Paul Greco of Gotham Baseball has been hanging out in Arizona talking to players and clearly sitting with the scouts at the games. He posted a really strong player by player review for both the Mets and Yankees.
Excerpts of his commentary follows, as usual, mine is italicized.
P – Eddie Kunz : Although he’s been a [...]
RHP Eddie Kunz, C Josh Thole and 2B/LF Daniel Murphy will be on the American Division Roster for tonight’s AFL All-Star game, known as the Rising Stars Showcase.
You can follow all of the action here. First pitch is scheduled for 7:15 MST.
Adam Rubin catches up with C Josh Thole from the Arizona Fall League. Here’s the most important part:
Q: You had been primarily a first baseman with the Mets before ‘08, no?
A: “This last year was the first tine that I did a lot of catching. I think I caught about 70 games. That’s the [...]
I wanted to post a follow up to my wrap-up on St. Lucie catchers, Josh Thole in particular. So, one of the features that I haven’t written enough about is that 2008 was Thole’s first season working primarily as a catcher.
The games at DH is merely derived by subtracting Thole’s games at catcher [...]
Jordan Abruzzo –S/R – 6’2” 220 lbs – 13th rd ’07 – b. 8/2/24
G
AB
H
2B
3B
HR
BB
SO
SB
CS
AVG
OBP
SLG
SSA
49
182
50
9
0
7
8
27
0
0
.275
.309
.440
A
54
203
61
13
1
5
13
36
1
0
.300
.347
.448
A+
19
66
20
4
0
2
2
7
1
0
.303
.333
.455
Abruzzo hit his way out of Savannah and into the middle of the St. Lucie batting order in the first two months of 2008. So the Mets rewarded him by sending him down two levels from St. Lucie to Brooklyn on [...]
The Arizona Fall League released the first draft of its rosters Wednesday. The Mets assigned 23 year old RHP Tobi Stoner and 25 year old LHP Jason Vargas, 21 year old C Josh Thole, 23 year old INF Dan Murphy and 23 year old 3B Shawn Bowman to the Peoria Saguaros. The Mets can [...]
