It feels like Wilmer Flores has been a Met forever. He was signed seven years ago at the age of 16 and has been much ballyhooed as the Mets best offensive prospect. He has been ranked as a top 100 prospect in all of baseball on multiple occasions and famously destroyed Triple-A over the last [...]
Barring a miracle, it looks like Noah Syndergaard is going to spend his entire 2014 campaign in Triple A. Many fans believe that it isn’t the right approach to handling Syndergaard, especially after promoting Dilson Herrera from Double A. With Syndergaard not getting the call to the bigs this year, the Mets could opt to [...]
Who are Dilson Herrera's comps among past players for the Mets? It's not an easy question to answer. Given his age and his defensive position, Jose Reyes might jump to mind. But Reyes was promoted in June and received 292 PA in his rookie season. Let's look for comps based on age and expected playing [...]
Since being recalled to the majors, Matt den Dekker has played better than his detractors thought he was capable of and nearly as well as his proponents wildly wished. He’s shown the ability to hit, he’s cut down significantly on his strikeouts and his speed helps him on both sides of the game. The question [...]
The Mets are not going to win 90 games this season, and that is a fact. It is mathematically impossible for the Mets to win 90 games, and the team’s elimination numbers are running low, so hope for the 2014 season is now officially lost. Luckily, the playoffs are not the only thing September baseball [...]
I'm living in the eighties...
Many inside and outside of the Mets organization can agree that the Metropolitans carry a ton of high-upside prospects up and down their farm system. The Mets minor league system is a very successful one and while some players regressed a bit, there were many who took enormous leaps forward which ultimately led to an [...]
Cesar Puello did not duplicate his breakout 2013 season but he is finishing this year with a flourish. Monday he had his third straight multiple-hit game with an RBI. Over his last 44 games, Puello has a .293/.405/.519 line with 18 XBH in 159 PA. The streak includes 32 runs and he was also successful [...]
Labor Day's game was pretty brutal. The Mets team had a tremendous six-error game against the hated Miami Marlins, in which young second baseman Dilson Herrera committed two of those blunders. He also had a spectacular day at the plate, however, hitting his first career home run, and first career triple, on his way to [...]
Surely you were aware the New York Mets were tied to trade rumors leading up to the waiver-trade deadline, with Bartolo Colon's name being front and center. With the Los Angeles Angels losing Garrett Richards for the foreseeable future, and them needing a quality, veteran arm, they needed another good arm for the stretch run. [...]