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Mets Minors Thoughts Archive

Mets Minors 2017 All-Stars: Urena Bounces Back

December 18, 2017Mets Minors Thoughts7 Comments

This is the final part of our series of Mets Minors All-Stars, our staff has selected the bench players. When ranking these players, we selected them based up on their performance during the 2017 and not their prospect status: Jhoan Urena – Poised to have a breakout season, Jhoan Urena

Mets Minors Positional Breakdown: Outfield

By Dilip Sridhar

December 15, 2017Mets Minors Thoughts23 Comments

Las Vegas 51s Jayce Boyd MiLB Stats: .297/.371/.512, 18 2B, 3B, 11 HR, 46 RBI, 26 BB/47 K, 3/3 SB Travis Taijeron played three years at Las Vegas and finally got the call to the big leagues. Injuries to Michael Conforto and Yoenis Cespedes along with a barrage of

Rule 5 Primer Including Players That Could Interest Mets

By Jacob Resnick

December 13, 2017Mets Minors Thoughts9 Comments

Major League Baseball’s annual Rule 5 Draft takes place on Thursday at 9 a.m. at the Winter Meetings. Below is a primer on the draft and how it affects the Mets this year who will have the 6th pick. HOW DOES THE DRAFT WORK? Named for its place in

MMN Roundtable: Columbia Fireflies Next Manager

By John Sheridan

December 11, 2017Mets Minors Thoughts2 Comments

With the St. Louis Cardinals poaching Jose Leger from the Mets to make him their new Latin American Field Coordinator. This leaves the Mets organization looking not just for a new manager for the Colubmia Fireflies, but also looking for someone to replace a well regarded manager who was

Revisiting Sandy Alderson’s Mets First Round Draft Picks

By John Sheridan

December 5, 2017Mets Minors Thoughts15 Comments

One of the purported reasons why Sandy Alderson was hired to replace Omar Minaya as the Mets general manager was due to the state of the Mets farm system. Now, there was some truth to that given how Minaya continuously left the team without high draft picks due to

Mets Minors 2017 All Stars: Starting Pitchers Led by Corey Oswalt

By Sam Lebowitz

November 21, 2017Mets Minors Thoughts7 Comments

We will be releasing the players we’ve chosen as part of a group voting for the New York Mets prospects that we felt had the best seasons in 2017. These players are chosen strictly on their numbers and not on their prospect rankings. It’s going to be a four part

MMN Full Season Reliever of the Year: Adonis Uceta

By John Sheridan

November 3, 2017Mets Minors Thoughts3 Comments

Heading into the 2017 season, MMN noted Adonis Uceta was a two-pitch pitcher who would not only thrive in the bullpen, but he would quickly rise in the Mets farm system if he were ever converted to a reliever. Uceta’s 2017 season would not just prove this analysis to

MMN Profile: 51s’ New Skipper Tony DeFrancesco

By John Sheridan

October 30, 2017Mets Minors ThoughtsNo comments

With the Mets unhappy with the way things have unfolded down in Triple-A the past few seasons, the organization has decided to begin giving the team a decidedly New York makeover. That meant purchasing the Syracuse Chiefs to become the team’s new Triple-A affiliate beginning in 2019. It also

Mets Minor League Position Breakdown: Shortstop

By Daniel Muras

October 25, 2017Mets Minors Thoughts3 Comments

Las Vegas 51s Amed Rosario MiLB Stats: 94 G, 425 PA, 393 AB, 66 R, 129 H, 19 2B, 7 3B, 7 HR, 58 RBI, 19 SB, 6 CS, .328/.367/.466 MLB Stats: 46 G, 170 PA, 165 AB, 16 R, 41 H, 4 2B, 4 3B, 4 HR, 10 RBI, 7

Starting Pitcher of the Year: RHP Corey Oswalt

By Dilip Sridhar

October 5, 2017Mets Minors Thoughts1 Comment

There wasn’t much of a debate over who deserved this award. Corey Oswalt and his 2.28 ERA was the best starting pitcher in the Mets farm system this year. Oswalt is a big pitcher at 6’5″ and weighs 250 pounds out of Madison High School in San Diego. He was a seventh

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