Starters for today: @SyracuseMets PPD @RumblePoniesBB game 1 Joander Suarez, game 2 Troy Miller @BKCyclones game 1 Felipe De La Cruz, game 2 Jordan Geber @stluciemets Austin Troesser #Mets
Starters for today: @SyracuseMets PPD @RumblePoniesBB game 1 Joander Suarez, game 2 Troy Miller @BKCyclones game 1 Felipe De La Cruz, game 2 Jordan Geber @stluciemets Austin Troesser #Mets
Let's see if Suarez can keep up the scoreless streak!
Twins with 4 @mets-centric moves today. Almost Met Carlos Correa to the IL, Ex-Met Michael Tonkin DFA'ed, Ex-Met Matt Bowman called up and Ex-Met prospect Simeon Woods-Richardson will serve as the 27th man for their DH today
he's a traditional IFA. He's 17-18 and will likely report to the DSL Mets. He was 17 when it was revealed they had a deal (November). Not sure when his birthday is.
he's a traditional IFA. He's 17-18 and will likely report to the DSL Mets. He was 17 when it was revealed they had a deal (November). Not sure when his birthday is.
Oh for some reason I made up in my mind he was older. No idea why lol.
he's a traditional IFA. He's 17-18 and will likely report to the DSL Mets. He was 17 when it was revealed they had a deal (November). Not sure when his birthday is.
Oh for some reason I made up in my mind he was older. No idea why lol.
Probably because traditionally the Mets don't sign many IFA's from Cuba.
SRF to @BKCyclones (rehab), Justin Jarvis activated from the IL by @RumblePoniesBB Luis Moreno promoted to @SyracuseMets Wilfredo Lara activated from the IL by @BKCyclones and Alan Perdomo “demoted” (after a win!) to @stluciemets #Mets.
is this like "mike vasil may be something" or are we more in the christian scott "we have a real prospect here" category?
Baseball America
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Low-A St. Lucie righthander Jonah Tong (Mets) has been striking out batters at a hard to fathom rate.
In his second start of the season ... https://x.com/BaseballAmerica/status/1779556724040413497 - ( New Window )
Maybe somewhere in between? Seems like he has better stuff than Vasil. He was so bad last year though that I didn't think much of him. I don't know if they got him in the new lab and were able to unlock some stuff.
Nol-tani does it again! HR. Dude has serious power wow. Clifford 1-3. Ziegler 2 innings 0 runs 2 walks 4 k’s (unclear why his outing was so short), Ventura 7 k’s over 4, SRF 1 perfect 3 k’s #Mets
Nol-tani does it again! HR. Dude has serious power wow. Clifford 1-3. Ziegler 2 innings 0 runs 2 walks 4 k’s (unclear why his outing was so short), Ventura 7 k’s over 4, SRF 1 perfect 3 k’s #Mets
game 1
Vasil 3.1 innings 8 hits 5 runs 2 walks 5 k's (Barring something shocking, safe to say we see Scott before Vasil. Vasil now has an era near 6 with Syracuse (19 starts). I still think he's a big league SP (or bulk innings RP) but he has to pitch better.
