Mets Minors Thoughts Archive

Back in 1963 and 1964 when fringe-major leaguer Al Moran and later, aging veteran Roy McMillanwere playing shortstop for the Mets, the minor league system was developing two promising shortstops, one of whom who would hopefully be the long-term heir to the job. On the Mets’ Raleigh farm team, the shortstop was

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Happy Valentine’s Day and thought it was cool to share some tweets from the Mets prospects. Love is in the air. Happy Valentine’s Day to my beautiful wife @jennafurrr it’s not flowers but it is a lot of good conversation. pic.twitter.com/BH0ag1NSnH — Darin Gorski (@darin_gorski20) February 14, 2014 My

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Daniel Muno will be starting his first big league camp and even though it is a big accomplishment for him, he really wasn’t that surprised at the invite, Muno shares, “I had a feeling.” Muno has been working hard to reach this point in his career since the day

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I have been waiting for this moment for almost three months; to be able to say that we are only two weeks away from the start of a new baseball season. This winter has seemed so long and with the Super Bowl finally ending the football season on Sunday,

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Keith Law came out with his annual prospect rankings series recently, including his overall top 100, and his organizational rankings, both of which were rather surprising to some Mets fans. While the list itself has been gone over with a fine tooth comb, probably the most important thing hasn’t

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Eloy Jimenez, OF, Dominican Republic On Tuesday, Ben Sadler of Baseball America shared the estimates of what every major league team spent on international amateur players during the 2013 calendar year. Sadler explains the process: The timeframe overlaps multiple signing periods, including the second half of the 2012-13 signing period in

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A cadre of young Met pitching prospects has Met fans dreaming better days are coming to Citi Field. In recent years the young arms have come in waves and if only a few can stick it shouldn’t be long before the Mets are relevant again. When you read about

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David Wynn has a tattoo that says, “Walk by Faith”, and that is exactly what he has had to do in pursuit of his Major League Dream. At 5’10″ and 168 lbs, Wynn’s journey to what he hopes will someday be the mound at Citi Field, almost never began.

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Cleon Jones played both football and baseball at Alabama A&M when the Mets signed him in the summer of 1962 to report the following year. Unlike Ed Kranepool and Ron Swoboda, Jones was not a big-money bonus player who was touted as a surefire big leaguer from the day

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Cory Vaughn: he possesses the deadly combination of speed, power, and a smile that can light up a room. He is always interacting and having fun with fans via outlets like Twitter. Vaughn, the Mets’ fourth round pick in the 2010 draft, seemed destined to be one of the

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