New York Mets Daily Farm System Report - 5/9 Familia headed to Bingo

by Stephen Schmidt on May 9, 2011 6:53 AM EDT

*All results from games played on Sunday, May 8th 2011

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The big news of the night comes to us from St. Lucie, where Jeurys Familia has been promoted to AA Binghamton. Binghamton now features a very intriguing starting rotation that will be worth watching as the season progresses, and it likely won't be long before Matt Harvey joins the mix in upstate NY as well.

AAA - Buffalo Bisons (13-18)_______________________________________

BUFFALO 0, LOUISVILLE 8 (Box)

The Buffalo pitching staff only allowed 1 walk on the evening, but that point was rendered moot when Louisville combined for 16 hits on the evening. Casey Fossum led the charge to mediocrity, allowing 2 runs to score in his 4.2 innings of work while giving up 7 hits. Buffalo's offense never really threatened to score, and the Bats cruised to a relatively comfortable win on the evening.

RF Fernando Martinez: 1-3
CF Kirk Nieuwenhuis: 1-4, 2 K
1B Nick Evans: 0-3
LF Lucas Duda: 0-2, BB
SS Ruben Tejada: 0-3, BB
2B Luis Hernandez: 1-4, K, CS

AA - Binghamton Mets (11-16)_____________________________________

BINGHAMTON 4, NEW HAMPSHIRE 0 (Box)

BINGHAMTON 1, NEW HAMPSHIRE 2 (Box)

Double header day in New Hampshire as the B-Mets managed a split. Dylan Owen got the Mets off on the right foot in game 1, allowing no earned runs through his 5 innings of work. Josh Satin's 2 run HR in the third was enough offense for the Mets, but they tacked on two more behind an Allan Dykstra RBI walk and a Raul Reyes infield single.

Games two went to the Fisher Cats despite generally solid pitching from Binghamton. Reliever Edgar Ramirez made the spot start for the Mets, and his 4 inning 1 run outing was more than adequate work. The bullpen then managed to pitch 4 scoreless innings before Eric Niesen entered the game and immediately gave up a single, hit a batter, walked a batter, and allowed a walk off single to end the night. I guess he reallly didn't want to play extra innings on the back end of the double header.

SS Jordany Valdespin: 2-8, R
1B Eric Campbell: 0-4, 3 BB, K, SB
IF Josh Satin: 2-7, BB, 4 K, HR, 2 RBI, R
C Kai Gronauer: 0-2, BB
1B Allan Dykstra: 0-2, BB, RBI, 2 K
RHP Dylan Owen: 5 IP, 0 ER, 5 H, 3 K, 3 BB
LHP Eric Niesen: 0.1 IP, 1 ER, 2 H, BB

Lo-A Savannah Sand Gnats (12-17)__________________________________

SAVANNAH 0, ROME 3 (Box)

Erik Goeddel was pretty solid for the Gnats on Sunday, allowing just 2 runs in the fourth to cross the plate in his 6 innings of work. Unfortunately for him, the Gnats offense decided to take the night off. Cory Vaughn and Darrell Ceciliani accounted for all 5 hits the Gnats managed on the night, and Ceciliani got himself caught stealing once to erase one of the opportunities to be driven in. At the conclusion of the game, 7 of the 9 Gnats starters had batting averages below .240 for the season. Hopefully the Gnats bats start to warm up as the season goes on.

3B Aderlin Rodriguez: 0-3, BB
CF Darrell Ceciliani: 2-4, CS
RF Cory Vaughn: 3-4, 2B
C Albert Cordero: 0-2, BB, K
2B Wilfredo Tovar: 0-4, K
SS Robbie Shields: 0-4, K
OF Javier Rodriguez: 0-3
RHP Erik Goeddel: 6 IP, 2 ER, 3 H, 5 K, BB

★ Star of the Night ★

Cory Vaughn takes top honors for this evening, once again showing his ability at the plate in an otherwise pretty dreary Savannah lineup. His .327/.442/.449 line looks even better considering he's been showing the potential to play all three outfield positions.

Goat of the Night

Eric Niesen took his fourth loss for the B-Mets out of the bullpen tonight. He's had a truly awful start to this season, and last night was no exception to that.

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I'm intrigued by Mark Cohoon

What do you guys think his ceiling is? A Gee-esque starter? I’d honestly take that in a heartbeat. With all the old broken down pitchers manning the back end of the Mets rotation, I’d love to have a decent group of young healthy pitchers that I can at least rely on to give me a fighting chance at a W.

by chakrabs on May 9, 2011 7:13 AM EDT reply actions

I like Cohoon

I see him as kind of like a Jamie Moyer type. Granted I haven’t actually seen him pitch but if he can hit corners and keep the ball down I think he could end up having a decent Major League career

by ZZPops on May 9, 2011 7:16 AM EDT up reply actions

He's not really a good Moyer comp at all IMO

They’re both soft tossing lefties, but Moyer was an extreme flyball pitcher where Cohoon is very much a groundball inducing pitcher.

by Stephen Schmidt on May 9, 2011 9:20 AM EDT up reply actions

Well I like hearing that

Wasn’t aware of the groundball rate on Cohoon…I was just going on very comparable strikeout, walk and home run rates between Cohoon and Moyer in the minors. Although I wonder if Cohoon will give up more home runs as he advances as Moyer had a .5 HR/9 in the minors and 1.1 in the big leagues

by ZZPops on May 9, 2011 5:18 PM EDT up reply actions

Cory Vaughn

I like what I’m seeing from him. Once he starts hitting for some more power (which I’m assuming will happen given his size and bloodline) he could quickly become one of our top porspects.

by ZZPops on May 9, 2011 7:16 AM EDT reply actions

He hit for power last year

I’m not sure what’s up with that this year, but I’m sure that it will come.

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by Russ on May 9, 2011 8:40 AM EDT up reply actions

Isn't the stadium in

Savannah a pitchers paradise? I thought I remember reading that it was (I’m pretty sure Toby Hyde said that it played as a pitchers park). That could be part of it.

Chamption of the R.A. Dickey Face contest and "Cromulent Photoshopper Extraordinaire" of Amazin' Avenue!

by Steve Schreiber on May 9, 2011 5:27 PM EDT up reply actions