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Greg Veloz – S/R – 6’0” 175 lbs – NDFA ’06 – b. 6/3/88
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G |
AB |
H |
2B |
3B |
HR |
BB |
SO |
SB |
CS |
AVG |
OBP |
SLG |
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A |
111 |
455 |
130 |
25 |
5 |
6 |
32 |
93 |
28 |
12 |
.286 |
.339 |
.402 |
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A+ |
21 |
77 |
18 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
7 |
20 |
1 |
2 |
.234 |
.298 |
.247 |
Good stuff first: Veloz just keeps getting better. In 2007, the then-18 year old hit .171/.243/.235 in 66 
games in Savannah before the Mets sent him down to Kingsport where he hit .271/.344/.450 in the season’s final 66 games. In 2008, Veloz turned his .258/.304/.352 (267 AB) pre-All Star Break line into .324/.388/.473 (188 AB) and a late-season promotion to St. Lucie where he struggled. The second baseman runs well and shows some gap power, but that’s below average MLB power. Veloz was no favorite of scouts who saw him as struggling with better stuff.
Veloz is limited by arm strength to second base limiting his value as a utility man in the future.
Likely ’09 start: A+
Juan Lagares – R/R – 6’1” 175 – NDFA – b. 3/17/89
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G |
AB |
H |
2B |
3B |
HR |
BB |
SO |
SB |
CS |
AVG |
OBP |
SLG |
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SSA |
19 |
72 |
18 |
7 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
10 |
1 |
3 |
.250 |
.280 |
.389 |
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A |
46 |
181 |
46 |
9 |
0 |
2 |
8 |
28 |
3 |
4 |
.254 |
.285 |
.337 |
The scout who signed Juan Lagares and Jose Reyes said that Lagares was ahead of Reyes at the tender age of 16. It’s just an unfair thing to say publicly. There simply aren’t 10 Jose Reyes’ in the world.
The Mets have pushed Lagares to Savannah and the 19-year old has yet to produce despite significant hype coming out of instructs last fall. Here’s the first problem. He’s not Reyes. He’s not that fast. He doesn’t have the same lightning quick bat or arm or first step quickness. Lagares should go back to the SAL in 2009, but that would make it his third year in the league. Prediction: the Mets will promote Lagares to St. Lucie where he will struggle in the season’s opening half.
Likely ’09 start: A+
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This is an unrelated point to this post, but I just saw on Mets.com that Dan Duquette is now an analyst for mlb.com… and he wasn’t that good at it.
He told me that Jerry Manuel helped turn the Mets around and that he played a role in Delgado’s resurgence.
Correction: I mean Jim Duquette.. I always confuse those two
I’m not surprised.
If I were him, I’d rather stay out of view of the cameras. If would be nice is the former GM could tell me something unique like what he would do to fix the bullpen..
For Jim though, that might involve trading Flores, FMart, Reyes, and Wright for Kyle Farnsworth and Joel Zumaya