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According to the Columbia Fireflies game notes, right-handed pitcher Cannon Chadwick has retired. Chadwick, 23, was the New York Mets ninth round pick in the 2017 draft from the University of Arkansas. Cannon struggled in his five innings of work this year for the Columbia Fireflies allowing seven runs

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The Las Vegas 51s have released their initial roster for the 2018 season, their last as the New York Mets’ Triple-A affiliate. As previously reported by MMN, the 51s will be lead by a new coaching staff with Tony DeFrancesco as manager. He will be joined by former Binghamton Rumble Ponies pitching coach Glenn

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The New York Mets made their first round of cuts from big league camp today sending six to minor league camp. The cuts were outfielder Tim Tebow and right-handers Marcos Molina, Kevin McGowan, Jamie Callahan, Gerson Bautista and Corey Oswalt. Tebow is 1 for 18 with 11 strikeouts this

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The New York Mets lost 2-1 on Friday afternoon to the Washington Nationals in their first of two games on the day. Juan Lagares made his spring debut but he wasn’t the one grabbing all the headlines. That was Tim Tebow. Tebow looked foolish in his first at-bat of

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Baseball America recently began unveiling their top prospects at each position in a 20 player list format. They started with the catcher position in which the New York Mets did not have player. On Thursday they posted their list for second and first base with the Mets having one player in each group.

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The New York Mets last season with the Las Vegas 51s as their Triple-A affiliate is 2018 and the coaching staff gets a complete re-haul including three from the Houston Astros organization. Tony DeFrancesco replaces Pedro Lopez as the manager of the 51s after spending the previous three years

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I thought it would be a fun time in a slow offseason to take a look at the best tools in the farm system. One thing the Mets were lacking coming into last season was relief prospects capable of pitching in the back-end of a bullpen with a big

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The Binghamton Rumble Ponies announced their coaching staff for the 2018 season with many familiar faces including the manager Luis Rojas returning for his second season with the team. Rumble Ponies made the playoffs in Rojas first season at the helm for them after going 85-54 that was driven

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The Chicago Cubs have signed former New York Mets farmhand Alberto Baldonado to a minor league deal according to our own Jacob Resnick. We recently did a roundtable at MMN to choose which minor league free agent the Mets should re-sign and Baldonado was the answer from seven of

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There is no getting around it that through graduations, trades and injuries that the New York Mets farm system has certainly taken a hit and is in the bottom tier of baseball. The two big names that were atop the Mets prospects lists going into the 2017 season were

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