The Mets have added Rich Hill to a healthy rotation that boasts Marcus Stroman, Taijuan Walker and Tylor Megill. Add to this that they are days from seeing Carlos Carrasco make his Mets debut and that Jacob deGrom could return soon as well and you wonder, might the Mets not “need” to make any move [...]
#10, Kumar Rocker, 21, RHP - Vanderbilt The Amateur draft began Sunday night and, unsurprisingly, Jack Leiter fell off the board before the Mets were close to making their selection. The son of the former Met pitcher, Al Leiter, would have been an amazing storyline but Leiter would be off the board on the second [...]
The Mets have the best pitcher in baseball, Jacob deGrom supported by Marcus Stroman and Taijuan Walker who are both looking like All Star caliber arms and the pitchers I’d rank as 2nd and 3rd best on the team, Carlose Carrasco and Noah Syndergaard haven’t pitched a single frame in the 2021 season. Outside of [...]
The Mets promoted their Top Prospect (depending on rankings) from Low to Advanced A on May 25th placing their 19 year old catching prospect, Francisco Alvarez, in their most talented lineup with Ronny Mauricio, Brett Baty, Adrian Hernandez and Luke Ritter. Alvarez had been destroying the pitchers in Florida and had quickly proved himself more [...]
This column will be a ranking of the organization's top prospects and contain interesting trends and developments to these rankings on the fourth week of each month, doubling your Mets360 minor league content. Thanks to MiLB.com and modern broadcast abilities we are now starting to be able to see a lot of these players on [...]
It’s been over a year since we’ve seen regular season minor league baseball and it returns like a long missed friend. With the Mets big league club failing to play with offensive consistency and the early returns on the Francisco Lindor trade looking dismal, it feels like the minor leagues can be a good source [...]
July 11th is a long way away but as major league play gets rolling and we await the May 4th launch of the minor league season. Mets360 will be taking the opportunity to look at some of the prospects in the upcoming amateur draft. With the Mets top three selections landing 10th overall, 46th overall [...]
Last Thursday Major League Baseball announced major rules changes at all four levels of the minor leagues for the 2021 season. They were met to mixed reactions, though many fans came down on the side of being against some of these drastic changes. In case you missed it, the changes are as follows: Triple-A: The [...]
The top 50 column is one of my favorites; but a challenging piece becomes just about impossible with the missing minor league season in 2020. No one has any idea who the layoff will affect the most, which means this list will likely be a bigger guess than usual. Anyway, about half of these entries [...]
It feels like March of 2020 never ended. There are memories of setting up preseason tracking documents and making predictions and then there is this long empty space where the minor league season was supposed to be and we’re right back to March. Only this March is looking to be different. This March we have [...]
With the condensed minor league system going into 2021 and having lost out on the 2020 minor league season, the lowest level of full season baseball should be stacked with talent. Fourteen of the Mets Top 30 Prospects could find themselves starting their 2021 season playing for the St. Lucie Mets. The old saying goes, [...]
As everyone knows by now, the Mets traded four players to Cleveland for Francisco Lindor and Carlos Carrasco. The Mets pick up a major upgrade at shortstop and a vital frontline starter for the next three years. While I didn’t consider upgrading from Gimenez to Lindor a necessary move (especially considering the money) there's wisdom [...]