A Collection of Mets Relief Prospects gifs from 2014

Will any of these guys be warming up in the Mets pen soon?

This final collection from 2014 is the biggest, 95 total gifs of some of the top relief arms in the system: 2 of Chase Bradford, 6 of Erik Goeddel, 30 of Darin Gorski, 4 of Zack Thornton, 8 of Randy Fontanez, 8 of Chase Huchingson, 3 of Jack Leathersich, 5 of Hansel Robles, 6 of Cody Satterwhite, 2 of Jon Velasquez, 16 of Dario Alvarez, and 5 of Akeel Morris.

Chase Bradford

Bradford started 2014 with Binghamton, but finished as one of the most reliable arms in the Las Vegas pen. He did not allow a walk in his final 22 IP during the regular season, and struck out 29.8% of batters faced during that time. He did allow 4 homeruns during that span, and 6 total with Las Vegas, after allowing only 1 homerun over his 52 innings with Binghamton across 2013-14.

6/13 – 2 IP, H, 2 SO, 3 GO

Castro swinging

Torreyes swinging

Erik Goeddel

Goeddel finished the year with the Mets but should be back in the Las Vegas pen to start the year. His spot on the 40-man roster gives him a leg up on his competition for any bullpen spots that open up in Queens, and he has the stuff to be good in the pen, he just needs to show more consistency throughout 2015.

6/29 – 2 IP, 3 SO, 2 GO: 1 FO

Whitaker swinging

Ortiz swinging

Peterseon swinging

8/18 – IP, H, R, SO, 1 GO: 1 FO

Fields swinging

Strike 1

Strike 2

Strike 3

Darin Gorski

In retrospect, considering I had a big group of various upper level bullpen arms in my prospect series, I should’ve included Gorski among them, but I think his early exit from the 2014 season made me overlook him. Gorski has generally struck out more batters than scouts expect of the lefty, as he’s generally had similar rates against lefties and righties. The problem has long been homeruns, especially to righties, as his misses tend to end up over the wall. Even though he’s hit a wall as a starter at the upper levels, his high K-rates might prove useful in the pen.

6/29 – 6 IP, 6 H, 2 R, 2 BB, 8 SO, HR, 106 Pitches (69 Strikes), 2 GO: 5 FO

Peterson looking

Whitaker swinging

Peterson swinging on three pitches

Strike 1

Strike 2

Strike 3

Whitaker swinging again

Parrino swinging

Peterson swinging again

Elmore swinging

Aliotti swinging

7/4 – 6 IP, 6 H, 2 R, BB, 7 SO, HR, 88 Pitches (59 Strikes), 7 GO: 3 FO

7/21 – 5 IP, 3 H, 3 R (0 ER), 2 BB, 9 SO, HR, 82 Pitches (54 Strikes), 3 GO: 3 FO

Taylor swinging

Avery swinging

Almonte swinging again

Choi swinging again

Zack Thornton

Thornton had a few rough patches in 2014, but he also showed a strong sinker, improving control throughout the season, and had a nice 24.6 K% with the 51s. All 5 homeruns allowed in 2014 were to righties, and he had pretty even L/R splits despite lefties having a much higher BABIP against him for the season.

6/28 – 1.2 IP, 2 H, R, BB, 3 SO

Barton swinging

Elmore swinging

Exposito looking

8/18 – IP, H, SO, 2 GO

Cuthbert swinging

Chase Huchingson

This sidearming lefty was wild when he came back from his suspension for a ‘drug of abuse’ in 2014, walking 13.1% of the batters he faced in his 29 innings of work. He still managed a solid 21.3 K%, but it was a step down from 23.9 K% he managed over 67 AA innings in 2013.

6/30 – IP, SO, 2 GO

Rosario looking

8/18 – 2.2 IP, 2 H, R, BB, 3 SO, 4 GO: 1 FO, 2 IR – 0 S

Lemon swinging

Albernaz swinging

Jack Leathersich

Leathersich continues to produce really good K-rates wherever he goes, but his walk rates have been too out of control at the highest level of the minors so far. Hopefully he won’t have to spend any more time in Binghamton this year.

6/29 – 1 IP, 3 SO, 17 Pitches (14 Strikes)

Garcia swinging

Allie swinging

Broxton swinging

Hansel Robles

Robles excelled when moved to the pen for Binghamton near the end of the 2014 season, so hopefully he can rebuild his prospect status in this role full-time in 2015. His fastball was consistently 96-97 MPH in the bullpen, and still featured some nice arm-side run.

7/13 – 5 IP, 8 H, 3 R (2 ER), 2 BB, 4 SO, HR, 87 Pitches (60 Strikes), 7 GO

Johnson swinging

Johnson swinging again

Cabrera swinging

Fields looking

Pitch before a homerun

Cody Satterwhite

Satterwhite’s career has been revived, now he just needs to repeat his 2014 performance with Las Vegas this year and get a major league chance while he still reaches the mid-to-upper 90’s with his heater.

8/15 – IP, H, BB, 3 SO

Dugan looking

Altherr swinging

Jon Velasquez

Velasquez career was also rebooted with Binghamton in 2014, but he’s not a hard thrower like Satterwhite.

6/27 – 1.1 IP, H, 2 SO

Cunningham swinging

Ngoepe swinging

Dario Alvarez

After spending most of the season with Savannah, Alvarez finished it in Queens, and then had a stop in the AFL before starting his offseason.

6/19 – 1.2 IP, 3 H, 2 SO

Perkins swinging

Allday swinging

6/24 – 4.1 IP, 2 H, BB, 10 SO, 63 Pitches (43 Strikes)

Fowler swinging again

Nunez looking again

de Oleo swinging

Andujar swinging

8/18 – IP, H, 2 SO, GO

Green swinging

Akeel Morris

Morris is such an interesting bullpen arm that the Mets protected him in the rule-5 draft despite having never pitched above A-ball. Hopefully Morris can move quickly through the minors this year, as the Mets will be wasting an option year while he does.

6/19 – IP, H

6/21 – IP, SO, BB

6/24 – IP, 3 SO

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