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Bob Klapisch of NewJersey.com spoke with David Wright about the state of the Mets and about Wright putting to the side millions of dollars in possible free agent money to re-up with the only team he has ever rooted and played for, to try and help them get back to

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Original Generation K Kevin Kernan of the Post spoke with Jason Isringhausen, one of the original members of the Mets Generation K and had a great one-on-one about how the new crop of Mets young arms compare to the original crew that were supposed to carry the team for

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Las Vegas 51’s pitching coach Frank Viola, tweeted that his son Frank III,  has signed a minor-league contract with the Toronto Blue Jays after he had a successful tryout. The younger Viola is 29 years old and a knuckleball pitcher. Congrats to my son, @FrankViola3, on signing with the

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The Mets tweeted that today’s game is rained out. I did see a huge storm passing over all of Florida on the weather map. I think they predicted severe storms in Florida, that usually means, take cover for about 20 minutes because all hell is going to break loose.

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Amazin’ Avenue‘s Chris McShane recently spoke with Paul DePodesta, the Mets’ Vice President of Player Development and Amateur Scouting, about how the Mets’ minor league system doesn’t appear to be nearly as lopsided as it once was. The Mets have a good amount of highly touted young pitchers as well as

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A Mets split-squad traveled to Space Coast Stadium to play the Washington Nationals, while the rest of the team remained in Port St Lucie to take on the Miami Marlins. Nationals 11, Mets 5 Jenrry Mejia got the start today and faced off against Nationals starter Gio Gonzalez as

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Paul DePodesta, the Mets’ vice president of player development and amateur scouting, recently conducted an extensive interview with Amazin’ Avenue on the status of the team’s farm system and player development. One subject of their discussion was Brandon Nimmo the Mets first-round draft pick from the 2011 amateur players

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Chris McShane of Amazin’ Avenue wrote a great article where he spoke with Paul DePodesta, the Mets’ vice president of player development and amateur scouting, about the exciting progress the team’s minor league players have already made, and DePodesta is optimistic that there’s more to come, especially when it comes to those

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Here they are, all gathered together in one place. MMN presents to you our 2014 Top 25 Mets Prospects. We love the job that our minor league staff/analysts did in producing our Top 25 this year. Let’s give them a nice round of applause. The following rankings did not include

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Marc Carig of NY Newsday wrote that a year ago when Zack Wheeler arrived in Mets camp, television cameras tracked his every move, and he was deemed to be the Mets next big thing and would rescue the Mets and their rotation. But this spring all the attention has been

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