Mets Minors: Peter Alonso and other breakout candidates

Let’s start with a bit of a comparison: Player A: (Age 21) ● 186 Plate Appearances, 54 Hits, 16 Walks, 29 Strikeouts and a .851 OPS Player B: (Age 21) ● 123 Plate Appearances, 35 Hits, 11 Walks, 22 Strikeouts and a .969 OPS Player A you might know better as Michael Conforto, a player [...]

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Which Mets events are most likely to happen this year?

This is adapted from a meme posted in a Mets group on Facebook. List these events in order from most likely to least likely: Matt Harvey wins the Cy Young Award Mets crowned World Champions David Wright retires Noah Syndergaard wins the Cy Mets win the NL East Jose Reyes wins the batting title Terry [...]

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Predictions for the 2017 Mets

Each year with the predictions column I start by going back to the previous year’s piece. For the second time in three years, the results were … terrible. The goal is to get more than 50 percent right, while not making boring predictions. Out of last year’s batch, only three were correct. But you can’t [...]

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Mets360 2017 projections: Team wins

We’ve gone through and made predictions for 19 players for the 2017 Mets. Now it’s time to give a forecast for the team as a whole. You thought our individual projections were optimistic? Wait until you get a load of these! Dalton Allison - Mets win 90 games in a season where Syndergaard, deGrom, and [...]

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Rafael Montero is becoming a renaissance righty

At age 26, some people just need to grow up. Others need to reinvent themselves. For Rafael Montero, he has so far reinvented himself this spring. Montero was once thought of as a prized prospect in the farm system of the New York Mets. He at one time was ranked as the fifth best prospect [...]

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