Tracking the Preaux Career of Chase Morrow Lambin

[RaisingCajun08]

Minor League Baseball now has a search & bookmark player feature. Now with one click you can get to the stats of any minor leauger.

[Turbine]

Thanks

Chase Lambin batting .365

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When he was an infant, Chase Lambin's parents didn't know what to name their son. So they asked the advice of his older brother Cash.

"My brother was four years older than me, they asked him and he said, 'whatever it is, he'll always be chasing me,'" Lambin said.

The name stuck and now Lambin is running down his dream of playing major-league baseball with the Mets. At 25, the former Mets 34th-round draft pick in 2002, is getting regular playing time with Double-A Binghamton and has been on a hot streak. He's batting .389 over the past five games and is one of the Eastern League's top hitters.

But it wasn't always going this well for Lambin, who hardly played through the first two weeks of this season after struggling last year in his adjustment to Double-A from Class-A St. Lucie in 2003. He called it a "disappointing" 2004 campaign with the B-Mets, in which he hit .244 and had 24 errors.

"It's frustrating," Lambin said of sitting out, "(but) I never get bent out of shape. I know it's a long season and things always seem to work out. ... I knew when I got in, I had to do something. I did whatever I could to make it hard to sit me."

Through Sunday's games, Lambin was leading the Eastern League in average (.363), second in slugging percentage (.703), doubles (10), fourth in extra-base hits (17) and fifth in on-base percentage (.416).

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BY ELI GELMAN
Star-Ledger Staff

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BINGHAMTON -- He bats right-handed one day, left-handed the next. He plays third base in one game, second base in another. And lately, he's been learning to patrol left field.

The only constant about Chase Lambin is that he keeps hitting.

Even if Lambin wasn't the Mets' switch-hitting jack-of-all-trades, he'd be a staple in manager Jack Lind's lineup for the way he's mashing Eastern League pitching. The beat went on Monday night when Lambin collected three more hits, including a home run, and the Mets beat the New Hampshire Fisher Cats, 3-2, on catcher Joe Hietpas' tiebreaking solo homer in the seventh.

"I love it," Lambin said of the ability to play each day by playing so many positions. "If I'm ever going to get to the big leagues, it's going to be as a bench player or utility guy. If I can fill in at every position, that's going to be a big help to me."

Lambin's reputation, the one Lind heard from fellow Mets instructors, was that he could be inconsistent with bat and glove. Last season, as a Double-A novice, he was prone to offensive and defensive slumps and lost his starting job in August once second baseman Jeff Keppinger joined the team.

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BY SCOTT LAUBER
Press & Sun-Bulletin

[DaddyCajun]

How close does anyone in the know(Bop?Stevie-P?) think Chase is from getting to the bigs?

Thanks,
DaddyCajun!!

[Turbine]

How close does anyone in the know(Bop?Stevie-P?) think Chase is from getting to the bigs?

Good news! He just got a little closer.

I just read (no link) that Chase has been promoted to Triple-A Norfolk.

[CAJUNJUDO]

Good news! He just got a little closer.

I just read (no link) that Chase has been promoted to Triple-A Norfolk.

Turbine, you're right....Chase was promoted!
His link is now on minorleaguebaseball.com


Name G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI TB BB SO SB CS OBP SLG AVG

Chase Lambin 6 19 2 8 1 0 0 2 9 3 1 0 0 .478 .474 .421 0

[Turbine]

Turbine, you're right....Chase was promoted!

Minor League ball is a breed apart. Chase hits .421 at the AAA level and they want to look at another guy, so he is back with the Binghamton Mets

Welcome Back Chase
Sunday, Chase Lambin doubled and scored during Binghamton's four-run ninth and is 5 for 12 with a homer and two doubles in three games since returning to the B-Mets after a six-game trial with AAA Norfolk. Including his six games with the Tides, Chase is 13 for his last 31 (.419), hitting safely in eight of his last nine games. LINK

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The New York Mets have announced the promotion of Binghamton Mets infielder Chase Lambin to Triple-A Norfolk and infielders Brett Harper and Corey Ragsdale from High-A St. Lucie to Binghamton. B-Mets pitcher Kevin Deaton has also been placed on the disabled list.

Lambin left the B-Mets with a bang, going 2 for 4 with a home run and RBI double in Binghamton's 10-6 win Wednesday vs. New Britain at NYSEG Stadium. The switch hitter departs with a .331 average (3rd in the Eastern League), 14 home runs, 29 RBI and a .657 slugging percentage (2nd). Lambin, who never hit better than .289 or more than 10 home runs in any of his previous three seasons, played six games with Norfolk earlier this month, hitting .421. The Mets' 34th-round pick in 2002 out of the University of Louisiana-Lafayette, the Houston native was in his second season with Binghamton and proved to be one of the more versatile players on the ballclub, playing 31 games at third base, eight at shortstop, two at second base and four in leftfield.

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[texasboy40]

chase will be ok i went to school with the guy i even played baseball with the guy .his time is now