Goldstein Talks Mets Prospects

via MetsMinorLeagueBlog.com

If you're into the Mets' farm system this is a really interesting interview with BP's Kevin Goldstein that hits on Wilmer's prospect stock, FMart's health, Holt's long-term role and a whole bunch more.

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Goldstein is pretty level-headed about Mejia

Nice to hear.

Trying to believe is my full-time occupation.

by Preach19 on Jun 23, 2010 2:48 PM EDT reply actions

That's a good interview

Goldstein thinks Flores will eventually move to 3rd. My question is that with David there for the forseeable future, wouldn’t it be wiser to move Wilmer to a position like left-field once they move him off of SS?

"I want to win now, not 3 years from now. That's my stance." - Kevin Burkhardt

by Brian. on Jun 23, 2010 2:59 PM EDT reply actions

The line of thinking with prospects

is to keep them at the harder defensive position until they either prove they can’t handle it or they start getting to the upper levels where they might be blocked. This probably doesn’t hurt their development while keeping their possible trade value as high as possible.

by Sokojoe on Jun 23, 2010 3:06 PM EDT up reply actions

Flores won't likely be ready for years

Wright may be a first basemen by the time he’s ready.

I want Jerry Manuel fired now, not three years from now. That is my stance.- John Peterson

by Gina on Jun 23, 2010 3:16 PM EDT up reply actions

Well Ike might be at 1B for a longtime

so that leaves us with Wright and the Todd Hundley experiment.

by Coolpapabell on Jun 23, 2010 3:51 PM EDT up reply actions

Ike has played RF before

& with the questions about Fernando’s ability to stay healthy, maybe Ike will move there eventually.

"I want to win now, not 3 years from now. That's my stance." - Kevin Burkhardt

by Brian. on Jun 23, 2010 4:17 PM EDT up reply actions

i don't think he's played rf before

there were ideas about moving him there with his arm, and because his bat would play better there, but I don’t think he’s ever actually played there.

I want Jerry Manuel fired now, not three years from now. That is my stance.- John Peterson

by Gina on Jun 23, 2010 5:19 PM EDT up reply actions

didnt he play there for team usa?

by astromets on Jun 23, 2010 5:23 PM EDT up reply actions

According to his Baseball Reference page,

he did play RF before, albeit only for two games. I wasn’t able to find any information about whether he played in the Olympics.

"I want to win now, not 3 years from now. That's my stance." - Kevin Burkhardt

by Brian. on Jun 23, 2010 5:33 PM EDT up reply actions

here

http://web.usabaseball.com/news/stats.jsp?ymd=20090927&content_id=7187100&vkey=recap_usab&gid=2009/09/27/itaint-usaint-1

doesnt list position, but justin smoak being there and the low number of plays and fielding % indicates he didn’t play 1B

by astromets on Jun 23, 2010 5:41 PM EDT up reply actions

Or the Daniel Murphy LF and 2nd base FUBAR

by Putnan Prince on Jun 23, 2010 4:34 PM EDT up reply actions

Sigh

Save Jenrry Mejia!

by Ogre39666 on Jun 24, 2010 12:47 AM EDT up reply actions

Goldstein is the man and

I was surprised that he wasn’t wholly against the Mejia thing.

It odd that he was so tempered when discussing Flores. I get it, he is young, but I feel like he used to rave about him, and now he is just meh. He is justified in curbing his enthusiasm because he is so young, but it was still odd to see him put down the Flores pom poms.

by Coolpapabell on Jun 23, 2010 3:50 PM EDT reply actions

How many are you talking?

Because if Flores is 19. And you give him a full year at each level he is looking at 4-5 years before he makes it up to the Mets. By that time Wright will be 31-32 and Ike will be 27-28. So wouldnt it make sense to turn him into a LF so he can be comfortable by time Bays contract is up. Hopefully F-Mart is up and really contributing in RF and Cap’n Kirk is in CF.
Line up looks like this
C- Thole
1B-Davis
2B-Havens
SS-Reyes
3B-Wright
RF-Martinez
CF Cap’n Kirk
LF-Flores

by SFloridaMetsFan on Jun 23, 2010 3:59 PM EDT reply actions

How long do you think it takes a baseball player to learn LF?

Ryan Braun moved to LF from 3rd base in one offseason, same for Pujols, Chipper Jones and Cabrera. Soriano went from 2nd to LF in an offseason and despite how Murphy looked, he really wasn’t that terrible out there with one offseason. Keep his value up and keep him at the most difficult position possible, because it’s tough to know what the team will look like in the future.

by Sokojoe on Jun 23, 2010 4:21 PM EDT up reply actions

Murphy thanked Omar and Jerry for rescuing him from left field where he admitted

he was not up to it.

by Putnan Prince on Jun 23, 2010 4:41 PM EDT up reply actions

I always thought

it was a pretty small sample size. I think 7-8 months and we’d have been able to make some kind of judgement.

