and then you claim others are bigots?
How come you focus on specific moves and ignore others to try and paint Alderson in a certain way?
For example: I never hear you mention the IFA’s they sign or Pedro Beato, Ronny Paulino, Raul Chavez, Jesus Feliciano, Miguel Batista, Gustavo Chacin, Adrian Rosario, Ramon Ramirez, Andres Torres, Omar Quintanilla just to name a few.
Average Reader Guy
Let me come straight with you…
I dont think that Sandy has a bias or preference towards anyone due to their background
I am saying that politics always a plays a part in any organization.
When Omar was in charge…a MICROSCOPE was placed under all his signings…
If the signing happened to be a Omar Quintanilla…
out came the pitch-forks with charges of favoritism…people would act as if Omar was hiring his family members to work here…
Sandy can sign or hire anyone..he can have an all-white team of guys over 60 and no one would bat an eye…
Hell…speaking of family members…Sandy actually hired his SON to be a scout here..
http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20111201&content_id=26071200&vkey=news_mlb&c_id=mlb
Sorry bud…but if OMAR did that…Met fans would’ve gone ape-sh*t
I believe your biggest problem Just Da Damaja is that you equate a small group of dumb mets fans to every mets fan who ever questioned Minaya.
Everybody who questions Minaya isn’t doing so based on ethnicity just because some idiot people call wfan and mock los mets.
Are there folks out there who hold yours or my background against us? Yes
Does that mean 90% of caucasian mets fans do? No.
When you constantly bring ethnicity to a baseball debate when it doesn’t belong
…you are the problem, not the imaginary peoples who didn’t say nothim about it
right….so ignore the double-standard that MOST MET FANS here employ…
it is one thing to bash Omar because he did not protect Jesus Flores…
or bash Omar for NOT resigning Bradford and Oliver
or bash Omar for not having any hitting / pitching / defense philosophy…thats all fair game…
but for YEARS met fans were calling and complaining about the GM signing too many latins
not to mention the radio host fanning the flames too
you wanna say its a small issue…because it does not offend you…if it did…it would be a different story
WOW well not re-signing Darren Oliver was close to the worst decision Omar ever made. Don’t care how you look at it.
I agree absolutely….
Omar subscribed to the same theory that most GM’s do…in that middle-relievers are not consistent enough from year to year to command a multi-year contract…
a year later he turns around and gives a similar deal that bradford wanted…to Scott Schoeweiss…
2 VERY under-rated aspects of this is how the bullpen was used under Jerry/Dan vs Willie/Rick
Rick Peterson was 10x better than Dan Warthen…who constantly ignored stats and put lefty specialists against righty mashers…not everyone is pedro feliciano…
another under-rated aspect of it was losing Paul LoDuca…the mets since late 2007 have never had a consistent catcher since Paul…its been patchwork…
now go find a successful bullpen that had patchwork at Catcher…and a pitching coach who routinely put them in positions to fail
Good post. Sad we can’t have an article where this isn’t brought up over and over and over…
Damaja, he’s one of those bitter old man who’s never wrong and know more than you and me.. It’s amazing how stubborn this guy is. It’s like, i don’t care what an org thinks about my guys, even if they suck i will continue to give them the opp to try and succeed. Can you imagine if he was omar and instead of brad eamus or burke would be juan hernandez or miguel aquino?? My ohhhhhhh my!!!
By the way, the 25 year old Rhiner Cruz had a very good August/September…he throws 98mph
good job Sandy !
Not to many guys are going to come up straight from St. Lucie. We also have 3 guys that should not be tendered by the time rule 5 comes up, so he might still be added.
True… Question is why protect a reject POS like burke is what most of us are asking????
Yeah, I don’t get that either. Unless there is something about this guy I don’t know. He looks like a scrub I don’t get it. Oh well here’s hoping we don’t lose someone of importance.
Not protecting Aderlin reminds me of Flores. The Mets will lose him for sure. Just another stupid move by the 3 GM Stooges.
Dont be surprised if the Padres pick up Aderlin Rodriguez….
