Rookie ball is not a league that most fans follow. Players in this league are generally below the legal drinking age in the United States and face a minimum of 3-5 years of sustained healthy/productive play to reach the majors. Today I will focus on the Kingsport Mets because I’ve never seen them quite this [...]
What do Chris Flexen, Erik Manoah and Corey Oswalt have in common? They all started games for minor league affiliates of the Mets on Saturday. And they all are pitchers taken in the seventh round or later that the Mets gave overslot bonuses to since MLB instituted the system for the 2012 Draft. For those [...]
Steven Matz has reached the majors and made people aware that he’s more than just a lefty pitcher. Matz and his bat aside, people are wondering if the Mets have anything left in the tank. When does Alderson promote Conforto? Why haven’t we seen Matt Reynolds? What’s left? The Mets have already called up Kevin [...]
The season has barely begun for the Mets in the Dominican Summer League and already there are people vying to make the types of impressions that Wilmer Flores and Vicente Lupo once did. Consider Met prospect Hansel Moreno who is part of a tremendously talented class of players in the lowest division of Met prospects. [...]
At 22 years old and playing his first full season in the minors, Michael Conforto is already the best outfield prospect I’ve seen in the past fifteen years. He hits for power, he hits for contact and he’s not seasons and seasons of sustained play away from helping the major league franchise. What has he [...]
Every season I try to attend a few of the Mets' minor league affiliate games to see the future in action. This past week I did just that and had the pleasure of catching a Double-A Eastern League game between the Binghamton Mets and the Orioles' Bowie Baysox on June 11 in Bowie, Maryland. Please [...]
Recently, people have been complaining about the depth of the farm system and how there doesn’t seem to be (m)any impact players in the pipeline. For a team that in the past few years that has promoted Harvey, Wheeler, deGrom, Sydnergaard, d’Arnaud, Herrera and Lagares – and Matz seemingly any day now - that seems [...]
The first two rounds of the MLB Draft was held yesterday on the MLB Network and it provided smiles for countless individuals. However, the Mets were absent from a pick due to their signing of Michael Cuddyer back in November. It remains to be seen whether or not this was a smart decision, but the [...]
Player A: 6’1”, 205 Lbs Player B: 6’2”, 200 Lbs Both players were drafted in 2012, one in the first round (Gavin Cecchini) and one in the second round (Matt Reynolds), but both could have a future in the Met infield. So which player is the one to watch? Player A: .281/.348/.393 (4 Years in [...]
I feel like I’ve been overly harsh on Dominic Smith. He’s 19 years old and playing in Advanced A for the first time against much older competition, but the former first round pick has not looked very good through 2015. Smith has been solid in his first two minor league seasons. He’s hit for average, [...]
Over this past week, the Mets announced that they promoted their 2014 first round draft pick Michael Conforto to Double-A Binghamton. This move could be considered aggressive, as he was hitting .283 with a .350 OBP in only 46 games at Single-A St. Lucie. The power was on display, as Conforto hit seven homers and [...]
The most unappreciated prospect for the Mets right now is Gavin Cecchini. It seems odd to type that since most of my comments since the day the Mets drafted him have been less than flattering. But the simple truth is that since the end of last season, Cecchini has been putting up tremendous numbers that [...]