Update: As expected, the Mets have officially called up shortstop Ruben Tejada from Triple-A Las Vegas, per the team’s official Twitter account. Waiting until today delayed Tejada’s service time enough to push back his first year eligible for free agency back another season. While it looks pretty obvious that

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With Las Vegas, Binghamton, and Kingsport eliminated from the playoffs this week, only one Mets minor league affiliate remains alive. The Savannah Sand Gnats completed a two-game sweep over the Augusta Green Jackets on Friday night, and they received a tremendous pitching performance from the Mets second round pick in

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As of 9:00am EST, here are the probable starting pitchers in the Mets minor league system: Savannah Sand Gnats @ Hagerstown Suns, 7:05pm EST Seth Lugo (2-2, 2.50 ERA in reg. season) vs. Austin Voth (1-0, 0.00 ERA in playoffs SAL League Scoreboard The Sand Gnats find themselves in

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Hagerstown 6, Savannah 1 The Hagerstown Suns doubled their way past the Savannah Sand Gnats 6-1 in the opening game of the South Atlantic League Championship Series. Six of Hagerstown’s nine hits were two-baggers and the Suns used at least one double in each of the three innings the

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Daisuke Matsuzaka had his first solid start as a New York Met in Cleveland on Sunday. Met fans were likely happy to get a win and pleased for Matsuzaka even though the former Red Sox star was brought to New York simply to be a starting rotation placeholder for the remainder of

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Las Vegas 51s The 51s clinched the PCL Southern division title with an 81-63 record, the second-best mark in the league. However, they couldn’t get out of the first round of the playoffs, and their season is over. They lost to the Salt Lake Bees in four games, winning

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Now that we’re down to just one minor league team still playing baseball, we’re getting closer and closer to that dreaded time…winter. It’s been a wonderful season of covering the Mets minor leagues for all of our readers, and we truly appreciate you all stopping in at our site

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Congratulations to Las Vegas 51s right fielder Mike Baxter for being awarded with the MMN Player of the Week honors. When I think about Mike, the first thing that comes to my mind is a “Journeyman”. That is what I think of when I look at Mike’s current career. Especially

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As of 10:00am EST, here are the probable starting pitchers in the Mets minor league system: Savannah Sand Gnats @ Hagerstown Suns, 7:05pm EST Luis Cessa (8-4, 3.12 ERA) vs. Austin Voth (1-0, 0.00 ERA) SAL League Scoreboard The Sand Gnats are the last minor league team standing in

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After Yusmeiro Petit‘s dominant one-hitter for the San Francisco Giants this week, I was planning on putting the spotlight on him for this week’s time machine. However, Scott Kazmir faced the organization that drafted him for the first time in his career, and looked pretty good. He won for

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