MLB Draft Archive

According to a report by Baseball America, Major League Baseball teams have been officially informed that the 2021 Rule 4 Amateur Draft will be limited to only 20 rounds. The shortened draft will be significantly longer than the 2020 draft, which was limited to only five rounds due to

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Can you smell it? The outfield grass, bristling in the sun. Can you feel it? The thawing of the last winter cold, or the rough seams on the baseball. Can you hear it? The crack of the bat. Wait…was that aluminum? If you’re a Mets player or coach preparing

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Drake Osborn, C B/T: R/R  Ht: 5’10  Wt: 190 LBS Age: July 22, 1998 (23 years old) Acquired: 2021 Mets 19th round draft pick (Louisiana-Lafayette) 2021 Stats (FCL Mets): .178/.296/.222, 2 2B, 3 RBI Drake Osborn will turn 24 years old next summer, but when thinking about the Mets

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Trey McLoughlin, photo by Ed Delany of MMN Trey McLoughlin, RHP B/T: R/R  Ht: 6’2  Wt: 210 LBS Age: June 11, 1999 (22 years old) Acquired: Mets 2021 16th round draft pick (Fairfield) 2021 Stats (FCL/St. Lucie): 0-2, 6.10 ERA, 7 G, GS, 20.2 IP, 1.306 WHIP, 3.0 BB/9,

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We have our first 2021 draft update and the Mets will be picking 10th overall. The last two times the Mets picked in the top-10, they took Jarred Kelenic and Michael Conforto. Kelenic was seen as the best prep player in the draft and Conforto was seen as the

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The Mets finished their disappointing 2020 season with a 26-34 record, tying them with the Nationals for last place in the National League East. This also means – that if Major League Baseball uses the 2020 standings for the draft order as reported by Jeff Passan – that the

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Eric Orze, RHP Ht: 6’3” Wt: 185 DOB: 8/21/97 (22) Bats/Throws: R/R School: University of New Orleans, Louisiana 2020 Stats:  19.2 IP, 22 H, 5 BB, 29 K, 2.75 ERA, 1.37 WHIP Background The final selection of the Mets’ 2020 Draft was Eric Orze, a right-handed pitcher out of the University of New Orleans. Orze’s path to

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For the second year in a row, the Mets were able to draft one of the top amateur arms that had slid out of the first round for various reasons. In 2019, top-20 talent Matthew Allan had teams convinced that no dollar amount would pry him away from a

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On Monday, the Mets officially signed their second round draft pick from the 2020 MLB Draft, J.T. Ginn, a right-handed pitcher out of Mississippi State University. Ginn was the no. 52 overall pick in the 2020 MLB Draft. He was signed for $2.9 million (the value of the no.

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According to MLB Pipeline the Mets have signed their first-round pick from this year’s amateur draft, outfielder Pete Crow-Armstrong. The prep bat agreed to sign for the full slot value for the 19th overall pick, so $3.359 million will be docked from the Mets’ total bonus pool. “I know

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