DSL Season begins on Monday, some bookkeeping
06/01/24 RHP Johan Moreno assigned to DSL Mets Blue.
06/01/24 RHP Leyvi Rodriguez assigned to DSL Mets Blue.
06/01/24 LHP Wilmer Lugo assigned to DSL Mets Blue from DSL Mets Orange.
06/01/24 RHP Deivy Victora assigned to DSL Mets Blue from DSL Mets Orange.
06/01/24 LHP Darling Felix assigned to DSL Mets Blue from DSL Mets Orange.
06/01/24 RHP Luisner Lopez assigned to DSL Mets Blue from DSL Mets Orange.
06/01/24 RHP Jermayne Verdu assigned to DSL Mets Blue from DSL Mets Orange.
06/01/24 RHP Deivy Victora assigned to DSL Mets Blue from DSL Mets Orange.
06/01/24 LHP Wilmer Lugo assigned to DSL Mets Blue from DSL Mets Orange.
06/01/24 LHP Darling Felix assigned to DSL Mets Blue from DSL Mets Orange.
06/01/24 RHP Luisner Lopez assigned to DSL Mets Blue from DSL Mets Orange.
06/01/24 RHP Jermayne Verdu assigned to DSL Mets Blue from DSL Mets Orange.
AAA
Choi granted his release
Acuna 1-3, BB
Ritter 0-3 BB, 3 k's
Bannon 2-4
Thomas 1-4
Hamel 5 innings 5 hits 2 runs 3 walks 3 k's (Awful era and too many walks but I still believe he's a big league arm, likely a RP)
Drew Smith (rehab) 1 perfect
Bing
Rudick 1-4
Parada 0-4
McLean 2-4, HR, 2b
Clifford 0-3,BB, 3 k's (He's been very disappointing, no two ways about it)
Stuart 5 innings 7 hits 3 runs 2 walks 6 k's (another likely big leaguer but RPer)
McLoughlin 1.2 innings 2 walks (1.15 era on the season)
Gervase 0.2 innings 2 hits 4 runs 3 walks 2 k's (yuck)
BK
Morabito 0-4, 3 k's
Lorusso 0-3, BB, SB, 2 k's (should be in Bing)
Suero 1-4, 2 k's
Orellana 2.1 innings 4 hits 2 runs 1 walk 1 k (first poor outing of the season)
Julian Smith *organizational debut* 0.2 perfect
St.Lucie
Baro 3-5, 2b, K
Baez 0-4, 2 k's
Hernandez 1-4
Houck 1-4, 2b, K (awful first 2 months)
Rosa 0-4, 2 k's
Fanas 1-3, BB
Gomez 5 innings 7 hits 2 runs 3 walks 4 k's (One to watch)
Ammons 1 inning 1 hit 0 runs 0 walks 2 k's
FCL
J-Rod 2-6, BB, K, 2 CS
Ewing 2-4, 2 2B, 2 BB, 2 k's (1.008 OPS on the season)
Zitella 3-5, 2 2B, 2 k's (Hitting .349)
Juan 4-4, HR, 2 BB (monster game came into the game 2 for his last 33, talk about a slump buster)
Cota 4 innings 2 hits 2 runs 1 walk 9 k's
McLean 42 innings in 2024, McLean 57.1 innings over his entire college career. He'll be lucky to throw 100 total innings this season and even that seems unlikely.
So I really don't see any realistic scenario BA suddenly changes their tune. His wRC+ (good May and all) is now 68 with a 6.2% BB%
Reranked to #51
Headshot of Sebastian Walcott
51. Sebastian Walcott
Texas Rangers
SS
Ht: 6'4" | Wt: 190 | B-T: R-R
Age: null
Opening Day Age: 18.1
ETA: 2026
The Skinny: A standout athlete with loud tools, Walcott possesses a high-end upside but the plate skills are a question mark. Walcott was aggressively assigned to High-A despite being over four years younger than the average player.
