The Mets drafted Michael Conforto in the first round in 2014 and the next year he was hitting home runs in the World Series. Conforto was an excellent draft pick for the Mets but how have they done drafting since then? Let’s look at their drafts over the past 10 years to find out. 2015 [...]
The Minor League Seasons are in the past the Major League playoffs are in our present and the minor league blogger is left with covering the Arizona Fall League. The Arizona Fall League serves two major functions for baseball prospects. First, it serves as a launching ground for players who may be ready to make [...]
The Mets are in the midst of an amazing late season run towards the playoffs and have exceeded my pre-season expectations at the major league level. Part of what makes it so amazing is that the team has been without their MVP, Francisco Lindor for an extended time. Coming up from AAA to cover that [...]
The Mets are in a playoff run with the Atlanta Braves and Arizona Diamondbacks this Spring and that was probably more than I would have hoped for seeing that our Ace would only pitch in one game for the team. The Mets are still very much relevant and a lot of that credit goes to [...]
The trade deadline has come and went and the Mets weren’t major buyers or sellers though they did part with a solid pitching prospect in Tyler Stuart their other losses should have little impact on the future team. We now pause to look at the players the Mets have in the farm to determine if [...]
People love lists, especially ranked lists. And it’s easy to understand why, as these lists help bring order to things. But some things lend themselves quite well to lists – like, say, who has the most home runs or strikeouts. And some things simply don’t. It’s my opinion that top prospect lists are like that. [...]
The Mets came away from the 2024 draft with Carson Benge OF/RHP, Jonathan Santucci LHP, Nate Dohm RHP, Eli Serrano III OF, Trey Snyder SS/3B, Corey Collins 1B and others. The team didn’t have the greatest assortment of picks coming into the draft thanks to their bloated payroll but ultimately came away with a few [...]
The Mets are weighing the options of being buyers or sellers in 2024 and their post Grimace resurgence has them confused if they should be one or the other. More than likely the Mets will wind up toeing a middle road where they do neither and that leads us to the question of who or [...]
The MLB Draft is less than a month away and it’s time for me to highlight some of the players that the Mets might be looking at with their assorted picks. As with previous years I am going to provide the player ranked at the pick, a player the Mets may hope falls to them [...]
At the Major League level, the Mets have Francisco Alvarez nearing his return to the team. Alvarez had an impressive rookie campaign with the Mets in which he showed a ton of power. He’s also shown a tremendous ability to work with pitchers and a “surprising” (not truly but the media wanted you to believe [...]
David Groveman joins me to discuss various minor league prospects for the Mets. Brian: Here are two 19-year-old shortstops in Lo-A for your consideration: Player A: .266/.345/.404, .329 BABIP, 10.4 BB%, 23.3 K%, .348 wOBA, 105 wRC+ Player B: .267/.332/.441, .294 BABIP, 6,7 BB%, 16.1 K%, .365 wOBA, 122 wRC+ They’re fairly similar but my [...]
At the end of April, we looked at a baker’s dozen worth of starting pitchers in the Mets’ farm system. Let’s check in on an equal number here near the end of May, if not the same 13 pitchers as last month. We have the promotion of Christian Scott and a couple of others who [...]