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. [...]
A few days ago the Mets extended their Player Development Contract (PDC) with Las Vegas, meaning that the team’s top minor league club will remain in the Pacific Coast League (PCL) for the next two seasons. Many lament the team’s situation. But the problems are overblown and it’s not like the Mets had much choice, [...]
Michael Conforto began his 2016 campaign looking like an All Star in the making. He had debuted in 2015 and contributed to an exciting Met postseason and hit the ground running in 2016. Then what happened? The Mets stopped hitting and Conforto’s numbers began spiraling into a nosedive. The Mets tried giving him a breather [...]
If you scour the internet for information on Nabil Crismatt you will wind up disappointed. The Colombian player signed with the Mets in 2012 for an undisclosed amount and has worked his way up, spending two seasons in the DSL before he came state side for a campaign in 2014 with the GCL Mets and [...]
Before Michael Conforto there hadn’t been a whole lot of players who succeeded, offensively, for the Brooklyn Cyclones. Then, there’s Desmond Lindsay. At the age of 19 (two years younger than Conforto had been) he’s putting a major stamp on the New York-Penn League and is looking like a fast riser within the Met system. [...]
Can two young men share a position without driving each other crazy?
The Mets retroactively added their starting shortstop, Asdrubal Cabrera, to the 15-day DL as of August 1st and the Mets have opted to go with the combination of Matt Reynolds and Wilmer Flores to carry the load but it seems that the Mets may be ignoring their best option. Gavin Cecchini was the Met’s top [...]
Braving the rain and terrible drivers in and around Brooklyn, I decided to catch a game in Coney Island to get to see my favorite rising star within the Met organization, Thomas Szapucki. The game time was 4:00 PM and the rain held off, for the most part, and I was ready to see Szapucki [...]
Amed Rosario, SS: At the age of 20, between A+ and AA baseball, Rosario has made tremendous strides for himself in 2016. His OPS for the year is .836 and unlike prospects like Wilmer Flores who may have hit but never fit into the field, he looks like a bonafide shortstop. The biggest flaw in [...]
You may not know the name Thomas Szapucki just yet but (the player MLB.com ranked as the Met’s 17th best prospect) will likely be moving even higher in the rankings if he can continue his early success. At 20 years old, Szapucki is 6’2” lefty with a mid-low 90s fastball. He’s best known for his [...]