Nunez 1.2 perfect 2 k's
Lavender 1 inning 2 hits 0 runs 1 walk 0 k (Really like Lavender but he's been pretty mediocre so far this season considering his great Spring, we'll see him in 2024 at some point)
Acuna 3-4, SB (he's struggled early so he needed this)
Ritter 2-3, HR
Vientos 0-3, BB
Thompson 2-3, 2 HR's (horrible start to his season so he REALLY needed this)
Game 2
Acuna 0-4
Vientos 1-2, 2 BB
Ritter 1-3, HR
Fujinami 0.0 innings 1 hit 3 walks 3 runs
Orze 1 inning 0 hits 0 runs 1 walk 1 k
Walker 1 perfect 2 k's
AA
Schwartz 4-4, HR, 2b (hot start)
Ramirez 3-5 (.994 OPS to open the season. He DOES have a .500, yes .500 BABIP with 29.4% K rate, so his numbers while obviously excellent need to be taken with a grain of salt right now)
Thomas 0-5
Parada 1-4, 2 k's (Great to see Parada off to a hot start with the bat (.951 OPS), defnse remains a major concern (1/9 throwing on the season, 2 PB's over 5 games)
BK
Clifford 1-4, K (rough start to his season)
McLean 1-4, HR, 3 k's (monster shot)
Lorusso 3-4, 2 HR's (first 2 homers of his career)
Ziegler 2 innings 0 hits 2 walks 4 k's
Ventura 4 innings 2 hits 0 er 1 walk 7 k's (Jordany Ventura in 2024 7.1 innings 5 hits 0 er 1 walk 12 k's. Unclear if he's now permanently a RP or they are simply piggybacking him early on )
SRF 1 perfect 3 k's
St. Lucie
Suero 0-4, K
Baez 0-4
Houck 0-3, K (struggling)
Hernandez 0-3, K
Morabito 0-2, BB, K
Banks 1 inning 1 hit 2 k's
Lawson 1 perfect 2 k's
Simon (grew up a Mets fan) 1 inning 2 hits 1 run 0 walks 2 k's
i wish we had more AAA data re the swing decision stuff
vientos is at a 15% walk rate and 22% k-rate right now, both bests for him at any level of minors at samples as big as so far or greater. gb% still high but i have to think his whiff/chase rates are a lot better to have improved the walk/k-rates and that's one of the more important things they are hoping to see from him, maybe even more than whatever happens on batted balls.
he had 4 hard hit balls yesterday and one traveled 375 feet so was prob a near homer somewhere so i think the ev is still there even if his slg is down a bit. that will pop up with 1 good game. .265/.379/.490 will obviously play and id imagine a hot streak will push it higher at some point.
Jarrett Seidler
@jaseidler
not that any of this means much of anything in any direction in an 8 game sample, but it's a week and a half of games in which his groundball and swinging strike rates have both skyrocketed, essentially he has hit three more groundball singles than expected"
I'm not hating on the kid but a .500 BABIP and 29.4% k rate need to be included in any conversation regarding his hot start.
@BaseballAmerica names Dom Hamel as a "Statcast Standout" for the past week noting his "eye-popping" 20+ inch IVB which they say is "elite". They note his FB velocity is average (92-94) but the ride helps him get whiffs
Some nice pitching so far: Ziegler 6 innings, no hits, 13 Ks
Tong: 8.1 innings, 3 hits, 21 Ks
The announce team said it appeared he was having issues with his command and they didn't want to push it this early in the season. It certainly was kind of odd. 2 innings 43 pitches is high but not exceedingly so. No injury announced but it's of course possible he was under the weather or something (minor) physically. When it comes to stuff like that we really get much. I mean Justin Jarvis just came off the IL, no word even what happened.
28 prep bats taken 1st round since 2020, @jettwilliams04 is one of only 4 to begin their second full season in AA, a 5th (Jackson Holliday) began in AAA
Lance Brozdowski
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Subtle arm-angle change for José Buttó. Release height is down 2.5" from 2023, arm angle from 61° to 54° (see below). #Mets
Four-seam maintained shape, 15.5" vertical break, more elevation. Stuff+ models see it as average, but swinging strike rate jumped from 9.5% to 16%.
Mets Jose Butto’s arm angle is down from 61° last season to 54° this season. The result is a release height that’s 2.5” lower than last year. Despite the release drop, his fastball shape is nearly identical—15.5” vertical break. That’s marginally above-average ride for his current 5.4’ release. I do think something with this arm-angle change is driving the 16% swinging-strike rate on his four-seam, up from just 9.5% last year. Driveline Stuff+ hasn’t budged off an average grade (101). 🍎
His slider has turned into more of a bullet slider, down 5” in vertical break (more drop) and 2 mph in velocity from last year. Driveline Stuff+ at 100 and it’s generating a 47% swing-miss rate (33% is average). He’s also ditched his curveball from last year for a sweeper—82 mph with -7” vertical break and 13” sweep. That’s about 7” less vertical break than the average sweeper (dropping a lot more than average). You could argue it’s still a curveball based on shape, but notably different from his 2023 curve, 10” more sweep and 3 mph harder. Driveline Stuff+ of 91.
