foxports.com wrote:Fred Wilpon, who became a 50 percent partner of the Mets in 1986 and the team’s full owner in 2002, ranks third in seniority among major-league owners, behind only Jerry Reinsdorf of the White Sox and the Phillies group headed by Bill Giles and David Montgomery. Wilpon has been a senior advisor to Selig, a member of baseball’s executive council, and also a friend.

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Wilmer Flores, SS, Mets (High-A St. Lucie)

Flores has never put up big numbers in the minors, but he is also one of those prospects who has always had the excuse of being young for his level, as he is spending his second year at High-A and doesn't turn 20 until August. That being said, his scouting reports are beginning to be a concern. As a player without much patience or power, much of his value revolves around his ability to hit for average, and as his .284/.329.328 line suggests, he is still not doing enough of it, especially for whatever position he ends up at. “He's the worst shortstop I've ever seen... he couldn't play shortstop on my son's 10-year-old team,” said one scout who recently saw him in the Florida State League. “He obviously has some ability with the bat, but I don't like the swing or the approach, and I'm not sure he'll ever have much power,” He continued. “It's a bad bad, a bad athlete, and after clocking him at 4.75 seconds to first base while running all-out on a double play, I think he probably has to play first base, so he better hit.”

Naming a baseball bat is not a new phenomenon. Shoeless Joe Jackson’s beloved Black Betsy sold for $577,610 in 2001, and the fictional Wonder Boy made Roy Hobbs famous. But leave it to a pitcher, the Mets’ R. A. Dickey, to come up with the most creative names of all....


One bat is called Orcrist the Goblin Cleaver and the other is Hrunting. Dickey, an avid reader, said that Orcrist came from “The Hobbit.” Hrunting — the H is silent, Dickey said — came from the epic poem “Beowulf”; it is the sword Beowulf uses to slay Grendel’s mother.

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