Back on March 3rd, I introduced Daniel Murphy into the Prospect section on this blog. Back then, I did not know a lot about him and he was not getting a lot of attention at all. I remeber in late February looking at Mets' Spring Training Box Scores and I saw Murphy's name there. Not knowing who he was, I looked him up on thebaseballcube.com and saw his amazing College Batting Averages which can be found on the March 3rd entry. He was pretty average to below average in his first couple seasons in the minors, and he never wowed anyone at Spring Training, so I thought maybe something could happen to him this year but most likely not.
Then he, Evans, and Carp, started the season strong at AA. For the first several weeks they all were batting above .400. Murphy started to get attention and now everyone was looking. In his 95 games in Binghamton this year, he put up amazing numbers. He batted .308 with 26 doubles, 13 homeruns, 67 RBI's and 14 stolen bases. He showed this year he could be an all around player.
Since coming up to the Majors, he has been hitting the ball well again. In his first five games and 15 AB, he already has 7 hits including a double and a triple. He has an OBP of .556 and has 3 RBI's. I know this won't continue but his hitting should start to give a struggling Mets team some energy. They just turned around a bad set of games with the Marlins and Houston to a winning series with the Padres and that is what they have to do they need to win. Dan Murphy could be that interesting, under the radar piece to the Mets future plans that the team needs to create new energy at the ball park. Lets see what this 23 year old can do.
