AAA – Buffalo Bisons

AA – Binghamton Mets

Josh Stinson had his first bad start since moving into the rotation today.  He just gave up way to many hits and left the game with a 4- run deficit, but luckily for him the offense had an outburst in the ninth inning to save him.  The BMets entered the ninth down by 5 runs, however, thanks to the heroics of Luis Hernandez they were able win the game in the inning.  Hernandez led the inning of with a walk and leadoff walks ALWAYS come back to haunt you.  Another runner reached base with one out and then Sean Ratliff stepped to the plate and cracked a 3-run homer.  After the next two batters reached it appears their comeback was going to fall short when Josh Satin struck out.  Everyone put on their rally caps with two outs and the next two guys got on base and the man who started everything, Luis Hernandez, came up with two outs and men on first and second and delivered with a walk off double to win the game.

HiA – St. Lucie Mets

Robert Carson, who has been pretty much the lone non disappointment in the St. Lucie rotation had a good start today caring a shutout all the way into the eighth inning.  He gave up 4 runs in the inning, but 2 of the runs were inherited runners Erik Turgeon let score with two outs so Carson really should be to blame as Turgeon has to be able to do a better job at getting 1 out. The biggest blow of the night; a 2-out grand slam off the bat of nine hole hitter Hector Pellot.  Wilmer Flores had another three hits, but has yet to get an extra base hit (10 singles).  Carlos Beltran went 1-for-5 and played 9 innings in the field.

LoA – Savannah Sand Gnats

The Sand Gnats will probably make the playoffs, but they are going to get an early exit because after making all those moves they just have absolutely no offense left and pitchers are going to have to be perfect if they want to win.  Nothing else to say it is that bad.

SSA – Brooklyn Cyclones

After seeing those depressing Sand Gnats box scores seeing games like this from Darrell Ceciliani and Cory Vaughn helps a lot.  Now make that 3 more home runs Vaughn has hit as a Cyclone than Ike Davis. Will Cherry is currently rocking the golden sombrero.

RK – Kingsport Mets

GCL – GCL Mets

AAA – Buffalo Bisons

Recently demoted Raul Valdes got the start of Dylan Owen and pitched fairly well.  He only lasted 4 innings, but struck out 7 and only made one mistake, a home run to Stefan Gartell.  Owen still pitched in the game by piggy backing Valdes and got hit hard yet again giving up 3 hits, all doubles and 2 runs.  he pitching only gave up 3 runs, but the Bisons still got the L as the offense did absolutely nothing getting just one runner into scoring position and 8 base runners on all game.

AA – Binghamton Mets

Nerves got the best of Mark Cohoon in the first inning of his first Double-A start.  He was downright awful in the inning throwing a wild pitch and giving up 4 straight hits with two outs to allow 3 runs to score.  He settled down after that and was almost flawless from the second to fifth innings facing just one batter over the minimum.  Things got heated again in the sixth when he loaded the bases on 3 straight singles.  It appeared he would get out of the inning when he struck out the next batter, but yet another 2-out hit allowed two runs to score before Roy Merritt came in to bail him out.  Luckily for Cohoon the offense was cooking tonight allowing him to pick up the victory.  The number nine hitter, Raul Reyes had the best night of his career getting 3 hits and 2 home runs after hitting just 3 home runs all year in St. Lucie.  Nick Evans couldn’t be stopped today with 4 extra base hits (3 doubles and a home run) and 2 RBI’s.

HiA – St. Lucie Mets

Shocker. After making 3 errors in last night’s ball game Wilmer Flores responded by committing yet another today.  Flores was playing a fairly decent shortstop in Savannah with positive reports from Mike Newman about better D so I’ll cut him some slack that he just needs time to adjust to his new team.  Brandon Moore did fairly well in his first HiA start, but nothing spectacular.  Carlos Beltran played 7 innings tonight, making 2 putouts and continuing to feast on the young pitching with 3 more hits and 2 RBI’s.

LoA – Savannah Sand Gnats

Collin McHugh was cruising along through 5 innings giving up a hit in 4 of the 5 innings, but never letting the base runner get further then second base.  He was doing pretty well in the sixth inning allowing a run to score on a sac fly and it appeared he was going to strand a runner at second base when he got the batter to pop up to first baseman Alex Gregory.  Gregory missed the catch allowing the runners to reach safely.  The next batter singled on a bloop to center field and then the blast came for a 3-run homer before McHugh struck out the last batter.  The offense did nothing tonight but that is understandable with two guys batting in the .100′s in the lineup.

SSA – Brooklyn Cyclones

A 7th inning play would come back to bite the Cyclones in the butt.  Only up by a run with a runner on first and two outs Cody Holliday hit a double into the gap, the third base coach sent Rylan Sandoval home, but on a perfectly executed relay throw Sandoval was thrown out to end the inning not giving the Cyclones best hitter, Darrell Ceciliani a chance to drive him in.  Then in the eighth Ryan Fraser came in with no outs and a runner on first to only walk the bases loaded.  He allowed one run to score on a sac fly with one out and then gave up a two out single to allow the winning run to score.  Two out RBI’s seem to be the theme tonight.

RK – Kingsport Mets

Jacob deGrom was a pitcher I was excited about so it is kind of upsetting to see him get shelled like this in his first start.  All but one hitter had a hit tonight, but none had more than 1 hit.

GCL – GCL Mets

Steven Matz (Flushing, NY): Was I worth the 72nd pick by the Mets or should they have gone for a better talent with signability issues?

Aaron Fitt: I’ve got no problem with the Matz pick; he does have a lot of upside, and the consensus in the Northeast was that he was a late second- to third-round talent. Matz has run his fastball up to 94 from the left side and shown a good breaking ball at times, and there’s tons of projection with him.

…For starters I obviously know it wasn’t really Steven Matz just getting that out of the way.  I agree with Fitt and think this was kind of a dumb question.  Matz was an overslot to begin with.  He is going to for somewhere in the million (1.3 millionish is my guess), which is end of the first or 1st round supp money and he is a young upside, projectible lefty.  Who else would you have liked with signability issues? Austin Maddox who fell into the 30′s or Max Stassi who fell to the 4th?  I really like taking the hometown boy with upside he was definitey “worth it”…

Mookie (Queens, NY): Can the Mets and other teams afford to lose their first round pick every year and still hope to have a decent farm system?

Jim Callis: Sure, provided your willing to spend on first-round talents who fall in the draft. The Mets haven’t shown much willingness to do that, though.

…That’s always been my biggest beef with the Mets always taking the slot pick and never going over slot.  I think they did a little better job at that this year drafting a bit more high school players and already signing Chase Greene, Nelfi Zapata, and Jeff Glenn.  The didn’t, however, jump on Stassi or Maddox who both fell much further then exected because of $$$….