Man, am I picking the right week to go see some B-Mets baseball.
C Josh Thole hits the DL with a dislocated thumb so he’ll miss at least the next week.
That’s better than RHP Ryan Coultas, who will miss the entire rest of the season to repair a torn labrum in his shoulder. Coultas gave Brian [...]
Three Binghamton Mets, C Josh Thole, OF DJ Wabick and LHP Roy Merritt have been selected to the Eastern League’s North Division All-Star team for the EL All-Star Game to be held Wednesday, July 15th in Trenton.
1. Thole
The lefthanded hitting Thole (.346/.414/.455 on July 1) has been at the top of the League’s leaderboards in [...]
AA: New Hampshire FisherCats 3, @ Binghamton Mets 2
Josh Thole (pictured) left the game in the third inning after committing a passed ball having trouble receiving a pitch from Eric Niesen. The word out of Binghamton is that it’s just a dislocation, although he’ll have X-Rays today. The final score camoflages how wild Niesen (0-4, [...]
Friday, in his chat at Baseball America, Matt Eddy took a few Mets related questions:
richard (brooklyn): do you think jerry mejia,brad holt, and josh thole will be in the top 100 and if so where?
Matthew Eddy: Holt and Mejia have a bead on the Top 100 if they keep up the pace. Though Holt’s ankle [...]
Mike Silva at New York Baseball Digest had MLB.com and Trenton Thunder writer Jed Weisberger, who’s covered minor league ball for over three decades, on his show this week. They talked prospects. You should listen to the half-hour program here.
Weisberger’s most quotable lines are below:
Flores - “the best prospect they have in the organization.”
Thole - [...]
Friday, after publishing a Prospect Hot Sheet that was Mets-free, JJ Cooper took a couple of Mets questions in his associated chat.
JAYPERS (IL): Josh Thole has been very consistent thus far this season. Is he in your Mets’ Top 10 prospects list if you had to put one together today?
J.J. Cooper: I couldn’t put him [...]
Adam Rubin caught up with Josh Thole this week for his Minor League Report at his Surfing the Mets Blog.
Thole covered some familiar ground about himself and his work at improving behind the plate:
“I’m coming along. ….I’ve still got a lot of stuff to work on. … Hector Berrios, the pitching coach, has been doing [...]
One of the nicest surprises of the 2009 minor league season has bee the play of C Josh Thole in AA. The Mets converted Thole, a high school catcher back to catching fulltime in 2008, when he hit his way into the lineup during the St. Lucie Mets’ slow start. Promotod to AA [...]
Baseball America listed Fernando Martinez #2 and Jenrry Mejia #11 on this week’s Prospect Hot Sheet.
Martinez hit .385/.467/.923 with four homers in the week.
On Mejia, BA gushed:
Mejia is about the most unconventional prospect imaginable. He’s 6-feet, tops, and weighs in at about 165 pounds. He’s very athletic, though, and his action is clean, helping him [...]
After two other positive articles this week, at his minorleagueball.com blog, John Sickels says he would raise Josh Thole’s grade. Sickels gave Thole a C over the winter and now says that he’s “at least a C+ now.” Sickels writes in part:
He still needs defensive polish according to the reports I have, and I remain [...]
