Pick one "Untouchable" Prospect

While I have the most trust in Davis, I think a good hitting first baseman is very easy to find, especially with the Mets payroll abilities over the next few years. I love Holt and Mejia but they have never proven themselves in the majors and as pitchers they have high injury risks. Good hitting catchers are hard to find, and Thole has showed us he can hit. Even though it is small sample size, has has done pretty well in his brief stint in the majors. To me, F-Mart and Flores are too young and they have never really put up eye-popping numbers for me to say “Wow that guy is going to be a star.” So I would take Jose Thole.

What a stupid concept.

He has nearly no power and average at best defender so far. And I consider myself a big Thole guy.

I’d go Fernando still. He’s 21 and dominated AAA for the first two months last season. Health is a concern, but I see it as the only concern. I still think he can be a similar hitter to a guy like Jim Rice. He’ll hit for good power, around 30 homers a year, high average, not a high on base guy, and he doesn’t seem like he’ll too many bases, based on his numbers in the minors. Mejia or Davis is probably the safer choice because of Fernando’s injury history, but I like his upside the best.

And to scott, what father would say publicly, “My son? He sucks. He’s lucky to be playing professionally let alone considered a top prospect. They should trade him now cause he’s gonna be outta baseball in a year.”

but we don’t even know if he has the defense to play catcher, and he’s not going to hit for enough power to play first. I don’t really think I would consider anyone in our system untouchable, maybe Flores, just because he’s too far away to get real value for him other than as a throw in, or Meija if I had to choose.

Is a prospect whose upside is too high to justify trading him at his current value level. Its not necessarily the best prospects, but the ones where there’s a case to be made for going against the typical risk-averse grain. I think Fernando Martinez and Jenrry Mejia both fit this description currently, and perhaps Wilmer Flores as well, and I’d probably find myself having a hard time discussing Reese Havens. The best-possible payoff with these guys just doesn’t justify the kind of value you’d get back for them in trade. Guys like Davis, Thole, and Tejada, none of them have crazy ridiculous upside, and I could very easily see other organizations drawing the same conclusions from their evaluations of each one that I do.

Reese Havens. Dude looks like the kinda guy who’d smell real bad. No way I’d want to touch him.