Adopted: Brandon Nimmo

[MFS62]

About Brandon:
http://www.highheelsonthefield.net/my_weblog/2013/09/mets-top-prospect-brandon-nimmo-reflects-on-first-full-season-of-pro-ball.html

Later

[Vic Sage]

Despite a lack of overall production and power so far in the minors, we have to be happy with his approach at the plate (with an OB% close to .400), with the size and athleticism to fill out and develop power later. He also has the arm and speed to cover ground in CF, and if he ever learns to steal bases, he can be a... well, a good base-stealer. I don't know that he'll ever be a major-leaguer, but he still has the promise he showed as a high draft pick.

[ashie62]

Was selected before Sonny Gray and Jose Fernandez...

[G-Fafif]

Nimmo invited to big league camp.

[Edgy MD]

Ashie62 wrote: Was selected before Sonny Gray and Jose Fernandez...

Well, tough. Still got plenty of time to make a big league outfielder out of this guy. He's like three and a half years younger than Gray, so let's try and be fair.

[Frayed Knot]

I saw something on Nimmo yesterday claiming that a lot of his problems this past year were due to him playing through a wrist injury. The writer relayed these stats:

Prior to April 20 (pre-injury): .392/.489/.527
April 20 through July (injured): .207/.330/.282
August through end of season (recovering): .315/.468/.398


In all it worked out to a full year at Savannah at .273/.397/.359

His K's are higher than you'd like and he hasn't shown much power for a guy who may have to wind up in a corner OF position rather than CF.
On the other hand he still isn't 21 (March), knows the strike-zone (walks = approx 1.5x normal rates) which is often something that bodes well for future success, and power is usually the last thing to develop in a young player.

Probably slated for High-A Port St Lucie this year so I wouldn't expect a jump in power, but I'll be following to see how the rest of the year progresses for him.

[G-Fafif]

Nimmo sneaks into Keith Law's Top 100 prospects at No. 92.

[ashie62]

He cant hit or run...bust on the horizon...baseball version of Billy Beane...

[Vic Sage]

So right after he gets named as a top 100 prospect, and one of the Mets' top 10, you pronounce him a bust. At age 21. ok.
And wasn't Billy Beane the baseball version of Billy Beane?

[Edgy MD]

I love Ashie's post so much I've already embroidered it on a pillow.

[ashie62]

Vic Sage wrote: So right after he gets named as a top 100 prospect, and one of the Mets' top 10, you pronounce him a bust. At age 21. ok. And wasn't Billy Beane the baseball version of Billy Beane?

as opposed to GM in movie.

I thought Nimmo was a large stretch...3rd full year of ball now....and Brandon starts at high A? you shittin me?

[Edgy MD]

Which one of you is shitting Ashie?

I'm having trouble gleaning what your complaint is. Given 20 minutes, I'm sure I could find 10 All Stars who began their third year of pro ball in high A. This is the way things work.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

The lack of a real standout tool is a little nettlesome.

But yeah, I don't get the Howard Beale treatment regarding this guy.

[Frayed Knot]

Ashie obviously picked up some info on his most recent scouting trip.

[ashie62]

I was briefly hospitalized and am rounding into form...

I tend to ignore the fact that phenoms like 20 year old Jose Fernandez are a more than a few miles from the norm...

I would like to see him take some nice steps this showing some power if he projects as a corner...

Go team

[Edgy MD]

Welcome back, Ash. Hope you're alright.

[ashie62]

Thank you..I dropped 13 pounds in seven days..My sugar went to 485 and I got saturated....Feeling better

[G-Fafif]

Whereas Rubin reports Nimmo added weight. Or something. Don't tell Chass.

Definitely stronger. Spent winter at IMG Academy in FL

[ashie62]

He looks terrific and cut....now hit!

[Edgy MD]

The guy is hitting .600, Ash. It's March 6.

Enough with the rush to surrender.

[Ceetar]

G-Fafif wrote: Whereas Rubin reports Nimmo added weight. Or something. Don't tell Chass. Definitely stronger. Spent winter at IMG Academy in FL

So he's now an HTML tag?

[Benjamin Grimm]

Have we back at the point where a guy can report to spring training bigger and stronger than before without us having to wonder what might be in his urine?

[Ceetar]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Have we back at the point where a guy can report to spring training bigger and stronger than before without us having to wonder what might be in his urine?

No. I just hope he's not picking the clinics that A-Rod picks.

[Edgy MD]

When dudes are getting stronger at 20, it's pretty consistent with their peer group.

Asides, minor leaguers have a lot tougher time evading testing scrutiny.

[G-Fafif]

The Wyoming Walloper sent down in the first round of cuts.

[G-Fafif]

From Rubin: Brandon Nimmo chills with Andrew McCutchen, could be more Captainy in his praise toward his elders.

“Cutch doesn’t act like an NL MVP at all,” Nimmo said. “He’s a very down-to-earth guy. He’s very much like [Curtis] Granderson, where any questions that I had he would answer them, and anything that I needed he would come right to me and be honest with me. It was just awesome to be around that kind of guy and understand what kind of work ethic will get you there.”

Also, the kid is bulked up, explaining PEDs are totally the way to go if you want to achieve results fast. No, of course not that.

“They put 20 pounds on me,” said Nimmo, a 6-foot-3 outfielder from Wyoming. “And it was really good muscle. None of it was bad weight. I had a nutritionist watching what I was eating. We just did it the right way. And I felt like that was what I needed. I felt like I needed to move on and train a little bit more like a professional. Obviously now you see the results of that physically.”

[G-Fafif]

Hot start at PSL, reports Mets minor league maven Toby Hyde: 3-for-5 last night; .406/.525/.563 w/ 2 2B, 1 HR, 8 BB in first nine games of the high-A season.

[Frayed Knot]

The 8 walks vs just 10 Ks is an impressive ratio (SSS alert at always)

[Edgy MD]

The Billy Beane of Baseball: .388 / .488 / .507 // .995.

He's just making it all look silly right now in St. Loo. Only five of the 26 hits have gone for extra bases, but it would be real miserly to complain about that sort of thing at this moment.

[G-Fafif]

Nimmo didn't get on base Monday night, reducing his OBP to a mere .489. Slugging is only .441, but I'm sure he's earning bonuses on whatever scale the organization rewards its youngsters for not swinging too much.