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Baseball America’s John Manuel recently published rankings of the top 20 prospects in the Florida State League. Noah Syndergaard ranked sixth, the highest placed pitcher overall. Manuel said, in part: Scouts and managers considered him the easy choice as the best pitching prospect in the FSL thanks to a premium fastball,

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I’m big on international signings — because in some cases, you get to add a new prospect to the system for just money, while others provide an established player for the same cost alone. Guys like Jose Abreu become a bit more tantalizing when you realize that they don’t

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When looking at the successful teams around Major League Baseball, the one key element that stands out, is how good is their pitching staff. Pitching is key to any organization looking to not only be competitive during the season, but to be competitive every single year. And a successful

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Another week into the offseason, but still plenty of things to talk about here at MMN. Baseball America continued to rank their top prospects in each minor league, ranking their top 20 players in the Sally League. While the Sand Gnats took home their first championship in 17 years,

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We have another intriguing question for our writers here at MMN. We posed the following question: Who do you think will make it to the big league bullpen first: Jack Leathersich or Jeff Walters? Here’s what some of our guys had to say: Joe D: This one’s easy for

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Establishing your ability to throw fastballs for strikes is key for any pitcher — but Mark Simon has come out with some stats that show that it is even more important for our young co-ace, Zack Wheeler. Wheeler’s best starts and the starts where he has the highest strike

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Welcome to this week’s edition of Prospect Time Machine. I wanted to shine the light on a player that I enjoyed watching as a kid. It was right around the 1997 and 1998 season when I started to really follow major league baseball, and I was drawn to Butch

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Angel Calero is a former minor league pitcher in the New York Mets organization. Calero was signed by the Mets as an international free agent in 2004. He made his US debut the next season with the Gulf Coast Mets. Calero would pitch for six seasons in the Mets

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Adam Rubin wrote on the possibility of the Mets moving their Triple-A team to Syracuse for the 2015 season. He spoke with Howard Dolgon, who owns the American Hockey League affiliate in Syracuse, and Dolgon was the one who brought up the whole idea: “Why aren’t the Mets here?”

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Adam Rubin noted in a piece this morning that Alderson wants better arms in the bullpen going into next season. “We need to have more quality arms in the bullpen,” he said on Monday. “We never had a real strong bottom half of the bullpen,” Alderson said. “The key will be

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