AAA TBD
AAA2 TBD
AA TBD
A+ TBD
A Seymour
AA
Young 2-5, 2 k's
Alvarez 3-5, K (heating up!)
Baty 0-3, 2 BB, K
Mauricio 0-5, 2 k's
Ritter 1-4, 2 k's
Mangum 1-4, 2b
Montes de Oca 0.2 innings 2 hits 1 run 1 walk 2 k's
Zanghi 1.1 perfect 4 k's
A+
Jordan 0-3, BB
Palmer 2-3, 2b, BB, K
Schwartz 0-4
Newton 1-4, 2 k's
Yamamoto (rehab) 1.2 innings 3 hits 2 runs 2 walks 2 k's
A
Ramirez 1-3, K, CS (One area in which Alex Ramirez pretty clearly needs to improve is his baserunning/basestealing. Despite plus speed he's now 2/7 in SB attempts in 2022)
ODLS 1-4
Dominguez 4-5, HR, K
Ziegler 4.2 innings 2 hits 2 runs 3 walks 9 k's (Very intriguing arm. He and Vasil have been breakout arms)
29 IP, 11 Hits!, 18 walks, 48 Ks, 3.10 ERA. Extremely impressive. If he can just cut the walks down a tad as he ages, he could really be something.
Ramirez' "issues" are obviously his baserunning and his drawing walks as mentioned the other day
they have a real chance to advance the system/organization into the real top tier (or at least make up as much ground as possible in 1 draft).
Ramirez' "issues" are obviously his baserunning and his drawing walks as mentioned the other day
It was De Los Santos that we talked about drawing walks, not Ramirez
11. New York Mets: Daniel Susac, C, Arizona
I know someone will say “But the Mets have Francisco Alvarez!” but the truth is teams don’t, and shouldn’t, draft for need – you take the best player available, and Susac might even go ahead of this spot anyway. They could be the floor for Jung or go for Gavin Cross.
Scouting report: “After a slow start, Susac hit well for the Wildcats. He crushes fastballs but struggles (relatively speaking) on breaking stuff and hasn’t shown as much power in games as you’ll see in batting practice. He’s adequate behind the plate with an above-average arm, more likely to stay back there than Parada, with less hit tool.”
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14. New York Mets: Connor Prielipp, LHP, Alabama
Prielipp will throw for scouts on Monday, May 23 – I plan to be there as well – which will mark his first appearance in any form since Tommy John surgery in April of 2021. Whether this is a realistic guess will be a lot clearer after that, but if he looks healthy at all I think he’ll get a deal in the first round, as we saw with Jeff Hoffman, Gunnar Hoglund, and Clarke Schmidt in recent years.
Scouting report: “Prielipp, the top pitcher on my board, won’t throw a single pitch in 2022, but he could very easily have been the first-overall pick if he’d stayed healthy … Prior to the May 2021 operation, he would sit 92-94 mph with a plus slider in the upper 80s, with a funky delivery that gave him some added deception. His changeup was below-average, but he barely threw it, using the slider instead even against right-handed batters. He pitched just seven times in college due to the injury and the pandemic, so there’s a lot of unknowns here.”
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power not an issue with him. Consistent contact is.
Ramirez' "issues" are obviously his baserunning and his drawing walks as mentioned the other day
It was De Los Santos that we talked about drawing walks, not Ramirez
Both. Ramirez walk rate is currently 3.4% on the season.
2nd: Zeigler has been unreal
3rd: Hamel interesting though needs to cut down on the walks
6th: Carson Seymour has given up 1 run in 25 innings
7th: Kevin Kendall hitting .327 with 8 steals, 15 walks, .872 OPS
8th: Vasil
15th: Wyatt Young
Other guys like Askew, Zwack, Schwartz have shown some promise. Probably missing some. I can't recall a Mets draft with this much promising talent. Usually, it seems like 1-2 promising guys past the first two rounds.
But even with the DH, the Mets could keep two guys like that. A guy with a bat like Alvarez, I wouldn't be surprised if the Mets played him at C 90 times while DHing him the rest of the time, and played a Nido type the 70 games he DHs. Get another top catching prospect, and you could eventually split them both at DH and C if keeping both.
My bad. Those were his 2021 numbers.
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had arm surgery and has yet to play in 2022. Solid UT upside.
My bad. Those were his 2021 numbers.
He can play all over the field and has shown an ability to hit. He's probably not a regular but a utility player has value to. The surgery was also to his non throwing arm so presumably not a long term concern.
What degrades Alvarez performance is his 27.4% strikeout rate.
His issues are somewhat typical of young players who move up in competition.
His strikeout rate to some extent was due to his inability to stay off pitches early in the count. He was very aggressive in his approach and was constantly behind in the count.