Mets fans are eager to see Fernando Martinez turn tools into production, so I wanted to dig a little deeper into the shape of his production in the last few years.

Martinez Production Breakdown

Year
Level
G
TPA
AVG
OBP
SLG
2B
3B
HR
BB
SO
XBH%
BB%
SO%
ISO
HR%

2006
A
45
211
.333
.389
.505
14
2
5
15
36
9.95
7.11
17.06
.172
2.37

 
A+
30
130
.193
.254
.387
4
2
5
6
24
8.46
4.62
18.46
.194
3.85

2007
AA
60
259
.271
.336
.377
22
1
4
20
51
10.42
7.72
19.69
.106
1.54

2008
AA
86
386
.287
.340
.432
19
4
8
27
73
8.03
6.99
18.91
.145
2.07

2008
DWL
27
106
.323
.377
.552
4
3
4
8
20
10.38
7.55
18.87
.229
3.77

1. What strikes me first is Martinez’s consistency.  His XBH % and SO% have all vacillated within relatively tight ranges.
2. Martinez’s brief [...]

MinorLeagueBaseball.com named Fernando Martinez the 32nd best prospect in baseball in their rankings.

Statistically speaking: Talk about a split. During the 2008 season, F-Mart had 106 at-bats against left-handers and 246 vs. righties. Martinez, a left-handed hitter, hit just .217 with a .665 OPS against southpaws while the numbers jumped to .317 and .819 vs. right-handers.

Tiny [...]

I wanted to put the big time numbers Fernando Martinez is putting up in the DWL into context.  The following chart compares the performance of Met farmhands in the Domican Winter League to the League as a whole.  The first line is the league average across the major rate categories while the subsequent rows are [...]

Fernando Martinez homered for the first time in the Dominican season Saturday night in a 1-3 performance and then tripled and homered on Sunday.
Martinez is hitting .341/.404/.610 with 3 2B, 1 3B, 2 HR, 4 BB, and 8 SO in 41 AB over 13 games.

Mets Director of Minor League Operations Adam Wogan did an interview with Buffalo Bisons voice Ben Wagner at the press conference announcing the teams’ affiliation agreement.  It’s mostly substance free until the final answer about whether Fernando Martinez would be ready for AAA to begin 2009.  Wogan said:
I don’t think there’s any doubt in our [...]

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 [...]

In his introduction to Monday’s Ask BA feature, Jim Callis expanded on his Wilmer Flores over Fernando Martinez answer from the week before:
My ESPN.com chat last Wednesday caused a furor in the Mets blogosphere. When asked whom I liked as New York’s No. 1 prospect, I went with Rookie ball shortstop Wilmer Flores over Double-A [...]

Jim Callis dropped the bomb of the day, Wednesday ranking Wilmer Flores the Mets #1 prospect in his chat at ESPN.com:
Josh (NC): Mets #1 Prospect-Fernando Martinez or Wilmer Flores?
Jim Callis: Wilmer Flores.
I know at least one more person who shares this opinion.

Nick (Long Island, NY): Brad Holt’s future, starter or [...]

Brian Moritz of the Binghamton Press & Sun Bulletin wrote an interesting blog entry titled “Martinez…off the radar?” Here’s the meat of his argument:
“But falling off the radar, even a little bit, is great for Martinez. It lets him work on his game quietly, slowly, instead of getting him thrust into the big league’s before [...]

From Robert B. Bonaparte in the Press&Sun Bulletin regarding the B-Mets pinch running for Fernando Martinez early in Thursday’s game:
Oliveras said he took Martinez out because of the damp field conditions.
“I didn’t want him to slip and fall,” Oliveras said. “We’re taking it slow with him.”