The New York Mets baseball organization announced on Tuesday afternoon that it will drop its affiliation with the Columbia Fireflies, New York’s Single-A affiliate since 2016. This comes during a realignment in MiLB that has already affected the Kingsport Mets, the former Rookie League affiliate for the Mets. As a

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Today, Steve Cohen and Sandy Alderson spoke to the press, unveiling a new future for the Mets, now and going forward. They talked about analytics, good personnel, and good players at the upper level, but what was more striking was the essential emphasis by Steve Cohen to build up

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The New York Mets have gotten to quick work on their offseason tasks, as they announced 11 minor league free agent signings Wednesday. Here is the list of the signings: C Bruce Maxwell C David Rodríguez OF Mallex Smith OF Johneshwy Fargas INF Jake Hager INF José Peraza INF Luis Carpio INF Mitchell Tolman RHP Arodys Vizcaíno RHP Harol

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Despite the Mets’ instructional league being recently shutdown to two positive COVID-19 tests (as reported by former MMN writer Ernest Dove), many prospects showed promise during their month in Port St. Lucie, Florida. Perhaps the most impressive of the bunch came from the 2020 draft class in outfielders Pete

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Barring late changes, 20 Mets minor leaguers will be declared free agents at 5 p.m. ET on the fifth day following the conclusion of the World Series (Sunday, October 31). Two players (Ryan Cordell and Hunter Strickland) have already hit the open market, a luxury afforded to them because

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As the 2020 Major League Baseball season comes to an end, ideas and plans for the 2021 MiLB season are beginning to come to light and take shape. While we still do not know which teams will be among the 120 full-season teams for 2021, we do know some

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The New York Mets organization added on more talent Friday afternoon as they picked up utility man Mitchell Tolman on a minor league deal, per Michael Mayer of MMO. Tolman is coming into the Mets’ system with five years of minor league experience, all with the Pittsburgh Pirates organization.

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Despite the loss of a minor league season, Mets prospect Matthew Allan continued to show promise on the mound for New York at the Mets’ alternate training site in Brooklyn. A right-hander, Allan’s fastball-curveball combo is looking as good as ever and has a much-improved changeup, a pitch Allan

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The Sydney Blue Sox certainly made some noise when they announced that Mets top catching prospect Francisco Alvarez had signed with them to play winter ball this offseason in Australia. Sydney later announced that prospect Carlos Cortes would join the team as well, and on Wednesday night they tweeted

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Right-handed pitcher Adam Oller was selected by the Mets during the minor-league portion of the 2019 Rule 5 Draft. He was originally a 20th-round pick of the Pittsburg Pirates back in 2016 and joined the San Francisco Giants at the end of May 2019. We may not have been able to see

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