With the draft starting later today let's take a look at some of the players the Mets might be looking to select in the first several rounds of the major league draft. The Mets do not have a Top 10 pick in the draft and will settle to select 12th overall as they look to [...]
You don’t find many pitchers wear uniform number three. But then again, Tommy Wilson doesn’t have a normal baseball story. After putting up a 1.37 ERA as a high school senior with 76 Ks in 59.1 IP, Wilson didn’t pitch for two years. He returned to the mound at a Junior College, where he fanned [...]
People like to complain. As long as the complaints are legitimate, that’s okay. The issue is when some people are so eager to complain that they throw all reason and judgment out the window. Then it’s just sport. And if you’ve got time in your life for complaining as sport, your time would be better [...]
Those who read my blog posts will remember that I try not to be so “Doom and Gloom” about the prospects. I try to focus on the good and let the bad sort itself out in its own time. I’ve already written off the career of Desmond Lindsay this season, surely I won’t bring you [...]
How many people, besides me and Brian, tune in to see the results of each minor league outing? My guess is that a few of you check in from time to time but that most readers don’t dive into each boxscore, each game. The Mets minor league system is strange this season. We traded away [...]
We talk about Woods Richardson, Szapucki, Kay and Peterson often enough. These are the starting pitchers who are supposed to make impacts at the major league level and who, based on their draft or previous successes, are supposed to be the best pitchers. Which means that few people will ever talk about Harol Gonzalez. At [...]
Tell me if you’ve heard this before - Desmond Lindsay, former 2nd round pick (the Mets top pick that year), is off to a dismal start in Advance A. The outfielder has only 10 hits in his first 15 games and has struck out a whopping 25 times. Now, I don’t often focus on the bad [...]
Last night was a really good night for the Columbia Fireflies. The team collected 17 hits in a 12 to 5 romp over the Lexington Legends and leading off for the Fireflies was Ronny Mauricio, who finished 4 for 6 on the night. The game was a bad one for Lexington, who also managed 5 [...]
The Mets shocked a number of people in 2018 when they skipped their top international prospect directly to the Gulf Coast League. Now the Mets buck convention farther by starting Ronny Mauricio in Columbia instead of Short Season ball in Brooklyn. For those not familiar with the Mets system the typical progression for players is [...]
With Justin Dunn off to Seattle and Franklyn Kilome spending the year on the sidelines there isn’t the usual pool of Met pitching talent we are used to seeing in the minors. The returning arms of Thomas Szapucki and Jordan Humphreys will see if they can make up for lost time as highly ranked draftees, [...]
Ronny Mauricio, SS, S/R, 17 For all the talk of Pete Alonso and Andres Gimenez or the trade that lost the Mets Jared Kelenic and Justin Dunn, the player I am most eager to watch is likely to play on a short season minor league team. Just over 9 days from his 18th birthday, Mauricio [...]
Spring Training is a week away from ending and few positions remain hanging in the balance. Will the Mets management allow the fans to force them into starting Pete Alonso’s clock early? Probably not. Who will make up the back end of the Mets bullpen? Which means that the Mets AAA roster is beginning to [...]