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Welcome to the next installment of MMN’s Mid-Season Top 25 Prospects! As always, the scouting scale explanation can found right here… and as loyal reader Andrew Conyers pointed out to me, I needed an efficient way of linking you guys to the rest of the prospects… so here’s the

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Well, we’ve entered the Top 10 of our mid-season rankings, so things are getting serious… The traditional scouting scale, which ranks players on a scale of 20-80 (abbreviated at times without the zero), can summarize how we feel about a player in an easy to understand format. Now, for

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After a few weeks of being away, I am finally back into full writing swing, and with a recap for the Cyclones. I attended the ‘Clones game tonight and sat behind the player’s guns a few seats from directly behind the front seats of the plate. I saw gun

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In an interesting move, the Mets drafted three high school players with their first three picks of the 2013 draft. They were all very interesting picks, as New York selected a first baseman, a right handed pitcher, and a outfielder, respectively. When I mean interesting, I mean that they

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The 2013 MLB Draft is tomorrow and the top Mets pick speculation is heating up. I recently allotted the mock drafts, compiling the lists where the likely Mets picks would be. Mock Drafts have had players fall and rise since then. Players such as Braden Shipley and Colin Moran

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With the beginning of June comes the beginning of the Dominican Summer League, which is commonly abbreviated as the DSL. The Mets have two teams that play in the DSL and if you’d like to learn more about the Dominican complex where the Mets house and train some prospects,

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The Draft is quickly approaching, and multiple people have been asking about different players. The player most people have been asking about has been Stanford outfielder Austin Wilson. Austin Wilson is an interesting prospect. His hit, and his power from the right side are listed as “plus tools” (Mayo

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This rebuilding process seems to be dragging on too long. Do you think the Mets will go with young high school players again in June with their first round pick? I feel as though we desperately need some near MLB ready college bats and can’t afford to use our

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Draft day is approaching quick; June 6th to be exact. The most important phase of the June rule IV Player Draft is the first round, which is speculated over and over every year. The first round usually sets the tone for priority of picks by selecting players teams feel

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Iowa 6, Las Vegas 5 On Tuesday night, in the second game of the visiting Las Vegas doubleheader against the Iowa Cubs, the 51s were swept in a heartbreaking 6-5 loss in a 7-inning game. D.J. Mitchell started for the 51s and was hammered for five earned in four

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