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At first glance, Darrell Ceciliani gives the impression of old school. Ceciliani is one of the rare Double-A professional baseball hitters who doesn’t wear a batting glove. An intense focus, a contact-first batting approach, and a gritty all-around playing style compliment your first impression. It’s not difficult to like
It’s almost unfair to watch Pedro Feliciano work a pitchers mound against young Double-A batters. It’s as if we’re watching a master craftsman applying his craft to a gaggle of apprentices. Feliciano defines what it means to pitch, not to throw a baseball. The former workhorse of the major league Mets,
The names keep popping up like popcorn. Wherever you look a baseball analyst or soothsayer includes the name of another Met minor league prospect on a list of up-and-comers. These Met prospects are not confined to the pitching core. Names like Flores, Puello, Taijeron, Dykstra, Centeno, and Plawecki are
Sabermetrics continue to slice and dice baseball performance at every angle. Carson Castulli had an interesting post on FanGraphs over the weekend analyzing hitting and pitching performances of Double-A players across the nation. Castulli created SCOUT (using knowledge of select metrics and relatively small sample sizes) to measure batting
Binghamton 7, Trenton 3 With all the attention directed at New York Met minor league starting pitching prospects Rafael Montero and Noah Syndergaard, the exploits of Cory Mazzoni sometimes fly under the radar. Mazzoni, another future Met righthanded power arm, is putting together an impressive season on the