New York Mets Daily Farm System Report: 7/30/11- Back in Blaquiere

by Jeffrey Paternostro on Jul 30, 2011 8:31 AM EDT in Mets Minor League

New York Mets Daily Farm System Report - 7/30

*All results from games played on Friday, July 29th 2011

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AAA - Buffalo Bisons (44-63)_______________________________________

BUFAALO 8, SCRANTON W-B 5 (Box)

Andrew Brackman no-hit the Bisons for 3 1/3 innings and then was promptly pulled from the game. Why, you might ask? Maybe it was because he walked 9 and hurled two wild pitches. The Bisons used 4 walks and three singles in the fourth inning to erase an early 4-0 Yanks lead and cruised from there. All in all, they drew 13 free passes on the night, including 4 from CF Fernando Perez and 3 from the returning Nick Evans.

LF Nick Evans: 0-2, RBI, 3 BB
3B Josh Satin: 2-5, R, 2 RBI, K; Josh Satin doing Josh Satin things.
SS Ruben Tejada: 1-3, 2 R, 2 BB; Tejada has scuffled a bit since his return to Buffalo
RF Mike Baxter: 1-4, 3 RBI
ROSTER UPDATE - As you probably guessed up above 1B/OF Nick Evans was optioned back to Buffalo and once again cleared waivers. To make room professional stopgap IF Michael Fisher was optioned back to Binghamton to likely take the place of recently DL'ed ~~roster depth~~ middle infielder Niuman Romero.

AA - Binghamton Mets (43-64)_____________________________________

BINGHAMTON 8, HARRISBURG 7 (Box)

In honor of the fine game from C Jean-Luc Blaquiere, the rest of this recap will be in poorly translated French, courtesy of babelfish...

Binghamton Mets s'est rassemblé en arrière d'un premier trou 5-0 même à la série avec les sénateurs d'Harrisburg. Ils ont commencé la moitié supérieure du sixième avec quatre droits choisit et puis une mouche de sac, avant Quebec's possèdent Jean que Luc-Blaquiere a frappé un double two-run puissant pour nouer le concours à 5. Blaquiere était loin de de finition, s'ajoutant encore deux courent le double dans le huitième, et le Binghamton le stylo de s s'est tenu dessus pendant la chère vie pour préserver la victoire. RHP Brad Holt a obtenu la victoire hors du stylo, comme il continue à montrer quelques signes d'amélioration.

2B Reese Havens: 1-5, R, 2 K
PH Eric Campbell: 0-1
PH-CF Matt Den Dekker: 1-1, RBI
RF Juan Lagares: 2-5, R, 2 K
1B Allan Dykstra: 2-5, R, 2 K
SS Jordany Valdespin: 1-5, K
C Kai Gronauer: Def. Replacement
RHP Brad Holt: W, 2 IP, 0 ER, 0 H, 0 BB, 2 K, WP; 17 strikes out of 22 pitches tonight. 22 K:8 BB as a reliever. Just saying.
RHP Brandon Moore: 5 IP, 5 R, 4 ER, 9 H, 3 BB, 4 K, WP; This line looks like it should have been worse.

Hi-A St. Lucie Mets (19-15 // 57-47)________________________________________

DUNEDIN 7, ST. LUICE 2 (Box)

Quite the blah loss for the Mets last night. Despite managing ten hits they only had four at-bats with RISP. RHP Kyle Allen ran into trouble in the sixth, and the bullpen was no help either. SS Wilmer Flores knocked a solo shot for St. Lucie, which is nice to see, but he also showed why the 'SS' next to his name is mostly honorary as his throwing error led to two unearned runs in the sixth.

RF Cory Vaughn: 0-4, 2 K
3B Jefry Marte: 1-4, R, SB (10)
SS Wilmer Flores: 1-4, HR (8), R, RBI, E (15)
CF Cesar Puello: 1-4, 2B, 2 K; Continues to make hard contact. When he makes contact.
C Francisco Pena: 2-4, K
RHP Kyle Allen: L, 5.2 IP, 3 R, 1 ER, 3 BB, 5 K, WP

Lo-A Savannah Sand Gnats (21-13 // 60-43)__________________________________

GREENSBORO 5, SAVANNAH 0 (Box)

Speaking of blah losses. RHP Ryan Fraser gave up three solo home runs to the Grasshoppers, while the Sand Gnats could only manage five hits total against Greensboro starter Robert Morey. Morey twirled a complete game shutout that lowered his ERA to 6.06 on the year. So, yeah, there's that.