maybe its just me but i cant wait until we just trust our FO
we were putting arrows next to P, I'd have one squarely up for Joander Suarez, down for Mike Vasil. Neither are future aces either way but both are probably big league arms.
this early in the season but very roughly I'd have Christian Scott in a tier of his own with nobody else on his level Sproat probably #2 (even with the RP risk).
this early in the season but very roughly I'd have Christian Scott in a tier of his own with nobody else on his level Sproat probably #2 (even with the RP risk).
Speaking of...
From Callis:
Who is the most underrated pitching prospect in baseball, Jim? -- @LanceBroz
Great question from my "Road To Wrigley" teammate Lance Brozdowski, who does a lot of data-driven analysis of pitchers when he's not working for the Marquee Sports Network. I considered Pirates right-hander Thomas Harrington (currently sidelined with a slight rotator cuff strain) and Diamondbacks left-hander Yu-Min Lin, but my pick is Mets righty Christian Scott.
Florida usually has one of the deepest pitching staffs in college baseball, so Scott made just five starts and was mostly a reliever in his three seasons with the Gators. A fifth-round pick in 2021, he broke out last year with a 2.57 ERA, .199 opponents' average against and 107/12 K/BB ratio in 87 2/3 innings while rising from Single-A to Double-A. He struck out 19 and walked just one over nine innings in his first two Triple-A starts this season.
Scott pounds the zone with quality stuff: a mid-90s four-seamer that elicits an exceptional amount of swings-and-misses, as well as chases for a fastball; an upper-80s splitter/changeup that neutralizes left-handers; and a tight mid-80s slider that shows flashes of becoming a solid third option. He flies under the radar more than he should because he's 24 and doesn't have a long track record as a starter, but he looks on the cusp of pitching in the front half of a big league rotation.
this early in the season but very roughly I'd have Christian Scott in a tier of his own with nobody else on his level Sproat probably #2 (even with the RP risk).
Speaking of...
From Callis:
Who is the most underrated pitching prospect in baseball, Jim? -- @LanceBroz
Great question from my "Road To Wrigley" teammate Lance Brozdowski, who does a lot of data-driven analysis of pitchers when he's not working for the Marquee Sports Network. I considered Pirates right-hander Thomas Harrington (currently sidelined with a slight rotator cuff strain) and Diamondbacks left-hander Yu-Min Lin, but my pick is Mets righty Christian Scott.
Florida usually has one of the deepest pitching staffs in college baseball, so Scott made just five starts and was mostly a reliever in his three seasons with the Gators. A fifth-round pick in 2021, he broke out last year with a 2.57 ERA, .199 opponents' average against and 107/12 K/BB ratio in 87 2/3 innings while rising from Single-A to Double-A. He struck out 19 and walked just one over nine innings in his first two Triple-A starts this season.
Scott pounds the zone with quality stuff: a mid-90s four-seamer that elicits an exceptional amount of swings-and-misses, as well as chases for a fastball; an upper-80s splitter/changeup that neutralizes left-handers; and a tight mid-80s slider that shows flashes of becoming a solid third option. He flies under the radar more than he should because he's 24 and doesn't have a long track record as a starter, but he looks on the cusp of pitching in the front half of a big league rotation.
Funny.
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Who is the most underrated pitching prospect in baseball, Jim?
Daniel Wexler
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"Christian Scott"- Jim (or it should be!) lol
@lancebroz
I had him #21 in my top 40 pitching prospects, which I think would lineup to about a t100 guy https://lancebroz.substack.com/p/top-40-pitch
Daniel Wexler
@WexlerRules
Pipeline had at *least* 28 SP's ahead of him based on their top 100. To have nearly 30 (or more) SP prospects ahead of him is pretty wild to me. Considering his upper minors success, frame, stuff... underrated (and I'm not saying that because I'm a Mets fan).
