According to Ben Badler of “Baseball America”:
“Rosario, the No. 11 international prospect for July 2, is a 16-year-old righthanded hitter with plenty of room to fill out his lanky, 6-foot-3, 170-pound frame. Some teams project Rosario as a shortstop with offensive upside, though others think he may outgrow the position. Rosario grew up as a teammate with Rangers outfielder Nomar Mazara in La Javilla youth league. He trained at the academy of the president of the league, John Carmona.” Badler also suggests that “Rosario might be the most divisive player in Latin America. Those who like him say that he has strong fielding instincts, hands, and arm strength. Other scouts fear that he is prone to strikeouts with his uppercut stroke.”
Below is a video of Amed fielding plays and taking batting practice. Looks exactly how a 16 year old should look, raw. Amed was signed for 1.75 million which looks to be the largest amount in the international signing period.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=T9GEuuckaFU
17 comments
Stickguy
7/2/2012-1:42pm at 1:42 pm (UTC -4)
does this mean the team is not completely broke, and that the FO is actually alive? Someone better let the core know.
anyway, I like it. can never have enough high upsdie talent coming into the system, and he certainly sounds like he has talent and potential.
and for the cost and description, they basically got another late 1st or comp round pick, for about the slot money.
maybe in 4 years, he can be Wilmer Flores!
srt
7/2/2012-1:58pm at 1:58 pm (UTC -4)
‘does this mean the team is not completely broke, and that the FO is actually alive? Someone better let the core know.’
LOL…
SaltyGary
7/2/2012-2:13pm at 2:13 pm (UTC -4)
It’s great to see them investing into the team. There is really no negatives I can find with this.
Stickguy
7/2/2012-2:52pm at 2:52 pm (UTC -4)
salty, you still bored enough to actually try and engage in a debate (I hesitate to use the word conversation) with the core over at that other place?
other than you (the last Nomad?), Joe seems to have his wish. A haven for alex, bayonne and metsie to join him in a never ending Sandy bash a thon.
that post on the contenders was actually well thought out. But of course, the comments were idiotic, but other than you and the author trying to explain himself, almost every comment was a bayonee-alex stroke-off.
talk about a useless, unreadable comments area, it makes Matt’s place look like a bastion of intelligent thought. and Civility.
srt
7/2/2012-3:54pm at 3:54 pm (UTC -4)
I saw this afternoon where Joe D had to warn those to keep it civil – as it has been for the past 2 weeks.
Someone comments that’s b/c the ‘saber goons’ or some such drivel haven’t been posting.
If it was that group’s fault for some of those mindless debates, then Joe would not have had to warn anyone today.
Doesn’t take a brain surgeon to read through those comments to recognize the real offenders.
I just LOL…..
Stickguy
7/2/2012-5:21pm at 5:21 pm (UTC -4)
I actually took that a different way. I really thought Joe was commenting that the “nomads” and other sandy lovers had been largely absent, so it had been peaceful. Maybe with a gentle reminder to his disciples to not let the heathens get them all riled up?
SaltyGary
7/2/2012-6:09pm at 6:09 pm (UTC -4)
I’m sure they are all pretty happy that TRS is at camp and there are no Metsie/TRS comment tornado’s of doom lately.
SaltyGary
7/2/2012-5:09pm at 5:09 pm (UTC -4)
I don’t know why I bother but I was annoyed that they were grinding that young author. So I backed the kid up a little. Its not even hard work. They are complaining that Sandy isn’t doing anything so I ran a report that shows all trades for the season and it’s like 6 trades total for garbage. Then they just run away.
darknova306
7/2/2012-11:10pm at 11:10 pm (UTC -4)
Honestly, this constant referencing of certain commenters on a certain blog is getting borderline infuriating. A couple of people on another blog post comments that don’t mesh with you (or are full of insults, etc), and instead of just not reading the comments there anymore, you keep going back, getting into shouting matches with them, coming back here to talk crap about them… It’s 100% ludicrous. It’s like freaking 7th graders following the people they don’t like and prodding them into an argument, then going back to the treehouse to complain about them for arguing with you.
