Mets Minors Thoughts Archive

In Syracuse’s inaugural season as the Mets Triple-A affiliate, they are going to give fans plenty of reasons to come to the ballpark. First and foremost, there is Tebow, who has proven to be a draw at each stop in the minors. More than that, Syracuse promises to put

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A lot has been said over the last six years about how it made no sense to bring the Mets Triple-A affiliate to Las Vegas. The logistics and just sheer inconvenience of having the Mets farmhands most likely to be called up stashed away out west were not great.

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The Mets announced Tuesday morning that they had trimmed their major league Spring Training roster by making 13 cuts, most notably optioning Chris Flexen, Franklyn Kilome, and Drew Gagnon. While Flexen and Gagnon made three appearances each over the first week of exhibition games, Kilome was notably absent as he

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The Mets have completed their first week of Spring Training games in 2019. Here are some of the more notable performances amongst the fringe roster players thus far. Included in the stat lines is opponent quality, an important contextual measure that aggregates the levels that the player’s opponents played

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I was back at Mets spring camp for day two of the teams full squad practices in Port Saint Lucie on a hot morning full of Tebow Mania. It was the largest crowd I’ve seen at a workout since coming to the backfields yearly starting in 2015. There remains a

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Background Once a top-ranked prospect in the Mets’ system, Dilson Herrera is back to prove that the team was wrong to give up on him in the first place. At one point anointed as the organization’s second baseman of the future, Herrera was originally acquired from the Pittsburgh Pirates

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For these selections, the MMN writers voted based on 2018 performance and current prospect standing. Full Season Hitter of the Year: Peter Alonso A cluster of infielders showed off at the dish in the Mets farm system in 2018. Alonso, arguably the Mets top positional prospect, slugged his way

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Background During the mid-200s B.C., Greek mathematician Archimedes made tremendous contributions in the sciences at his home in Syracuse, Sicily. Over 2,200 years later, his namesake, right-handed fireballer Arquimedes Caminero is destined to make his mark on the mound in Syracuse, New York. With 149 major league relief appearances under his

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Background Once named the most exciting player in the 2011 Midwest League—a circuit that featured future all-stars Ender Inciarte and Jesus Aguilar, speedster Billy Hamilton, and the late uber-prospect Oscar Taveras—Rymer Liriano‘s career, to this point, has amounted to all of 167 major league plate appearances. The now 27-year-old outfielder received a

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Background Whether Ryan O’Rourke contributes anything of substance to the Mets or not, his name will always be the answer to a trivia question. When the organization announced his signing on November 15, it marked the first acquisition, although one of the minor league variety, in the tenure of Brodie

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