New Goal

A blog i read for the isles is called Okposonet. this blog was made after the isles signed with pick 7 in the NHL draft a player named Kyle Okposo, who had the seeming potential to be a star.

So, everyone talks about fernando martinez like he's a coming superstar. So since this blog seems redundant as is, we'll be changing the focus to the future.

So: FernandoMartinez Watch!

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Current Stats
Date 3/29/08.

Binghamton Mets (AA)

40 Games Played, 169 At Bats
302/.339/.450,
23 Runs,
11 Doubles, 4 HR,
19 RBIs,
8 BB, 41K

Martinez has been injured a lot in his career, but his BA till his first 3 games back with the club was around .280. Now it's risen to 300, mainly due to his getting like 7 hits in 3 games.

A good sign. But naturally we have some things he needs to fix.

One: Doesn't Walk enough. In 177 Plate Appearances, he has 8 walks. Uh, that's not good, and it contributes to his mediocre OBP (339). Naturally this is a skill that players learn with age and experience, so it'll be a key thing we keep an eye on.
Two: Ks too often. This follows with point 1, as it probably is indicative of him swinging too much at balls out of the zone. This should also immprove with experience, and certainly can't get worse as he's currently striking out once every four plate appearances.

Finally to explain what we're looking for, lets look at a Met we all know and like.

David Wright.
This is year 2/3 of FMart, so we'll check out wright as well. This was wright's 3rd year, and he was 20, a year older than Fmart.

FSL Mets (A+ league, so one notch below Binghamton).
270/369/459, 72 walks, 98 Ks, 39 Doubles, 15 HRs in 466 at bats. To compare this well, let's extrapolate the data.

So roughly at this point, Wright had:
270/369/459, 37 Ks 27 BB 15 doubles, 6 HR in 177 ABs

He struck out less, and notice he walked roughly 3 times as much as Fmart. This suggests the striking out was more due to him taking pitches than swinging. Also, Wright hit more doubles, which is a good indicator of power, something Fmart appears close to doing.

It would be good to note that FMart is a year younger than Wright at this point. Also, its hard to compare the two, since two players are rarely so comparable. But the point is made, that Fmart has a ways to come till he can come close to wright's "superstarish" numbers and be a savior to this franchise.

Oh and those numbers of wright? that was his 2nd to last year in the minors, and the year after he came up for good. So we're clearly getting ahead of ourselves here. Fmart is not anywhere close to wright in readiness yet (All people asking for FMart to come up to the majors need to be shot right now, thats a BAD idea as you can see by the comparison). But we'll keep track on this often.