Mets360 2016 top 50 prospects: #4 Brandon Nimmo

#4 Brandon Nimmo, OF Biography: Born March 27 1993 in Cheyenne Wyoming, Nimmo is the highest picked baseball prospect in the history of the state.  That may well be because Wyoming is so cold that they didn’t offer a high school baseball program.  Instead, Nimmo made his mark on the baseball world with an impressive [...]

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An inside account of the Mets at the Winter Meetings

Today a sprawling piece by Andy Martino that covers the Mets' action at the Winter Meetings was published. There are numerous things worth linking and here are two: "It is impossible to overstate the impact of Twitter on the baseball business, and not only for the fans and media. Just as execs work the reporters [...]

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Brewers GM writes open letter to fans

Can you imagine the Wilpons doing this? As a fan I love the honesty and directness of this. Here's a snippet: "As you probably know, David recruited Matt Arnold from the Tampa Bay Rays as his Assistant GM. At this month's Winter Meetings, he and Matt started to implement their strategy, which David has articulated [...]

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If David Wright is no longer our #3 hitter, who is?

Following the winter meetings, the Mets have addressed almost all of their glaring holes in the field, the bullpen, and the rotation. One remaining identified hole on the bench for a fourth outfielder is being explored now with very unexciting names like Ryan Raburn and Alejandro De Aza being mentioned in rumors.  Either of those [...]

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