When a player is 26 and playing in AA you have to try to take their accomplishments with a grain of salt. Even when they are hitting: .317/.474/.590 and even when they were a former first round pick. The expectations on Allan Dykstra are expectedly low. He’s not supposed to be much beyond a AAAA [...]
I’ve followed the Mets minor leagues for a while and what I’ve found is that every year there are players who make cases to reach the majors but an injury rolls around or they slump and it looks like we might have jumped the gun. Just look at Travis Taijeron, in his last 5 games [...]
The Mets have just finished playing eight road games against the Braves and Phillies and went 5-3 in the process. Ordinarily this would be cause for celebration but in a season mismanaged nearly all the way around, it hardly merits a “woo-hoo!” With fans joining management in punting the 2013 season, instead we look ahead [...]
“I should really go to a Cyclones game.” I’ve been saying this for years, but on Thursday 6/20/2013, I finally did. First of all, let me tell you that MCU park is a nice park to watch a game. It was clean, the sight lines were good and atmosphere (with the rides of Coney Island [...]
The Mets' offense is bad. They just don’t score a lot of runs… face it, they don’t score a little runs too often. With not much offense coming from anyone not named David Wright or Daniel Murphy, I think I have the solution: It is time to bring Wilmer Flores up. Wilmer Flores is hitting [...]
I went to an actual Met game for a change. It was a mistake as the Mets lost 8-4 but the highlight of the game for me was seeing the minor league update and hearing that Cesar Puello had collected three hits the night before. It’s likely that you’ve heard Puello’s name before but it [...]
With all the pomp and circumstance surrounding Zack Wheeler’s major league debut, most likely occurring later this week, the future of Mets baseball is rapidly approaching. The future appears to be built on strong starting pitching, anchored by Wheeler and Matt Harvey, and a slew of quality arms in Savannah, St. Lucie, and Binghamton waiting [...]
There were 31 first-round picks in the 2012 Draft, the extra one due to the Blue Jays not signing their 2011 top choice. Of those first round picks, 17 were from the high school level and 14 were college selections. The Mets took high school shortstop Gavin Cecchini with the 12th overall pick, the seventh [...]
After a spot start in AAA Rafael Montero was returned to AA where I feared he might get sloppy and stumble. Frankly it’s been the opposite. It’s as if he’s said, “I’ve seen better, these AA guys don’t offer me any challenge.” Since coming back down he’s thrown 13.0 scoreless innings, given up only 9 [...]
Triple-A Las Vegas has been an interesting place for the past 10 games or so. Some players are putting on shows and it HAS to make some people wonder when they might be called up to help that team in Queens. Kirk Nieuwenhuis, Omar Quintanilla, Josh Satin, Wilmer Flores and Francisco Pena all have made [...]
In Monday’s Mets Minors piece by David Groveman, there was some discussion, both in the article and the comments section, about Wilmer Flores. That’s not that unusual – he is one of the few hitting prospects in the upper levels of the minors and he’s been on Mets Top Prospect lists for half a decade [...]
This was a tough week to choose a star. Instead it’s a group of names that some know and some don’t. Zach Lutz – Before the season Lutz looked like the best hitter in the Met’s upper minors but after being sent to the minors (because he doesn’t play a useful position) Lutz was mired [...]