Mets Minor League Daily – April 20, 2015

Updated throughout the day and night

Minor News

            Check out yesterday’s results here.

            The first Astromets Mind Monday Morning Mets Player of the Week (AMMMMPofW) is in! Check out the large list of Mets prospects off to a hot start in 2015 – seriously, it’s never been so long.

            Apparently the Miami Marlins have interest in Wally Backman as a replacement manager for Mike Redmond.

            Todd Dewey says Steven Matz is mastering the minors quickly.

            Vic Black is exercising patience during his rehab stint.

            Here is Lynn Worthy’s B-Mets series preview for their upcoming series against the Erie Sea Wolves.

            Jeffrey Paternostro profiled Kevin Plawecki’s strengths and weaknesses at AA, and John Sickels explains why he’s high on Plawecki over at minor league ball.

            SI looked at the 5 next impact prospects likely to reach the majors, including #5 Noah Syndergaard.

            The MiLB prospect roundup features Michael Conforto again.

            PurdueSports says Plaw is the first Boilers position player to play in the big leagues since Jermaine Allensworth played for the Mets in 1999.

            Michael Conforto was named Florida State League player of the week.

            MetsMinorLeagueBlog profiled recently-promoted RH RP Hansel Robles, as did Steve Sypa at AmazinAvenue.

Minor Games

Scheduled starters and start times (EST), game notes, and results as they come in

Las Vegas 51s 6-5

Asher Wojciechowski @ Matthew Bowman (0-2, 9.90 ERA)

vs. Fresno (7-4) at 10:05 PM

MiLB.tv coverage – Boxscore

Yesterday: W 10-5 (Astromets Mind)

Game notes

Today: L 8-4, Bowman (L, 0-3, 10.93 ERA) – 3 IP, 12 H, 6 R, 3 SO, 2 HR, 89 Pitches (59 Strikes), 6 GO: 2 FO

Lineup

2B – Dilson Herrera – 3-5, R, 2B (4), HR (1), 2 RBI (6), SB (2), CS

CF - Kyle Johnson – 0-2, RBI (3), BB, SF

SS – Matt Reynolds – 0-5, 2 SO

DH – Alex Castellanos – 1-5, 2B (6), SO

C – Johnny Monell – 0-2, 2 BB

RF – Travis Taijeron – 0-2, R, BB, HBP, SO

1B – Brandon Allen – 0-4

LF – Cory Vaughn – 0-3, R

3B – Wilfredo Tovar – 1-4, R

Bullpen:

John Church (5.40 ERA) – 1.2 IP, 5 GO

Scott Rice (2.08 ERA) – 1.1 IP, SO, 2 GO: 1 FO

Cody Satterwhite (10.80 ERA) – 1 IP, 2 H, 2 R, BB, 1 GO: 2 FO

Chase Bradford (0.00 ERA) – 1 IP, 2 H, 2 SO,

Binghamton Mets 6-5

Jeff Ferrell (0-0, 1.50 ERA) @ Seth Lugo (1-0, 0.00 ERA)

vs. Erie (6-5) at 6:35 PM

MiLB.tv coverage – Boxscore

Yesterday: L 10-2 (Astromets Mind, Binghamton)

Game notes

Today: W 4-3, Lugo (W, 1-0, 1.54 ERA) – 5.2 IP, 7 H, 2 R, BB, 7 SO, HBP, 93 Pitches (63 Strikes), 5 GO: 5 FO

Lineup

LF – Jared King – 1-5, R, 2B (3), RBI (5)

CF – Brandon Nimmo – 3-4, 2B (2), 2 RBI (6), SO

DH – Jayce Boyd – 2-4, 2B (4)

1B – Aderlin Rodriguez – 0-4, SO

SS – Josh Rodriguez – 0-4, 2 SO

3B – Dustin Lawley – 0-4, SO

C – Xorge Carrillo – 2-4, R, 2B (1)

2B – Jairo Perez – 2-4, R

RF – Eudy Pina – 2-4, R, RBI (3)

Bullpen:

Jake Kuebler (H, 1, 0.00 ERA) – 0.2 IP, 2 H, SO, 2 IR – 0 S

Chase Huchingson (H, 2, 4.32 ERA) – 1.1 IP, 2 BB, SO, 2 GO: 1 FO, 2 IR – 0 S

Jon Velasquez (S, 3, 2.08 ERA) – 1.1 IP, 3 H, R, 2 SO, 1 GO: 1 FO, 1 IR – 0 S

St. Lucie Mets 6-5

Jarlin Garcia (0-0, 0.90 ERA) @ Miller Diaz (0-0, 0.00 ERA)

vs. Jupiter (4-7) at 6:30 PM

Boxscore

Yesterday: L 3-2 (Fort Myers)

Today: PPD (Rain)

Savannah Sand Gnats 3-6

Alec Grosser (0-0, 0.00 ERA) @ Martires Arias (1-0, 3.60 ERA)

vs. Rome (3-5) at 7:05 PM

Boxscore

Yesterday: Suspended (Rain) down 8-3 t6 (Completion on 4/23) (Savannah, Charleston)

Today: W 6-5, Arias (3.60 ERA) – 5 IP, 7 H, 4 R (2 ER), 2 BB, 3 SO, 86 Pitches (54 Strikes), 8 GO: 4 FO

Lineup

SS – Luis Guillorme – 1-3, 2 R, BB, SO

CF – John Mora – 1-3, 2 R, RBI (5), BB

RF – Wuilmer Becerra – 0-2, R, BB, SAC, SO

DH – Jon Leroux – 1-3, 2B (2), 3 RBI (9), HBP

C – Tomas Nido – 0-4

2B – Jean Rodriguez – 1-3, SB (1), GIDP

LF – Vicente Lupo – 0-3

1B – Pedro Perez – 0-2, HBP, CS

3B – Jonathan Johnson – 0-2, R, BB

Bullpen:

Carlos Valdez (1.80 ERA) – 1 IP, 3 H, R, SO, 1 GO: 1 FO

David Roseboom (W, 1-0, 1.35 ERA) – 2 IP, H, SO, 4 GO: 1 FO

Cameron Griffin (S, 1, 4.91 ERA) – 1 IP, SO, 1 FO

Minors MVP of the Day – Dilson Herrera gets the nod, as he finished just a triple shy of the cycle in his 6th straight game with multiple hits

Minors Cy of the Day – Seth Lugo turned in another strong performance for Binghamton, not facing any real trouble until the 5th, and limiting the damage to 2 runs, with 7 strikeouts, while showing a nice fastball/curveball combo.

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