2015 Monday Morning Mets Minors Players of the Week

John Mora going through his pre-AB routine with the Cyclones

July 20-26, 2015

            Keeping track of the hottest minor leaguers in the Mets farm system, I will be rotating through the lower level teams covered here.

Hitter of the Week: The Sand Gnats had three of the hottest hitters in the Mets farm system last week, and John Mora somehow outhit teammate Eudor Garcia for this award.

Starting Pitcher of the Week: Seth Lugo was excellent in both of his start for the B-Mets last week, allowing just one run in across his two starts.

Relief Pitcher of the Week: Luis Mateo is working as a relief pitcher for the Cyclones for now, and he’s yet to allow a run in 2015.

Team of the Week: The B-Mets, who won this past week on the strength of some great pitching performances, which has been the case for 6 weeks now.

Previous weeks: 4/9-19, 4/20-26, 4/27-5/3, 5/4-10, 5/11-17, 5/18-24, 5/25-31, 6/1-7, 6/8-14, 6/15-21, 6/22-28, 6/29-7/5, 7/6-12, 7/13-19

Las Vegas 51s 58-44

3-4 record

Batters

Brandon Allen – 29 PA, .360/.414/.720, 6 R, 3 2B, 2 HR, 6 RBI, 3 BB, SF, 3 SO; Had a hit in every game last week, and is up to a .995 OPS in 76 PA during July

Brooks Conrad – 19 PA, .333/.369/.778, 3 R, 3 2B, 3B, HR, 2 RBI, BB, 4 SO, GIDP; Huge 4 extra base hit game on Tuesday helped him earn a spot

Dilson Herrera – 34 PA, .280/.406/.444, 8 R, 2B, HR, 6 RBI, 6 BB, 2 SH, SF, 7 SO, GIDP, CS; Has four 3-hit games and 10 extra base hits (7 2B, 3B, 2 HR) in 22 games since returning to the 51s

Travis Taijeron – 29 PA, .316/.552/.684, 4 R, 2B, 2 HR, 4 RBI, 8 BB, 2 HBP, 7 SO; He has four homeruns in Reno this year, and his double Sunday went about 420 feet to dead CF

Cory Vaughn – 26 PA, .292/.308/.500, R, 3 2B, HR, 4 RBI, BB, SF, 6 SO, GIDP, CS; He’s been a low OBP slugger over the past month+, with a .261/.288/.536 slash over 73 PA since June 17^th

Binghamton Mets 55-45

5-2 record

Pitchers

Michael Fulmer – 5 IP, 6 H, BB, 9 SO, 82 Pitches (58 Strikes), 3 GO: 2 FO; He’s allowed just a 0.76 ERA over his last 8 starts (47.1 IP), with a 28.1 K%: 4.9 BB% Recap

Robert Gsellman – 7.1 IP, 4 H, R, BB, 2 SO, 98 Pitches (63 Strikes), 15 GO: 3 FO; He’s allowed just a 0.83 ERA over his last 3 starts thanks to a .408 OPS allowed, although he has just a 6 K: 4 BB ratio during that span Recap

Rainy Lara – 8 IP, 9 H, 3 R, 3 SO, HR, 100 Pitches (70 Strikes), 11 GO: 4 FO; He’s allowed 6 ER over 2 starts (15 IP) since returning to the B-Mets rotation Recap

Seth Lugo – 14 IP, 8 H, R, 4 BB, 16 SO, HR, HBP, 190 Pitches (123 Strikes), 12 GO: 8 FO; He’s found the strikeout tough over his past 5 starts, with 34 strikeouts over his last 5 starts (32 IP) Recap: 7/20, 7/26

Gabriel Ynoa – 7 IP, 5 H, R, BB, 5 SO, 87 Pitches (58 Strikes), 7 GO: 5 FO; He’s allowed just a 1.54 ERA over his last 7 starts (52.2 IP) thanks to a .432 OPS and only 3 walks allowed, although he has just 25 strikeouts (12.9 K%) during that span Recap

Paul Sewald – 2.1 IP, 3 SO; Spent a few weeks away from the team after being added to the Pan Am games last minute, but he picked up right where he left off last week