Damaja, i was thinking the same thing… I mean, hey, if we’re gonna pick up all the rejects who are old and/or with nothing else on the tank, Omar might as well pick up the young up and coming kids who can be great for years to come for the franchise…
THE RULE STATES
Minor league teams can also participate in the draft. AAA teams can draft any player eligible from AA for $12,000, and AA teams can draft any players that are eligible from Class A for $4,000. Players chosen in the minor league part of the draft do not need to return to the original teams for any reason.
so because Aderlin was in A-ball last year….he can be drafted by ANY AA team in baseball..
http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=rodrig001ade
Sorry Sandy fans…but protecting RHP Greg Burke over Aderlin Rodriguez is inexcusable
I love this site Damaja, but when it comes to the minors and the draft, the posters here are dense and not very knowledgeable. This Rule 5 thing to them is like the Rubik’s Cube squared in terms of difficulty to understand. Been going on for years.
Aderlin Rodriguez will join Fernando Martinez…Rhiner Cruz soon…
Yes there do seem to be three different Rule 5 drafts going on and we have not protected him as far as being drafted by an MLB team.
But it makes little sense that you would only be able to protect 40 guys in your entire organization in all three phases.
I’m guessing that the fact he is not on the 40 man means he COULD be taken and would have to be kept on the MLB roster. Could happen but I suspect chances are slim.
But I am sure there are other protections for the AAA and AA phases.
I would bet that both the AAA and AA affiliate also have a roster that is protected as well.
Probably similar to the way the MLB Phase works.
Put a kid on the AAA Roster and you have protected him from the AAA Phase of the draft but not the MLB Phase. Because he is in AAA he is already not availabe in the AA phase.
Put him on the AA Roster He is protected from being taken in the AA Phase but is still selectable in the AAA and MLB phase.
I do however agree why are we protecting old guys if the intention is to rebuild with youth?
Nothing about this PLAN we keep hearing is at play fits the actions of the GM here.
I think they can protect another 70. Not sure but I remember reading that somewhere.
I believe the only way to protect a player from the Rule 5 draft is to either put them on your 40 man or they do not meet the age/years as pro limitations which are:
Players who were signed when they were 19 or older and have played in professional baseball for four years are eligible, as are players who were signed at 18 and have played in pro ball for five years.
He signed at 17 and just completed his 4th season.
I’m not gonna pretend to know a ton about every minor leaguer out there but can you explain to me why I should care about a 21 year old who (when he was 20) couldn’t hit in A+ baseball and appears at least through the stat eye test to be a average fielder at best (and that is assuming he has good range)?
So Aderlin Rodriguez is available in the minor league draft, because he’s been in the minors for 4 years. But why should I care? What about his performance is telling me that the Mets need to protect him?
Also comparing Aderlin to Greg Burke doesn’t make sense. They are 2 separate cases. Why does Aderlin deserve a 40 man roster spot? He doesn’t. You know he doesn’t, you just want to make a big deal about it for your agenda.
Greg Burke is a 29 year old pitcher who pitched very well last year in the minors and could potentially be on the big league roster at some point in 2013 either as a reliever or fill in rotation due to injury.
You know they have nothing to do with one another but you want to compare them.
Rodriguez isn’t a good defensive player at all but the kid has massive power to all fields. He hit 17 HR’s last year the most a Met farmhand has ever hit playing at Grayson Stadium the Citifield of the SALLY League.
He’s by no means a can’t miss prospect but his power is very intriguing and he did improve his pitch recognition in 2012. With that said it’s highly unlikely anybody selects him and keeps him on a MLB roster and he can’t be selected by a minor league affiliate so it’s really not a big deal. I can’t see anybody keeping him on a roster for a full season being as raw as he is.
Next year will be a different story.
Except he’s probably already been protected from those drafts…
Sandy Alderson is a goddamn idiot.
Aderlin Rodriguez is on the AA roster. He’s protected. He can’t be selected by another team.
Single A players can be selected in the AA draft
AA players can be selected in the AAA draft..
remind me why he cant be selected?
Because he’s not yet eligible for the draft. Next year is a different story.
Yea I was talking to someone about that and he said that the minor league levels have a reserve list as well and during that phase of the Rule 5 a player on those reserve lists are protected as well so unless he is taken during the major league phase he won’t be taken.
Right! He can be selected by a ML team but not a MiL team.
What a shocker!!! JesseP defending an alderson signee against one of omar’s prospects… First of all, burke is already 30 years old, he’ll be 31 next year, second of all tell us why burke deserves a spot and ardelin doesnt? He had one good MINOR league season last year, but how convinient of you to dismiss his 2 HORRENDOUS seasons before last year where he posted back to back ERA of over 5.50, funny, wouldn’t we say that last season was maybe an aberration and his shitty ass performance throughout his baseball career is more showing of what he is? But of course, you only say that when you going to blast reyes and beltran etc to fit your agenda, but on this one you’re defending burke’s 40 man addition because your lord got him.. you are something else you know…
I get that you don’t understand the inner workings of a baseball team but I don’t get why you need to constantly come at me with these types of posts.
