This has been our most mixed group of talent in the list so far. Here we have advanced prospects, formerly highly rated, who have failed to take the final steps in their careers, mixed with breakout stars too old for their league and international prospects that are too young to properly scout. The bottom 20 [...]
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The 2018 Mets finished the season strong, going 18-10 (.643) in the month of September. That was the sixth-best record in the majors and four of the five teams that finished ahead of them went to the playoffs. Even the non-playoff team was the Rays, who finished the year with 90 wins. A lot of [...]
Drafted 11th overall in the 2013 draft, Dominic Smith was supposed to be the first baseman of the future for the New York Mets. He was going to fill in the void that would be left be players like Ike Davis, Lucas Duda, or whoever else the Mets would find to plug in that position. [...]
With his introductory press conference out of the way and the 2018 season in the books, new Mets GM will step into his office faced with a lot of questions to answer and some of them will need to be addressed immediately. Here comes an incomplete list: How much freedom does the new Mets GM [...]
With the 2018 season in the books and no baseball to watch for the next four months, what's on your TV? For me it's the Knicks (see, teams can be worse than the Mets) and a few series I'm hooked on - the Walking Dead, House of Cards, and Ray Donavan. I just realized, the [...]
The [former-agent-as-General-Manager] situation looks better in other sports, particularly in the NBA, where agents have gone on to be successful GMs, including Bob Myers of the Golden State Warriors. One of the things that Myers has done successfully in Oakland is to install an organization-wide culture of togetherness. And if there’s any MLB team that [...]