The Mets began the year with their Top eight players in the farm system all being position players and while we’ve seen positive signs from most of these names it feels like the future of Mets starting pitching might not be as bright and rosy as we’d like it to be. Part of this is [...]
When you cover the minor leagues there are always players that slip through the cracks. Players who have shown to be significant talents but fail to make big enough waves to have those talents be noticed. There are a ton of reasons this happens. Some are drafted in the lower rounds and have low expectations, [...]
As the Mets youth movement has taken hold with Francisco Alvarez and Brett Baty in the Major Leagues, utility prospect Mark Vientos keeps working away in Triple-A Syracuse. After smacking 24 home runs and hitting .280/.358/.519 in 101 games with the S-Mets in 2022, the 23-year-old is batting .364/.446/.764 with six long balls in his [...]
Player Focus Piece Omar Narvaez is out of commission for an extended period of time which has left the Mets with no option but to activate their top prospect, Francisco Alvarez. On the front of, is Alvarez ready? We are all about to find out. We can expect Tomas Nido to see plenty of playing [...]
We’ve established the current Top 50 prospects and talked about why they are ranked where they are at present. We now move on to where we expect some of these top players to begin their 2023 campaigns and what that may mean for their development. #1 - Francisco Alvarez - C: AAA Prior to Spring [...]
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Biography: The Mets selected Hamel as part of their debacle of a draft in 2021. The right handed pitcher wasn’t a prototypical Met prospect pitcher as he lacked a truly high velocity arm but scouts felt he made up for it with a good Spin Rate. Despite being selected in the third round of the [...]
Biography: In the five mock drafts I ran for the Mets, I had the Mets selecting Blade Tidwell in three of them. In fact, I had him selected with a first round pick in most of these scenarios. Instead, the Mets managed to select both Kevin Parada and Jett Williams before getting Tidwell in the [...]
Biography: Matthew Allan is a RHP standing 6-3 tall whom the Mets drafted back in 2019 as part of Brodie Van Waggenen’s finest moment as Met GM. He is from Sanford, FL and attended Seminole HS. When drafted he was considered a Top 20 pick but the Mets actually selected him in the third round [...]
My top 50 list last year broke down players by levels, rather than looking to make an ordered list. The more time considering things, the more it seems to me that this is the way to go. Don’t worry if you prefer the ordered-list method, as David Groveman will likely publish a list like that [...]
Biography: At 5’8”, Jett Williams was the shortest of the top prospects in the 2022 draft. The shortstop has the ability to field his position and could hold onto the role as he rises through the organization. His high school club won the state championship in Texas in 2021 and Williams was thought of as [...]
Biography: Born in the Dominican Republic in April of 2001, Ronny Mauricio is just old enough to drink in the US and yet many fans think his prospect star has fallen to earth. Mauricio signed with the New York Mets as an international free agent in July 2017. Resume: Mauricio surged to relevance in 2018 [...]