While it has long been an issue, the topic of Minor League Baseball wages is once again a hot topic.  While it is not a very popular opinion, baseball justifies the wages as a function of their view of players as “apprentices.”  On the converse, each and every minor

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This is the final part of our series of Mets Minors All-Stars, our staff has selected the bench players. When ranking these players, we selected them based up on their performance during the 2017 and not their prospect status: Jhoan Urena – Poised to have a breakout season, Jhoan Urena

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Las Vegas 51s Jayce Boyd MiLB Stats: .297/.371/.512, 18 2B, 3B, 11 HR, 46 RBI, 26 BB/47 K, 3/3 SB Travis Taijeron played three years at Las Vegas and finally got the call to the big leagues. Injuries to Michael Conforto and Yoenis Cespedes along with a barrage of

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With their first pick in the minor league portion of the Rule 5 Draft, the Mets selected infielder Andrew Ely from the Chicago Cubs organization.  The 24 year old was the Cubs 2014 32nd round draft pick of the University of Washington. Last year, Ely played 97 games for

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Major League Baseball’s annual Rule 5 Draft takes place on Thursday at 9 a.m. at the Winter Meetings. Below is a primer on the draft and how it affects the Mets this year who will have the 6th pick.  HOW DOES THE DRAFT WORK? Named for its place in

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Tomorrow, the Rule 5 Draft will commence.  With players like Mason McCullough and Cale Coshow being available, the Mets may be able to add a reliever to compliment Anthony Swarak or possibly a player at another position to help complete the Opening Day roster.  At the same token, other

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The New York Mets have the sixth overall selection in tomorrow’s Rule 5 Draft.  As we know the team runs the risk of losing players like Adonis Uceta or Mickey Jannis, the team also stands to select some players that could help the 2018 roster.  In advance of the

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With the St. Louis Cardinals poaching Jose Leger from the Mets to make him their new Latin American Field Coordinator.  This leaves the Mets organization looking not just for a new manager for the Colubmia Fireflies, but also looking for someone to replace a well regarded manager who was

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The Syracuse Chiefs held their annual Hot Stove Dinner on Friday night, and the event was not lacking in luminaries. Although the Mets will not send their players to Syracuse until 2019, franchise legends Edgardo Alfonzo, Ron Darling, and Tim Teufel were in attendance at the Oncenter Complex to greet

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The Chicago Cubs have signed former New York Mets farmhand Alberto Baldonado to a minor league deal according to our own Jacob Resnick. We recently did a roundtable at MMN to choose which minor league free agent the Mets should re-sign and Baldonado was the answer from seven of

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