Minor League News Archive

Now this is more like it… Three players on the Brooklyn Cyclones found themselves on Baseball America’s Top-2o New York Penn League prospects: Gavin Cecchini, Robert Gsellman, and Miller Diaz. First off, here’s what BA had to say about all of them: Cecchini (#11): Cecchini’s older brother Garin ranked

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The 2013 edition of the St. Lucie Mets offered an exciting glimpse of the organization’s promising young arms — most notably Noah Syndergaard — and provided several player promotions that further signaled the positive turnaround of the farm system. And it almost culminated in a playoff berth. Once again, the

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As proud as I am of Steven Matz, this is somewhat confusing: Baseball America ranked their Top-20 Prospects in the SAL League and it looks like he’s the only player from the Mets organization to make the list. So Gabriel Ynoa, Kevin Plawecki, Dilson Herrera, or Brandon Nimmo making this

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Ladies and gentlemen, we’re busting out the MMN Top 40 Prospect List starting today! You can expect every profile to include a little background information, an outlook for the future, and their skills on the scouting scale. As always, I am excited to get this series off the ground because

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Twitter is abuzz with news that the Mets have sent three scouts to Santo Domingo to scout highly touted international free agent first baseman Jose Dariel Abreu.  #Mets have 3 scouts in Santo Domingo to watch 1b Jose Abreu, remain long shot but want to make sure have full

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Highly regarded minor league analyst John Sickels recently released his end of year profile of the top 75 prospects in the minor leagues, his third and final prospect list of the 2013 season. John runs the blog Minor League Ball and writes his own yearly prospect book. He is

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Well, with the Mets wrapping up their regular season schedule with a 3-2 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers yesterday at Citi Field, it’s officially the off-season. In the last official week of the season, Wilfredo Tovar made his MLB debut, and immediately made an impact against the Phillies and

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With the only thing left to be sorted out involving the Rays and the Rangers, the Mets have their position for the 2014 draft set in stone. They will be drafting #10 with a 74-88 record — same as last year — and tied with three other teams. The

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There was an interesting piece on FanGraphs a couple days ago about Vic Black — titled “Vic Black, Closer In Waiting?” You can already guess what the subject matter dealt with and it was certainly a good read. They jump-started it with a curious quote from LaTroy Hawkins, who

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Welcome to this week’s edition of Prospect Face-Off! Today, we pin two slugging outfield prospects against one another in Dustin Lawley and Cesar Puello. Their seasons took very different routes by the end of 2013. Lawley hit .260/.313/.512 with 25 home runs and 92 RBIs for St. Lucie, earning

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