Senin, 17 Desember 2012

Travis d'Arnaud

C Travis d'Arnaud, 23, hit .333 with a .380 OBP and a .595 SLG, 16 home runs and 52 RBI in 67 games for Triple-A Las Vegas in 2012. He has not played in the Major Leagues.

d'Arnaud is Toronto's top ranked prospect and 11th best overall in the game, according to MLB.com.

Also, there's this:

Michael Baron, MetsBlog.com:

In a trade for R.A., d'Arnaud is a best-case scenario for the Mets. There might be prospects ranked ahead of d'Arnaud, but his position potentially makes him more valuable to the Mets than any of the other prospects they considered. He was Toronto's top prospect and is said to possess everything a team would want in a young catcher: the ability to grow and play the position at a high level all while hitting for both average and power. Catchers who project like that are hard to come by and incredibly difficult to develop considering if a catcher can hit, he is often moved from the position to preserve him for the long haul. For now, the Mets can hopefully turn a position where they had next to nothing into something substantial for the foreseeable future.

Brian Erni, MetsBlog.com:

If this happens, d'Arnaud is a huge get for the Mets. d'Arnaud boasts gap-to-gap power, which led to a .311/.371/.542 line with 21 homers, 78 RBI and 33 doubles in 114 games in the Eastern League with Double-A New Hampshire in 2011. After being bumped up to Triple A in 2012, d'Arnaud tore his PCL in June, which forced him to miss the rest of the season. Still, at just 23 years old, I think d'Arnaud has the ability to turn into a dynamic Major League power hitter, although he does have a few kinks in his game. He racked up 100 strikeouts in 466 plate appearances in 2011 and 59 in 303 plate appearances in 2012: numbers that he needs to cut down if he hopes not to be exploited by Major League pitching. Still, d'Arnaud is the real deal, and his acquisition would not only put him atop the Mets' position player prospect class, but probably give him an inside track at winning the Major League catching job for 2013.

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