I like MMO, and think the article are at worst interesting, and at best are very thought provoking. They have some really good writers, whether you agree with them or not. I haven’t looked at the comment section in many months because it’s not a pleasant experience for me based on the commenters you all complain about. Alex, Bayonne, Metsie, etc, don’t bother me because I don’t bother reading anything they type. Done. Irritation solved. Let’s stop with the schoolyard nonsense.
And if you do feel some sick need to rekindle your obvious obsessions with these guys by going back over and reading their comments, and getting involved in pissing matches with them, don’t come back over here and whine about it. It really detracts from anything meaningful over here.
I blocked Pomes and Tanna and a few others on Twitter so I wouldn’t have to read any of their stuff anymore and could stop thinking about them. You should all do something similar by not reading comments from people that irritate you.
srt
7/3/2012-7:21am at 7:21 am (UTC -4)
Can’t speak for anyone else….
That site has some great articles and some fine authors.
Comment section doesn’t irritate me. Some well thought out debates for the most part. The rest, I just find funny. There’s only one poster I avoid at all cost over there b/c he just has no self control. Any other blog, he’d be long banned by now.
I read several baseball blogs a day as well as comments. I enjoy reading the different opinions and gauging the ‘pulse’ of Met fans. Couple of Mets blogs I avoid b/c it’s nothing more than the lunatic fringe. MMO is not one of them.
I don’t think it’ all together fair to be judging motives for those that comment over there. Obviously you do read the comment section otherwise you’d have no knowledge of it. What you find irritating some might find engaging.
Some Met fan’s reputation precede them – such as Pomes, who you’ve mentioned. (Don’t know who that Tanna is.) If folks like that are gonna put themselves and their comments out there to the extreme, they’re going to become well known among fans and will be referenced accordingly. I suspect most of them do it for the attention anyway.
darknova306
7/3/2012-10:25am at 10:25 am (UTC -4)
You’re absolutely right. No reason to judge motives for people posting wherever they choose.
There’s nothing wrong with reading or posting over there, but to come back here and start discussion threads about another blog’s comment section seems inane and almost petty to me.
And the fact that their reputations may precede them in Mets Land is a reason NOT to talk about them. Don’t give their opinions any legitimacy by even entertaining them for discussion. At least that’s my view.
srt
7/3/2012-11:06am at 11:06 am (UTC -4)
Fair point, darknova.
But from one who reads several Mets and baseball blogs daily, this is not an isolated event here. Goes on all the time.
Good thing all the players are basically internet unknowns. Meaning no one could be tempted to go any further than bantering comments back and forth.
NJStuckinTX
7/2/2012-4:50pm at 4:50 pm (UTC -4)
Yeah, agreed as well. Nice to see the investment.
gategem
7/2/2012-6:19pm at 6:19 pm (UTC -4)
Maybe in four years he’ll be 20.
gategem
7/2/2012-6:40pm at 6:40 pm (UTC -4)
Even though it will probably be approximately six years before he may be a significant contributor to the major league ball club these types of singings are necessary for the future of the Mets. From what I read these types of actions were a specialty of Omar and he was supposed to use it to effectively replace the top draft picks lost from signing major league free agents. And while Omar did sign a number of these types of IFA I remember reading that the Wilpons pulled back a little on the purse strings for these types of signings. According to what I remember an example would be Omar wanted to sign Jesus Montero but enough money was allocated to sign Francisco Peña. Of course this is strictly my recollection and I did not save the article and have not been able to verify it. If any of you have heard or read the same story please comment.
SaltyGary
7/2/2012-7:33pm at 7:33 pm (UTC -4)
There was a analyst comment that I saw where “kid signings like these won’t become prospects for 7 years”.
No matter what, it’s good to see investment.
Hazmet
7/2/2012-6:47pm at 6:47 pm (UTC -4)
If he projects out quite a nice bat to go with Nimmo in the lineup.