Ezequial Carrera

by Bobby Baseball on Nov 21, 2009 12:34 PM EST

He was one of the guys we gave up in the JJ Putz trade last year. He was in A ball at the timeo f the trade so nobody paid much attention to him. He just got added to the Mariners 40 man roster though and he is only 22. This guy seems like a top prospect to me. Check out his stats (courtesy of TheBaseballCube), 2009 stats are in bold.

Year	Team	Lg	Age	Org.	Level	Pos	Ln	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	HBP	IBB	SH	SF	DP	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2007	GCL Mets	GCL	20	NYM	Rk	of		45	179	41	61	8	3	1	26	16	5	26	29	2	0	2	0	0	.341	.430	.436	866
	Brooklyn	NYPL	20	NYM	A-	of		20	70	11	21	2	0	0	6	6	1	4	13	1	0	2	0	0	.300	.347	.329	676
2008	St. Lucie	FSL	21	NYM	A+	of		114	430	61	113	11	12	7	29	28	9	46	86	9	1	6	3	6	.263	.344	.393	737
2009	West Tennessee	Sou	22	SEA	AA			91	329	68	111	12	4	2	38	27	13	59	62	4	1	10	3	4	.337	.441	.416	857

Minor League Totals - 3 Season(s)								270	1008	181	306	33	19	10	99	77	28	135	190	16	2	20	6	10	.304	.392	.404	796

I thought it was a bad trade at the time of the deal and I didn't even know who this guy was back then. Now I hate it even more and it will really make me mad if he turns out to be a good player in the bigs because I think he was the best guy we gave up in the whole trade.

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Prediction on the next 8 FanPost titles

Julio Franco
Alex Escobar
Butch Huskey
Chad Bradford
Cliff Floyd
Mike Carp
Chris Woodward
Jason Phillips

by James Kannengieser on Nov 21, 2009 12:40 PM EST reply actions

true

however he may be right about Carrera. Why we had to gve up so much to get Putz still baffles me?

by Endys Game on Nov 21, 2009 1:05 PM EST up reply actions

Putz is/was a "name brand".

"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"

by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Nov 22, 2009 5:49 AM EST up reply actions

Prediction for the 9th:

James Kannengieser.

"He's definitely mixing it into his repertoire. That's French for 'repertoire' " - Keith Hernandez

by Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright on Nov 21, 2009 1:56 PM EST via mobile up reply actions

Wow

Carrera had a .402 wOBA in AA this year and he has some speed. His BABIP was an outrageous .411 all season, but he still walked an excellent 15.2% of the time so even if he batted .280, he’d still have a near .400 OBP. This turned out to be a really bad trade for the Mets.

"We must win and we must know how to win rather than win because we have statistical people."

by Evan_S on Nov 21, 2009 1:28 PM EST reply actions

A GM’s job is to construct a major league team now and in the future. Relying only on organizational assets to address shortcomings on the 25 man roster leads to constantly having to trade prospects, useful players, lose high draft picks and payroll flexibility The real shame of it is if he hadn’t traded Heath Bell he wouldn’t have made this trade.

by t agee on Nov 21, 2009 1:38 PM EST reply actions

by Delgado on Nov 21, 2009 1:51 PM EST up reply actions

That was my favorite image of the year

by Delgado on Nov 21, 2009 1:52 PM EST up reply actions

it was pretty amazing

and a wonderfully esoteric reference on top of that

by KeithsMoustache on Nov 22, 2009 12:22 AM EST up reply actions

In Omar's defense

Who’s to say we wouldn’t have completely mismanaged him had we kept him? They probably would have told him to swing at every pitch and try to beat everything out or something crazy.

by Gina on Nov 21, 2009 1:46 PM EST reply actions

So his defense

is that he would have screwed it up later?

"We must win and we must know how to win rather than win because we have statistical people."

by Evan_S on Nov 21, 2009 2:46 PM EST up reply actions

It's the best I can do

by Gina on Nov 21, 2009 3:41 PM EST up reply actions

Carrera had better be a damned good CF

otherwise his bat won’t play in the OF. A LFer with 5 HRs per season isn’t going to happen.

