The Mets will promote top prospect Amed Rosario for tomorrow’s game against the Rockies, general manager told reporters this afternoon (Twitter link via Newsday’s Marc Carig). He’ll play shortstop at Coors Field in his Major League debut. Tyler Kepner of the New York Times tweets that the GM said first base prospect Dominic Smith is “not far behind.”
Rosario, 21, was ranked by ESPN’s Keith Law as the No. 1 prospect in baseball in his midseason update of the game’s 50 best prospects. He rated fourth on Baseball America’s midseason Top 100 and second on the midseason top 100 over at MLB.com.
Thus far, Rosario has slashed an impressive .328/.367/466 with seven homers, 19 doubles and seven triples in 425 plate appearances while playing in the hitter-friendly Triple-A Pacific Coast League (specifically, in a favorable Las Vegas setting). He’s also swiped 19 bases in 26 tries, showing off the wheels that have earned him plus ratings in many scouting reports.
Rosario is regarded as a plus defender at shortstop with a plus hit tool and some potentially emerging power. (His seven home runs are already a career-high.) Scouting reports agree that he’s a slam dunk to stay at shortstop where he should provide the Mets with anywhere from above-average to superlative defense for the next several years.
While the Mets’ somewhat crowded infield picture still features veterans Jose Reyes, Asdrubal Cabrera and Neil Walker, it seems all but certain that Rosario will be given the chance to play on a daily basis in the Majors. Walker and Cabrera are definite August trade candidates via the trade waiver process. However, even if that pair remains in Queens for a good portion of the month — or even all of the month — it’s in the Mets’ best interest to ensure that Rosario takes the field at shortstop on an everyday basis as opposed to navigating the difficulties of inconsistent playing time as a part of a time share.
Even if Rosario is in the Majors for the remainder of the 2017 season, the most service time he can accrue will be 62 days. That’ll leave him well short of Super Two trajectory and will put him on pace to reach arbitration eligibility following the 2020 season and free agency upon completion of the 2023 season.
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Asdrubal will be leaving
Sims should be getting called up for the braves tomorrow too. It got lost in all the trade stuff that just happened
Have both on my fantasy team
At first glance I read this as “Mets to Trade Amed Rosario”. Thank you trade deadline for nearly giving me a heart attack.
Rey Ordonez all over. Lol
Silliness. Another brief but impressively trollish comment. LOL.
This dude is a closet Mets fan I swear to god. His team gets a solid pitcher at the deadline and he still has to knock the Mets. You are a clown and I bet wishing he was their prospect instead of some clown who needs tommy John from sliding into a base lmfaooo. Dude get back to your own teams threads. You are an absolute clown and a joke at best. Rosario is going to become a bigger star then your TJ Arm Torres. Go troll somewhere else. It’s fans like you that make me wish you really lived in Ny or Long Island for that part.
Your team signs and promotes Tim Tebow and you’re insulting the Yanks..lol The Mets with their ownership,Training,Staff,FO,and the Manager are a CLOWN organization!!
It’s called a Marketing Standpoint!!! If you think any mets fan really thinks Tim Tebow will be a major league player or ever get called up to the majors you are lost. Training staff has nothing to do with our scouts signing and drafting premiere prospects. Remember your farm system was crap until last year lmaoo.
I’ll bet anything that your marketing ploy is getting a big league at bat in September! How can you honestly support this circus the Wilpons have created. Your farm system is trash with not much hope. Why not as a marketing standpoint sign One of Trumps kids.
I mean…Barron is a pretty big kid. Maybe the next Aaron Judge? With Tebow, he has helped with revenue. Isn’t that what most people are in business to do?
How is our farm system crap? We have the second best prospect in baseball making his major league debut today and we have one of the top first base prospects in the game shortly making his arrival also.
How do I say this, Ames Rosario isn’t the 2nd best prospect in the game
To be fair tebow has been really good in his minor league stint
It’s crazy that a major league scout spends his time in MLB trade rumors comment sections as much as he does. Tell me Dave, what are your other brilliant scouting reports that we can someday look back on and tell you that you weren’t even close?
“a pus hit tool” whatever that is, it sounds wrong.
A “pus hit tool” means that he really blisters the ball…..
Lmao
Does that mean he can hit?
A reason to return to Citi!
When’s Timmay getting the call?
Still looking forward to that Tim Tebow September call up for the Mets.
#JerseySales
That;s a clown move, Brow!
Studs. Keep your heads up mets fans, your time is coming. Looking forward nats will start to decline once they lose Harper and are locked in with huge back loaded contracts that will cripple them. Biggest competition is braves and they have a lot of what ifs right now.
The biggest longterm competition is the phillies. They have ZERO payroll leading into the 2018 offseason. They are perfectly setup to God from cellar to 100 win season (on paper) with the possible free agents they can sign in two years.
Nats will have better pitching, and what they don’t have they will get. This is a weakest division
It’s about time Rosie and dom have been kicking p c l pitchers Vegas 51s have had the 2 best hitting prospects ever in Vegas
Can’t wait for Rosario & Smith
Picked him up. I needed someone while Correra is out.
Did the Rockies General Manager tell reporters this?
They need to clear the roster of Bruce and Grandy ASAP (both should clear waivers, but if not, just let the claim go through). Conforto needs to play every day in RF, and Smith at 1B. Rosario is going to play SS everyday regardless of Walker (2B) Cabrera (3B) and Reyes (backup). Walker will clear waivers. Not sure about the other two.
Picked him up. I needed someone while Correra is out.
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