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The New York Mets have announced the 2018 Sterling Award Winners.  The Mets give out a Sterling Award, which recognizes the top performing prospect or MVP, at each level of their organization.  Additionally, the Mets give a Sterling Award to the top position player and pitcher across all levels

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In an article by Mike Puma, Baseball America named the top minor league performers in the Mets farm system during the 2018 season.  Accompanying the slection of each player was a brief assessment from Mets Special Assistant to the General Manager JP Ricciaridi. Best Player – Andres Gimenez, SS

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This year, the Mets had some terrific performances from players in this year’s draft class as well as some other younger players who played well for short season affiliates. Looking over those performances, here are 2018 Mets short season affiliate leaders in each offensive category among qualifiers (over 232

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This year, the Mets had a number of breakout performances leading some players to crack Top 100 prospect lists and for other players to finally get their chance to play at the Major League level.  Looking over those performances, here are 2018 Mets full season affiliate leaders in each

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Co-Position Player of the Month – Peter Alonso, 1B Level: Las Vegas Season Stats: .285/.395/.579, 31 2B, 3B, 36 HR, 119 RBI August Stats: .308/.392/.731, 11 2B, 11 HR, 27 RBI Alonso finished this season leading the minors in homers partially because of his 11 homers this month.  Those

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The Kingsport Mets have announced 2B Luis Santana was named as the team’s Sterling Award Winner.  Considering the number of candidates for this award and the special season Kingsport just had, Santana winning the award speaks to just how good a season he had. In 53 games, Santana hit

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When Peter Alonso strode to the plate in the bottom of the ninth in what was the final game for Las Vegas both at Cashman Field and as the Triple-A affilate of the New York Mets, he found himself trailing Ibandel Isabel by one homer for the Jack Bauman

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With rosters expanding in Septmeber, the New York Mets announced they have called-up three more players to add them to the major league roster: 1B/OF Dominic Smith, SS Jack Reinheimer, and RHP Drew Gagnon.  With these three players being recalled, they were not available for Las Vegas’ finale for

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While speaking with reporters yesterday, Mickey Callaway said right-handed relievers Eric Hanhold and Tim Peterson were going to be the first two players who were going to part of September call-ups. With respect to Peterson, this will be his fourth call-up to the majors this season. In his previous

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On Tuesday, the New York Mets announced they were not going to call-up Peter Alonso, and instead, the team has decided to send Alonso to the Arizona Fall League.  Alonso has responded to this obvious disappointment by absolutely crushing the baseball, and in a season full of highlights, today

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