Scouting Grades Hit: 50 | Power: 60 | Run: 55 | Field: 45 | Arm: 60
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that said depending on how many graduations there are who knows. these lists always seem overly reactive to who is hot at the moment statistically and i think clifford was an honorable mention on their list preseason so he cant be too far off.
j-rod i think will be a top 100 once he starts performing at A ball. not so sure what they are waiting for with promoting him, but i guess the st lucie roster is pretty loaded with IFers (mcewing, vargas, baez, baro, houck). probably waiting for 1 of those guys to get promoted to brooklyn. baro and baez seem most likely for promotions and they are both playing 3b. houck has played majority at SS and he is not promotion ready. maybe they would let him and j-rod split SS/3b/dh once one or both of those guys move up? ewing had split cf/2b in FCL but played CF in his first game.
but i had heard that swing decisions can never improve and he hit too many grounders!?!?!?!
ironically he has his highest GB rate including minors right now.
his 51 attempts at 3b so far are almost as many as he's had in any other stint in big leagues and he is still carrying +1 OAA. in 289 career innings at 3b i believe he is in totaly just -1 with just 3 errors.
Don't see it. De Vries was considered a better prospect than Pena and he opened the season #99 on BA's list. Salas didn't crack the top 100 on his first list and he's arguably the top IFA signing in multiple years.
Williams, Gilbert, Mauricio, Sproat, Tidwell + whomever the Mets take 1st round + Jeremy Rodriguez. Yeah, don't see any real scenario he's that high.
Williams, Gilbert, Mauricio, Sproat, Tidwell + whomever the Mets take 1st round + Jeremy Rodriguez. Yeah, don't see any real scenario he's that high.
Baez going to be top 100 as well if he continues this especially with the metrics backing it up. Tong could be close but will depend how he continues to do.
Good to see Houck starting to come around the last 2 weeks.
probably in his case yes. need to send him back to AA lol.
Will Sammon
@WillSammon
The Mets’ 27th player for London will either be Joe Hudson or Brett Baty.
(1.5 games) but has already walked 3 times
NFT: Mets Minor League Thread (June) - DanMetroMan - 6/1/2024 10:45 am
*For reference purposes, here are the links for previous months as well:
NFT: Mets Minor Leagues (May) - DanMetroMan - 5/1/2024 12:15 pm
NFT: Mets Minor League Update (April) - DanMetroMan - 4/2/2024 10:17 am
his k-rate is down around 16% which is very good and that is usually highly correlative with batting average.
his babip right now is .290, which is a little low for a guy with his speed. need to see him keep getting that line drive rate up.
AA
.@RumblePoniesBB
Rudick 1-5, 2 K’s, Ramirez 0-5 K (OPS now down to .648), Clifford 1-2 HR, 2 BB, K, Parada 1-3 K, Jarvis 2.1 innings 7 hits 6 runs 2 walks 3 k’s #Mets
BK
.@BKCyclones
Morabito 2-5, K, Alvarez 0-3, BB, K, Lorusso 0-3 BB, SB
St lucie
Baro 1-5 K
Baez 1-4
Hernandez 0-2 2 BB
Ewing 0-3 BB
Houck 1-4
Fanas 2-4, 3B, K
Diaz 4 innings 0 hits 0 runs 1 walk 5 k’s #Mets
.@FCLMets
J-Rod 1-4, K
Juan 0-4 2 k’s
Zitella 2-3 BB
De Oleo 0-4 3 k’s
Zayas 0-3 BB #Mets
Not on the IL but that’s my assumption when he hasn’t played in about 10 days
@RumblePoniesBB Tyler Stuart
@BKCyclones Felipe De La Cruz
@stluciemets TBD
DSL Orange TBD
DSL Blue Wilmer Lugo (pro debut) #Mets
i dont think people realize how odd it is to have 4 of the top 10 position players injured including the top 2 (maybe even top 3 depending on how anyone ranks acuna/mauricio/j-rod).
the fact that we are still excited by things being done by non-injured prospects is a massive testament to the newfound depth/strength of the system.
imagine if in 2022 mauricio, alvarez, baty, vientos were all hurt at the same time? the system had very little behind them.
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Gilbert, Reimer, Vargas have played 36 total games + Mauricio obviously 0 and Ziegler/Lavender done for the year.
i dont think people realize how odd it is to have 4 of the top 10 position players injured including the top 2 (maybe even top 3 depending on how anyone ranks acuna/mauricio/j-rod).
the fact that we are still excited by things being done by non-injured prospects is a massive testament to the newfound depth/strength of the system.
imagine if in 2022 mauricio, alvarez, baty, vientos were all hurt at the same time? the system had very little behind them.
To be 100% clear I wasn't doing some sort of Debbie Downer act, it was prompted by the mention of Vargas again being out.
