MiLB Gameday 5/22

2-4, 2 HR, BB, K
2 Errors (both throwing), 11 for the season

The bat is ready, the glove isn’t and probably never will be.

Okay guys here is my Jeurys Familia pitching report from today.

He’s listed at 6’3 185 on the BMets rosters, but he looked closer to 6’3 210 at the very least.

From the start of his warmups you could tell Familia may not have his command with him today. He was bouncing pitches 58 feet in warmups. 1st inning, Familia comes out and hits 92, 94 right off the bat but threw a poor changeup that didnt read on the gun. He threw a solid breaking pitch, but then walked the 1st batter of the game. He seemed flustered with the runner on base throwing a couple of pickoff throws, the third one he throws away allowing the runner to move to third. He continued to have inconsistent command but was settling in the 93-94 MPH range in the stretch with his fastball and hit 96 a few times. You could clearly see when he was going to throw his changeup and Slurve as his motion was a bit slower for the changeup and it seemed that he didn’t move his arm back for more velocity when he threw his breaking pitch. It almost looked like he was ready to crouch when he threw his slurve. His Slurve(it was hard to see if it was a curve or slider) was coming in the low 80’s and had some good movement at times, often times it was his best pitch. His changeup, when he did throw it was either high or got hit. He allowed a homerun on a changeup or a hanging slurve that had no break over the plate and only threw a handful of changeups in the game. The one good thing for Familia is that he held his velocity until the end of his outing as he settled down in the 4th and 5th innings and was hitting 93 and 94 consistently. From what I saw today was a kid despite improved numbers this year is still a thrower and is very raw as he walked four batters today and didn’t trust his stuff. I see a relief pitcher unless his changeup improves and cleans up his mechanics. Ceiling I saw is a #3 starter, an Edwin Jackson type, a floor of a 6 inning mop up man, and the more likelihood probability of a 7 or 8th inning setup type.

7IP – 9H – 3ER – 3K – 0BB

Not his dominant self, but a quality start nonetheless

0-4 with 4ks.

Needs to do better to be considered a top prospect

2-3 3B 1 BB

Just chugging along in the high .380’s for awhile now…

Finally made his 2011 Debut (A+)

2-3, 2B, 2 RBI, 2 BB

(I know the RBI don’t mean anything, but it makes the line look better!!)