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Tonight is Major League Baseball’s annual draft. The draft will begin at 7 p.m. on MLB Network and can be seen on MLB.com. The Mets will be picking 12th overall tonight and they will $8,224,600 to work with. Here is a link for the full draft bonuses. The heavy

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Syracuse Mets first baseman Travis Taijeron hit for the cycle on Friday night in a 13-4 win over the Pawtucket Red Sox. Taijeron, 30, started his night with an RBI single in the second inning. It didn’t take long for the right-handed slugger to get his next hit, Taijeron

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There was a flurry of roster moves on Friday in the Mets minor leagues and we will start with right-handers Tommy Wilson and Thomas McIlraith being promoted from Advanced-A St. Lucie to Double-A Binghamton according to our own Ernest Dove. Ernest also noted that right-handed reliever Ezequiel Zabaleta is

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The Double-A Binghmaton Rumbles Ponies had two pitchers combine for a no-hitter on Wednesday night in their 7-0 win over the Harrisburg Senators. Starter Harol Gonzalez went 6.2 innings before reliever Ryder Ryan finished off the historic game with 2.1 innings of no-hit ball. The right-handers combined to face

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Syracuse (17-9) 8, Lehigh Valley (16-9) 2 Box Score Rajai Davis LF: 2-for-4, 2 BB, .304/.377/.391 Adeiny Hechavarria 3B: 2-for-5, BB, 2B, 2 R, .352/.386/.451 Luis Guillorme SS: 2-for-4, 2 BB, 2 R, 2B, .438/.591/.500 Syracuse walked 10 times in the game to go along with 11 hits. Davis

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Minor League Opening Day is here with all four of the Mets full season teams in action. The Syracuse Mets will kick off the minor league season (and their affiliation with the Mets) at 2:05 p.m. ET. Jacob Resnick went over the key storylines for this season and John Sheridan highlighted

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Sources have told me that the Class-A Columbia Fireflies infield will include teenage prospects SS Ronny Mauricio, 3B Mark Vientos, and INF Shervyen Newton. The 17-year-old Mauricio was our No. 3 Mets prospects and was ranked as high as No. 68 in FanGraphs’ Top 100 MLB prospects. Mauricio signed

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Baseball America has released their latest installment of the 2019 MLB mock draft. They still have Oregon catcher Adley Rutschman going first overall to the Baltimore Orioles. They have the Mets taking left-hander Nick Lodolo with the 12th overall pick. In their first mock back in December, BA had the Mets taking

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The New York Mets have released minor leaguers Oliver Pascual, Dylan Tice, and Andrew Ryan according to Jacob Resnick of Mets Minors. Pascual, 22, hit just .195/.208/.229 across three levels (reaching as high as Double-A) in the 2018 season. In five minor league seasons, the versatile switch-hitter has a

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Our own Jacob Resnick was in Port St. Lucie on Friday reporting from Mets camp, when he noticed that NFL player Bradley Marquez was in uniform. He played one inning in center field during the intrasquad game. Marquez, 26, was the Mets 16th round pick in the 2011 draft from

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