Reese Havens

[Guest Vince Coleman Firecracker]

http://www.thebaseballcube.com/players/H/reese-havens.shtml
Born October 20, 1986; the day after Doc Gooden was shelled in Game 2 to put the Mets down 0-2 heading up to Boston and the day before Bob Ojeda pitched the Mets back into the series.
The big league club seems to have no long term solution at either catcher or second base. Hopefully, my boy Reese can grow into a switch-hitting monster at one of those positions. I look forward to catching him at a Cyclones game soon and hopefully at Citi Field in...2011?

Also, I have no idea what the protocols and courtesies are for this adopt-a-prospect thing. If I'm in the wrong in anyway, please lemme know.

edit-> Reese isn't a switch hitter. The throwing righty/hitting lefty thing confused me. But he's still awesome.

Edited June 16, 2008 by Guest

[Guest AG/DC]

Enjoy yourself. Protocols are to give us regular updates on his progress. Good parents try to interview their guy themselves.

You think you have a catcher or what?

[Guest Vince Coleman Firecracker]

AG/DC wrote: You think you have a catcher or what?

Scouts put him on the slowish end of the Carlos Gomez-to-John Olerud scale, so I'd put my money more on catcher than second base; although there is precedent for second basemen who are less than fleet of foot.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I was going to post a poll about Havens, asking where we'd like him to be five years from now.

Choices would have been:

• Mets second baseman
  
• Mets catcher
  
• Mets shortstop (that's for the Jose haters)
  
• in another organization (meaning he was traded for an established player)

Me, I'd lean towards second base. I'd like our next catcher to be somebody who was born to the position. (And no, I don't really know what I mean by that.)

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Good quote in the paper today about how Havens was such a gamer he transcended college baseball decorum regarding high-spikes sliding and other plays illustrating gritty scrappiness and scrappy grit.

Um, here it is, from the snooze:

Marlin McPhail, who scouts Georgia and the Carolinas for the Mets, has seen Havens play dozens of times. McPhail was as impressed by Havens' hard-nosed style as his home run power. "In college there are certain rules," McPhail said. "You can't break up (the double play), can't run guys over. But he's the type of guy who would."

[Guest Vince Coleman Firecracker]

That's what I'm talkin' about! When you're playing against some non-scholarship 19 year old from Wofford College in an 8-0 game, you go for the jugular, man! Spikes up!

[seawolf17]

What the hell is a Cotuit Kettleer?

[Guest Vince Coleman Firecracker]

seawolf17 wrote: What the hell is a Cotuit Kettleer?

It's some weird Cape Cod League thing.

[Guest Vince Coleman Firecracker]

The Brooklyn Cyclones opened up their season today against the hated (?) Staten Island Yankees and Reese Havens... didn't play.
This site says Reese will be played at short. Eventually, I presume. (I'm less patient than I thought I would be about this.)

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

VC Firecracker - "...(I'm less patient than I thought I would be about this.)"

All good parents want only the best for their 'kids'. Don't worry, our guys will get their chances soon enough. The Mets didn't draft them just to have them waste away on a minor league bench somewhere.

[Guest Vince Coleman Firecracker]

If you're heading to Keyspan Park this week, you won't be seeing Reese Havens, who has a strained elbow. The MRI showed nothing serious, and he might make his Coney Island debut next weekend against the Aberdeen Ironbirds (at shortstop, another article says.).

Edit-> he might make his Coney Island debut next weekend against the Aberdeen Ironbirds ON PIRATE NIGHT!

I might have to go.

[Guest Vince Coleman Firecracker]

Hey, whaddya know, Reese made the SEC's academic honor roll! Kudos, kiddo! I sure as hell didn't keep a 3.0 while playing college sports.

[Guest Vince Coleman Firecracker]

Alex Eisenberg wrote up a piece on the Hardball Times about draft picks 18-26, including both Ike Davis and the Pride of Sullivan's Island.

Mr. Eisenberg seems to like Ike leese than Reese, but says that Reese might be the safest bet of any draftee to make the majors.

[Guest Vince Coleman Firecracker]

Reese will make his debut on Monday, at KeySpan Park, against the Hudson Valley Renegades.

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

Rough start for Reese in his debut this evening. He hit 3rd (as the DH) and went 0-4 with a walk and 3 K's. Get'em tomorrow Reese.

[Guest Vince Coleman Firecracker]

RotoWorld expects Reese to play at short for the rest of the season before eventually moving to second.

[Guest Vince Coleman Firecracker]

Reese gets his first professional hit, a first inning double. Save that ball, son!
Now you just need to cut down on those strikeouts (6K's in 10 PA's).

[Guest AG/DC]

Vince Coleman Firecracker wrote: RotoWorld expects Reese to play at short for the rest of the season before eventually moving to second.

Convince him to catch. He'll listen to you.

[Guest Vince Coleman Firecracker]

AG/DC wrote: Convince him to catch. He'll listen to you.

I dunno, have ya seen what catching does to someone's knees? Don't know if I could send my boy down that path.

[Guest AG/DC]

All men die. Some men never really live.

[Guest Vince Coleman Firecracker]

AG/DC wrote: All men die. Some men never really live.

Well I say, "Nothing ventured, nothing eaten alive by crocodiles."

[Guest Vince Coleman Firecracker]

Fuck, yeah! 3 run HR by Reese in the top of the 9th in a 4-3 win. Awesome game for the Cyclones' DH: 2 walks, a home run and even a HBP to add to his scrappiness quotient.

[Guest AG/DC]

You're out-fathering the lot of them.

[Guest Vince Coleman Firecracker]

Reese falls a triple short of the cycle, drives in 3 and gets a pie in the face.
Nice little article on the game here.

So far, in 14 games, my boy's batting .273 with 10 runs and 8 RBI, and, more importantly, he's got a .385 OBP and he's slugging .509. 9 walks and 7 extra base hits in his first 64 professional PA's. Fantastic.

Hopefully he can get in the field soon.

[MFS62]

What position has he been playing?

Later

[Guest Vince Coleman Firecracker]

MFS62 wrote: What position has he been playing? Later

He's been DH'ing while he's rehabbing his throwing elbow. He'll be playing shortstop when he's cleared to throw again, which should be within a week or two.

[Guest Vince Coleman Firecracker]

There's the triple he was missing the other night.

[Guest Vince Coleman Firecracker]

Reese pulls his groin running out a ground ball, will miss some time.

Get well, kid.

[Guest Vince Coleman Firecracker]

It'll be 3-5 weeks on that groin injury. This link has Mets VP and media-labeled worm-tongue Tony Bernazard saying Reese was about to start playing short before he got hurt.

[Guest Vince Coleman Firecracker]

Reese is back, playing shortstop and getting extra base hits.