Welcome to the eighth edition in our continuing tale of the Mets top 50 prospects. In case you missed any of our other segments, check them out at: 50-48, 47-45, 44-42, 41-39, 38-36, 35-33 and 32-30. Next up is: 29 - Milton Ramos When MLB and the Player’s Association agreed to a slotting system for [...]
Welcome to the seventh edition in our continuing tale of the Mets top 50 prospects. In case you missed any of our other segments, check them out at: 50-48, 47-45, 44-42, 41-39, and 38-36 and 35-33. Next up is: 32 – Logan Verrett The 24 year old Verrett was taken in the third round of [...]
Recently, the annual crunch of the 40-man roster came to a close as teams across baseball had to choose which players were valued by organizations and which had to go. The Mets found themselves in a position where they had only 5-6 spots to play. In the end, Noah Syndergaard, Cory Mazzoni, Hansel Robles, Gabriel [...]
We continue on our journey upwards, examining the best prospects in the Mets farm system. In case you missed any of the other publications, check them out at: 50-48, 47-45, 44-42, 41-39, and 38-36. Next up is: Chris Flexen - 35 Flexen was a tough pick for your intrepid prospect evaluators for several reasons. Picked [...]
Welcome to the fifth edition of our look at the top 50 prospects in the Mets system. If you missed any of the previous installments, you can see them here: 50-48, 47-45, 44-42, 41-39. 38 – John Gant Drafted out of high school in the 21st round of 2011 draft, Gant is the first of [...]
Welcome to the fourth edition of our look at the top 50 prospects. If you’ve missed any of the previous installments you can see them here: 50-48, 47-45, 44-42. 41 – Ivan Wilson What do you like in your prospects, safety or upside? If you like safety, you’ll hate this pick. If we were to [...]
We continue on our journey upwards, examining the best prospects in the Mets farm system. In case you missed any of the other publications, check them out here for 50-48, and here for 47-45. Next up is: Brandon Brosher - 44 Another teenager to enter the fray, Brosher was the 36th round pick for the [...]
Earlier this week, we debuted our top 50 prospect list. Here's the latest installment. 47 – Chase Bradford Bradford was drafted in the 35th round in 2011. Descriptions of Bradford at the time described him as an “organizational filler type” who had “marginal stuff”. Bradford was a four year college pitcher who was placed immediately [...]
With the left field in New York still looking to be filled, there is also some spaces to be filled in the 2015 Las Vegas outfield. Last year, Cesar Puello, Andrew Brown, Matt den Dekker, Cory Vaughn, and Kirk Nieuwenhuis all appeared in more than 50 games in the outfield for the 51s. If the [...]
The Las Vegas 51s performed outstandingly well in 2014 going 81-63 and leading the Pacific – South Division, lost to the Diamondback affiliate, Reno Aces, in the semifinals of the Triple-A playoffs. With some players making there way to the majors in 2015 and some players making the jump from Double-A where does that leave [...]
Over the past several seasons, Sandy Alderson has been criticized for numerous parts of his strategies regarding the front office. Of these criticisms, one seems to sneak in and out of the minds of Mets fans and that is his ability to draft quality talent. Brandon Nimmo is finally becoming a budding all-star, the jury [...]
At the beginning of the year, I wrote this piece, where I noted five of the more under-the-radar pitching prospects in the Mets system to keep an eye on in 2014. The players I identified were: Casey Meisner, Robert Whalen, Robert Gsellman, Chris Flexen and Marcos Molina. Now that the season has come to a [...]