Each year at 213 we look through the Non-Roster Invitees to spring training and get to know them a bit. Are they in camp to get a look at big league hitting/pitching to aid their development? Are the Mets just trying to get a better look at a future rookie? Are they a veteran trying to get back to the major league level? What can we expect from them this season?
Over the last couple of weeks we’ve been working our way through the large amount of pitchers the Mets invited to camp, today we can finally start looking at position players including one of the most exciting Mets prospects – Francisco Alvarez.
MLB.com has Alvarez listed as the #2 prospect in the Mets system, and that’s general feeling right now. He has an ETA listed as 2023 and there is some speculation that the Mets used Francisco Alvarez in their reasoning process for avoiding Realmuto. Anyway MLB.com gives Alvarez the following grades:
- Hit 55
- Power 55
- Run 40
- Arm 60
- Field 55
- Overall 55
There’s been a lot of excitement around Alvarez. Due to Covid, we only have one year of stats on him:
- 2019 Gulfcoast: 31 PA, .462/.548/.846/1.395 (2.5 years younger than average)
- 2019 Kingsport: 151 PA, .282/.377/.443/.820 (3.5 years younger than average)
These were incredibly exciting numbers. Here’s currently listed with the Mets low A team in St. Lucie. It’s going to be very exciting to see him get AB’s early on in spring, similar to how it was exciting to see Ronny Mauricio get a few cuts last year early on. We are looking forward to watching Alvarez work with both young prospect pitchers and maybe some veteran studs as well.
