In my top 50 prospects piece published prior to the 2018 season, Walter Rasquin was ranked 30th. Primarily a 2B, Rasquin had a fine season for Brooklyn in 2017, as he put up a .300/.341/.407 line in 265 PA. Now, those numbers might not jump out to you at first glance but Brooklyn is a [...]
The Mets' farm system was ranked in the bottom third of all systems in the majors last year, and rightly so. Two of the top five prospects had dismal down years and two other top prospects were elevated to the majors. The 2017 season was bad at both the major and minor league levels and [...]
As many people will know, the Mets signed Ronny Mauricio to the largest international bonus in club history. This bonus surpassed the one paid for former Uber Prospect, Amed Rosario. The switch hitting shortstop is rail skinny and tall, at 6’3” 166 Lbs but he’s started his major league career, at the age of 17, [...]
Welcome to short season baseball! The Mets now have Las Vegas, Binghamton, St. Lucie, Columbia, Brooklyn, Kingsport, the Gulf Coast and their Dominican Summer Leagues entering action and we are starting to see some of the Met prospects move up the ladder. With Dominic Smith getting his second chance in the majors and Peter Alonso [...]
Editor's Note - This column was written before Smith got the call to the majors. Dominic Smith is only 22 years old, he bats left, was scouted for having advanced defensive skills and a great “contact oriented” bat and he’s been sitting in AAA Las Vegas and failing to shine. Consider the stat lines below: [...]
At the age of 26 the left handed utility player, Jeff McNeil, is not what most people would identify as a “prospect”. The Mets originally signed McNeil in 2013 out of Long Beach State. The second baseman, at the time, seemed poised to move easily through the minors. He was great in Kingsport, earned a [...]
With how often I fawn over a certain first base prospect, you might forget that I ranked Andres Gimenez #1 overall in the Met system. You might also forget this because my mentions of the young shortstop have been few and far between. That can be credited to his learning curve in Advanced A (Port [...]
The Mets top pick from the 2017 draft was a big bodied lefty with a low 90s fastball named David Peterson. Met fans saw very little of him in his first season of minor league ball with the Mets only having Peterson throw 3.2 innings for the Brooklyn Cyclones. Now into the 2018 season he’s [...]
When Travis d’Arnaud was injured and wound up out for the season, few people were surprised. The timing could not have been worse for the Mets who lost Kevin Plawecki to another injury and have not gotten him back as of yet. This sent Sandy Alderson to the bargain basement looking for spare parts and, [...]
If you weren’t paying attention, you might have missed that the Mets have started their 2017 Top Draft Pick in Columbia, instead of aggressively promoting him to Advanced A. Often times you see collegiate pitchers skip over the Full Season A leagues because teams are eager to get them to the majors. Afterall David Peterson [...]
The Mets winning big thanks to a nice 3-for-6 outing from Adrian Gonzalez it’s more apparent than earlier why the Mets have a bit of a logjam on their hands. The Mets have Gonzalez, Wilmer Flores and Jay Bruce in the majors which is holding Dominic Smith in AAA and that, in turn, leaves poor [...]
In listening to the radio pundits over the past few week, I’ve begun to get annoyed with a trend I’ve witnessed. These experts do not think the Mets have what it takes to trade with the Marlins for J.T. Realmuto and they back these claims up with little actual information of the Met minor league [...]