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| By Rob Harding - July 10, 2008 at 6:34 pm
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I was watching SNY’s “Loudmouths” after today’s game and the show’s hosts Chris Carlin and Adam Schein suggested that the Mets should bring up Fernando Martinez to fill the void left by Moises Alou’s season ending surgery. I tend to agree with the two. I think that bringing Martinez, who is riding a seven game hitting streak in AA, is a good idea. Sure, many are going to say “no way, Fernando Tatis is doing great right now”, and those same people will say “Tatis is Awful, where is our new acquisition Omar?” two weeks from now when Tatis is mired in an 0-13 slump. I love what Tatis and Endy Chavez have done for this team lately, it’s great, and it would be even better if we could have them off the bench ready to play if we got another OF. I just don’t believe Tatis and Chavez will keep on hitting like this for the rest of the year, and this is why I’d like to give FMart a shot. As Schein and Carlin said, give him two weeks in the bigs and if he doesn’t produce, go out and get that OF at the deadline. I might be in the minority here and might get blasted for “ruining this guy’s confidence” if he doesn’t succeed, but i believe he’s ready and it’s just a matter of playing on the field, not a matter of if he’s ready to play or not.
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6 Responses for "Alou Gone, Bring Martinez Up?"
Highly disagree. Hitting well? Maybe. But he still lacks anywhere near the plate discipline to be anywhere above AA ball.
Bringing him up early would be stupid and might disrupt his development. I’d like to wait till he’s showing what wright and reyes seemed to show in the minors. Fmart’s high K rate (and corresponding low walk late) shows him swinging at balls out of the zone against AA pitchers. ML pitchers will eat him up, and there’s no point subjecting him to that.
Fmart is a bad idea at this point.
thats fine. as i said, i figured 3/4 of mets fan would grill me for it, but just give him a chance imo.
Yeah, I gotta disagree too. I’d be scared to death of calling up Fernando Martinez. I thought that calling up Carlos Gomez early last year was a bad idea at the time, and Martinez is even younger than Gomez was. I’m not really familiar with Martinez’s work, but all I hear is that, for such a highly touted prospect, he isn’t really “dazzling” scouts. I wouldn’t even promote him to Triple-A until he was dominating Double-A pitching and proving without a shadow of a doubt that he doesn’t deserve to be there.
I think its too big a jump, too soon. Considering we need to rebuild the farm system, why rush the one prospect we have and risk damaging him?
im also sick of treating prospects like their delicate little things. They are baseball players, lets see what FMart can do, if he struggles, no big deal, let him work in AA for the rest of the year
I think that if we have a nice lead in the division and we are really in need, why not bring him up for a few games. I don’t think we should compromise wins for development, but if we are in sort of a safe zone, bring him up for a game against like…the nationals.
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