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| 26 days until minor league opening day! |
Keeping track of recent minor transactions within the Mets system
The first wave of Spring Training
cuts came before this went out, with few surprises in the group. I expect all
in AAA to start the year, where they will be competing for the role of “first
pen arm called up when injury strikes.”
Montero may seem surprising, but if
he was sitting 88-90 MPH the other day, he’s not ready to help the Mets, and
may have further problems. Personally, I’ve been waiting for Montero to show up
again since 2013. He wasn’t as sharp in 2014, and then he barely pitched last
year, so I had low expectations coming into Spring Training. I think it’s smart
to get him out of the spotlight of the bullpen competition early (there’s not
much other competition for reporters to discuss right now), so he can just focus
on getting innings on a regular basis and finding his way to success again.
With Josh Edgin expected to start
rehabbing in Las Vegas early in the season, the Mets suddenly have a number of
potentially good lefty pen options (accepting that all bullpen arms are risky
year-to-year). Don’t sleep on Dario Alvarez, because he was dominant between AA
and AAA for most of the season in 2015, and his slider should be nicknamed ‘Death
to Lefties.’ I can’t break the stats down by pitch for the minor league season,
but Alvarez induced a 35% Whiff/Swing rate against lefties with the B-Mets, and
that jumped to 42% with Las Vegas.
Apparently I missed the Joe Zanghi
signing that BA
reported a few weeks ago, but it still hadn’t appeared on the MLB
transaction sites as of this writing. Read more about him from this Mets Minors
exclusive here.
Mid-90’s velocity is nice, and it’s a good sign for the Mets that a young pitcher would choose to come here to develop.
MetsMerized Online was the first
to report about the Luis Carpio shoulder surgery he underwent a few weeks
ago. This is an unfortunate setback for one of the emerging prospects in the
system, but he’s such a young prospect that he’ll still be ahead of the curve
when he starts full season ball next year.
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