MMN Exclusives Archive

With their 16th selection in 2017 MLB Draft, the Mets selected outfielder Raphael Gladu out of Louisiana Tech University. The Quebec native transferred to Louisiana Tech for his junior year from Galveston College in Texas. While at Louisiana Tech, he won the Conference USA batting title his senior year

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With their 18th pick in the 2018 MLB Draft, the Mets selected first baseman Chase Chambers out of Tennessee Tech. After going undrafted in the 2017 draft, Chambers elected to return to Tennessee Tech and it paid great dividends. On the season, he hit .400/.498/.652 with 15 home runs

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The New York Mets drafted right-handed pitcher Cameron Planck in the 11th round of the 2016 MLB June Amateur Draft from Rowan County High School in Morehead, KY. Cameron later signed with the Mets on July 13, 2016 and received a $1,000,001 million signing bonus. After the signing, Cameron

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The New York Mets drafted right-handed pitcher Christian James in the 14th round of the 2016 draft from East Lake High School in Tarpon Springs, Florida. James, 19, had a fantastic pro debut for the GCL Mets in 2016 when he had a 0.52 ERA, 0.92 WHIP and held

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Nabil Crismatt has fared plenty of success in the Mets organization, but has remained somewhat under the radar. Crismatt recently gained some notoriety when he started the qualifying match for Colombia versus Panama for the World Baseball Classic. Colombia qualified, and Crismatt pitched in a game versus the Dominican

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Current New York Mets minor league right-handed reliever Matt Pobereyko has had a rollercoaster baseball career thus far. After graduating from Hammond Bishop Noll Institute in 2010, he had a five-year college career, which was an up-and-down journey within itself. He went to South Suburban College in Illinois for

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Even World Series champions make significant changes ahead of the following season. After nearly 550 victories across seven seasons in the Houston Astros organization, veteran minor league skipper Tony DeFrancesco parted ways with the club that had given him his first shot in the major leagues. Fortunately for DeFrancesco, the

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Blake Tiberi was selected by the Mets in the third round (100th overall) of the 2016 MLB draft out of Louisville andwas given a $500,000 signing bonus. After being redshirted his first year at Louisville, and playing sparingly in second season, Blake broke out during his third and final

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Andrew Church was selected by the New York Mets in the second round of the 2013 First-Year Player Draft out of Basic High School in Henderson, Nevada. Andrew started his pro career with the Gulf Coast League Mets, where he pitched in nine games (six starts) totaling 35 innings

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After he was selected in the 28th round of this year’s Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft, Jeremy Vasquez‘s phone was inundated with so many calls and text messages that he couldn’t even tell which team had picked him. But it was one call from a former — and now

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