We have written at length about the lost 2017 season for Justin Dunn. The Mets' top pick from the 2016 draft, Dunn entered 2017 with high expectations and fell squarely on his face. His 2017 season was so bad that the Mets moved their former top pick into the bullpen to help get him back [...]
Going into Spring Training, it was a foregone conclusion that the Mets would be having Adrian Gonzalez and Wilmer Flores as their tandem at first base. Unless Dominic Smith could have obliterated the baseball to unforeseen proportions the Mets would send him to AAA Las Vegas for at least a few months. However, there was [...]
Thanks to a marked bounce back in his Spring Training performance, Steven Matz deservedly saved himself from a demotion to AAA. It did not hurt that Jason Vargas was hurt but it is hard to argue against his stats in his final Spring outings. Zack Wheeler was not so lucky. Wheeler pitched 10.0 innings for [...]
The regular season is looming large on the horizon and we are eager to start talking about the play of our minor league talent but before we have any games played under our belt we are going to take a peak at prospects the Mets might be looking at, come June. Thanks to a decidedly [...]
As the Mets are approaching the regular season the team begins to take shape, despite the unhappy spring training record, it is fit to wonder which of the minor league players might play a significant role in the fortunes of the 2018 Mets. Is there anyone who can save us from Hansel Robles and Adrian [...]
Edgardo Alfonzo has been around the Brooklyn Cyclones for the past few seasons and has now worked his way up to managing the team. He’s joined by two other notable former players, Royce Ring and Marlon Anderson. We all have fond memories of Fonzie back when he manned the Met infield with Robin Ventura, Rey [...]
Spring training is full of headlines. Headlines like: “Dominic Smith shows up slim and trim”, “Yoenis Cespedes adopts a yoga routine” and “Mets hope new witch doctor will help prevent injuries.” One such headline, this spring, has been about Gavin Cecchini bulking up prior to arriving to camp. To rehash what we already know Cecchini [...]
The Mets’ system doesn’t have any elite, can’t-miss guys. They have a bunch of talented young guys in the lower levels who might develop that way. They’ve got guys with elite skills who haven’t been able to stay healthy. And they’ve got Corey Oswalt. My top 50 list had Oswalt third overall but that was [...]
Top prospect lists are not an easy thing to compile and they are an even harder thing to get right. I've done these for the past few years and while they provide interesting discourse, they are more often breeding grounds for second guessing oneself. Should I have ranked so-and-so higher? Should I have ranked you-know-who [...]
A Tale of Two Lefties. They are the best of lefties and not the worst of lefties and it is to a far better place we hope they will go than any of us fans will ever know. With regards to pitching, the Mets have Steven Matz in the majors, P.J. Conlon waiting in the [...]
Every offseason I try to predict where the minor league assignments will shake out for the Mets in their next season. It’s a useful way of predicting paths for these prospects and predicting how long some of these players may have before they reach the majors. Now, I keep a list from the MLB to [...]
As I enter the Top 7 I’m going to talk about a player who is glaringly missing from my Top 25. I’m speaking, of course, of Luis Guillorme. Many people have Guillorme in the Top 10 and I have him sitting, precariously at 26th in the Met system. How can I do this? If you [...]