Mets Daily Farm System Report - 6/5: Havens Homers Twice (again)

by Rob Castellano on Jun 5, 2010 10:00 AM EDT

New York Mets Daily Farm System Report - Results from the night of Friday June 4, 2010

The Usual Suspects

AAA - Buffalo (31-24)

SS Justin Turner: 3-4, RBI, 2 R, BB, CS(1) (.286/.352/.393) Turner bested his former team (of one week ago)
3B Mike Hessman: 1-4, RBI, R, BB (.291/.370/.628)
CF Jesus Feliciano: 0-5, RBI, R (.377/.422/.474) Apparently once Blanco heals up and Omir is no longer required, Feliciano will get the call; Do you think his first major league call-up would make this soon to be 31yr old career minor leaguer's birthday this Sunday?
1B Mike Jacobs: 2-4, 2B, RBI, 2 R, (.262/.309/.490)
RF Val Pascucci: 2-5, 2B, 3 RBI, 2 R, 2 K (.205/.286/.545) All in favor of calling him Skooch?
SP Tobi Stoner: 6 IP, 2 ER (1 unearned), 7 H, 1 BB, 6 K, 1 HR (3-5, 4.91, 58.2 IP, 68 H, 19 BB, 43 K, 8 HR)
RP Bobby Parnell: 2 IP, 3 ER, 4 H, 0 BB, 3 K, HBP, BS(2) (1-1, 4.73, 3 S, 32.1 IP, 30 H, 14 BB, 20 K, 4 HR) I've heard about his resurgent stretch of late but I don't really see it
RP Manny Acosta: 1 IP, 0 ER, 1 H, 0 BB, 0 K (1-2, 2.76, 16.1 IP, 14 H, 6 BB, 14 K, 1 HR) Bisons pitching coach Ricky Bones recently recommended that both Acosta and Parnell are ready for a call-up, if/when needed

AA - Binghamton (26-28)

CF Kirk Nieuwenhuis: 0-3, R, BB (.280/.321/.462)
2B Reese Havens: 2-4, 2 HR(5), 3 RBI, 2 R, K, BB (.341/.420/.773) Second 2 HR game in 3 days; Suddenly a Havens-Davis right side doesn't look too far away
1B Nick Evans: 1-4, 2B, BB (.283/.358/.556)
3B Eric Campbell: 0-5, K (.347/.373/.444)
LF Lucas Duda: 1-5, RBI, K, E(2) (.290/.427/.527) Look who's back, back again
SP Josh Stinson: 5.1 IP, 2 ER, 6 H, 3 BB, 1 K (2-1, 3.12, 49 IP, 37 H, 20 BB, 29 K, 3 HR) Solid again in his 2nd start of the year
RP Clint Everts: 2 IP, 0 ER, 0 H, 2 BB, 4 K (3-1, 6.99, 4 S, 28.1 IP, 35 H, 16 BB, 32 K, 2 HR)

Hi-A - St. Lucie (25-27)

Rain Out (again)

Lo-A Savannah

SS Wilmer Flores: 0-4 (.297/.366/.461) Average down below .300
CF Juan Lagares: 1-4, RBI, 2 K ,SB(13) (.290/.306/.463)
3B Jefrey Marte: 0-3, 2 K, BB, E(16) (.242/.324/.358)
DH Cesar Puello: 1-2, 2B, R, 2 HBP (.228/.314/.277)
2B Alonzo Harris: 1-3, 3B, 2 RBI, R, 2 K (.246/.278/.369)
SP Mark Cohoon: 9 IP, 0 ER, 3 H, 1 BB, 10 K (5-1, 1.62, 72.1 IP, 61 H, 14 BB, 63 K, 2 HR) Like about 5 other Gnats pitchers, he's ready for the next level; strangely all 3 hits came off the bat of the Tourists SS, Joey Wong.

Star(s) of the Night

For the first time ever, co-stars of the night: B-Mets second baseman Reese Havens was the man last night, plain and simple. For the second time in 3 days he homered twice and the second one was the game winner in the 11th inning. Havens is well on his way in Double-A, providing the pop and solid plate discipline many drooled over when the Mets drafted him in the first round out of South Carolina in '08. At this rate he could pull an Ike, breaking out in Bingo and forcing his way into the major league plans early next year; as long as my prayers are answered and his health issues are behind him.

Not to be outdone, Savannah starting pitcher LHP Mark Cohoon tossed his second CG shutout of the season, lowering his ERA to 1.62 and overtaking teammate LHP Jim Fuller for 4th in the league. He allowed only 3 hits and struck out a season-high 10 batters. Another product of the '08 draft (12th round), Cohoon has done everything he can do in Lo-A and I'll be really curious to see how he handles more advanced hitters, most likely in the second half of this year.

Goat of the Night: RHP Bobby Parnell was not good again tonight. After some talked about how Parnell had looked better of late, he goes and ruins it tonight. Plus, if you're named Robert Allen, it's obviously better to go by R.A. At this point, I've kind of jumped the shark on Parnell; I mean the guy has never posted a full season ERA better than 4.19 at any level (including college) and though he's still only 24, his complete lack of anything resembling consistent secondary stuff makes me pretty pessimistic overall.

