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Dilson Herrera Is An Action Packed Baseball Dynamo

By John Bernhardt

July 28, 2014 7 Comments

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It’s a stat line made in baseball heaven.  According to the B-Met roster, Dilson Herrera is the smallest Binghamton position player at 5’10” and 150 pounds.  Yet, so far Herrera is a Mighty Met, an action packed baseball dynamo, swift of foot with lightning in his bat.  With his 3-for-5 performance Saturday in Trenton, Herrera’s stat line since he arrived in Binghamton almost borders on the ridiculous.

Saturday’s 10-7 Binghamton win over Trenton, marked Herrera’s 33rd game as a B-Met.  The second baseman’s four RBI performance raised his Double-A  total to 30, or just under one RBI per game.

In 139 at bats, Herrera has amassed 48 hits,  and 17 for extra bases.  That gives the Colombian native a .345 batting average and a .408 on-base-percentage, which he trails only Matt Reynolds (.355 and .430), who recently was promoted to Triple A Las Vegas, for B-Mets lead. Herrera also sports an impressive team leading .554 slugging percentage.

Herrera is swift of foot, a daring baserunner capable of stretching singles into doubles and doubles into triples.  Although he suffered a brief case of ‘fumbleitis’ at second base during the recent home stand, Herrera has shown excellent instincts as a defensive second baseman.

As Vic Black continues to mature in the Met bullpen and Dilson Herrera slugs the B-Mets toward back-to-back Eastern League playoff appearances, (the B-Mets are 10.5 games ahead of third place New Britain), the Marlon Byrd trade is a baseball swap that just keeps on giving.

(Photo Credit: Mark Olson/MiLB.com)

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Written by John Bernhardt

John Bernhardt is MMN's Beat Writer for All B-Mets home games. He is also a retired public school teacher and administrator, who still coaches high school baseball. Growing up in a Yankees household, Bernhardt was an ardent Mickey Mantle and Yogi Berra fan. When the Yankees fired Yogi in his first season as the Bomber manager, curiosity turned to passion when the Mets signed Berra as a player/coach and he has pulled for the Mets ever since. In retirement, John writes the sports for a local weekly, The Catskill Mountain News and hosts Tip-Off, a Friday morning sports hour, from 8:00-9:00 on WIOX, 91.3 F.M.

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  1. The-rock-man

    Gotta like this kid, 20 yrs of age. Tempting to send him to Vegas to see how he can do. I wonder how passable he is for SS? Can he man it enough to replace Reuben. Sign the newest Cuban refugee for left field and you got a heck of a 1-2 punch for getting on base.

  2. David Conde

    I have seen him play and I think he can handle the position and he sure will hit better than Tejada. I would put Flores at second and Herrera at short and you would have a middle infield that will hit better than what the Mets have had in a long time. But as much as the organization is about getting these players ready, they are not about giving them a real shot to earn the position. Hope that changes soon for these young guys futures.

  3. The-rock-man

    Couldn’t agree more!

  4. Rob

    Doesn’t he remind you of Jimmy Wynn (the Astro’s Tot Cannon)………..

  5. Rob

    toy not tot

  6. Eric Raffle

    Toy Cannon II

  7. Eric Raffle

    oops…Rob already got that one!

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