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Mets fans, an all new episode is here!
This week we are joined by Mets director of baseball development and former assistant director of amateur and international scouting, Bryan Hayes.
Hayes, who started his baseball career as a bat boy with the Norfolk Tides in 2004, is a Notre Dame and Georgia Tech graduate with a Masters of Science in Analytics, joining the Mets baseball operations staff as an intern in 2011.
Bryan had some great conversations with us about the Mets minor leagues, the newly bolstered analytics department and its affect on player development, how scouting plays a role in the “information arms race”, and much more!
We asked Bryan his thoughts on when he thinks we might see top prospect Francisco Alvarez promoted to Triple-A and the majors:
“I’ll let everyone else in charge make that call, but he’s (Alvarez) definitely forcing the issue and that’s everything that we want him to do. He’s just a mountain of a man, absolute beast, and looks like a ninja turtle going up there with the bat, but the guy works really hard. From the day we got him, it was that “lunch pale” type of mentality, I think it’s a blue collar worker in an absolute Maserati of a talent base. It’s been fun watching him, hopefully he progresses along those same patterns that we are expecting from him…he’s got lofty expectations for himself and he should.”
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