Here are the 2012 Sterling Award recipients from today’s pregame ceremony. twitter.com/Mets/status/24…
— New York Mets (@Mets) September 8, 2012
The New York Mets issued a Press Release announcing the 2012 Sterling Award Winners. The Player & Pitcher of the year are as follows:
STERLING ORGANIZATIONAL PLAYER OF THE YEAR: WILMER FLORES (INF)
Height: 6-3 Weight: 190 Bats: Right Throws: Right Born: 8/06/91 Resides: Valencia, VZ Obtained: Non-drafted free agent (8/07) Signing Scout: Sandy Johnson, Ismael Cruz and Robert Alfonzo
Flores combined to hit .300 (148-493) with 68 runs scored, 30 doubles, two triples, 18 home runs and 75 RBI in 130 games between St. Lucie and Binghamton. He finished the year with a .349 on-base percentage and a .479 slugging percentage. Flores, 21, was named a Florida State League Mid-Season All-Star and selected to the 2012 All-Star Futures Game, the second Futures game he has attended representing the Mets (the first was in 2009).
STERLING ORGANIZATIONAL PITCHER OF THE YEAR: RAFAEL MONTERO (RHP)
Height: 6-0 Weight: 170 Bats: Right Throws: Right Born: 10/17/90 Resides: Santo Domingo, DR Obtained: Non-drafted free agent (1/11) Signing Scouts: Rafael Perez, Ismael Cruz and Gerardo Cabrera
Montero combined to win 11 games and lose five during stints with St. Lucie and Savannah this season, amassing 110 strikeouts in 122 innings pitched. Rafael pitched at least six innings in 14 of his 20 starts in 2012. Rafael walked a total of 19 batters, or four percent of the batters he faced. He was named the Florida State League Player of the Week on August 13, after he took a no-hitter into the 8th inning while striking out five and walking three against the Palm Beach Cardinals. Between both levels, Rafael finished the season with a 2.36 ERA and a 0.94 WHIP. He was fourth in the organization in ERA and third in wins.
The rest of the Sterling Award winners were:
- Matt Harvey / RHP – (AAA) Buffalo Bisons
- Zack Wheeler / RHP – (AA) Binghamton Mets
- Alonzo Harris / OF – (A+) St Lucie Mets
- Michael Fulmer / RHP – (A) Savannah Sand Gnats
- Hansel Robles / RHP – (SS) Brooklyn Cyclones
- Miller Diaz / RHP – (R) Kingsport Mets
- Yoryi Nuez / RHP – (R) Dominican Summer League 1
- Vicente Lupo / OF – (R) Dominican Summer League 2
12 comments
Bryan
9/8/2012-6:17pm at 6:17 pm (UTC -4)
Remember the name Vicente Lupo, he put up monster numbers in the DSL, and I mean monster numbers. He won’t turn 19 until November. I’d expect him to be in Kingsport next summer, if not Brooklyn. He, Fulmer, and Harris are all guys to watch next year from this list (aside the obvious Harvey and Wheeler).
Stick
9/8/2012-6:52pm at 6:52 pm (UTC -4)
we just need a few monster position prospects at some point.
if they don’t have it, going to have to move some of this pitching to get it.
srt
9/8/2012-9:29pm at 9:29 pm (UTC -4)
I’ll be keeping an eye out. I’m so hoping we’ve got some impact bats down in the lower minors so it appears we don’t have much in the upper.
srt
9/8/2012-9:31pm at 9:31 pm (UTC -4)
Congrats to the list of young men here.
Looking forward to seeing you all up at Citi in a few years down the road. (Yes, I know we’ve already got Harvey up.)
Hazmet
9/8/2012-10:21pm at 10:21 pm (UTC -4)
Random: Yanks get screwed tying the game in the ninth on a blown call at first for the last out – sweeeetttt.
srt
9/8/2012-10:39pm at 10:39 pm (UTC -4)
Love it.
gategem
9/8/2012-10:52pm at 10:52 pm (UTC -4)
Also off topic I’m glad TRDM has discontinued the game recaps. Recapping these games is an unenviable task. I didn’t see the game (I very rarely watch the Mets these days) so I went to MMO to read the recap and it was written by someone that makes Ceetar appear to be a pessimist. It’s almost like saying well the house burned down but we saved the chimney.
NJstuckinTX
9/8/2012-11:59pm at 11:59 pm (UTC -4)
Also off topic, they are remaking Red Dawn.
Mr North Jersey
9/9/2012-12:17am at 12:17 am (UTC -4)
Wolverines!!!
NJstuckinTX
9/9/2012-12:25am at 12:25 am (UTC -4)
There is no way possible that this remake will come close to the original. I wish they wouldnt set them selves up for failure. Swayze, sheen, grey, C thomas Howell, Lea Thompson… Wolverines indeed.
And yes, I’ll still watch the remake.
Hazmet
9/9/2012-8:49am at 8:49 am (UTC -4)
I’m holding out for the remake of Road House so I can watch Patrick Swayze’s slow motion hair flip in Hi-Def or 3D.
It’s really sad that Hollywood is so vacant of any new or creative ideas that they need to retread Red Dawn or as I believe I heard Die Hard also is a candidate.
darknova306
9/9/2012-12:06am at 12:06 am (UTC -4)
Wow. Now this I gotta see.