Chris Suero, Nick Morabito Continue AFL Success

A football score broke out in the Arizona Fall League on Tuesday night, with the Mesa Solar Sox beating the Scottsdale Scorpions by a 21-14 score. The Mets had three prospects in the lineup, and all of them reached base multiple times. Their only pitching prospect to take the mound was the lone hurler to face the minimum in a game that featured 39 hits and 15 walks.

Of the Mets’ prospects in the AFL, center fielder Nick Morabito has showcased his talents the best, and that continued on Tuesday. Morabito went 2-for-5 with an RBI, a walk, a run scored and a stolen base. The 22-year-old is slashing .345/.441/.466 with 13 stolen bases in 14 games for the Scorpions. The Mets would need to add Morabito to their 40-man roster this offseason to protect him from the December Rule 5 draft.

Another Mets prospect playing well for the Scorpsions is left fielder/catcher/first baseman Chris Suero. The 21-year-old had three hits, knocked in two and picked up another stolen base on Tuesday. The Bronx native is hitting .265/.321531 with four home runs. 12 RBIs and seven stolen bases in 12 games.

Mets prospect John Bay was making his AFL debut on Tuesday after being recently added to the roster. He went 0-for-3, but reached base twice via a walk and an HBP and scored two runs. Bay ending up in the AFL, only four months removed from not being drafted in the July draft, is quite the story. After the Mets signed Bay out of Austin Peay –where he bashed 46 home runs over the last two seasons– he crushed the ball for the Low-A St. Lucie Mets to the tune of a 1.056 OPS in 17 games. Bay struggled in 10 regular season games with the High-A Brooklyn Cyclones (.540 OPS) after his promotion, but did bounce back a bit (.753 OPS) in the playoffs for their championship-winning team.

On the pitching side, right-hander Bryce Jenkins took the mound in the fourth inning for the Scorpions. Jenkins got two groundouts and a caught stealing (runner reached on an error) to complete the inning, facing the minimum, a tall task in a 35-run game. Jenkins went cutter-heavy on Tuesday night, using the pitch seven times out of 14 pitches.

In a game featuring a ton of loud contact, Morabito (111.8 mph) and Suero (110.2 mph) had the two hardest hit balls of the night between both teams. Suero’s other two hits of the night left the bat at 106.6 mph and 101.7 mph. Suero also had the top bat speed recorded of the night at 86.4 mph on his fifth-inning single.

The 16-7 Scorpions are back in action on Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. ET. You can watch the game on MLB video.

In winter ball action, Luisangel Acuña hit a grand slam and right-hander Juan Arnaud picked up a save in his season debut.

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