At Baseball America, John Manuel ranked the top prospects in the Eastern League, putting Fernando Martinez at #7, Daniel Murphy at #13 and Jon Niese at #18. Martinez was #3 on last year’s EL Top 20.
Here are his important assessments on each guy:
On Martinez
Martinez continues to elicit a range of reactions.
One AL scout [...]
LHP Adam Bostick – L/L – 6’1” 233 lbs – Acquired in trade w/ FLA w/ Jason Vargas for H. Owens & M Lindstrom – b. 3/17/83
W-L
ERA
G/GS
IP
H
R
ER
HR
BB
SO
AAA
2-2
6.04
11/10
44.2
48
30
30
6
20
30
Bostick’s season was cut short by micro-fracture surgery on his knee in May. In April, he was 2-1 in April with a 3.86 ERA but was 0-1 [...]
Now that I’m not watching Mets games every night, I can return to my end-of-season recaps. We resume by taking a look at some of the guys who pitched in New Orleans in 2008.
LHP Jon Niese – L/L – 6’4” 215 lbs – 7th Rd ’05 – b. 10/27/86
W-L
ERA
G/GS
IP
H
R
ER
HR
BB
SO
AA
6-7
3.04
22/22
124.1
118
53
42
5
44
113
AAA
5-1
3.40
7/7
39.2
34
15
15
4
14
32
Niese had a very good season. [...]
I thought having the Mets greats wear the Mets jerseys from their playing days at the Shea goodbye ceremony was an inspired sartorial choice. When you see #31 with #41 can you still be upset?
No St. Lucie Mets made BA’s list of the league’s top 20 prospects. None deserved to. However, J.J. Cooper answered three questions about Mets prospects in his chat.
Q: Richard from Ft. Lauderdale asks:
Any thoughts on Ruben Tejada of the Port St. Lucie Mets?
A: J.J. Cooper: Tejada was [...]
The rest of this week and early next will be taken up with finishing up a team-by-team review of the organization. Alongside that content, I’ll be doing HWB updates. When the AFL starts in a little over a week, I add those in and track the various Caribbean Winter Leagues when they get moving [...]
KG On Mets in Hawaii
At Baseball Prospectus, Kevin Goldstein wrote about the prospects going to Hawaii and had this to say about the young Metsies:
Greg Veloz, Honolulu (Mets). Athletic and raw, the 20-year-old Dominican shows gap power and plus speed, but he’s prone to chasing pitches and can be sloppy on defense.
Ruben Tejada, Honolulu [...]
In Saturday’s game, the Honolulu Sharks pounded Yankees 2007 first rounder Andrew Brackman for seven runs in 2.1 IP in the massive righty’s professional debut. C Jordan Abruzzo was 1-4 with an RBI and 2B Greg Veloz was 1-4 with a double. Josh Stinson gave up two unearned runs in three innings, fanning two [...]
1. When the final out left Ryan Church’s bat in the bottom of the ninth, watching on TV, I thought, with the fan side of my brain and hoped with my heart, that it had a chance to tie the game.
2. Carlos Delgado’s drive to left in the bottom of the eighth against Kevin Gregg [...]
With his 0-3 Saturday, Dan Murphy now has 130 MLB at-bats and thus has used up his rookie eligibility. Yup, no Rookie of the Year campaign in’09, and no place on top prospect lists this off-season. Odds of that mattering to Murphy on the final day of the regular season? Somewhere close to zero.