Baseball Cube and minorleaguesplits don’t seem to have him today, for some reason.

by SeanSchirmer on Nov 21, 2009 2:52 PM EST reply actions

I found him on minorleaguesplits

here.

by Gina on Nov 21, 2009 3:42 PM EST up reply actions

Thanks for the link

So he’s a CFer who played a corner almost as much in 2009.
Hmm—he almost never hits a LHP hard. His LD rate is less than 10%. Interesting.

by SeanSchirmer on Nov 22, 2009 3:22 PM EST up reply actions

Sorry the stats got cut off

He hit like .345 this year

Gas prices today are a lot like a pitcher's ERA. Anything under 3 is amazing, under 4 is pretty good and anything 5 and up is something you want to avoid.

by Bobby Baseball on Nov 21, 2009 4:06 PM EST reply actions

Jack Z knows every prospec that will pan out

and all that won’t. Let’s not trade with him.

by Sam Page on Nov 21, 2009 5:13 PM EST reply actions

Which gms can Omar trade with?

So far I’ve got Moore and Sabean on my ok’d list, and Moore’s iffy.

by Gina on Nov 21, 2009 5:33 PM EST up reply actions

Omar has the greenlight to trade Pokeman cards with Oliver Perez.

by Sam Page on Nov 21, 2009 7:05 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs

but we already know Perez is better at negotiating good deals

by astromets on Nov 24, 2009 4:01 PM EST up reply actions

I feel like Coletti's still kind of a loose cannon

"All energy flows according to the whims of the great magnet

What a fool I was to defy him"

-HST

by Mark Himmelstein on Nov 22, 2009 4:06 AM EST up reply actions

That list ain't looking too good...

"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"

by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Nov 22, 2009 5:48 AM EST up reply actions

the twins gm

that’s one of the few we’ve won.

"We're investigating the investigative procedure of the investigation of Tony Bernazard"---Omar Minaya (he really didn't say it but he would"

by firejerrynow on Nov 22, 2009 6:06 AM EST up reply actions

true

and after the cliff lee disaster go ahead and see if mark shapiro wants to torpedo that franchise any more so.

by Rob Castellano on Nov 22, 2009 8:11 AM EST up reply actions

Omar doesn't exactly have a great track record trading with the Indians

So lets not get too frisky.

by Gina on Nov 22, 2009 12:35 PM EST up reply actions

We can trade with Minaya, we know he sucks at trading after the Bartolo Colon trade

Oh wait, nevermind

Gas prices today are a lot like a pitcher's ERA. Anything under 3 is amazing, under 4 is pretty good and anything 5 and up is something you want to avoid.

by Bobby Baseball on Nov 22, 2009 10:26 AM EST reply actions

Thank God that wasn't our team.

"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"

by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Nov 22, 2009 12:24 PM EST up reply actions

Yay for Sean Green!

Our only tangible return in that trade! Giving up Carp, Carrera, Smith, Cleton… and Endy. As well as Heilman and Vargas.

"I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf"
-Tug McGraw

by squid92 on Nov 22, 2009 8:18 PM EST reply actions

Damn I hate that trade.

The M’s got Gutierrez out of it too. That Zdurniecik is an evil genius I tell ya!

by dtro on Nov 22, 2009 11:57 PM EST up reply actions

And the Indians got cheap Joe Smith and an awesome second base prospect

by Gina on Nov 23, 2009 12:06 AM EST up reply actions

Well we got the potential for funny headlines, so there's that.

by dtro on Nov 23, 2009 12:11 AM EST up reply actions

To be fair, if Putz had been lights out all year then no one would really care who we gave up

by astromets on Nov 24, 2009 4:03 PM EST reply actions

No, I think we still would.

You think the Mets wouldn’t have been better with Endy in CF and Pagan in LF than with Pagan in CF and Reed/Sullivan in LF? Or with Carp at first? Small sample size (65 PA) aside, Carp hit well for the Mariners during his call-up (.315/.415/.463), and there’s no reason he couldn’t have put up those numbers playing first for us after Delgado went down. And I think no matter what Putz could have done for us, Smith and Heilman would have given us equal value. Between the five of them, they would have been more valuable than a set-up man.

by BobbyV_Incognito on Nov 24, 2009 9:25 PM EST up reply actions

I would still care

and it’s not like Putz’s injuries were freak, he was damaged goods.

but regardless I would still care because it really didn’t make sense to do that deal ON TOP of the massive contract we gave to K-rod. It was overkill and the type of knee-jerk reaction to a random fluctuation that a gm shouldn’t have. To many resources were poured into two innings of baseball leaving us with holes across the board.

by Gina on Nov 24, 2009 9:56 PM EST up reply actions