Month: April 2013

Mets Minors Report 4/18: T.J. Leads System In RBI, Charting DeGrom’s Performance, The Wheeler Debate

Last Night’s Quick Scores Savannah (7-6) rocked the Greensboro Grasshoppers, 8-1 St. Lucie (9-4) dropped to the Charlotte Stone Crabs, 5-2 Binghamton (7-6) lost a close one to the Portland Sea Dogs, 1-0 Las Vegas (7-6) topped the Sacramento River Cats, 3-2 Prospect Pipeline Brandon Nimmo had another two hits in yesterday’s game. He now has had a multi-hit game ten times this season....

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Aderlin Rodriguez Homers In 5-2 St. Lucie Loss

Charlotte 5, St. Lucie 2 Starting off ugly and not getting much better, the St. Lucie Mets got hit hard out of the gate by the Charlotte Stone Crabs and were unable to bounce back, falling by a score of 5-2. Marcos Camarena took the hill for his start for the St. Lucie Mets and made it one he will soon like to forget. In just five innings of work, Camarena surrenedered four runs on six hits...

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Ruben Tejada Continues To Be Erratic At Shortstop

Replacing Jose Reyes was never going to be easy, but with Ruben Tejada’s fielding prowess if he could hit just a little that would be acceptable to the Mets. Perhaps that should read, “former fielding prowess.’’ Trouble is, he’s not hitting or fielding. He’s not even just holding his own; he’s been poor at both, actually terrible. Tejada has committed six errors in 13 games – a pace for just...

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Quintanilla Delivers 3-2 Walk-Off Win, D’Arnaud Pulled After Taking Pitch On Ankle

Las Vegas 3, Sacramento 2 Carlos Torres gave the team five solid innings and held the River Rats to two runs on the night while striking out ten batters. He allowed eight base runners on seven hits and a walk. Torres left the game down 2-0, but the bullpen shut the door after that allowing the 51s to come back and win the game. Adam Kolarek, Greg Peavey, and Robert Carson combined for four...

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DeGrom Stellar In Binghamton Debut Despite 1-0 Loss

Portland 1, Binghamton 0 I attended the game and charted Jacob DeGrom’s pitching stats on the hunch that tonight could be special. The kid was stellar; polished, poised, a smooth and effortless delivery, and he simply pounded the strike zone. I don’t think I’ve seen a B-Met pitcher pitch a game like this since Scott Kazmir many years back. Here’s DeGrom’s pitching line: 8.0 IP – 1 ER...

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