As a writer, I’ve been covering the New York Mets for a while. Long enough to see the Mets AAA affiliate in Norfolk, New Orleans, Buffalo and Las Vegas but it wasn’t until the Mets were saddled with the Las Vegas 51’s that I took issue. The reason for this is that until this most [...]
Readers of my weekly articles have read a lot about Peter Alonso, the Mets selected him with their third pick in the 2016 draft and paid him under slot money. At the time of the draft I was not pleased, thinking, “Great, we take a guy who is instantly blocked by one of our only [...]
The 2017 season has not been a good year for the Mets in any way shape or form. The major league team was wracked with injuries, the minor leagues underwhelmed and had injuries of their own and the franchise hasn’t looked very nice. As we, the sports pundits, begin to shift gears from talking about [...]
Every offseason we go through and rank the top 50 Met prospects. With the 2017 minor league season in the books let’s review how our Top 10 players did for themselves. Amed Rosario: A- Rosario started his season blazing hot and one might wonder if the Mets might have fell so far if the team [...]
In the last season before the current MLB Draft rules were in place, the Mets spent $650,000 on 15th-round pick Phillip Evans. At the time, Baseball America reported it to be the largest amount given by the Mets to a player picked after the first two rounds. The Mets had been criticized for not spending [...]
If I look at the 2017 season objectively, there is very little that I come away happy with. The Mets have suffered an absurd string of injuries that makes one wonder why Ray Ramirez seems to never be fired, they’ve underperformed and the team is beginning to look like it’s giving up on making a [...]
Anyone have high expectations for a 28th-round pick out of Nova Southeastern University? For those who pay attention to the later rounds of the draft you might recall the name Jeremy Vasquez. He was among a group of Met hitters who had been tearing things up in Kingsport until recently. I say this, because Vasquez [...]
Two weeks ago we talked about Peter Alonso and how he turned a disappointing season around shaking off an injury and proving that his successful 2016 campaign in Brooklyn was not a fluke. His line for the season is now .291/.367/.534 and he continues to show prodigious power. Additionally, you might notice that his walk [...]
Normally my posts are in a positive light. We focus on who is doing particularly well in a given level and speak to their optimistic future. Today we are changing gears to talk about years that have gone wrong. Thomas Szapucki is a promising pitcher who emerged in 2016 as a potentially elite young arm [...]
Numerous reports indicate that this is probably the last season as a Met for first baseman Lucas Duda. He will either be traded before the July 31 deadline or else will likely sign elsewhere for the 2018 campaign, as his current contract with the Mets expires after this season. Assuming Duda does go, the presumptive [...]
In my Top 50 Prospect rankings I ranked Peter Alonso 9th overall. His 2016 numbers in Brooklyn had somehow eclipsed those of even Michael Conforto. Based on those 30 games and his high draft pick status, 9th overall seemed like a fitting place for the former University of Florida player. After a dismal start, [...]
Some people might be prone to ask the question, “Who is Hansel Moreno?” The Mets drafted him back in 2014 and his first three years with the organization did not occur stateside. His numbers in the DSL, frankly, weren’t that good and prior to 2017 there was little reason to focus especially on him… after [...]