What is more likely to happen in 2013?
Burke gets called up to pitch or Aderlin Rodriguez gets called up to hit?
The answer as YOU KNOW is Burke.
Nobody’s suggesting to sign Burke to a 10 year deal. He was signed as a free agent for a reason. That reason likely is he has some big league experience and could be useful in the bullpen for the Mets in 2013. I’m not saying he WILL be, I’m saying it’s more likely he does something for the Mets in 2013 than Aderlin Rodriguez will.
Tell me why Aderlin Rodriguez belongs on the 40 man roster? Why does a .256 career minor league hitter who hit .242 in A+ baseball deserve a roster spot? You only want him there because of where he was born and who signed him. I don’t want him there because I don’t see his value to the Mets.
Tell me his VALUE on the field. Convince me that Aderlin Rodriguez can help the Mets in the near future. If you cannot do that, then there is no reason to put him on the 40 man. I gave you Burke’s on the field potential value.
“What is more likely to happen in 2013? ”
Wait a second there I thought the plan was to build a team that can be competitive long term?
So shouldn’t the question actually be:
“Who is more valuable to have for the long run?”
Or does that only apply to the Good player we already HAVE on the roster as a reason to sell them off for scrap maybes?
Some consistency in the moves being made or on what the intended strategy for ALL moves would be nice!
So that we are clear, you’re telling me that Aderlin Rodriguez is more deserving of a 40 man roster spot than Burke? Right?
A guy who couldn’t hit in A+ ball and hasn’t been to AA yet? Really?
Your problem isn’t the players. Your problem is the GM that signed them. Get past that and start acting like a baseball fan for once. Burke could be on the Mets team in 2013. Aderlin hasn’t proven he is worth a spot on the 2016 Mets… why waste a 40 man roster spot on him?
If the intention is to only make moves that ensure a long term competitive future then yes he is much more valuable than Burke who at best is another One year bandaid that serves no purpose past next season…
If he did serve a longer purpose he would have been signed for more years.
Your thoe one who seems to suggest that we should only be concerned with long term sustained team building and anything that is only relevant for the next year or two is wrong…
Are you changing you mind now?
Whats more likely to happen in 2013.
The mets compete for a wild card?
The Mets compete for 4th place?
A buddy of mine told me the reason why Burke had such a turn around last year was because he started throwing side arm and his pitches now have nasty movement so maybe they get lucky for once and find a diamond in the rough. Protecting him though had no bearing on A-Rod Jr. Rodriguez is protected from the minor league draft.
Tell me his VALUE on the field. Convince me that Aderlin Rodriguez can help the Mets in the near future. If you cannot do that, then there is no reason to put him on the 40 man. I gave you Burke’s on the field potential value”
His value is POWER!!!!!!!!!!1 something the mets are starving of, the mets do not need another reject from san diego, the org is full of them by now and we obviously don’t need POS relievers either, so his value increases if we’re going on those terms, how well would you feel if aderlin gets picked up, hits 25 HR for SD and burke just like thayer, boyer,carrasco, bucholtz, frank francisco, rauch, boof, ramirez and beato becomes another alderson POS arm in the bullpen?? Burke is done as a baseball player yet you don’t wanna admit it, aderlin’s career is just starting… stop defending alderson’s moves left and right, what’s next an article about how he had a good day yesterday? or how other teams do this every year to fill up their Major league roster?? Please, 3 straight years of the same garbage…. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!!
So a guy who can’t hit consistently in A+ ball is suddenly a big league power threat?
Stop it. He hasn’t proven to be anything but a marginal hitting minor leaguer. You just want him on the roster because of Omar Minaya.
If the Mets today signed a guy who is a career .256 minor league hitter you’d mock them and you know it.
So a guy who’s compiled a .240 AVG so far, and even hasn’t hit A+ ball yet – Brandon Nimmo – is already projected to be in the Mets OF in a few years.
Is Nimmo on the 40 man roster? No. Therefore the point literally makes 0 sense.
aesthetically you’re right, sensibly you’re wrong.
Brandon Nimmo is much more talented than Aderlin Rodriguez. Not that aderlin’s a bad prospect, he still has big time power.
