We talk about Woods Richardson, Szapucki, Kay and Peterson often enough. These are the starting pitchers who are supposed to make impacts at the major league level and who, based on their draft or previous successes, are supposed to be the best pitchers. Which means that few people will ever talk about Harol Gonzalez. At [...]
Tell me if you’ve heard this before - Desmond Lindsay, former 2nd round pick (the Mets top pick that year), is off to a dismal start in Advance A. The outfielder has only 10 hits in his first 15 games and has struck out a whopping 25 times. Now, I don’t often focus on the bad [...]
Last night was a really good night for the Columbia Fireflies. The team collected 17 hits in a 12 to 5 romp over the Lexington Legends and leading off for the Fireflies was Ronny Mauricio, who finished 4 for 6 on the night. The game was a bad one for Lexington, who also managed 5 [...]
The Mets shocked a number of people in 2018 when they skipped their top international prospect directly to the Gulf Coast League. Now the Mets buck convention farther by starting Ronny Mauricio in Columbia instead of Short Season ball in Brooklyn. For those not familiar with the Mets system the typical progression for players is [...]
With Justin Dunn off to Seattle and Franklyn Kilome spending the year on the sidelines there isn’t the usual pool of Met pitching talent we are used to seeing in the minors. The returning arms of Thomas Szapucki and Jordan Humphreys will see if they can make up for lost time as highly ranked draftees, [...]
Ronny Mauricio, SS, S/R, 17 For all the talk of Pete Alonso and Andres Gimenez or the trade that lost the Mets Jared Kelenic and Justin Dunn, the player I am most eager to watch is likely to play on a short season minor league team. Just over 9 days from his 18th birthday, Mauricio [...]
Spring Training is a week away from ending and few positions remain hanging in the balance. Will the Mets management allow the fans to force them into starting Pete Alonso’s clock early? Probably not. Who will make up the back end of the Mets bullpen? Which means that the Mets AAA roster is beginning to [...]
Whether it’s simply a new season, his sleep apnea treatment or the competition of fighting off Pete Alonso, one cannot ignore the fact that Dominic Smith is relevant for the first time in what seems like a long time. As of this morning the first baseman is batting .423/.483/.577 during the 2019 spring training. That [...]
People were not pleased with me when I neglected to list Luis Guillorme in my top prospect list of 2018 and it seemed that they would prove me wrong based upon his strong Spring Training. The defensively gifted infielder had .306/.447/.417 batting line at the end of the Spring and was coming off a solid, [...]
Spring Training is underway and the Mets are playing baseball again. Two games into the Spring schedule and the Mets are looking like they’ve got a long road towards any semblance of baseball dominance but it’s still early enough that you aren’t actually watching the “true” Mets roster. It typically takes a while for teams [...]
If you look at the Mets options at first base the 2018 stats tell the story of a few different types of players but Peter Alonso’s stats jump out to fans. Yet, let’s look at several options in the Mets system who showed similar stats in AAA. Player AB AVG OBP SLG K 2B HR [...]
Once upon a time, in 2016, there was a left-handed pitching prospect named Thomas Szapucki. He pitched 52 innings between the Kingsport Mets and Brooklyn but set the scouting world abuzz with 86 strikeouts and a WHIP securely beneath 1.000 overall. Then, injury seemed on the horizon and his 2017 season was held to under [...]