Josh Smoker – 2.1 IP, H, BB, 2 SO; He’s been sitting upper 90’s from the left side with some decent looking breaking stuff, and he’s owning both lefties and righties so far, so the Mets may have a future stud lefty reliever on their hands

Jon Velasquez – 2 IP, 4 K; He has 11 K: 0 BB and just 5 H allowed in the 12 IP since returning to AA

Batters

Brandon Nimmo – 33 PA, .259/.394/.370, 3 R, 2B, 3B, 2 RBI, 4 BB, 2 HBP, 3 SO; Came into this week with just a .634 OS in the month since he returned

St. Lucie Mets 49-50

1-4 record

Pitchers

Logan Taylor – 5 IP, 2 H, 4 BB, 3 SO, 5 GO: 6 FO; Has a 1.38 ERA over his last 4 starts (26 IP) thanks to a .464 OPS allowed

Batters

Phillip Evans – 17 PA, .308/.471/.462, 2 R, 2 2B, RBI, 3 BB, HBP, SO; Has 8 doubles in his last 14 games started, slashing .378/.472/.556 over 53 PA during that span

Matt Oberste – 18 PA, .389/.389/.500, 2 R, 2 2B, 5 RBI, 3 SO, GIDP; Broke out of a streak where he had just 1 hit in a 7 game span

Yeixon Ruiz – 16 PA, .500/.500/.625, 3 R, 3B, RBI, SB, 2 SO; He was really cold before he left for the Pan Am games, so hopefully that has recharged his bat

Savannah Sand Gnats 52-47

5-2 record

Pitchers

Martires Arias – 6 IP, 4 H, R (0 ER), 2 BB, 6 SO, HBP, 82 Pitches (52 Strikes), 5 GO: 1 FO; He’s allowed 3 ER or less in 14 of 16 starts this year, with all but one of those starts coming for Savannah

Alberto Baldonado – 3 IP, 3 H, 5 SO; He’s picked up multipe strikeouts in 6 straight appearances

Batters

Eudor Garcia – 28 PA, .370/.393/.741, 9 R, 5 2B, 3B, HR, 5 RBI, BB, 5 SO; He’s 15-35 during an 8-game hitting streak, with 8 extra base hits during that span

Luis Guillorme – 28 PA, .318/.429/.318, 4 R, 6 RBI, 5 BB, SF, SB, 3 SO; He drew a walk in 5 of 6 games played last week

John Johnson – 25 PA, .294/.520/.471, 5 R, 2B, 3B, 2 RBI, 2 HBP, 6 BB, 3 SO; Went into last week just 4-31 over his previous 11 games

Michael Katz – 28 PA, .292/.357/.667, 2 R, 3 2B, 2 HR, 8 RBI, 2 BB, HBP, SF, 10 SO; He’s averaged collecting a multi-hit game in a third of his chances since joining Savannah

John Mora – 28 PA, .522/.571/.913, 5 R, 4 2B, 3B, HR, 8 RBI, 4 BB, SF, 3 SB, 4 SO; He has 16 doubles and 11 triples this season, with a 58 K: 45 BB ratio in 382 PA

Brooklyn Cyclones 19-16

2-5 record

Pitchers

P.J. Conlon – 2 IP, BB, 2 SO; 8 appearances so far for Conlon in his pro career, and he’s thrown a scoreless inning during each outing, including five 1-2-3 innings

Luis Mateo – 5 IP, 2 H, R, BB, 4 SO; He’s thrown 10 scoreless innings, equally spread between the GCL Mets and the Brooklyn Cyclones

Alex Palsha – 1.2 IP, H, 2 SO; He has a 16 K: 4 BB ratio with only 5 hits allowed in his 14 scoreless innings this year

Corey Taylor – 2 IP, 2 H, 2 SO; He has 6 K: 0 BB over his last 4 IP, with just 4 singles allowed during that span

Batters

Will Fulmer – 11 PA, .444/.545/.555, 2 R, 2B, BB, HBP; He’s had 3 nice games since returning from an ankle injury

David Thompson – 17 PA, .294/.294/.529, R, 2B, HR, 2 RBI, 3 SO; He hit his first pro homerun last week

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