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In comment 16531853 DanMetroMan said:
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Gilbert, Reimer, Vargas have played 36 total games + Mauricio obviously 0 and Ziegler/Lavender done for the year.
i dont think people realize how odd it is to have 4 of the top 10 position players injured including the top 2 (maybe even top 3 depending on how anyone ranks acuna/mauricio/j-rod).
the fact that we are still excited by things being done by non-injured prospects is a massive testament to the newfound depth/strength of the system.
imagine if in 2022 mauricio, alvarez, baty, vientos were all hurt at the same time? the system had very little behind them.
To be 100% clear I wasn't doing some sort of Debbie Downer act, it was prompted by the mention of Vargas again being out.
yep i didnt take your post that way.
was more an observation re the system. here is the jan 2022 top 12 amazin ave had, ginn got traded for bassitt, allan was hurt already, so if alvarez/baty/mauricio were all hurt, my god i mean i dont know what we would have done in minor league threads. it would have been vientos posts 24/7 and not just by me.
1. Francisco Alvarez
2. Brett Baty
3. Ronny Mauricio
4. Mark Vientos
5. Matthew Allan
6. J.T. Ginn
7. Khalil Lee
8. Nick Plummer
9. Alexander Ramirez
10. Jaylen Palmer
11. Hayden Senger
12. Calvin Ziegler
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In comment 16531859 Eric on Li said:
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In comment 16531853 DanMetroMan said:
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Gilbert, Reimer, Vargas have played 36 total games + Mauricio obviously 0 and Ziegler/Lavender done for the year.
i dont think people realize how odd it is to have 4 of the top 10 position players injured including the top 2 (maybe even top 3 depending on how anyone ranks acuna/mauricio/j-rod).
the fact that we are still excited by things being done by non-injured prospects is a massive testament to the newfound depth/strength of the system.
imagine if in 2022 mauricio, alvarez, baty, vientos were all hurt at the same time? the system had very little behind them.
To be 100% clear I wasn't doing some sort of Debbie Downer act, it was prompted by the mention of Vargas again being out.
yep i didnt take your post that way.
was more an observation re the system. here is the jan 2022 top 12 amazin ave had, ginn got traded for bassitt, allan was hurt already, so if alvarez/baty/mauricio were all hurt, my god i mean i dont know what we would have done in minor league threads. it would have been vientos posts 24/7 and not just by me.
1. Francisco Alvarez
2. Brett Baty
3. Ronny Mauricio
4. Mark Vientos
5. Matthew Allan
6. J.T. Ginn
7. Khalil Lee
8. Nick Plummer
9. Alexander Ramirez
10. Jaylen Palmer
11. Hayden Senger
12. Calvin Ziegler
Man that really is horrific. Hayden Senger top 12 wtf.
Harvey 2 innings 1 hit 0 runs 4 walks 2 k's, Rodriguez 0-2, 2 BB, Gutierrez 0-2, BB, Lugo 2.2 innings 3 hits 3 runs 1 walk 4 k's 4 WP's, Verdu 3.1 innings 2 hits 0 runs 2 walks 4 k's
Parada and Morabito weren't even in the FG 42. The farm has come a long way
Parada and Morabito weren't even in the FG 42. The farm has come a long way
I mean that's sort of an unfair question. Khalil Lee at the time of the trade 1000% makes the Mets top 50 prospects right now. Posted a 112 wRC+ with 53 steals, 8 homers and 12% walk rate as a 21 year old in AA. Very similar profile as Acuna at the time, Acuna the superior fielder. Senger's bat went backwards but at 21 years old (in AA) 101 wRC+ and is an OUTSTANDING defensive catcher. Longenhagen threw some random names on that top 42 that will never have even A+ success let alone AA
The list GF provided said it was from Jan 2022. 2021 he went 8-18 in SBs in AAA, and struck out 13 out of 18 ABs in his major league debut. Much of his luster was off by then.
IMO, I would rank Morabito and Parada right now ahead of where I would have Lee in Jan. 2022. And that's not with hindsight
if we went by healthy and performing pretending baty/alvarez/mauricio were out, Lee, Vientos, Ramirez would have probably been the 3 we were talking about most at this point 2 years ago. Lee tanked obviously but 2 years ago he was 23 and i think at some point during the year his numbers in AAA were at least passable.
with the system like that it's no wonder mangum got hyped lol.