Champ Stuart was drafted by the Mets in 2013. He was an interesting prospect in that he had tremendous physical gifts, but he also came with limited baseball experience. He struck many people as being similar to the Brandon Nimmo who had been raised in Wyoming. Stuart’s origins are a little warmer. What is it [...]
This week not only marked the beginning of the Major League Baseball season, but the start of all full-season Minor League Baseball leagues as well. That means the folks in Las Vegas, Binghamton, St. Lucie, and Savannah were all treated to the familiar sounds of summer. In 2014, the Mets had the best organizational winning [...]
The “Full Season” minor leagues start getting in swing this weekend and I’ll start to give you the highlights each Monday. In the meantime here are some storylines that I’m looking forward to. AAA: Las Vegas is Overloaded with Talent Looking around the locker room of the Las Vegas 51s you’ll see multiple Top 100 [...]
I’m back! That’s right kiddies, your friendly neighborhood minor league analyst is back after half a year away from the blog-o-sphere. I’ll be doing my weekly prospect review, but in the meantime you can chew on some tasty numbers from the “Boys of Spring”. The Met Farm System was on display this spring and it [...]
The St. Lucie Mets recently announced their 2015 roster, and it is chock-full of exciting prospects. First-rounders outfielder Michael Conforto (2014) and first baseman Dominic Smith (2013) headline a group a position prospects that also includes budding prospect darling shortstop Amed Rosario and third baseman Jhoan Urena, who is gaining some recognition as well. Outfielders [...]
MLB.com has released its top 30 Mets prospect list, which you can see here. The best thing about the list is the pictures that accompany each player. If you're looking for analysis, you'll be disappointed. But that's okay. At this point you likely know who all of the guys are, anyway. The Mets' system is [...]
With spring training in full bloom much of the focus around Mets land has been about things pertaining to the major league team – Who will be the lefty reliever now that Josh Edgin is lost to Tommy John surgery?; Can Wilmer Flores play a good enough shortstop to merit the everyday job?; How will [...]
Most of the focal point of the Mets offseason was the pressing need to upgrade the shortstop position, with Wilmer Flores and Ruben Tejada appearing to be the only two viable options. Through the first five games of the spring training schedule, it seems there might be a third player in the mix for the [...]
Brandon Nimmo is not a household name. His Twitter account @You_Found_Nimmo doesn’t have millions of followers. And in his first call-up to Double-A, he struggled by hitting .238 with a decent .338 OBP. Nothing special, right? So why is it that passionate Mets fans hate a move to bring in 36-year-old right fielder Michael Cuddyer, [...]
In the pre-video age we used to play board games. One such was “The Game of Life” or just “Life.” In this game you had the option to go to college or start working right away. The Mets have their own version of this quandary with Brandon Nimmo and Michael Conforto, two players born less [...]
Jonathan Mayo is not the end-all-be-all of prospect evaluation, but he is the head of MLB.com’s Prospect Pipeline. Additionally, many analysts weigh opinions and statistical evidence to catalog the Top 100 Prospect list, and the Top 10 Position rankings, so it’s not just one man’s take. It is fair to say then, the Mets strong [...]
MLB.com recently released its top 100 prospect list for 2015. The good news is that there were five Mets on the list. The news that makes me do a double-take is that Dilson Herrera was not one of them. It’s a major undertaking to do a list around one team; to do one for the [...]