Biography: We wrote about Parada last season and nothing has changed about his biography except he is another year older and another league more advanced. While watching another Met catching prospect (who is younger than him) ascend to the majors, he spent most of his year in Advanced A. Resume: 2023 was a slightly down [...]
Biography: The polished outfielder who brings five tools in varying degrees was acquired from the Houston Astros in exchange for returning Justin Verlander after they let the Mets pay him $43.3 Million. Drew Gilbert is only 5’9” and is among the smallest top prospects I’ve ever written about. The Minnesota native went to college in [...]
The Mets began the year with four players on the cusp of the majors ready to make an impact. What they did not begin the year with was doubt about who was the Top Prospect in the organization. Francisco Alvarez had the highest ceiling and has proven up to the task of making the next [...]
The Mets' 2023 season is something that many fans wish they could put in their rear-view mirrors. It was a painful season and the most expensive team in baseball history collapsed to a degree that could never have been anticipated. While everything that could have gone wrong, did go wrong, the Mets used their owner’s [...]
As much as I tend not to graduate players off of my Top Prospect list until the offseason, it is disingenuous to still list Francisco Alvarez and Brett Baty as prospects. They are young and blossoming major league players and Alvarez seems likely to become one of the top offensive catchers in the league. With [...]
When I wrote up my draft preview I listed only pitchers around all of the Mets top picks in the 2023 draft. The Mets farm system is no longer the breeding ground for Aces it was in years past and it seemed time for the Mets to focus their attention on rebuilding this aspect of [...]
The Mets do not have a pick in the Top 30 but do have seven picks that should have Top 150 draft prospects available. This article will ignore the philosophy of pick the best player available. Instead, this piece is purely me listing three pitchers at each pick. The first (By the Scouts) pick will [...]
Is the Mets minor league system broken? That’s hard to quantify. By the only metric that matters, which is players reaching the majors and having impacts, it is not. Brett Baty and Francisco Alvarez have both graduated the minors this year and are entrenched into the lineup for the major league team. Is the Mets [...]
We have reached the beginning of the Short Season minors and the minor leagues are finally in full swing. Now that we’re here I am going to check in on each of the Top 10 Prospects as ranked before the season began. For those that don’t remember: 1. Francisco Alvarez, C 2. Brett Baty, 3B [...]
Every year I do various breakdowns of the Mets Top 20 or Top 50 prospects and the rankings are grueling. This year I decided to do something different and I’m breaking out a list of rankings by position so we can evaluate the depth in a different way. I’ll be breaking down the top players [...]
The Mets began the year with their Top eight players in the farm system all being position players and while we’ve seen positive signs from most of these names it feels like the future of Mets starting pitching might not be as bright and rosy as we’d like it to be. Part of this is [...]
When you cover the minor leagues there are always players that slip through the cracks. Players who have shown to be significant talents but fail to make big enough waves to have those talents be noticed. There are a ton of reasons this happens. Some are drafted in the lower rounds and have low expectations, [...]