Jett Williams, Photo by Bronson Harris of Binghamton Rumble Ponies
Baseball America named Binghamton SS/CF Jett Williams and RHP Tyler Stuart to their Second Team All Stars. Lets take a look at how both of these players seasons stacked up.
Jett Williams
Jett Williams surged through three levels of competition this year, spending most of the season in Low-A St. Lucie slashing .249/.422/.410, which was not a precursor for the rest of his season. While with St. Lucie, he stole 32 bases and had a 69:76 walk to strikeout ratio.
Upon a promotion to High-A Brooklyn, Williams saw his slash jump to .299/.451/.567 showing more power, an even better eye at the plate and 12 additional stolen bases while only being caught once.
Jett’s last stop would be with Double-A Binghamton for the playoff push, and he had a .227/.308/.273 slash line, which was his worst, but that was only over 26 plate appearances.
Williams has been skyrocketing up prospect sheets because of his combination of speed, defensive versatility, good plate discipline and sneaky pop for a player listed at 5’6″ and 175 lbs. In addition, he played both shortstop and centerfield at every level.
Tyler Stuart
Tyler Stuart went through two levels himself, dominating in High-A Brooklyn to the tune of a 1.55 ERA over 75 2/3 innings, striking out 84 while only walking 23.
Stuart is a mountain of a man, listed at 6’9″, 250 lbs and uses all of that height to get a good downward plane on the ball to prevent home runs. Stuart would also get the call up the Binghamton, where the results were not as good, but still solid with a 3.60 ERA over 35 innings with 28 strikeouts to 9 walks.
He did allow four home runs in 35 innings after allowing only three in Brooklyn, but still showed the ability to stay in the zone and get batters out via weak contact.
He uses a four-pitch mix of two variations of a fastball, a slider and a changeup to get batters out. For someone who all but skipped Low-A to be having this kind of success shows the upside the Mets have in the lower minors with pitching prospects
