Amed Rosairo, others, struggling with aggressive assignments

Early last month we wrote about some select Mets prospects that the team had been uncharacteristically aggressive in promoting to start the 2015 season. It was uncharacteristic in the sense that the team has generally been somewhat conservative with many of their prospects under General Manager Sandy Alderson's regime. It's unclear whether it was a [...]

Mets Minors: Champ Stuart could be a special leadoff hitter

Champ Stuart was drafted by the Mets in 2013.  He was an interesting prospect in that he had tremendous physical gifts, but he also came with limited baseball experience.  He struck many people as being similar to the Brandon Nimmo who had been raised in Wyoming.  Stuart’s origins are a little warmer.  What is it [...]

Five Mets pitching prospects to watch in 2015

This week not only marked the beginning of the Major League Baseball season, but the start of all full-season Minor League Baseball leagues as well.  That means the folks in Las Vegas, Binghamton, St. Lucie, and Savannah were all treated to the familiar sounds of summer. In 2014, the Mets had the best organizational winning [...]

Mets Minors: Full-season league storylines to follow

The “Full Season” minor leagues start getting in swing this weekend and I’ll start to give you the highlights each Monday.  In the meantime here are some storylines that I’m looking forward to. AAA: Las Vegas is Overloaded with Talent Looking around the locker room of the Las Vegas 51s you’ll see multiple Top 100 [...]

Mets Minors: Matt Reynolds and other prospects shine in Spring Training

I’m back! That’s right kiddies, your friendly neighborhood minor league analyst is back after half a year away from the blog-o-sphere.  I’ll be doing my weekly prospect review, but in the meantime you can chew on some tasty numbers from the “Boys of Spring”.  The Met Farm System was on display this spring and it [...]

Mets being selectively aggressive with top prospects

The St. Lucie Mets recently announced their 2015 roster, and it is chock-full of exciting prospects. First-rounders outfielder Michael Conforto (2014) and first baseman Dominic Smith (2013) headline a group a position prospects that also includes budding prospect darling shortstop Amed Rosario and third baseman Jhoan Urena, who is gaining some recognition as well. Outfielders [...]

Prospect breakout candidate: Brandon Brosher

With spring training in full bloom much of the focus around Mets land has been about things pertaining to the major league team – Who will be the lefty reliever now that Josh Edgin is lost to Tommy John surgery?; Can Wilmer Flores play a good enough shortstop to merit the everyday job?; How will [...]

Could Matt Reynolds play his way onto the Mets?

Most of the focal point of the Mets offseason was the pressing need to upgrade the shortstop position, with Wilmer Flores and Ruben Tejada appearing to be the only two viable options. Through the first five games of the spring training schedule, it seems there might be a third player in the mix for the [...]