While the Mets have struggled to have their players cross home plate in the major leagues (and likely will for the rest of the season), Mets fans will likely do what they’ve been doing for the past 3-4 years - look at the progression of minor leaguers. Sandy Alderson has been criticized for not drafting [...]
With Noah Syndergaard and Steven Matz having graduated to the majors and the All Star game fading in the rearview mirror it’s time to acess the quality of the remaining Met minor league talent. The Mets will not be entering 2016 with the same bevvy of MLB ready talent that they did in 2016 but [...]
Following a strong 2012 season, Michael Fulmer was considered one of the Mets’ top prospects. But after two injury-plagued campaigns and a strong influx of talent, he was on no one’s top 10 list coming into the season. We ranked him at 16 coming into the season and some thought that was too high. Yet [...]
Not too bad considering the guys who are no longer eligible
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 [...]