CF Darrell Ceciliani: 0-4, 2 K; Just 2 for his last 16, OPS is under .700 now.
3B Aderlin Rodriguez: 0-4
2B Wilfredo Tovar: 1-4, K
DH Blake Forsythe: 1-4, 2B, K
C Albert Cordero: 1-4, K
RHP Ryan Fraser: 5 IP, 3 ER, 8 H, 2 BB, 3 K, 3 HR; "Hit bull, win a steak"

Short Season A- Brooklyn Cyclones (23-17)_______________________________________

BROOKLYN 2, CONNECTICUT 0 (Box)

Another pitcher's duel at MCU and another night of late inning heroics for the Cyclones. RHP Marcos Camarena was excellent tonight, but he was matched by CT starter Brennan Smith. After he left the game, though, Brooklyn finally broke through with a two run double off the bat of 3B Brian Harrison in the bottom of the eighth, and the rehabbing RHP Eric Beaulac shut the door for the win.

SS Danny Muno: 0-4
RF Javier Rodriguez: 0-4, 2 K
3B Brian Harrison: 2-4, 2B, 2 RBI, 2 K
LF Travis Taijeron: 1-4, K; I believe this his first game in left. Sign of things to come?
RHP Marcos Camarena: 6 IP, 0 ER, 4 H, 1 BB, 7 K, HBP

REHAB ALERT: RHP Eric Beaulac pitched two scoreless and picked up the win.

Applachian League (R)- Kingsport Mets (18-20)_______________________________________

GREENVILLE 13, KINGSPORT 7 (Box)

Kingsport committed 6 errors, leading to 5 unearned runs. Forget it Jake, it's the Appy League.

C Camden Maron: 0-4, K E (2)
CF Tillman Pugh: 0-2, 2 BB, K
LF Julio Concepcion: 0-5, RBI, K
DH Gregory Pron: 2-3, HR (6), R, 2 RBI, BB, K
RHP Domingo Tapia: L, 0.2 IP, 5 ER, 6 H, 1 BB, 1 K, WP; Yikes. Outside of Morris, the Appy league arms have really looked poor so far.

Gulf Coast League (R)- GCL Mets (17-16)_______________________________________

GCL CARDINALS 2, GCL METS 1 (Box)

CF Eudy Pina: 0-3, BB, K
CF Joe Tuschak: 0-3
RHP Gabriel Ynoa: 4 IP, 0 ER, 2 H, 0 BB, 5 K, HBP
RHP Matires Arias: 1 IP, 1 R, 0 ER, 1 H, 2 BB, 2 K

★ Star of the Night ★

Blaquiere gagne les honneurs pour la nuit. Le puits a joué, monsieur.

Goat of the Night

RHP Domingo Tapia has not looked good at all in his time at Kingsport this year. He's 19, it's 26 innings, and Kingsport can't field worth a lick. It's hardly panic time. But for a guy with his kind of stuff, you would hope he would have missed a few more bats, regardless of anything else that is going on.

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agh z French, it hurts my eyes

isn’t Jean-Luc from Montreal? finally a decent outing from Kyle Allen, and why’d the Bisons have an invisible guy in LF ?

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by feslenraster on Jul 30, 2011 9:08 AM EDT reply actions

taijeron

nah, that was actually appearance #11 in left for the taijeronasaurus rex versus 21 in CF. similar to cory vaughn last summer, they’re getting him looks there because he can manage it but there’s very little chance he stays in center as he climbs the ladder

by Rob Castellano on Jul 30, 2011 10:53 AM EDT reply actions

Hmm

I cover about 29% of Brooklyn’s games and he’s played about 33% of his games in a corner. Wonder what the odds of my missing every single start in left are? Probably lower than the odds of my not noticing he was in left before now.

