Top prospect lists are not an easy thing to compile and they are an even harder thing to get right. I've done these for the past few years and while they provide interesting discourse, they are more often breeding grounds for second guessing oneself. Should I have ranked so-and-so higher? Should I have ranked you-know-who [...]
A Tale of Two Lefties. They are the best of lefties and not the worst of lefties and it is to a far better place we hope they will go than any of us fans will ever know. With regards to pitching, the Mets have Steven Matz in the majors, P.J. Conlon waiting in the [...]
Every offseason I try to predict where the minor league assignments will shake out for the Mets in their next season. It’s a useful way of predicting paths for these prospects and predicting how long some of these players may have before they reach the majors. Now, I keep a list from the MLB to [...]
As I enter the Top 7 I’m going to talk about a player who is glaringly missing from my Top 25. I’m speaking, of course, of Luis Guillorme. Many people have Guillorme in the Top 10 and I have him sitting, precariously at 26th in the Met system. How can I do this? If you [...]
Where the Mets particularly look deficient is at the back-end of their Top 10. Most teams have players in the Top 5 with major upside and a record of success in the minors and the Mets are not an exception, but better farm systems have more of those players ranked sixth and beyond. Around this [...]
On teams with elite farm systems the Top 15 players tend to be players who have All-Star potential or at least seem like definites to become major league regulars at some point in their careers. The Mets do not currently have an elite farm system but things are not as bad as some people would [...]
One of the righty relievers acquired last year shows up here
The first episode in the countdown of the club's top 25 prospects
It sometimes feels, as a Met fan, that the team isn’t interested in fan loyalty. The 2017 Mets were a steep and crushing disappointment. Neil Walker, Asdrubal Cabrera and Yoenis Cespedes all were banged up and underperforming. Noah Syndergaard was injured early in the year and Matt Harvey, Zack Wheeler and Steven Matz seemed to [...]
As a Met fan, I haven’t seen anything this offseason that has left me especially giddy. Where their cross-town rivals, the Yankees, have made the big splash with Giancarlo Stanton, the Mets have been quiet. They picked up the options on Jerry Blevins and Asdrubal Cabrera and they signed a right-handed reliever, Anthony Swarzak. Because [...]
This past year the Mets promoted their #1 and #2 prospects, Amed Rosario and Dominic Smith, to the majors for the tail end of the 2017 season. While the audition was short, Mets fans and management didn’t take long to turn on their young first baseman. He was overweight, he wasn’t hitting for average and [...]
As the Mets stare at Shohei Ohtani with longing and despair we should look at the players the Mets have spent their international signing bonuses on in recent years. One should always remember that the international market is essentially a high-stakes game of roulette. Sometimes you hit the numbers and win big but often you [...]