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With Travis d’Arnaud suffering a season ending injury and Kevin Plawecki breaking his hand, Tomas Nido and Jose Lobaton were rushed to the majors.  With respect to Nido, this was an opportunity for the Mets 9th best prospect to show the team he is ready to play at the

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Entering the 2018 season, the debate for the Mets future at first base hinged on two players: Dominic Smith and Peter Alonso.  The debate between the two presented a clear philosophical debate about what is and who should play first.  Lost in this debate between Smith and Alonso is

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It may surprise you which starting pitcher in the Mets organization is off to the best start this season. It’s not a first round draft pick. It’s not one of the many pitchers who throws in the mid to upper 90s.  In fact, this pitcher has a fastball in

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  On the eve of the 2018 season, the New York Mets were able to land former first round pick Bryce Brentz off waivers.  Brentz promised to give the Mets some much needed organizational outfield depth. With Brentz hitting .271/.334/.529 with 31 homers and 85 RBI last season for

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Last season, due to a heavy workload for the University of Oregon (and an ingrown toenail), the Mets 2017 first round draft pick (20th overall) David Peterson was limited to just 3.2 innings for Brooklyn. Essentially, that meant this season was going to be his first real season as

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In the Binghamton Rumble Ponies’ 4-3 win over New Hampshire last night, three of the four runs plated were the result of solo home runs.  Two of those homers belonged to Jeff McNeil. He’s 3 for 14 this season with all three hits being long balls and has played

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With the Mets needing a fresh arm for the bullpen, the Mets have called MMN‘s 16th ranked prospect RHP Gerson Bautista to the major leagues. To make room for Bautista on the roster, Hansel Robles, who has allowed a homer in two of his last three appearances, to Triple-A

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  Coming out of Stanford, there was an interesting debate about whether Chris Viall belonged in the rotation or in the bullpen.  Certainly, there is always the temptation to use a guy out of the bullpen when a pitcher has the ability to ramp his fastball up to 101

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Fully recovered from Tommy John surgery, 2016 Mets first round draft pick (31st overall) Anthony Kay is finally getting his opportunity to show everyone why the Mets drafted him not just once, but twice. More than that, he is showing everyone just how good a pitcher he truly is.

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  One of the more maligned trades Sandy Alderson made last year was sending Jay Bruce to the Cleveland Indians in exchange for their 2016 30th round draft pick Ryder Ryan.  At the time of the trade, Ryan had made 33 appearances for Cleveland’s Low-A affiliate, and he had

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