by deadspy3 on Jun 23, 2010 5:31 PM EDT up reply actions

Ryan Brauns still a butcher though

I want Jerry Manuel fired now, not three years from now. That is my stance.- John Peterson

by Gina on Jun 23, 2010 5:22 PM EDT up reply actions

True

But I dont think moving him from 3rd earlier would have helped.

by Sokojoe on Jun 24, 2010 11:44 AM EDT up reply actions

if flores shows he can play 3B

i would think the move would be to move wright to LF. yeah his d is better than given credit for, but he will be slowing down then.

by astromets on Jun 23, 2010 5:28 PM EDT up reply actions

wrights arm in the OF would be scary

by Mike Clemente on Jun 23, 2010 6:07 PM EDT up reply actions

Santana accused of sexual battery

about to have press conference

by Rigsay on Jun 23, 2010 4:21 PM EDT reply actions

BREAKING NEWS: Johan accussed of '09 sexual assasult

Santana holding a press conference right now on SNY re it, I believe. You can also listen via WFAN online.

This is unbelievable.

"Never throw a slider to The Glider."

- Ed Charles, No. 5

"Who has more fun than people?"

- Ralph Kiner

by The Glider on Jun 23, 2010 4:21 PM EDT reply actions

The case is closed, so I'm not sure why this is even being brought up

There is no hope.... there is no future....there is only GRISSIONZ

The 2010 Mets- Hey, we may suck, but what did you expect?

by Syler on Jun 23, 2010 4:26 PM EDT up reply actions

Cliff Lee would never be accused of such a thing

by The American Mr.Hockey on Jun 23, 2010 4:55 PM EDT up reply actions

Shouldn't you be at a Yankees blog or something

"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 Jun 24, 2010 6:30 AM EDT up reply actions

The legend returns!

Save Jenrry Mejia!

by Ogre39666 on Jun 24, 2010 10:27 AM EDT up reply actions

TMZ report

http://www.tmz.com/2010/06/23/new-york-mets-johan-santana-pitcher-sexual-battery-florida-rape/

"Never throw a slider to The Glider."

- Ed Charles, No. 5

"Who has more fun than people?"

- Ralph Kiner

by The Glider on Jun 23, 2010 4:23 PM EDT reply actions

make a fanpost then instead of posting it everywhere

just saying

by astromets on Jun 23, 2010 4:35 PM EDT up reply actions

this

I want Jerry Manuel fired now, not three years from now. That is my stance.- John Peterson

by Gina on Jun 23, 2010 5:23 PM EDT up reply actions

like his comments on captain kirk

hope he gets better soon and gets hot like the second half of last season

by astromets on Jun 23, 2010 4:35 PM EDT reply actions

I'd sell "high" on Kirk.

I honestly don’t get the love there. Goldstein nails it — he profiles to be a decent-at-best CF who, if his defense can’t hold up for CF, won’t have the bat to play the corners.

by Dan Lewis on Jun 23, 2010 4:50 PM EDT up reply actions

if he has another 2 months to end the season like he did last year

he might say otherwise. for the right piece, i guess i could let him go, but i like him a lot. possible 20-20 guy, if not more. lefty. not a bad eye.

by astromets on Jun 23, 2010 4:53 PM EDT up reply actions

A commenter on the Goldstein interview says

Cohoon all the way up to Bingo today, and Moore to St Lucie

by deadspy3 on Jun 23, 2010 5:08 PM EDT reply actions

espn mets blog the same about cohoon

and wilmer to st lucie

by astromets on Jun 23, 2010 5:10 PM EDT up reply actions

They should give Cohoon another shot for a shutout first

But otherwise I like it.

by Evan_S on Jun 23, 2010 5:12 PM EDT up reply actions

that would be insane

more insane if he did it at bingo

by astromets on Jun 23, 2010 5:23 PM EDT up reply actions

Anyone have a BP account and know what

this is about? I’m really curious to see how hard Urbina can throw.

by Evan_S on Jun 23, 2010 5:14 PM EDT reply actions

Nevermind

Metsminorleagueblog said he was 89-91. I was hoping he was topping 100 so that by the time he was MLB ready, he’d be throwing 110-112 with a 101 mph change. Sigh.

by Evan_S on Jun 23, 2010 5:16 PM EDT up reply actions

haha

at least 105 so he is better than fuller

by astromets on Jun 23, 2010 5:24 PM EDT up reply actions

? we're the mets you have it backwards

if he was throwing 105 he’d be down to 89 by the time he made the ball club.

I want Jerry Manuel fired now, not three years from now. That is my stance.- John Peterson

by Gina on Jun 23, 2010 5:38 PM EDT up reply actions

this is ridiculous by the way, from espn mets blog

Mets manager Jerry Manuel said that if Jon Niese had thrown 50 or more pitches and the rain delay were more than one hour, then he wouldn’t have returned to pitch on Tuesday night. Instead, Niese had thrown 45 pitches and the delay was 58 minutes so Niese returned.

Niese had thrown three hitless innings before the rain came down and the Mets scored eight runs in the bottom of the third. So from his last pitch of the third to his first pitch of the fourth, he sat down for 92 minutes.

by astromets on Jun 23, 2010 5:24 PM EDT reply actions