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For much of the season, there were discussions about how Dominic Smith has been relatively struggling and how Amed Rosario has been dominating at Triple-A.  This has caused people to make calls for Rosario to be called-up to the majors and to question whether Smith is really the Mets long-term

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In what has been a good inaugural year for the Binghamton Rumble Ponies, the team is sending five teams to the Eastern League All Star Game.  The five players are C Tomas Nido, INF Luis Guillorme, LHP P.J. Conlon, RHP Corey Oswalt, and OF Kevin Taylor.  This is the

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Mets slugging first base prospect Peter Alonso was named the Florida State League’s Player of the Week for the week ending June 25th.  Over the past week, Alonso played eight games going 12-29 with three homers, six doubles, and 14 RBI.  The real highlight of the week was Friday. 

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Salt Lake Bees 16 – Las Vegas 51s 2 Box Score Phillip Evans 1-4, R, HR, RBI, K Kevin Plawecki 1-3, R, 2B Travis Taijeron 1-3, RBI The 51s were down early, and they were not able to really get back into the game against Bees’ starter Luis Diaz despite

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The New York Mets have announced they have purchased the contract of RHP Mitch Atkins from the Somerset Patriots. The 31 -year-old Atkins was the Chicago Cubs 2014 seventh round draft pick.  He will be assigned to the Triple-A Las Vegas 51s. Atkins made 10 appearances in the major

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Playing in front of the home-town fans, power hitting Mets first base prospect Dash Winningham won the BUSH’s MVP Award in the rain shortened South Atlantic League All Star Game. Winningham came up in the first inning with two on and two out. He then ripped a two run double off

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Before the 2017 season, those that followed Luis Guillorme and the Mets minor league system closely knew how truly gifted a defensive player he was.  Unfortunately, that left many people unaware of how great he is.  After he caught Adeiny Hechavarria‘s bat in spring training, everyone knows his name,

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Heading into this season, Adonis Uceta was 9-9 with a 4.09 ERA, 1.355 WHIP, and a 7.9 K/9.  Last year, despite being older for the level, Uceta struggled in Kingsport going 3-6 with a 4.99 ERA, 1.516 WHIP, and a 9.2 K/9. Based on the stats alone, you’d be

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Columbia Fireflies infielders Dash Winningham and Michael Paez will add the Home Run Derby to their All-Star festivites next week at Spirit Communications Park in Columbia, South Carolina. Winningham and Paez are among eight South Altantic League All-Star that will participate alongside six high schoolers in the derby on

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Through Tomas Nido‘s first few years as a professional, he truly struggled at the plate.  His best year had been 2014 when he repeated Brooklyn.  Typically speaking, a prospect does not want to repeat as low a level of the minor leagues as Brooklyn.  While Nido was better, he

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