Comments on: Gsellman is Ggood!

By: Mets - Baseball Prospectus

Mets - Baseball Prospectus — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 14:44:37 +0000

[…] offering was the vaunted Warthen Slider, a pitch on the border of a slider and cutter that Gsellman has taken to like a fish-to-water, running it anywhere from the high-80s all the way up to 92. It’s not quite Noah Syndergaard’s […]

By: Mets - Baseball Prospectus

Mets - Baseball Prospectus — Thu, 15 Sep 2016 13:00:13 +0000

[…] Last week in this space, I looked at the difference between Robert Gsellman as a prospect and as a major league pitcher. Gsellman’s improvements in the upper-minors and at the MLB level are fairly typical of what the Mets have imbued on a number of pitching prospects over the past few years, leading to outcomes much better than expected. I’ll be tackling those positive outcomes on a wider basis soon, but before I look at all the success stories, I want to look at an absolute developmental failure, a recent prospect botch that appears to have come to its ignonimous conclusion on Monday night. Let’s talk about Rafael Montero. […]

By: Mets - Baseball Prospectus

Mets - Baseball Prospectus — Fri, 09 Sep 2016 13:09:15 +0000

[…] improved fastball velocity–something that we see often from Mets pitchers making the jump to the majors from Triple-A–makes a big difference, but another pitch has gotten the most notice. Lugo’s curveball […]