Minor League News Archive

With pitchers and catchers reporting today, Spring Training officially begins. The problem for the New York Mets is their players are arriving at a complex which is still under renovations. As reported by Keona Gardner of the TC Palm, the $57 million renovations to Clover Field, the Mets Spring

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Syracuse Mets manager Brian Schneider has been named the Mets new quality control coach. In addition to being the quality control coach, Schneider will take over catching instruction for team from Tony DeFrancesco, who coincidentally, is the person Schneider was originally hired to replace. DeFrancesco was the Mets Triple-A

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In naming the fastest prospect for each organization, MLB Pipeline has named OF Ranfy Adon as the fastest prospect in the Mets organization. In naming him such, MLB Pipeline noted he exhibits speed in the field and on the basepaths: The 6-foot-3, 195-pound outfielder can fly on both sides

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The New York Mets have announced the 2020 coaching staff to lead the Kingsport Mets as their 40th season as the organization’s minor league affiliate. While this is the 40th year of the Mets affiliation with Kingsport, the coaching staff has a very new feel to it. Leading Kingsport

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The New York Mets have already announced they had hired Ed Blankmeyer as the replacement for Edgardo Alfonzo to help lead the Brooklyn Cyclones to their second outright New York-Penn League title. Joining Blankmeyer in his inaugural season as a professional manager will be: Bench Coach Benny Distefano Pitching

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John Sickels of The Athletic has comprised his top 100 rankings for the 2020 season, and Ronny Mauricio was the only Mets prospect to make the list. In ranking Mauricio as the 72nd best prospect in the game, Sickels said: Previously No. 69; .268/.307/.357 in Low-A but only 18

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Baseball America has ranked their top 30 shortstop prospects, and the Mets have two shortstops ranked. Ronny Mauricio, 18, is ranked as the 11th best prospect at the position. Overall, Baseball America gives Rosario a 60 grade saying of him: Scouts who like Mauricio see at least an average

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When MLB Pipeline released their Top 100 prospect rankings, the Mets had four prospects ranked. Those four prospects were Ronny Mauricio (#62), Francisco Alvarez (#63), Andres Gimenez (#84), and Brett Baty (#93). As the 2020 season progresses, we may see other Mets prospects join those four prospects on these

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Under the current plans, the Mets affiliates in Kingsport and Binghamton are among those to lose their affiliation with minor league baseball. This has led to local, state, and now the federal government looking for ways to prevent this plan from being implemented. There is a bipartisan Congressional effort

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RHP Rob Whalen has come out of retirement and has returned to the Mets organization on a minor league deal. Whalen, 25, was drafted by the Mets in the 12th round of the 2012 draft. In 2015, he was traded along with John Gant in exchange for Juan Uribe

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