Adam had a wonderful season with St.
Lucie (A+ 36-G, 1-1, 1.65, 49.0-IP,
9-ER, 63-K, 15-BB) and was rightfully promoted to AA-Binghamton. The problem is
it’s not working out at that critical level where the men are separated by the
boys. His first six games have gone as follows: AA 6-G, 2-0, 5.68, 6.1-IP, 4-ER, 8-K, 4-BB and,
for reasons so far needing no explanation, he was returned to Florida to get
ready for the playoffs. I have Kolarek on my ‘blue’ list (‘A’ are top
prospects, ‘B’are players I project will make majaor league baseball at some
level), and could someday turn into an ‘A’ pen member. He’s particularly good
at striking out people, something you like in, well, a pitcher. J The stats stunk at AA, but I still see this as a confidence booster to
eventually pitch for St. Lucie in the playoffs.
Well, the reaction to my Mets ownership
diatribe was interesting. Two readers, ‘Billy Bob’ and ‘Matt’ chose to call me
out, one professionally (BB) and the other, not (Matt). I’m sure Matty thought
I would erase what he said, but, what the hell. If I’m going to take on a
sharper edge here at MMs, I might as well let the readers do too.
I hope everybody got the point of my
post. I don’t want any of the top Mets minor leaguers to eventually sign with
other teams. I just want Tampon and his tribe to leave Dodge, and, frankly, the
only way it may happen is league intervention.
There are two roads to go down here.
The first would be a bankruptcy, which is a possibility if both the economy and
team operation remain on the same path. The other would be the voluntary
exiting of key people like David Wright, RA Dickey,
Sandy Alderson, and Paul DePodesa. If top
players don’t want to play here, and competent front office people don’t want
to remain holding the fort down, the league will have to step in and deal with
what has developed.
The media market of New York City is
tantamount to the success of baseball, and lack of ticket sales, advertising
revenue, merchandising revenue, and network ratings will, in the long run,
determine who owns this team.
It amazes me that some people
actually invested $250mil this year to own a part of a business that is
currently losing over $30mil a year, and is projected to do worse in 2013. I
understand long range book value, but, come on people. You have to really have some ‘disposable’ income for
this deal.
MMs Format
We’re changing again.
For now, we are cutting back to four (4) posts per day. All are EST.
For now, we are cutting back to four (4) posts per day. All are EST.
The 12:01am will continue to be the
‘2013 Draft’ updates on key players at the high school and college level that
are eligible for the 2013 draft.
The 8:01am will continue to be the
‘Minor League Report” that I write and compile each day.
The 12noon report will be any posts
by the other writers on the site.
The 4:00pm will be an additional post
by me, either ‘Stuff’ or “I May Be Wrong, But’. It will be what’s in my mind at
the time I wrote it.
We do ask that the other writers step
it up so we can have more than just my thoughts on the site.
The minor league press releases have
been discontinued; however, key information from the ones received from the
teams will be encompassed into the ‘Minor League Report’ each morning.
We will continue to post any breaking
news, but we will no longer use the word ‘Flash’ or tease with the headlines.
I’m asking all the MMs writers to
send me an updated picture of themselves that we can use on each of their
posts. This would replace the opening avatar.
In closing, we are out of the ‘hit’
business, and returning the site to a more conventional newspaper format. We
hope you enjoy it.
September Call-Ups
There are all guesses at this point,
though I did make some calls and have some decent educated opinions here.
Look for:
P – Jeurys
Famila, Jenrry Mejia, Collin McHugh, Robert Carson
IF – Lucas
Duda (probably earlier), Zach
Lutz
OF – Fred
Lewis, Matt Tuiasosopo
C – Lucas May
Look for the following players to be
released in October:
P – Ramon
Rodriquez, C.J. Nitkowski, Fernando Cabrera, Daniel Herrera, Pedro Beato, Chuck
James, Jack Egbert, Dylan Owen
IF -
Val Pascuchi, Oswaldo Navarro, Sean Kazmar, Brad
Emaus, Corey Wimberly, Russ Adams
C -
Jean Luc Blacquiere, Francisco Pena
OF – Adam Loewen
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