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by Jeffrey Paternostro on Jul 30, 2011 10:55 AM EDT up reply actions

yeah

i was actually thinking that since you’ve taken notice of his fielding, he always seems to be in center when you’re on

by Rob Castellano on Jul 30, 2011 11:00 AM EDT up reply actions

Yeah

I mean, he’s likely not a CF in the end, but you might as well let him play himself off it. Wouldn’t be shocked to see him start in CF next year in Savannah, though, since there aren’t any other obvious candidates. Maybe Pugh, I guess.

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by Jeffrey Paternostro on Jul 30, 2011 5:12 PM EDT up reply actions

Looks like Vaughn is his first real bad slump, hopefully it's just a blip and not AA

pitchers adjusting to him.

It’s weird, but doesn’t it surprise you that Satin “only” hits around 300 when it seems like he has multi hit games everyday?

by FrancoTAU on Jul 30, 2011 11:26 AM EDT reply actions

he is hitting near .330 overall this year

Jose Reyes actually does have multiple hits every other game and is hitting around .350, not much more than Satin, so it doesn’t really surprise me.

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by astromets on Jul 30, 2011 1:17 PM EDT up reply actions

Also

Vaughn is at high-A, really got to hope it is just a blip. However, it was not a good sign to watch his slash line plummet as his BABIP regressed to the mean in Savannah.

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by astromets on Jul 30, 2011 1:47 PM EDT up reply actions

Why bat Ruben Tejada 8th for Buffalo?

Almost all of that lineup is filler.

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by astromets on Jul 30, 2011 1:14 PM EDT reply actions

Holt call up in septmber would be great maybe Stinson and Cruz and I always liked de la torre I don’t want to see Dale Thayer or hampson. Can we move edgin up to double a let’s get these relief propects going.

by dbanbahji on Jul 30, 2011 1:17 PM EDT reply actions

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Cruz – 29 BB’s in 41.1 innings. That is a disaster waiting to happen. He hasn’t given up many hits, in AA, but those walks are just as bad and harder to watch as a fan. Plus, that .244 BABIP is likely unsustainable.

Stinson – has a .271 BAA in AA, and it was .312 in AAA. Clearly, he is not ready. His strikeout-rate also plummets in AAA to below his nearly 5 BB/9 rate.

Holt – He hasn’t walked someone since July 2, a span of 7 appearances and 11 innings. While that is great, it is such a SSS that it is too early to say if it is sustainable. If he keeps it up, one could definitely argue for him to be given bullpen duty in September and a chance at the 2012 bullpen, but it is too early to say either way.

Thayer – Having a great year out of the pen in Buffalo. Nearly a K/inning, only 2 BB/9, low BAA and BABIP, and had a nice 4 appearance cup of coffee with the Mets earlier this season – providing 0.1 WAR by pitching 4 innings at a 2.49 FIP. Type of numbers I want in my pen.

Hampson – Having a great year out of the pen in Buffalo. Nearly a K/inning, only 2 BB/9, low BAA with average BABIP, had nice seasons for the Padres in ’07 and ’08, providing 0.8 WAR over 80+ innings of 3.30 FIP. Type of numbers I want in my pen.

I find it weird you call for the guys who have sucked and don’t want to see the guys that have been great. Glad you are not in charge. Also, not on you, but the term relief prospect just sounds wrong.

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by astromets on Jul 30, 2011 1:42 PM EDT up reply actions

Bet the Mets are regretting choosing to promote Michael Fisher over Satin earlier this year

when both he and Satin were hot an Bingo. Satin stayed hot and looks like he is going to have similar success in Buffalo, whereas Fisher hit a wall in Buffalo and surely won’t be happy about his demotion back to Bingo.

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by astromets on Jul 30, 2011 1:20 PM EDT reply actions

I think I read that the reason why they promoted Fisher was because

the Bisons needed an infield glove and Fisher could play all the positions well, while by all accounts, Satin is a butcher on the infield.

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by Steve Schreiber on Jul 30, 2011 1:30 PM EDT up reply actions

A yesr ago we didn;t have a viable solution to who could play 2B

Now it looks like we have to many prospects. There’s Murphy and Turner already in place and Satin and Havens waiting in the wings. It’s certainly possible Satin will be brought up in September. Can Satin play LF?

by bob c on Jul 30, 2011 3:30 PM EDT reply actions