Memories of Gavin Cecchini

[G-Fafif]

The first first-round pick from the 2012 draft has signed a minor league deal with Arizona. The second was Kevin Plawecki. Maybe not the most fruitful of first rounds.



Brief stints, few results, yet a home run off Clayton Kershaw.



I also recall tweeting something nice after the kid debuted and his mother quickly fav-ing it.

[seawolf17]

Conflated him a lot with his brother Garin, who was an equally-regarded prospect with the BoSox.



Combined major league Cecchini stats over tiny parts of four seasons: 123 AB, 26 hits.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Was hoping it woulda worked out better. Always associated him and Zimmo as Paul DePodesta picks, different from Mets' traditional reliance on college pitchers with top pixx.



Had a nice level swing with which he hit a ringing double near the end of his first call-up season that I wrongly pinned my entire hopes on.

[Centerfield]

Was my pick for Dark Horse Met of 2018. It didn't work out.



Hope he ends up rooming with Wilmer.

[ashie62]

He was kinda like T.J. Rivera and Matt Reynolds but without the talent

[MFS62]

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He was kinda like T.J. Rivera and Matt Reynolds but without the talent

[Edgy MD]

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Was hoping it woulda worked out better. Always associated him and Zimmo as Paul DePodesta picks, different from Mets' traditional reliance on college pitchers with top pixx. Had a nice level swing with which he hit a ringing double near the end of his first call-up season that I wrongly pinned my entire hopes on.

That ringing double was what I was thinking of. It came in a wild comeback in which the Mets were down by like 10 runs to Philly, emptied the bench and a batch of AAA players hammered their way back into the game. The Mets totally would have overtaken them, but they just ran out of outs.



OE: Here is the game. The Phils got out of there with a win, but they so shell-shocked by the shifting momentum in the second half of the game that the Mets won the next game 17-0.



Look at the 2016iness of that bullpen! Fernando Salas! Big Jim Henderson! Eric Goeddel!



http://leaptoad.com/mets/scorecard_graph.php?game=8859&font=1>

[Edgy MD]

Looks like Cheech reached second in all three of his turns at the plate, on two doubles and an error by Mikael Franco.

[Willets Point]

Don't have an memories of Gavin but I was present at the game in 2014 when Garin got his first MLB hit, which ended up being 0.125 of his career output.

[Lefty Specialist]

Had his chances, didn't seize them. So it goes.

[LWFS]

That WAS a tasty double, IIRC. Laser to the oppo-field gap, ah believe.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Amazin'ly there's 18 minutes of raw video from that game up on the Mets site (no announcers, just crowd noise and bat-on-ball action.



Cecchini's doubles are at 12:50 and 16:03. There's also a cool Ty Kelly action in there, couple single, throws a guy out at home.



https://www.mlb.com/gameday/phillies-vs-mets/2016/09/24/449180#game_state=final,lock_state=final,game_tab=videos,game=449180https://www.mlb.com/gameday/phillies-vs-mets/2016/09/24/449180#game_state=final,lock_state=final,game_tab=videos,game=449180

[Edgy MD]

It was the fourth inning that killed them. Two hits and a hit-by-pitch, but they came up empty on a GiDP by Druby and a hacking strikeout by Kelly Johnson.



The comeback started right after that.