Mets Minors Thoughts Archive

  Chasen Bradford in 7 games in relief with the Scottsdale Scorpions, has continued to pitch well and has yet to give up a run, with 5 strikeouts in 7 innings of work. He, for whatever reason was left off the AFL All Star game roster.  Jeurys Familia, who

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With the last game of the World Series played last night, today marks the first official day of the so called off-season and the start of what will be wild and crazy negotiations between owners, agents and players.  This is when us fans start to figure out which players

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I found a post on Mack’s Mets Report this morning, where a list was created that picks which prospects may call Citi Field their home in the next few years.  Here are the selections: 2014 – SP Noah Syndergaard, SP Rafael Montero, RF Cesar Puello 2015 – C Kevin Plawecki 2016 – SP Steven

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“The Red Sox hitters are too good, too patient to attack any other way than with power, and the Cardinals blueprint worded to perfection in Game 2. If St. Louis is to win this series that’s the only way it’s going to happen, as they can’t out-slug the Red Sox. The Cardinals

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Bristol Baseball, Inc., the operators behind former White Sox Advanced-Rookie Appalachian League affiliate, the Bristol White Sox, has announced today their new partnership with the Pittsburgh Pirates. The White Sox are still connected with another Advanced-Rookie Appalachian League team, the Great Falls Voyagers. The addition marks the ninth team to

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For the past few seasons, the Mets bullpen has been a major weakness. They have consistently ranked among the league’s worst, and they did not perform much better this season. In 2013, the Mets bullpen finished in the bottom ten in ERA, WHIP, and strikeouts. Despite these struggles, the

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Kevin Kernan put together an interesting piece earlier in the week in the New York Post on Dodger baseball phenom Yasiel Puig. In his first sentence, he speculates that Puig is ready for October baseball, but wonders whether baseball is ready for Puig. He builds his piece around what he calls the

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In past years, NCAA baseball coaches have had their share of differences with the association over rule discrepancies. Recently, the two groups have been in talks over the effects of the differences between a regulation college baseball and a professional one. Coaches argue that the differences in bat and

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The Magic is Back! That was the Mets promotional slogan in the spring of 1980 after Nelson Doubleday Jr. and Fred Wilpon had purchased New York’s National League franchise. From a business standpoint, the new Met owners bought in at a perfect time. The Mets were in shambles, last place finishers in three

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Bobby Parnell recently had surgery, and is expected to start 2014 in the same role he found himself in 2013 — as closer for the New York Mets. In 49 appearances before a herniated disk ended his season, the hard-throwing right-hander went 5-5 with a 2.16 ERA, 1.00 WHIP,

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