That was stupid, this is stupid. You sure are stupid. But you have an alibi, like you said you’re still in HS. Are you 13 and a frosh, 17 and a senior. Anyway live a little bit more life then come back in your 20s. Learn something about baseball first.
somebody hasn’t gotten laid in a while. Go ask John Sickels if you don’t believe me.
You’re going a bit too far in the other direction… Aderlin is well-recognized as a top 10 prospect in the system and he has ridiculous raw-power. And his sample size in high-a is way too small for you to be criticizing him for his bad performance, which wasn’t that bad by the way. The st. lucie mets stadium is a pitcher’s park and he still had a great Iso. power. Granted his defense sucks, he can’t run for his life, and his plate discipline is kinda weak(but not awful), but you’re acting like he’s a non-prospect here.
that’s to Jessep
you’re keeping both so it doesn’t matter. Alderson didn’t choose Burke over Rodriguez. BOTH are protected.
GUYS THIS ISN’T AN EITHER OR THING. THE METS AREN’T CHOOSING BETWEEN BURKE AND RODRIGUEZ….
Teams can protect most of their coveted minor leaguers from the AA and AAA Rule 5 Drafts. We have no idea whether Rodriguez was protected for those. Odds are he probably was. Plus, he’s too young and inexperienced for an MLB team to take a chance on him for a full season.
So there you go. Now everyone can stop bickering over defending “Alderson’s Player” or “Omar’s Player.” Both are staying with the organization.
What exactly does Brandon Nimmo have to do with this? He’s not Rule 5 eligible.
Yes, but he was drafted by Sandy Alderson
Yep that would seem to be the difference between a light hitting player in A Ball ultimate worth to the team…
Nimmo is touted as a great future player but a guy who hits as well as him only with power is not even worth protecting….
Yep that would seem to be the difference between the two so Kudos there Connor!
But he is protected! Just not from the MLB Rule 5 draft. Do you really think a team is going to take a risk on a player who has played 54 games in high-A? No chance. And even if they did, he’d be returned within two weeks.
People here haven’t even given Nimmo a chance. Just because he was drafted by someone whose philosophy is different from yours. There has been so much dislike, hate, hope for failure for a 19 year old kid who has played only 79 minor league games and never even played high school baseball. Give the guy a chance.
Is he protected from the AAA Phase as well?
Please cite the list of all the guys protected in the AAA and AA Phases please.
Those lists aren’t made public but if I am correct the amount of players they can protect is something like 75, so how would they not protect a “top ten” prospect?
You can protect 38 players for the AAA draft and 37 for the AA draft
So the truth is you have no idea if he is protected or not…
Thank you for Playing “Lets state facts we made up off the top of our heads”
He’s not eligible yet. He can’t be selected by a minor league affiliate. He can be by a MLB team.
Blah blah blah.
Nimmo is not Rule 5 eligible so why did alex and Just bring him up? Why are you and Maniac joining in the attack?
What possible good comes from it? what does it do besides derail the conversation?
Where did Alex or Maniac say that Nimmo was a Rule 5? I know how you and Jessep feel about Latino’s in general, but now to contrive lies about something neither one said is a new low point. I see Maniac asking this is stupid a question about Nimmo that had nothing to do with Rule 5, but apparently about a discussion they had previously. All other comments about Nimmo are regarding what Maniac said and having nothing to do with him being a Rule 5. Some here keep asking me why I bring up this subject on this site and it’s because people like you overtly lie to make them look bad. Why must you create lies about them unless you hate them and what they are?
Because Aderlin is 18 months older than Nimmom …but has demonstrated much more POWER..and still was left unprotected….it is fair to compare Aderlin to Nimmo…
It is not difficult at all for a team like Miami, Houston, San Diego, Minnesotta, etc to draft a guy and just hide him on the bench…he then can make a few “15-Day” DL trips, until September…when rosters expand to 40…
sorry, but Sandy dropped the ball here..
He has nothing to do with Rule 5, and neither do needless personal attacks. You act as if you’ve never seen a post topic evolve or go into different directions. You need to stop being a hater.
Just looked it up….Aderlin is NOT eligible to be selected…
This was a useless debate over nothing…
Sorry for ignoring the folks who were stating it..
My bad for believing Matt Cerrone’s comments on how he was curious as to why Aderlin was not on the list…
No need for curiosity Matt…we’re all curious how your staff said Ruben Tejada dove into 1B for 8 weeks and never once corrected it