Minor League News Archive

SACRAMENTO 10, LAS VEGAS 1 The Las Vegas 51’s suffered their worst loss of the season on Sunday, losing to the Sacramento River Cats 10-1.  The 51’s have now lost five in a row and seven of their last eight.  Giancarlo Alvarado made his third start of the season

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Congratulations to St. Lucie Mets outfielder Brandon Nimmo for being name the MMN Player of the Week for his performance from May 19 – May 25. This is the second time this season that Nimmo has been honored by MMN, with his first during opening week of the season when

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Travis d’Arnaud went 1-for-3 with a two-run homer and caught five innings in his first rehab game with Double-A Binghamton on Sunday. D’Arnaud is expected to DH on Monday before catching one more game on Tuesday, according to Adam Rubin. After that, he could be activated from the disabled list

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SACRAMENTO 5, LAS VEGAS 2 Sacaramento benefits from a 3-run eighth inning to down the 51’s for the second night in a row 5-2.  Las Vegas was having difficulty scoring runs or producing any offense at all against the River Cats starter Dan Straily.  They were able to get

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I ventured out on Friday night to catch the B-Mets and realized that there is little not to like about Kevin Plawecki. The catching prospect got the Toyota Fireworks show at NYSEG Stadium going a little early, when he rocketed a 91 mph fastball over the left field wall and

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As the draft draws closer many of the top draft analysts are updating their mock drafts. Baseball America just released their third mock and they now have the Mets drafting Hartford lefty Sean Newcomb. This is an important shift from the team at BA, who tabbed the Mets to

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SACRAMENTO 6, LAS VEGAS 5 The Las Vegas 51’s surrender a 5-4 lead late as the Sacramento River Cats score two runs in the 8th to take the game 6-5.  Las Vegas was cruising right along until the 6th inning until the Sacramento bats woke up putting four runs

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*All stats are through May 22nd: BATTING AVERAGE T.J. Rivera, St. Lucie, .374 Eric Campbell, Las Vegas, .355 Matt Reynolds, Binghamton, .352 Jeff McNeil, Savannah, .347 Brandon Nimmo, St. Lucie, .341 HITS Dilson Herrera, St. Lucie, 67 T.J. Rivera, St. Lucie, 67 Brandon Nimmo, St. Lucie, 59 Matt Reynolds,

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The Baseball America’s Prospect Hot Sheet covers minor league games from May 16-22 and recognizes the hottest prospects in the minors during the past week only. 4. Dilson Herrera, 2b/ss, Mets Team: high Class A St. Lucie (Florida State) Age: 20 Why He’s Here: .484/.500/.839 (15-for-31), 7 R, 5 2B, 2

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When the Mets finally unloaded Ike Davis, they sent him to the Pittsburgh Pirates and in return they received relief pitcher Zack Thornton and a player to be named later. Thornton, was signed by the Oakland A’s in the 2010 Amateur draft, and after just two seasons, he was

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