Francisco Alvarez/Photo by Allen Greene Photography
The Mets minor league full season affiliates 2019 season came to an end on Tuesday when the Triple-A Syracuse Mets suffered a brutal loss in their one-game playoff for the division title.
Short season Brooklyn is the only team left playing, they are playing the final game of a best-of-three series in the first round of the New York-Penn League playoffs on Friday night.
With the season over let’s take a look at the leaders from a farm system that following prospect trades over the last year has fallen to one of the worst in baseball.
One thing to note with the Syracuse players is the massive increase in offense this season in the International League. The league jumped from 4.16 runs per game in 2018 to 5.16 in 2019 and 1555 homers in 2018 and a whopping 2440 homers this year.
Home Runs
Rene Rivera (Syracuse) 25, Dilson Herrera & Travis Taijeron (SYR) 24, Danny Espinosa (SYR) 20, Patrick Mazeika (Binghamton) 16, Arismendy Alcantara (SYR) 15, Jason Krizan (BNG/SYR) 14, Gregor Blanco (SYR) 13, Mark Vientos (Columbia) 12, Barrett Barnes (BNG) 12
RBI
Espinosa 84, Rivera 73, Taijeron 70, Mazeika 69 (2nd in EL), Cortes 68 (2nd in FSL), Krizan 65, Herrera 64, Vientos 62, Quinn Brodey (STL/BNG) 62, Jeremy Vasquez (STL/BNG) 61, Alcantara 58, Jacob Zanon (STL/BNG) 51
Runs
Alcantara 76, Espinosa 75, Blake Tiberi (STL) 72, Herrera 66, Taijeron 65, Cortes 64, Ronny Mauricio (COL) 62
SB
Andres Gimenez (BNG) 28, Sam Haggerty (BNG/SYR) 23, Alcantara 21, Hansel Moreno (COL/STL) 20, Rajai Davis (SYR) 20, Franklin Linares (DSL) 20
wRC+
Francisco Alvarez (GCL/KPT) 155, Kenedy Corona (3 TMS) 146, Jose Peroza (GCL/BKN) 143, Krizan 137, Wilmer Reyes (BKN) 136, Carlos Dominguez (DSL) 135, Ruben Tejada 134, Scott Ota (KPT) 133, Brett Baty (3 TMS) 131, Luis Guillorme (SYR) 126
SwStr% (Swinging Strike %)
Krizan 5.1%, Vasquez 5.9%, Jake Mangum (BKN) 6.5%, Guillorme 6.8%, Tiberi 7.3%, Antoine Duplantis (BKN) 7.6%
ISO (Isolated Slugging)
Taijeron .267, Herrera .253, Peroza .251, Rivera .248, Ota .246, Baty .218, Dominguez .198, Alvarez .197, Andres Regnault (KPT) .197
The 17-year-old Francisco Alvarez was playing in his first pro season after receiving a new team-record $2.7 million international bonus in 2018. His 155 wRC+ led all of the Mets minor league system for players with at least 150 plate appearances. He was certainly the Mets most impressive prospect in 2019 in terms of offensive production.
Kenedy Corona and Jose Peroza are two short season players that came out of nowhere to have great seasons offensively.