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The Binghamton Rumble Ponies are pleased to announce that @SNYtv
, the flagship television home of the @Mets
, will broadcast at least eight Rumble Ponies games this season!
New York Mets: Kevin Parada (No. 7) is hitting well for Double-A Binghamton, with a .294/.480/.471 line in six games. He hit his first homer of the season Saturday. Teammate Jett Williams (No. 1) is batting .185 through seven games with two stolen bases. Luisangel Acuña (No. 2) is batting .207/.233/.293 with a homer in 14 games for Triple-A Syracuse. Drew Gilbert (No. 4) landed on the injured list April 7 with a hamstring strain. He was 6-for-25 with a homer for Syracuse before the injury.
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Rumors 🔥🔥🔥Yankees top 2028 signing Angel Ozuna is actually 2 yrs older, and should be signing in the 2026 class instead of 2028 . Ozuna’s bonus amount was rumored to be in the $6M range
Let's see if Suarez can keep up the scoreless streak!
Any scouting report? Age/Position?
Quote:
Finally officially sign Cuban OF Adolfo Miranda for 350K
Any scouting report? Age/Position?
He's an OF. Plus power. He was supposed to sign in January but didn't. He's not a new name, it's just now "official". Good athlete.
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In comment 16467359 DanMetroMan said:
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Finally officially sign Cuban OF Adolfo Miranda for 350K
Any scouting report? Age/Position?
He's an OF. Plus power. He was supposed to sign in January but didn't. He's not a new name, it's just now "official". Good athlete.
Awesome! Didn't remember the news when it first came out. Guess he'll go to Bing or Cuse?
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Oh for some reason I made up in my mind he was older. No idea why lol.
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he's a traditional IFA. He's 17-18 and will likely report to the DSL Mets. He was 17 when it was revealed they had a deal (November). Not sure when his birthday is.
Oh for some reason I made up in my mind he was older. No idea why lol.
Probably because traditionally the Mets don't sign many IFA's from Cuba.
Consuegra HR
Consuegra HR
Wonder if he's still not seeing the ball well in Brooklyn.
1 perfect for Joander. 24 AA innings 5 hits. Small sample size or not… ridiculous
He’s such a great follow on Twitter (Nestico)
HR, Nido 2-2 #Mets
Baseball America
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1h
Low-A St. Lucie righthander Jonah Tong (Mets) has been striking out batters at a hard to fathom rate.
In his second start of the season ...
https://x.com/BaseballAmerica/status/1779556724040413497 - ( New Window )
Baseball America
@BaseballAmerica
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1h
Low-A St. Lucie righthander Jonah Tong (Mets) has been striking out batters at a hard to fathom rate.
In his second start of the season ... https://x.com/BaseballAmerica/status/1779556724040413497 - ( New Window )
Maybe somewhere in between? Seems like he has better stuff than Vasil. He was so bad last year though that I didn't think much of him. I don't know if they got him in the new lab and were able to unlock some stuff.
Just saw video of McLean's HR. Man he crushed it.
Vasil 3.1 innings 8 hits 5 runs 2 walks 5 k's (Barring something shocking, safe to say we see Scott before Vasil. Vasil now has an era near 6 with Syracuse (19 starts). I still think he's a big league SP (or bulk innings RP) but he has to pitch better.
