The New York Mets have been excited about Amed Rosario since signing him out of the Dominican Republic as a lanky 16-year-old in 2012.
After spending five seasons in MiLB, slashing .291/.336/.405 with just 333 strikeouts in 1,775 minor-league at-bats, the Mets called up Rosario on the first of August last season, finishing the year with mixed results.
Coming into camp this season, new Mets manager Mickey Callaway clearly had big plans for Rosario. He performed well in Grapefruit League play, hitting .313 with a .895 OPS in 48 at-bats.
Apparently, this was a sign of things to come for Amed Rosario, as he’s gotten off to a fantastic start for the Mets so far this season.
After logging two hits and two RBI in the team’s Opening Day win over the Cardinals, including his two-run single in the fifth that extended the Mets’ lead to 6-3 in an eventual 9-4 victory, Rosario was at it again yesterday.
In his second multi-hit game of the season, Rosario broke a sixth-inning, 2-2 tie with a triple to right field that soared over an unusually shallow-playing Nick Williams and rolled to the wall, scoring Asdrubal Cabrera and Wilmer Flores to give the Mets a 4-2 lead that they would hold onto for their fourth win of the season.
After the game, as per Laura Albanese of Newsday, Rosario had some comments regarding his five RBI in only five games played and hitting with runners in scoring position, “I feel very good and I feel very comfortable and fortunately, most of the times that I’ve been taking at-bats there have also been runners in scoring position so I’ve had a chance to bring them home”
Rosario is now 3-for-8 with runners in scoring position with five RBI to begin the season.
Callaway spoke to Albanese on the adjustments Rosario’s made this season, “The thing I like about Rosey is that he’s not letting the last at-bat dictate what he’s going to do in the next at-bat. He knows in the past, he’s chased some pitches…He’s sticking with that good approach he and “6” (Pat Roessler) are working on.”
As for his sixth-inning triple yesterday, most certainly aided by Nick Williams playing so shallow, Rosario had this to say after the game, “As soon as I hit the ball, I saw that he was playing shallow. I was sure that the ball would go over his head.”
And that it did. As per Statcast, Amed Rosario got from home plate to third base in 11.27 seconds, the fastest triple recorded this season in MLB and the fastest triple for the Mets since they began tracking these stats four seasons ago.
