Care to point me to all the players drafted after him who are just tearing up the minors right now?

What are you talking about ?

sad isnt it

And how many of those guys are doing this above low A ball right now? None of these guys have more than 150 at bats or a handful of starts. Can we let these guys actually succeed or fail before we deem them stars or busts? Even the first overall pick only has a .627 OPS at rookie ball right now.

Yes it is sad. Poor evil is just pinning away in his mom's basement and wonders why he isn't the GM of a Major League team. Very sad.

Don't forget, our top international signing was also a Shortstop.

why would u draft a player with a ceiling of david eckstein as scouts said??

>> And how many of those guys are doing this above low A ball right now? None of these guys have more than 150 at bats or a handful of starts. Can we let these guys actually succeed or fail before we deem them stars or busts? Even the first overall pick only has a .627 OPS at rookie ball right now.

The kids the Mets drafted this year are getting their first taste of pro ball. A kid can do nothing in "A" ball and suddenly take off in "AA". It's the nature of prospects. It's a long way to the majors for these kids if they make it to the majors, but patience is needed with all of them.

>>>"And how many of those guys are doing this above low A ball right now? None of these guys have more than 150 at bats or a handful of starts. Can we let these guys actually succeed or fail before we deem them stars or busts? Even the first overall pick only has a .627 OPS at rookie ball right now."<<<

Exactly bro. As usual, you inject rational thoughts into things. One would think that years of following the game would make this obvious to everyone, but unfortunately the reactionary nonsense that goes on never stops.

.... Some of the same people who are calling Harvey not ready just because he gave up some runs his last start. He may or may not be ready, but you don't decide that based one or two starts.

Ike looked bad in his first year in the minors, and then took off. Flores had a poor year the prior year, but has bounced back. Did anyone really think Tajeda's minor league numbers told the true tale of the type of player he could be ?

Prospects can have varied streaks of performance as they move through a system. Baseball educated scouts and executives know better than the overreact to a poor streaks, or a poor years, and they know how to balance the numbers with the skills sets.

Nothing is ever a sure thing when you are dealing with prospects - not even for the best scout and executives. But the one thing that is common knowledge to those guys is that player develop is a marathon, not a sprint. You have to have patience and understand how to judge and grade performance beyond just the raw numbers.

>>>"The kids the Mets drafted this year are getting their first taste of pro ball. A kid can do nothing in "A" ball and suddenly take off in "AA". It's the nature of prospects. It's a long way to the majors for these kids if they make it to the majors, but patience is needed with all of them."<<<

Well said.

>> Well said.

Patience is required with propspects. You never know what they will turn out to be.

And had Cecchini come out of the gates on fire you know that there would be threads on here talking about how it's just 150 at bats in rookie ball.

Nevertheless, the odds are now shifting away from the Hall of Fame.