In 2017 the Mets looked to succeed with Noah Syndergaard, Jacob deGrom, Matt Harvey, Steven Matz and Zack Wheeler leading the charge and depth coming from Robert Gsellman and Seth Lugo. They didn’t need to bring in depth starters like Bartolo Colon or Doug Fister from free agency because they were overstocked to begin with. [...]
For the past few years I’ve offered to follow up the GM Project by publishing a “Report Card” on the armchair GMs who took part. Each year I have someone else grade my team and I would like to thank Joh Fox for doing that this year. I have gone through and done a review [...]
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. Continuing my run of taking on a new team [...]
With most of the Met world focused on the new manager Mickey Callaway or the optional contracts of Jerry Blevins and Asdrubal Cabrera, the Mets do have a handful of active prospects still playing for Scottsdale. Among them is David Thompson. Thompson spent his 2017 season with the Binghamton Mets and suffered through multiple slumps [...]
It’s the MLB playoffs but for the Mets Minor League blogger is AFL time. The Mets have sent a number of players to Scottsdale to test themselves against “Near MLB” level competition and, without “Top Prospects” ready to compete, it’s still good to see some names who could be impactful players getting a look. Among [...]
As a writer, I’ve been covering the New York Mets for a while. Long enough to see the Mets AAA affiliate in Norfolk, New Orleans, Buffalo and Las Vegas but it wasn’t until the Mets were saddled with the Las Vegas 51’s that I took issue. The reason for this is that until this most [...]
Readers of my weekly articles have read a lot about Peter Alonso, the Mets selected him with their third pick in the 2016 draft and paid him under slot money. At the time of the draft I was not pleased, thinking, “Great, we take a guy who is instantly blocked by one of our only [...]
Today we are taking a look at how the Mets minor leagues and those players under contract could be used to create the best possible team for 2018. This assumes, as some of us already do, that the Mets are going to stay out of the bidding for some of the top Free Agents like [...]
The 2017 season has not been a good year for the Mets in any way shape or form. The major league team was wracked with injuries, the minor leagues underwhelmed and had injuries of their own and the franchise hasn’t looked very nice. As we, the sports pundits, begin to shift gears from talking about [...]
Every offseason we go through and rank the top 50 Met prospects. With the 2017 minor league season in the books let’s review how our Top 10 players did for themselves. Amed Rosario: A- Rosario started his season blazing hot and one might wonder if the Mets might have fell so far if the team [...]
If I look at the 2017 season objectively, there is very little that I come away happy with. The Mets have suffered an absurd string of injuries that makes one wonder why Ray Ramirez seems to never be fired, they’ve underperformed and the team is beginning to look like it’s giving up on making a [...]
This coming offseason has one big prize that multiple clubs would love to sign and his name is Mike Moustakas. The left-handed hitting third baseman is the #1 wish list item for all the many teams who are wondering who they can nab as the third baseman. The Mets are currently paying David Wright $20 [...]
