F Mart is 20 years old. His career so far:
2006: Rookie league/low A/hi A
2007: AA
2008: AA
2009: 41 games @ AAA
Called up, ~ 20 yrs, 7 months.
Not all that disimilar to:
1980: Rookie league
1981: High A
1982: AA
1983: 16 games @ AAA
Called up, ~ 21 yrs, 3 months.
Of course, the major difference being that, in their final full years of minor league ball at the AA level, F Mart had an OPS of .772 (.287/8/43), compared to a 1.021 (.283/34/97) for Darryl.
Also, F Mart hit a wall his first year at AA. Darryl was (substantially) better each year in the minors, even though the competition was getting tougher.
BTW, here's the scrub we got from the Tribe for cash.
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Isn't it apparent that the Mets aren't working a plan with F Mart, but letting cicumstances dictate his timetable? Can that possibly be a good thing?
Isn't it apparent that the Mets aren't working a plan with F Mart, but letting cicumstances dictate his timetable?Now that's a strange turn of events. The Mets management under Omar has certainly never done anything like this before. Except with Milledge. Or Gomez. Or Murphy. Or Evans. Or Niese. Or ....
This gets back to the point made the other day by the Post blog. The Mets roster is focused on a few superstars, rather than talent spread throughout the team, and is sorely lacking any backup depth. So our backup plan is always to dip into AAA and pull up our prospects WAY too early, ruining any chance they had of solid development and probably ruining their mental psyche.
But whatever, what do I know about running a team of mediocrity that is overpaid and underperforming. It takes a special GM to set up that kind of roster.
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