Can you believe the baseball season is almost over? There’s only a month left in the MLB regular season, and the minor league seasons will be done before that. The rookie leagues are already done; High-A wraps up this week, Double-A next week and Triple-A the week after that. It was a big August for many Mets minor leaguers on both sides of the game. Let’s go through who was the best...
The Syracuse Mets swept their doubleheader on Saturday. Leading the charge was Jonah Tong who set the tone in the first game. He went the full seven innings and only allowed a single hit. He has been in a groove over his last eight starts. Triple-A Game 1: Syracuse Mets 6 (66-63), Lehigh Valley IronPigs 0 (62-66) Box Score DH Mark Vientos: 3-4, HR, 1 RBI, 2 R (1.275 OPS) CF D’Andre Smith:...
Ronny Mauricio just keeps feasting on Triple-A pitching. On Saturday, he was a perfect 4-for-4 and drove in five of Syracuse’s (Triple-A) 13 runs. Meanwhile, the trade deadline acquisitions just keep performing. Most notably, consensus top-100 prospect, Jefferson Rojas, posted his first extra-base hit with the organization and went 3-for-4 in Binghamton’s (Double-A) slim defeat....
One night after Double-A Binghamton scored a franchise-record 23 runs on 21 hits, they managed just one run on three. That’s baseball. Still, the one run was enough, thanks in large part to Noah Hall. The 25-year-old right-hander struck out a season-high-tying 10 over six scoreless innings. Hall was making his second start for the Rumble Ponies after pitching to a 4.58 ERA in 88 1/3...
With the month of May complete, let’s take a look around the Mets minor league teams and see who was the most impressive over the last 31 days. For the first time this year, that includes the Florida Complex League, which kicked off play towards the beginning of May. Triple-A: Syracuse Mets Hitter of the Month: Ronny Maurico Stats: 8 G, .517/.559/.862/1.421, 3 HR, 1 2B, 7 RBI, 4 BB, 5 SO...
Triple-A Syracuse Mets (39-54) 8, Buffalo Bisons (45-49) 7 BOX SCORE DH Ronny Mauricio: 1-for-6, R, HR (16), 2 RBIs (56), K (.851 OPS) 1B Luke Voit: 3-for-4, 2 R, HR (9), RBI (28), HBP (.918 OPS) LF Carlos Cortes: 2-for-2, R, 2 RBIs (26), 2 BB (.745 OPS) 2B Luke Ritter: 2-for-4, BB, K (.695 OPS) C Michael Perez: 1-for-4, R, 2B, 2 RBIs (17), BB (.651 OPS) Mauricio’s great season at the Triple-A...
Triple-A Syracuse Mets (27-39) 6, Buffalo Bisons (30-37) 0 (5 Innings) BOX SCORE 1B Luke Voit: 1-for-1, 2 R, HR (3), 2 RBIs (13), 2 BB (1.140 OPS) 2B Luke Ritter: 2-for-3, 2 R, HR (2), RBI (14) (.635 OPS) RF DJ Stewart: 1-for-3, R, HR (14), 2 RBIs (32) (.903 OPS) 3B Nick Meyer: 1-for-2, R, RBI (14), K (.579 OPS) LF Ronny Mauricio: 0-for-3 (.897 OPS) In a rain-shortened game, the Mets ended up...
Triple-A Game 1 Lehigh Valley IronPigs (31-28) 5, Syracuse Mets (23-37) 1 BOX SCORE 3B Danny Mendick: 2-for-4, 2B, RBI (27) (.732 OPS) 2B Ronny Mauricio: 1-for-4, K (.884 OPS) DH Carlos Cortes: 2-for-3, 2B, K (.731 OPS) CF Tanner Murphy: 2-for-3, 2B, K (.733 OPS) 1B Tyler White: 1-for-4, K (.758 OPS) The Mets only managed one run in Game 1 and it came on an RBI single from Mendick in the bottom...
