Once upon a time I wrote about Rafael Montero and Jacob deGrom. Stating that “While Montero has gotten more attention, with his pin-point control, deGrom seems like the prospect with the higher ceiling.” How long can a blogger brag about being right about deGrom? I’ll tell you as soon as I’m done bragging. The fact [...]
Neil Walker has until 5:00 PM today to decide if he is going to come back to the Mets in 2017. On the one hand, $17.2 Million is an absurd sum of money by most standards but on another, Walker has to think about his future. At the age of 31, Walker has a vested [...]
The Arizona Fall League has become a tool for the MLB. Teams evaluate their potential impact players for the next season, try new positions on for size and allow 29 year old former college football players to establish some credibility. David Roseboom - LHRP: In 2016 Roseboom spent all of his season pitching for AA [...]
Below is the report card for the GM Project of 2016. Some teams did very very well for themselves and some teams did not. There are strong opinions about players and who won what deal but as the dust settles on this year’s project owners regroup and make new plans for the 2017-18 season. Some [...]
This is a project where 30 people got together to act as the GMs of the 30 MLB teams with the idea of conducting the offseason in one week. This is what happened in this simulation, not a prediction of what will happen in real life. I gave up the St. Louis Cardinals (a team [...]
The Mets selected Steven Matz 72nd overall in the 2009 amateur draft. They had no first-round pick and Matz was a high risk/high reward option. A kid with great stuff who seemed likely to suffer injuries. As a result of those injuries, he did not make his professional debut until 2012. Thankfully the reward was [...]
Completing the series, what follows is a prediction for the AAA affiliate of the New York Mets and I’m more than sure that folks will not agree with me. Before you begin burning my effigy and throwing bricks through my window you need to understand that this isn’t necessarily what I want the Mets to [...]
We continue the series where we project the rosters for the 2017 minor league systems. In AA you won’t find a lot of Top Tier prospects but you will find one very big “name”. Lineup: 1. Champ Stuart, CF 2. Jeff McNeil, 2B 3. Kevin Kaczmarski, RF 4. David Thompson, 3B 5. Tomas Nido, C [...]
Continuing my series on the projected lineups for the 2017 Mets Minors, we reach Port St. Lucie. Most of the players will be graduates from Columbia and Brooklyn but you start seeing more players who are being held back thanks to performance or injury. Lineup: 1. J.C. Rodriguez, DH 2. Vinny Sienna, 2B 3. Wuilmer [...]
With the minor league season over, we start to review the future. For the next four weeks I will be reviewing some of my predictions regarding which of the Met prospects will play at which level. This first week will focus on some of the players who I think will be headed to the Columbia [...]
The 2016 minor league season is behind us and the Mets are now purely focused on the major league squad reaching the postseason. Let’s look back at some of the best Met storylines from the minors from this past season. 10. Brandon Nimmo masters AAA - Say what you will about the Las Vegas team [...]
The Mets drafted Justin Dunn 19th overall in this year’s draft. Dunn is a 6’1” pitcher who has a 99 MPH fastball who the Mets expect to be a “Fast-Track” to the majors as a starter or high-leverage reliever. He was assigned to Brooklyn and has been pitching is steady 3.0 inning bursts since 7/23. [...]