Archive for February 6th, 2010

A solid AAA campaign in 2010 could make Fernando a Mets starter in 2011

BY AARON YORKE
STACHE WRITER

It’s early February and most baseball fans have a few more weeks to wait until they see their team’s prospects in action. Mets fans are lucky. That’s right. We have the opportunity to follow Fernando Martinez’s progress in the Caribbean Series, the annual competition between the Winter League’s best teams.

Martinez is still considered by some to be Mets’ top prospect, but his hype machine definitely took a hit over the past year thanks to a disappointing major league debut. Was this warranted? It was if you thought that a 20 year old should come out of nowhere and light the big leagues on fire. The truly disappointing stat of Martinez’s 2009 was his less than 300 at bats between AAA and the majors. He needs to stay healthy to grow into a solid player.
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