Mets Minors Thoughts Archive

  After the first half in the Minor Leagues, Baseball America asked managers and coaches to vote for who they thought has the best skills at every level in a variety of different categories. This year when they talked to the voters in the Florida State League the St.

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  The Salt River Rafters game just started in the Arizona Fall League and Mets first base prospect Dominic Smith is back in the lineup batting third as the designated hitter. He has been out since November 2nd with what John Ricco called a strained oblique. Smith was batting

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  We will be releasing the players we have chosen for the Mets roster of the 25 minor leaguers who we thought had the best years. These players are chosen strictly on their numbers and not on their prospect rankings. It is going to be a four part series with

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  The Salt River Rafters lost last night after they scored four runs in the 9th inning to send the game into extra innings. The Surprise Saguaros scored one in the 10th to pick up the win and drop the Rafters to 14-12 on the season. Mets minor league

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  The New York Mets announced via their twitter account that they have signed utility guy Ty Kelly to a minor league contract with an invite to Major League spring training. Kelly is a 27-year old righty thrower and a switch-hitter that played the entire 2015 season in AAA

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  Two weeks ago Baseball America released its Top 10 list of Mets prospects and you can read my breakdown of it here. Matt Eddy of BA then did a chat where he answered some questions about the list and here are some tidbits from it: Michael Fulmer (traded for

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  Baseball America released their Top 10 Mets prospect list today and unsurprisingly they have left-hander Steven Matz at the top. They talk about the fact that the trades of Michael Fulmer, Robert Whalen, Matt Koch, Casey Meisner, Luis Cessa, John Gant and Miller Diaz has weakened the Mets

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The Salt River Rafters dropped their third straight game, this one coming on a walk-off two-run homerun by Red Sox prospect Sam Travis in the 11th inning. Mets minor league knuckleballer Mickey Jannis was in line for the win before the bullpen allowed five runs in the 8th and four

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  Earlier this week the Mets announced their Sterling Award winners for the minor leagues with Michael Conforto being the Player of the Year and Robert Gsellman named the Pitcher of the Year. Top prospects that were named the most outstanding player for their teams this year included Dominic

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Path Of A 4A Player Every organization carries a number of players who are referred to as AAAA material. From early on, many are deemed for this generic role. Typically, they are selected in the middle rounds of the draft and produce well enough at every level to advance

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