Soothsaying for Sixteen: Brandon Nimmo

[Edgy MD]

Some still see promise in my package. Some see a passive representative of all that is bad with sabermetrics. Am I a budding on-base machine, the leadoff guy of the future? Or am I a fourth or fifth outfielder, a double-switch specialist?

Listen, your opinion has meant shit to me so far. I'm a Wyoming boy with a Georgia girlfriend and a first-round bonus that I used to get me a sweet little ride. But I'm likely to debut this year, and opinions are going to be raining down on me like a ... well, I'm a ballplayer and not a poet. Whatever opinion you have, you better file it now, or else you're just reacting. Anybody can do that.

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[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Still think he's Zimmo!

Hits 299/360 in Vegas, gets an August callup and viewed as Grandyman's heir apparent as leadoff hitter in '17

[Guest cooby classic]

Seriously edgy where are you coming up with these people?

[Edgy MD]

Please tell me you know about Brandon Nimmo.

Somebody fill cooby in on Brandon.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Many of these guys are quite obscure, but not Brandon Nimmo. He was a first-round draft pick and someone whose arrival has been anticipated for a while.

[Guest cooby classic]

Lol okay. I will keep an eye out for him

[Guest cooby classic]

Lol okay. I will keep an eye out for him

[Frayed Knot]

Edgy MD wrote: Somebody fill cooby in on Brandon.

He's either a potentially exciting, young prospect or a washed-up has-been who never even was depending on who in this forum you ask.

[ashie62]

Cattle ranching in Wyo in 10 years.

[Edgy MD]

Cued up nicely, Frayed Knot.

[ashie62]

79,000 posts cant be wrong.

[MFS62]

I'd like him to do well, but when all is said and done, my gut tells me that his major and minor league stats will end up looking like this guy's:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/schneda02.shtml
He had high minor league OBP too, and showed more power in the minors than Brandon.
And I'm not sure when major league year 1 will be and he'll be a fourth outfielder type.

Later

[Edgy MD]

Turtle doves, try to focus. We're not asking where he'll be living in 10 years. Neither do we need an analog for what his ultimate career will look like. When all that is said and done, few or none will remember what was written here today. The idea is to inquire as to what he will or will not contribute to the Mets in 2016 and 2016 alone.

[ashie62]

Unlikely with DeAza there. Nimmo needs to stay healthy above all. He will possibly get a cup of coffee in Sept.

I'm not big on drafting high school players. I want the college guys who are cheaper who have done their A/AA work in school.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I predict that he'll eventually have seven grandchildren and their names will be Heather, Bonnie, Michael, Eugene, Gwendolyn, Herbert, and Spiro.

[Lefty Specialist]

Spiro Nimmo. Genius.

[MFS62]

Edgy MD wrote: Turtle doves, try to focus. We're not asking where he'll be living in 10 years. Neither do we need an analog for what his ultimate career will look like. When all that is said and done, few or none will remember what was written here today. The idea is to inquire as to what he will or will not contribute to the Mets in 2016 and 2016 alone.

Turtle doves?
OK., emmet. If he gets called up mid 2016 due to s spot opening up through trade or injury, he'll have a Schneckian 1972 year. If a year end call-up, it will be a Schneckian 1973 year. I think it will be the former.

Later

[Guest d'Kong76]

It will be a September to remember for Nimmo. I can't say for what,
the crystal has gone dark...

[Theoldmole]

Brandon Nimmo is a much cooler name than Dave Schneck.

[batmagadanleadoff]

http://archives.cranepoolforum.net/16300/f1_t16334.shtml

[Edgy MD]

Seawolf wrote: Jose Fernandez to the Marlins; voted "Most Likely To Three-Hit The Mets In His Major League Debut" in high school.

His high school was pretty smart.

I mean, technically, he three-hit them over just five innings, but still.

[Frayed Knot]

The post where I said that Verrett would make the earliest impact from that NYM draft class must have been cut off in the archiving process ... but I remember making it!!!!

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

quality thread

[Edgy MD]

Brandon Nimmo is your PCL Player of the Week, after hitting .432 (14-for-31) with nine runs, three doubles, one triple, two homers, seven RBI, five walks, and one stolen base.

I don't have the full line, but my back-of-the-evelope math says that's .432 / .528 / .806 // 1.334. On the season, he's at .345 / .420 / .539 // .959.

[Guest d'Kong76]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: http://archives.cranepoolforum.net/16300/f1_t16334.shtml

Update:
http://archives.thecranepool.net/16300/f1_t16334.shtml

If anyone finds stuff on google that references archives.cranepoolforum, you should be
able to find it by replacing it with archives.thecranepool

(sorry if I'm being Capt Obvious)