The New York Mets have signed OF Barrett Barnes has signed a minor league deal. The 27 year old was the Pirates 2012 first round draft pick, and he played last season with the Sugar Land Skeeters of the Atlantic League. Barnes’ tenure with the Pirates organization had been

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Walker Lockett Pos: RHP     B/T: R/R     Age: 5/3/94 (24) Acquired: Trade with Indians in exchange for Kevin Plawecki on January 6, 2019. 2018 Minor League Stats (El Paso): 5-9, 4.73 ERA, 23 G, 23 GS, 133.1 IP, 1.335 WHIP, 2.2 BB/9, 8.0 K/9 2018 Major League Stats (San Diego): 0-3, 9.60 ERA, 4

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In conjunction with releasing their top 100 prospects, Baseball America is now releasing prospect rankings for each position. For the catching position, Baseball America would rank two Mets prospects among the top 35 at the position. Seventeen year old Francisco Alvarez was named the 28th best catching prospect even

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Freddy Valdez Pos: OF     B/T: R/R     Age: 12/6/2001 (17) Acquired: International Free Agent from Dominican Republic on July 2, 2018 2018 Stats: Hasn’t played yet The Mets went big in this last free agent class as they have in the last few international free agency periods. Catcher Francisco Alaverez got the big bonus

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To make room for LHP Justin Wilson on its 40-man roster, the New York Mets announced Monday that 2B Gavin Cecchini was designated for assignment. Cecchini, 25, was the organization’s first-round draft pick (12th overall). He made his major league debut in September of 2016 and ultimately received 89

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Background Once named the most exciting player in the 2011 Midwest League—a circuit that featured future all-stars Ender Inciarte and Jesus Aguilar, speedster Billy Hamilton, and the late uber-prospect Oscar Taveras—Rymer Liriano‘s career, to this point, has amounted to all of 167 major league plate appearances. The now 27-year-old outfielder received a

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MLB Pipeline recently released their top 100 prospects list for the 2019 season. The list featured two Mets; First baseman Peter Alonso at 51 and shortstop Andres Gimenez at 58. The main surprise here is that Pipeline seems a little low on Gimenez, who is considered by most prospect evaluators as the Mets’ top

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Position: 2B/SS     B/T: R/R     Age: 7/11/97 (21) Acquired: Signed as an International Free Agent from Venezuela (7/11/13) Previous Rank: 40 2018 Stats (St. Lucie and Binghamton): 113 G, 441 PA, 393 AB, 39 R, 21 2B, 12 HR, 40 RBI, 9 SB/9 CS, .219/.290/.364, .241 BABIP Carpio has been up and down many prospect

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Prospects Live released their Top 100 Prospects list on Friday, and four Mets made the list. Shortstop Andres Gimenez was the first Met on the list at No. 24. At only 20 years old, Gimenez has already reached Double-A. After playing well in Class-A St. Lucie to begin the 2018 season,

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Position: RP     B/T: R/R     Age: 11/1/93 (25) Acquired: Traded from the Milwaukee Brewers for Neil Walker in 2017 2018 Stats (Brooklyn, Binghamton, and Las Vegas): 5-3, 4.20 ERA, 35 G, GS, 8 SV, 49.1 IP, 1.277 WHIP, 2.9 BB/9, 10.4 K/9 The Mets did well to acquire a talented young reliever like Hanhold from

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