MLB Draft Archive

With their selection in the seventh round, the Mets selected Luke Ritter, a senior second basemen from Wichita State University. Ritter is praised for his defensive versatility and his ability to hit, with a career hitting line of .299/.406/.449. In his senior season, he hit .333/.458/.545 while showing defensive

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With the sixth pick of the 2019 draft (178th overall), the New York Mets have selected Zach Ashford, a left-handed-hitting center fielder from Fresno State University. Baseball America did not include him in their Top 500 Draft Prospects list, nor did he appear in MLB.com‘s Top 200 Draft Prospects list.

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In the fifth round, 148th overall, The Mets have selected Nathan Jones, a senior right-handed pitcher from Northwestern State University. Jones tossed 81 innings, struck out 80 batters and walked 20, while sporting a 2.78 ERA in his 2019 season. Jones was a former catcher who converted to pitcher.

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The New York Mets have selected 23-year-old Mississippi State center fielder Jake Mangum with the 118th overall selection of the 2019 MLB Draft (11th pick, fourth round). Mangum is a switch-hitting, left-handed thrower and was drafted by the Mets in the 32nd round of the 2018 draft (950th overall), deciding to

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With the third pick of the 2019 draft (No. 89 overall): The Mets have drafted RHP Matthew Allan. After going with prep players with their first two selections, the Mets opted to stick with the high-school route for their third pick. Fangraphs ranked him as their No. 20 best prospect

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With day 1 of the 2019 MLB Draft over and done with, we can now sit back and take a deep breath, and look at what we have objectively. While most of the early goings of the first round were about fairly predictable for the first seven picks, the

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The Mets’ final pick on the first night of the 2019 Draft was Josh Wolf, a right-handed pitcher from St. Thomas High School (TX), in the second round. Wolf’s selection came after third baseman Brett Baty was taken in the first round. The Mets went with two players from

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The following is a comprehensive list of the New York Mets’ selections in the 2019 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft, coupled with pertinent information, and, eventually, a link to their MMN profiles. This page will be updated frequently, so be sure to refresh as the picks come in.

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The 2019 MLB Draft is among us once again. It seems like just yesterday we saw the final draft of the Sandy Alderson regime, in which the Mets chose outfielder Jarred Kelenic and pitcher Simeon Woods-Richardson in the first two rounds of day one. Now, here we are, one year later,

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Tonight is Major League Baseball’s annual draft. The draft will begin at 7 p.m. on MLB Network and can be seen on MLB.com. The Mets will be picking 12th overall tonight and they will $8,224,600 to work with. Here is a link for the full draft bonuses. The heavy

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