2013 Mets Draft: Ivan Wilson, Casey Meisner, Lee Mazzilli & Jared King

Round 3: Winners: Boston got Denney and if they can sign him he’s the clear pick of the round. Pick #76: Ivan Wilson, RF, [Ruston HS] Scouting: At 6’3” and 220 Lbs Wilson is a big player who projects to have a big bat.  The power is there and he seems to have enough of [...]

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Omar Quintanilla gets lucky, Jeremy Hefner, Cesar Puello may not

In his second stint with the Mets, Omar Quintanilla is picking up right where he left off, hitting the ball sharply and enjoying his best streak of ball in the majors. In six games with the Mets in 2013, Quintanilla has a 1.273 OPS and has been a huge upgrade over what the club had [...]

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2013 Mets Draft recap: Dominic Smith & Andrew Church

I wrote last Saturday about the draft and selected a pretty auspicious group of players to be joining the Metropolitan ranks.  With my analysis the Mets would have come away with three college bats and a talented high school pitcher.  You’ll recall that I thought the Mets could come away with: Hunter Renfroe, OF [Mississippi [...]

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Harvey/Byrd the best bang for your buck on Mets

The Mets are currently playing around where a lot of fans and baseball people expected them to be playing this time of the year. They sit fourth in the NL East, ahead of only the Marlins - who could have one of the worst teams in the last ten years – 12.5 games out of [...]

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