Nunez 1.2 perfect 2 k's
Lavender 1 inning 2 hits 0 runs 1 walk 0 k (Really like Lavender but he's been pretty mediocre so far this season considering his great Spring, we'll see him in 2024 at some point)
Acuna 3-4, SB (he's struggled early so he needed this)
Ritter 2-3, HR
Vientos 0-3, BB
Thompson 2-3, 2 HR's (horrible start to his season so he REALLY needed this)
Game 2
Acuna 0-4
Vientos 1-2, 2 BB
Ritter 1-3, HR
Fujinami 0.0 innings 1 hit 3 walks 3 runs
Orze 1 inning 0 hits 0 runs 1 walk 1 k
Walker 1 perfect 2 k's
AA
Schwartz 4-4, HR, 2b (hot start)
Ramirez 3-5 (.994 OPS to open the season. He DOES have a .500, yes .500 BABIP with 29.4% K rate, so his numbers while obviously excellent need to be taken with a grain of salt right now)
Thomas 0-5
Parada 1-4, 2 k's (Great to see Parada off to a hot start with the bat (.951 OPS), defnse remains a major concern (1/9 throwing on the season, 2 PB's over 5 games)
Jarvis (season debut) 2.2 innings 2 hits 1 run 2 walks 4 k's
BK
Clifford 1-4, K (rough start to his season)
McLean 1-4, HR, 3 k's (monster shot)
Lorusso 3-4, 2 HR's (first 2 homers of his career)
Ziegler 2 innings 0 hits 2 walks 4 k's
Ventura 4 innings 2 hits 0 er 1 walk 7 k's (Jordany Ventura in 2024 7.1 innings 5 hits 0 er 1 walk 12 k's. Unclear if he's now permanently a RP or they are simply piggybacking him early on )
SRF 1 perfect 3 k's
St. Lucie
Suero 0-4, K
Baez 0-4
Houck 0-3, K (struggling)
Hernandez 0-3, K
Morabito 0-2, BB, K
Banks 1 inning 1 hit 2 k's
Lawson 1 perfect 2 k's
Simon (grew up a Mets fan) 1 inning 2 hits 1 run 0 walks 2 k's
he had 4 hard hit balls yesterday and one traveled 375 feet so was prob a near homer somewhere so i think the ev is still there even if his slg is down a bit. that will pop up with 1 good game. .265/.379/.490 will obviously play and id imagine a hot streak will push it higher at some point.
Jarrett Seidler
@jaseidler
not that any of this means much of anything in any direction in an 8 game sample, but it's a week and a half of games in which his groundball and swinging strike rates have both skyrocketed, essentially he has hit three more groundball singles than expected"
I'm not hating on the kid but a .500 BABIP and 29.4% k rate need to be included in any conversation regarding his hot start.
Some nice pitching so far: Ziegler 6 innings, no hits, 13 Ks
Tong: 8.1 innings, 3 hits, 21 Ks
Some nice pitching so far: Ziegler 6 innings, no hits, 13 Ks
Tong: 8.1 innings, 3 hits, 21 Ks
The announce team said it appeared he was having issues with his command and they didn't want to push it this early in the season. It certainly was kind of odd. 2 innings 43 pitches is high but not exceedingly so. No injury announced but it's of course possible he was under the weather or something (minor) physically. When it comes to stuff like that we really get much. I mean Justin Jarvis just came off the IL, no word even what happened.
@LanceBroz
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Subtle arm-angle change for José Buttó. Release height is down 2.5" from 2023, arm angle from 61° to 54° (see below). #Mets
Four-seam maintained shape, 15.5" vertical break, more elevation. Stuff+ models see it as average, but swinging strike rate jumped from 9.5% to 16%.
His slider has turned into more of a bullet slider, down 5” in vertical break (more drop) and 2 mph in velocity from last year. Driveline Stuff+ at 100 and it’s generating a 47% swing-miss rate (33% is average). He’s also ditched his curveball from last year for a sweeper—82 mph with -7” vertical break and 13” sweep. That’s about 7” less vertical break than the average sweeper (dropping a lot more than average). You could argue it’s still a curveball based on shape, but notably different from his 2023 curve, 10” more sweep and 3 mph harder. Driveline Stuff+ of 91.
im a numbers guy but beyond the simple to understand stuff (like stuff+) i find the real technical stuff overwhelming to understand practically.
Speaking of...
