Prior to the 2012 Draft, MLB instituted a new policy in how it handled the signing of amateur players selected in the June affair. With these new rules in place, it was hard to determine what the best strategy to employ was going to be. My preference would be to go above the slot recommendation [...]
Summer is approaching, and in Brooklyn that means baseball is imminent. Tonight, the Brooklyn Cyclones open up their season in Staten Island with Amed Rosario expected to start at shortstop. The 18 year old Dominican is in his second professional season and is currently the Mets’ fifth highest prospect according to MLB.com. The major leagues [...]
In his last 12 games, Savannah third baseman Jeff McNeil has seven multi-hit games and has a .420 AVG and a 1.015 OPS. For the year, McNeil is tied for fourth in the league in batting with a .346 AVG and his .409 OBP places 10th in the loop. McNeil was one of seven Sand [...]
When a fan starts to criticize Sandy Alderson, Brandon Nimmo becomes one of the main points of discussion: his lack of experience, his extremely high strikeout totals or another “failed” prospect during the Alderson era. Some fans, including myself, have been supportive of Nimmo and his .372 and .397 OBP’s in 2012 and 2013. Recently, on the famous “Top 100 [...]
With all of the focus on Jacob deGrom, Rafael Montero, Wilmer Flores and Noah Syndergaard, we’ve forgotten that the #5 Met prospect (according to MLB.com) hasn’t logged a single at bat this season. Amed Rosario will be making his 2014 debut in the APP, GCL or NYP in the coming weeks and we will have [...]
The quintessential source for minor league baseball information is Baseball America. They are the keepers of the most respected ranking lists and are usually the gold standard for judging the relative strength of a farm system. They recently published a list of minor league players who were particularly hot and, wouldn’t you know it, two [...]
We had a comment last week about the pitching staff in Savannah and if those numbers were “For Real” or not. The answer is much more complicated than a simple yes or no. The reason for this can be explained by looking at some numbers from the recent Met past. Mark Cohoon: In 2010 Cohoon [...]
In the 2012 First-Year Player Draft, with the 12th overall pick, the Mets selected shortstop Gavin Cecchini out of Barbe High School in Lake Charles, Louisiana. It was the second draft of the Sandy Alderson era and the second straight year the team selected a high school player with their first draft pick.* This was [...]
If I were in the Mets marketing department I’d be contacting Tom Hiddleston and Marvel Studios about teaming up on some advertising for the Asgardian hero who will shortly arrive in Queens. We’ve all heard about Noah Syndergaard, time and time again, but he’s starting to look worthy of Mjolnir. For those who don’t pay [...]
By now most people are familiar with the concept of sample size. We know better than to overreact – good or bad – to what a player does in a game, a series or a week. We know if a guy goes 3-for-4 or 1-for-20, it doesn’t necessarily mean that player is destined for a [...]
The 2014 season in Las Vegas had been headlined by storylines of pitching performances. Met fans in Flushing sit salivating over Syndergaard, Montero and even deGrom but the 51’s also have some hitting. We mentioned Allan Dykstra, who is still hitting comfortably over 1.000 (OPS) on the year, and the majority of the team sport [...]
The Mets have long been known to have high standards for homegrown pitching, and recently there has been an influx of starters that have come up and made an impact. Matt Harvey was the first of the recent influx and has been extremely successful, Zack Wheeler came up next and is currently making progress to [...]