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Bat/Throw: L/L
HT/WT: 6’0” 170 lbs
Acquired: drafted 29th rd 2007 (Southern U.)
Born: 9/22/85
Why ranked here: Merritt simply retired batters, especially lefties at every stop in 2008. As a lefthanded sidewinder, Merritt has the makings of a lefty bullpen specialist. He offers little projections beyond that, but lefty specialists certainly have their value. Merritt’s fastball in Brooklyn in 2008 was in the upper 80s, and he spun a two-plane breaking ball in the low 70s.
2008: Merritt was very successful coming out of the bullpen in Brooklyn, Hawaii and then Puerto Rico. He began the year with St. Lucie after working for the K-Mets in 2007, but like many of his FSL teammates did not have a strong April. After a strong summer as a Cyclone which culminated with Merritt allowing just one run in his final 16.2 innings in Brooklyn, Merritt then had one of the stronger winters of any Mets farmhand, fanning more than a batter an inning in both Hawaii and Puerto Rico.
Projected 2009 start: St. Lucie. Merritt has nothing to prove below the FSL, where he struggled a little to begin 2008.
| W-L-S | ERA | G/GS | IP | H | R | ER | HR | BB | SO | K/BB | BB/9 | SO/9 | |
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| FSL | 0-0 | 5.87 | 6/0 | 7.2 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 0.67 | 7.5 | 5 |
| NYP | 3-0-4 | 1.49 | 25/0 | 42.1 | 22 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 17 | 55 | 3.24 | 3.63 | 11.76 |
| HWB | 1-2-2 | 3.00 | 16/0 | 24 | 15 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 11 | 26 | 2.36 | 4.13 | 9.75 |
| PWL | 0-0-0 | 0.79 | 12/0 | 11.1 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 14 | 3.50 | 3.24 | 11.35 |
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