From Callis:
Who is the most underrated pitching prospect in baseball, Jim? -- @LanceBroz
Great question from my "Road To Wrigley" teammate Lance Brozdowski, who does a lot of data-driven analysis of pitchers when he's not working for the Marquee Sports Network. I considered Pirates right-hander Thomas Harrington (currently sidelined with a slight rotator cuff strain) and Diamondbacks left-hander Yu-Min Lin, but my pick is Mets righty Christian Scott.
Florida usually has one of the deepest pitching staffs in college baseball, so Scott made just five starts and was mostly a reliever in his three seasons with the Gators. A fifth-round pick in 2021, he broke out last year with a 2.57 ERA, .199 opponents' average against and 107/12 K/BB ratio in 87 2/3 innings while rising from Single-A to Double-A. He struck out 19 and walked just one over nine innings in his first two Triple-A starts this season.
Scott pounds the zone with quality stuff: a mid-90s four-seamer that elicits an exceptional amount of swings-and-misses, as well as chases for a fastball; an upper-80s splitter/changeup that neutralizes left-handers; and a tight mid-80s slider that shows flashes of becoming a solid third option. He flies under the radar more than he should because he's 24 and doesn't have a long track record as a starter, but he looks on the cusp of pitching in the front half of a big league rotation.
Quote:
this early in the season but very roughly I'd have Christian Scott in a tier of his own with nobody else on his level Sproat probably #2 (even with the RP risk).
Speaking of...
From Callis:
Who is the most underrated pitching prospect in baseball, Jim? -- @LanceBroz
Great question from my "Road To Wrigley" teammate Lance Brozdowski, who does a lot of data-driven analysis of pitchers when he's not working for the Marquee Sports Network. I considered Pirates right-hander Thomas Harrington (currently sidelined with a slight rotator cuff strain) and Diamondbacks left-hander Yu-Min Lin, but my pick is Mets righty Christian Scott.
Florida usually has one of the deepest pitching staffs in college baseball, so Scott made just five starts and was mostly a reliever in his three seasons with the Gators. A fifth-round pick in 2021, he broke out last year with a 2.57 ERA, .199 opponents' average against and 107/12 K/BB ratio in 87 2/3 innings while rising from Single-A to Double-A. He struck out 19 and walked just one over nine innings in his first two Triple-A starts this season.
Scott pounds the zone with quality stuff: a mid-90s four-seamer that elicits an exceptional amount of swings-and-misses, as well as chases for a fastball; an upper-80s splitter/changeup that neutralizes left-handers; and a tight mid-80s slider that shows flashes of becoming a solid third option. He flies under the radar more than he should because he's 24 and doesn't have a long track record as a starter, but he looks on the cusp of pitching in the front half of a big league rotation.
Funny.
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Still seeking questions for the @MLBPipeline
Inbox. Send them here or to pipeline@mlb.com. Thanks!
Lance Brozdowski
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Apr 11
Who is the most underrated pitching prospect in baseball, Jim?
Daniel Wexler
@WexlerRules
"Christian Scott"- Jim (or it should be!) lol
@lancebroz
I had him #21 in my top 40 pitching prospects, which I think would lineup to about a t100 guy https://lancebroz.substack.com/p/top-40-pitch
Daniel Wexler
@WexlerRules
Pipeline had at *least* 28 SP's ahead of him based on their top 100. To have nearly 30 (or more) SP prospects ahead of him is pretty wild to me. Considering his upper minors success, frame, stuff... underrated (and I'm not saying that because I'm a Mets fan).
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The Binghamton Rumble Ponies are pleased to announce that @SNYtv
, the flagship television home of the @Mets
, will broadcast at least eight Rumble Ponies games this season!
@BKCyclones
The Cyclones are excited to be part of the @SNYtv
Minor League Broadcast schedule for the 2024 season.
You'll also be able to see games featuring the @SyracuseMets
and @RumblePoniesBB
all season long.
@bkfan09
Rumors 🔥🔥🔥Yankees top 2028 signing Angel Ozuna is actually 2 yrs older, and should be signing in the 2026 class instead of 2028 . Ozuna’s bonus amount was rumored to be in the $6M range