System Roundup

Weird one tonight for the Herd who wasted a nice outing by RHP Tobi Stoner and somehow squandered a 6-run lead only to score 5 more runs in the 9th and grab an 11-6 win against Norfolk in the first of an 8 game road trip. I guess we should give the entire offense a nice pat on the back (7 Bisons had an RBI) while RHP Bobby Parnell gets to wear the horns for his performance (2 IP, 4 H, 3 ER). Yet he gets the W; seems fair.
Binghamton continued the long journey back to .500 in a 4-3 win over the Rock Cats. Nice job by the B-Mets pitchers tonight but the hero in this game was one Reese Havens. 2 more bombs makes 5 homers in his last 6 games; he drove in 3 of the 4 Binghamton runs including the game-winning home run in the 11th. And just to give credit where credit is due, RHP Clint Everts was integral finishing this game off with 2 great innings.
Apparently PSL has been inundated with rain the last couple days; last night's game against Tampa was rained out and today's make-up doubleheader was also rained out. The games will not be made up.
If you like pitching, Savannah is your team. They won 6-0 over Asheville and as is the custom in Savannah received an absolutely tremendous outing from their starter. On Friday that happened to be LHP Mark Cohoon whose CG, 3-hit, 10 K shutout is in the running for the organization's best pitched game of the year. I don't know how many times I can say this but this staff is really, really good; their team ERA is 2.46, yes you read that right. Kudos to the Gnats hitters for a nice 5-10 night with RISP.

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Great to see Havens healthy and mashing

Looks like he could be on his way to a September call-up at least.

Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but Jerry abuses the privilege.

by AnthonyR on Jun 5, 2010 11:43 AM EDT reply actions

If that happens

somewhere Murphy will be crying

I wonder if Carl Everett believes Jamie Moyer exists.

by Gina on Jun 5, 2010 12:19 PM EDT up reply actions

Probably still in pain after that dirty slide.

I still can’t get over that injury.

Ryan Miller was the true MVP.

by Jsz on Jun 5, 2010 12:24 PM EDT up reply actions

Same here.

Save Jenrry Mejia!

by Ogre39666 on Jun 6, 2010 9:50 PM EDT up reply actions

From your comments

I take it you aren’t a big believer in FIP for minor leaguers?

by T Pac on Jun 5, 2010 2:00 PM EDT reply actions

actually

i look at it regularly and definitely consider it an important indicator, i don’t use it in the reports because i just can’t show everything. and as for parnell, i know his FIPs have been better this year but its just gonna take a lot to get me back on the bandwagon after what i’ve seen out of him thus far.

by Rob Castellano on Jun 5, 2010 9:59 PM EDT up reply actions

fair enough

I know there’s a lot more debate about the validity of FIP for prospects as opposed to MLB pitchers. I personally still value it far more than I do ERA — unfortunately last night’s game wasn’t televised, but it doesn’t appear that he was hit too hard, and I know in past games I’ve watched he definitely was the victim of bad luck and/or defense.

by T Pac on Jun 5, 2010 11:14 PM EDT up reply actions

when does the first half of the savannah season end?

there seems to be little reason for those guys to be pitching down there except to get Savannah the first half award.

Think it is hard to beat Dickey’s performance though, when he retired 27 straight after getting the first out.

by astromets on Jun 5, 2010 2:53 PM EDT reply actions

only a few more weeks

last game of the first half is june 20th and the ASG will be held on the 22nd in greenville. the season will start back up again on the 24th and i wouldn’t be surprised if the gnats were suddenly less 3-4 pitchers.

by Rob Castellano on Jun 5, 2010 10:03 PM EDT up reply actions

I think you're overreacting a bit with Parnell

If you read the recap of the four hits, two were ground balls that made it up the middle, one was a soft fly ball that dropped in, and the last was a third ground ball that Hessman couldn’t handle and bounced to Adams. He struck out 3 and hasn’t walked anyone in his last 5 appearances and only 1 in his last 8. His ERA may be over 4, but his FIP is only Pi. I’d much rather see him up than Jenrry Mejia.

And so far in AA, through 50 PA, Reese has a wOBA of .488 and ISO of .432. If he doesn’t keep that up, I am going to be very disappointed.

by Evan_S on Jun 5, 2010 3:29 PM EDT reply actions

i will admit

i can be overly critical with parnell and i often have to remind myself that 24yr old relievers, especially with triple digit velocity, have learned to develop into very effective pieces even when they show the kind of flaws that parnell does currently.

the thing though is that people (including the mets) have been so willing to ignore so many serious developmental flaws because he can throw so hard. people always want to make excuses for him. and beyond the lack of really any consistent secondary stuff, the thing that was really damning for me was that even when he was consistently throwing strikes (which wasn’t that often), he can’t control his fastball in the strikezone, and i don’t care how hard he throws thats a serious issue, especially without significant off-speed stuff. last season in my observation he was 50% at best and the other 50% schneider would be reaching across the strike zone. i started to think of another former met reliever who could hit 100mph and consistently posted better FIPs than ERAs, matt lindstrom. and people are still giving him second and third chances even though he continues to prove again and again that he just isn’t very good.

so at this point, until i see that consistent fb command in the strikezone or his stats get ridiculous, he’s going to have to prove me wrong.

by Rob Castellano on Jun 5, 2010 10:25 PM EDT up reply actions