Cesar Puello has cleared waivers and is now again property of the Mets. He will be outrighted to Triple-A Las Vegas to begin the season. April 1 Major League sources tell Adam Rubin of ESPN New York that the New York Mets have placed outfield prospect Cesar Puello on

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Adam Rubin reports that shortstop prospect Matt Reynolds has been named the winner of the annual John Murphy Award which goes to the top performing rookie in Mets big-league camp. The award is named for the GM of the 1969 Miracle Mets. Reynolds, 24, will begin the season at

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In a decision that should come as no surprise to MMO readers, 2014 first rounder Michael Conforto, will skip Single-A Savannah and begin the season with Advanced-A St. Lucie as reported by ESPN New York. Conforto was selected 10th overall last June out of Oregon State and hit .331

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Baseball America ranked the New York Mets with the 5th best farm system in MLB. The Mets have seen their farm ranking improve steadily as the system was restocked by Sandy and Co. and a dozen or so players from the prior regime rose to top prospect status or

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The Mets selected left-handed pitcher P.J. Conlon out of the University of San Diego in the 13th round this year. His pro debut for the Brooklyn Cyclones could not have gone any better as he pitched 17 innings of relief without giving up an earned run. During his last

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When preparing to get into shape for any sport, such as physical conditioning through drills, repeating the same actions over and over again can become pretty monotonous for any athlete. Baseball practices, for example, are typically jammed with drill after drill in order to improve the skills of the

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Twenty percent of the Top twenty National League prospects for 2015 listed in the 2015 Major League Baseball Yearbook are Mets. The Amazins are the only NL club with four prospects to make the Top 20 list.  Both the Cubs and the Diamondbacks had three selections each.  Boston and Minnesota

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When Binghamton Met pitching coach Glenn Abbott assembled his pitching staff last spring, his group of young B-Met arms had a distinctly different profile than the cadre Abbott shaped into one of the Eastern League’s finest staffs in 2013.  Gone where the power arms of guys like Rafael Montero,

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Nothing quite compares with the explosive impact of a baseball hitting the sweet spot on a baseball bat and the ball soaring high and long and over an outfield fence for a home run.  Baseball fans love home runs.  And, of course, the home run is baseball’s quickest and

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Good field, no hit was a classic juvenile fiction book written by Duane Decker in 1947. Decker’s work became a moniker of sorts for weak hitting but superb fielding infielders in baseball eras that followed. His characterization of baseball infielders, particularly as it relates to middle infielders, was turned

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