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2012
Rule 5 Draft: Mets Select LHP Kyle Lobstein
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Surprise, surprise, the Mets did select someone in the first round and passed in the second and third rounds…
A total of 15 players were selected in the major league phase of the draft.
Here are my thoughts I shared on Twitter…
David Groveman says that the Mets may have selected this player for the Miami Marlins. So there might be a small trade coming involving Lobstein. Jonathan Mayo also says he could be moved to the Tigers.
Original Post 9:00 AM
The 2012 MLB Rule 5 Draft takes place this morning in Nashville at 10:00 AM.
The draft is usually the closing bell for the Winter Meetings as teams wrap things up and begin leaving the hotel shortly after it’s conclusion.
Yesterday, Sandy Alderson said that it was very unlikely that the team would be adding any players from the Rule 5 Draft this year.
Any players the Mets selected would have to be kept on the 25 man roster for an entire season or you risk having to return the player back to their original team.
With the Mets’ roster shrouded in such flux and uncertainty, it would hardly make any sense to expend a spot on a virtual unknown quantity when the team is in such deep need of help at many levels.
However, there is some risk that the Mets could lose some players, with infielders Jefry Marte and Josh Satin, and possibly reliever Armando Rodriguez topping the list.
Again, any teams selecting these players would have to keep them on their 25 man roster for the entire season or els they end up coming back the way Elvin Ramirez did after the Nationals selected him in the 2010 Rule 5.
We’ll see how it plays out…
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Sad….This was the only part of our trash pickup operation that had any upside….Pedro Beato!
Yes but, when the Mets are “desperate” for righty OF support and a platoon catcher, doesn’t it make sense to try to acquire players like Jason Hagerty or Destin Hood. Either player could simply be given the chance to win a spot this Spring with little risk.
Consider that the Mets are needlessly protecting Greg Burke and Gonzalez Germen on the 40-man roster. It just makes me angry.
Cant argue with your logic here. Burke especially burned my ass.
‘David Groveman says that the Mets may have selected this player for the Miami Marlins.’
What do the Marlins have that we want?
Giancarlos something or other..
Heck, even LoMo would be welcome.
Lobstein for Stanton? I like that.
On MLBTR, it’s saying expected to be traded to tigers.
Probably for Cash….
Side note:Speaking of Tigers…. I know he’s a Lefty and similar to Duda but if I were Sandy I’d look into working some kind of a deal for Brennan Boesch of the Tigers.
They should just stock pile Outfielders like the A’s have these past few years…
The A’s are another team the Mets should try and work out a deal with for one of those Outfielders, they have 6!
1.J. Reddick
2.Y. Cespedes
3.C. Young
4.C. Crisp
5.S. Smith
6.C. Cowgill
Young would be a perfect fit but I doubt Beane parts with any unles bowled over to think he got Young from the D’backs for peanuts
Smith and Crisp would fit in well but keep in mind what a meeting of Billy and Sandy would sound like in terms of a major trade. LOL.
The only thing Chris Young does well is strike out. This is not fantasy baseball
Yeah I seen that. Something about note passing. So I can expect a Lobstein for Cabrera trade?
Josh Edgin and Tim Byrdak must be quaking in their boots.
Not sure Byrdak will even be ready to pitch by OD. Robert Carson most likely starting the season if Byrdak isn’t ready.
$10 says he was referred to as “Lobster” all his life
As usual, there you go starting in with the name calling. lol
HAHAHAHAHA
“A soft-tossing lefty with plus control, the aptly-named Lobstein is a nice complement to the usual flame-throwing Rays prospects. His most likely route to the majors is as a reliever, but he could play his way into a starting role if he keeps up the superior results. He wasn’t exceptional in AA last year, but it was his first taste of that level, and in 2012 he’ll know what’s expected of him. Don’t call the jury back in just yet.”
“While Lobstein was far less impressive on this night than CIngrani, he probably has a better chance of becoming a starter in the majors because of his changeup. Lobstein’s ceiling is much lower, however, and he has difficulty repeating his delivery, causing erratic command, so he’s far from a finished product.
Lobstein will never be anything more than a back-end starter for the Rays because of his high-80s fastball. Lobstein is a great example of the difference between control and command. He doesn’t walk a lot of batters, demonstrating good control, but his command is erratic and he routinely misses his spots, often times within the strike zone. This is caused by his inability to repeat his delivery.
Because he has a long-arm action after he breaks his hands, he fails to get his left arm to the same spot in its motion at the time of his landing foot hitting the ground on each pitch. When he gets his arm up and moving forward as the landing foot hits, he has better control. But on many occasions, his arm is still dragging through its motion, causing it to have to work to get “up and over” his front side, which has already landed. The result is erratic command, especially up and down in the zone.
What Lobstein did show, however, was a plus change-up, getting off-balance swings-and-misses from a number of right-handed hitters. This pitch alone gives him a puncher’s chance of being a back-end starter or swingman in the majors, if he improves his fastball command and cleans up his mechanics. He doesn’t profile as an effective left-handed reliever, however, because his curveball was just average and he would need to add a few MPH to his fastball.”
This is very sad….
BREAKING NEWS FROM ADAM RUBIN:
Just modest cash as #Mets reward for making Rule 5 pick for #Tigers, source tells me. @KyleLobstein will be a Tiger.
Alderson all but confirmed Mets made Rule 5 pick for another team.
Yeah, why not? If you can make some cash by just saying a name…
Darn only cash, I was hoping for V Martinez or Cabrera for this stallion. LOL
It really appears that this guy can’t win for losing. How is it a bad to make money by saying a name?
Lmao @ Nathan…
Probably got enough money to pay for one night at the hotel in Nashville.
Probably wouldn’t cover the bar tab. Especially if Eddie C. is drinking.