Winter Stats Through Thursday, 10-18: AFL – Surprise Saguaros: OF Cesar Puello – .276/.323/.276/,598, 29-AB, 8-K, 0-BB CF Darrell Ceciliani – .273/.346/.409/..755. 22-B, 6-K RP Ryan Fraser – 0-0, 3.00, 1.33, 3.0-IP, 2-K, 0-BB P Chase Huchington – 0-0, 0.00, 1.67, 3.0-IP, 2-K, 3-BB RP Adam Kolarek – 0-2, 2.45, 2.45, 3.2-IP, 3-K, 3-BB P [...]
DSL – The Mets have done well signing international free agents over the past two administrations. Currently, the 40-man roster has 39 players + 5 on the DL. Of the 39, one-third are Latin America players. In the case of the Mets, they all pass through one of the two DSL teams and you should [...]
I can’t find an official Rule 5 list, but I did compile at least these guys: P – Zack Wheeler (ya think?), Chris Schwinden, Gonzalez Germen, Darin Gorski, Brad Holt, Armondo Rodriguez, Luis Cessa IF – Josh Satin, Eric Campbell, Alan Dykstra, Jefry Marte, Wilfredo Tovar, Aderlin Rodriguez OF – Alonzo Harris C – Juan [...]
My first personal (not the compilation version) mock this year was on August 26th. It’s time for this to be updated: 1. RHP Mark Appel – Stanford – I’m going to stay with Appel until someone comes along and knocks him off the hill. He probably should have been drafted first last year. I still [...]
I was a junior at Richmond Hill High School in 1962 and I was quite excited that Queens was getting its own baseball team. I grew up a Dodger fan and had my first slap of reality when the trucks left town. It would have been hard enough to root for the Giants, but they [...]
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Okay, we now have down on paper how the Wilpon family became Mets owners, the era of Omar Minaya, the beginning of Sandy & Company, the recession, and ‘The House That Number 42 Built’. I’m going to dumb it down a little here so everyone can understand just how a business survives and what determines [...]
The minor league players have left the clubhouses and the major league season is heading towards the playoffs. There’s plenty of coverage here from the other writers regarding what will go on in October, so I’m going to move down to the end of the dugout and revisit a subject I wrote in length about [...]
While the fans are turned off by the team's rotten play, there may be a silver lining. The race is on for the top draft pick. Here are teams ranked by their current number of losses 1. Houston 102 2. Cubs 92 3. Colorado 91 4. Minnesota 88 5. Cleveland 88 6. Miami 84 7. [...]
My good buddy, Matt Garrioch of MLB Prospect Guide and Minor League Ball, comes out every year with his top prospect list and we both go professionally head to head with each other (it has been professional, right Matt J) over what he was smoking when he came up with some of these names. Of [...]
Savannah, GA - The Savannah Sand Gnats and the New York Mets today jointly announced they have renewed their Player Development Contract for two more years. The renewal will keep Savannah as a Mets' affiliate through the 2014 season. During the Mets affiliation, the Sand Gnats have enjoyed some of their most successful seasons in [...]
It’s not easy to get on my list. These are the names you throw up on the board in the first five minutes. I only have 38. IMO, the Mets don’t have 50 prospects, but, in their defense, neither do any other teams It is dominated with talented, young starting pitching (14), which is the [...]