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Mets Minors Video Week In Review: Vientos’ And Sharp’s Power Display

By John Sheridan

April 15, 2019 No comments

Photo by Ed Delany, MMN

The second week of the minor league season featured many postponements due to weather. From the Mets perspective, we have already seen two players promoted to the Major League level, and we see some players on the precipice of a breakout season. Overall, it made for an interesting week from a player development perspective:

Syracuse Mets (3-4)

After winning their first two series of the year, Syracuse stumbled against Pawtuckett over the weekend. Part of the reason was the Mets have been forced into dipping into Syracuse to help their pitching staff. First, it was Corey Oswalt and then it was Paul Sewald.

This was an issue for Syracuse as the bats went a bit cold. That makes the pitching staff need to be that much better to help the team win. With the state of the Mets rotation and bullpen, these pitchers want to step up because there may be a Major League opportunity for them. In essence, Syracuse needs to see more of what it has seen from Chris Flexen:

In two starts this year, Flexen has struck out 18 batters over 12.0 innings. While he did have a rough outing against Pawtuckett, it should be noted Flexen still managed to pitch six innings. Overall, he’s throwing strikes, and aside from one poor inning this year, he has been effective.

Binghamton Rumble Ponies (1-0)

While the weather has been warming in most part of the northeast, it remains brutal in upstate New York and New England with snow forcing the postponement of eight of Binghamton’s games. The one they did play, they won 4-3 with the help of a Michael Paez walk-off single:

This will be an interesting year for Paez as it appears the Mets still don’t appear to know what to do with him. He has spent time at second, third, and short. This past offseason, he worked out at catcher. Overall, if Paez continues to deliver key hits like this, they are going to find him playing time at one of these positions, perhaps at all of them.

St. Lucie Mets (6-1)

After losing their first series, St. Lucie has been resurgent behind the resurgent bats of both Quinn Brodey and Blake Tiberi. The tandem of third round picks have begun hitting like the Mets anticipated they would hit when they were drafted out of college.

Through 1o games, Brodey is hitting .342/.378/.421 with three doubles and nine RBI. Tiberi has been even better than that hitting .417/.463/.528 with four doubles and four RBI. With this duo hitting like this, they are making an impression, and you have to wonder how long it will be before they are promoted to Binghamton.

Columbia Fireflies (3-3)

As is the case with extremely talented but still young players, Columbia has been uneven this season. When things are going right with this team, they are the most talented team in the Mets farm system, and they appear capable of doing anything. Mark Vientos showed us just what that means:

His first home run of the season was to deep center. This was evidence of the type of power which has him on the cusp of some of the Top 100 prospect lists. To that extent, while the power is impressive, it is not surprising. What is surprising is he’s not the Fireflies home run leader:

That honor goes to Brian Sharp. Through nine games, he already has put up nearly a third of the extra base hits he had in 50 games with Brooklyn last year. This is a positive step forward for an interesting and athletic player who has been overlooked during all the justifiable hype surrounding Ronny Mauricio and Vientos to start the year.

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