Like the U.S. during the Cold War, the New York Mets continue to build an arsenal of long range power arms. A ‘shock and awe’ strike capacity with a first wave including weaponry labeled  Matt Harvey, Zack Wheeler, Jenrry Mejia, Rafael Montero, Noah Syndergaard, Logan Verrett, Jack Leathersich, Jeff

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A version of this story originally appeared in The Tablet Newspaper. Brooklyn Cyclones’ manager Rich Donnelly is known for being a passionate man. He’s coached professional baseball at various levels for nearly 40 years, including winning the 1997 World Series as a coach with the Florida Marlins. But Donnelly

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The Mets signed Cesar Puello out of the Dominican Republic in July of 2007 for a reported $400,000. He recently checked in at number five on the MMN Mid-Season Top 25 Prospects list. Puello, who turned 22 this spring, was born La Romana, Dominican Republic. Cesar was part of

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Update by Joe D:  Wally Backman, Jordany Valdespin and Armando Rodriguez were officially issued suspensions by the Pacific Coast League for their part in a bench-clearing incident on Monday. Backman was handed down a two-game suspension while Valdespin and Rodriguez were issued three-game suspensions. Rodriguez was also demoted to

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As of 9:00am EST today, here are today’s Mets minor league starting pitchers: Las Vegas 51s @ Memphis Cardinals, 7:05pm EST Matt Fox (5-3, 4.60 ERA) vs. Scott McGregor (4-7, 5.10 ERA) PCL League Scoreboard Fox is looking to win his third straight start tonight against Memphis. He last

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Binghamton 3, Harrisburg 0 Binghamton Mets pitchers Greg Peavey, Ryan Fraser and Jeff Walters limited the Harrisburg Senators to four hits in a 3-0 victory in the series opener on Friday night at Metro Bank Park. Peavey took a no-hitter into sixth and allowed just one runner to reach

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Savannah 9, Greenville 4 Savannah sent 12 batters to the plate in a six-run fifth inning and pulled away from the Greenville Drive 9-4 on Friday night at Fluor Field. The Sand Gnats (63-43, 20-17 second half) have won 10 of their last 13 games and the first two

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Brooklyn 8, Jamestown 1 The Cyclones had everything go their way on Friday night, beating the Jamestown Jammers by a decisive score of 8-1. Jared King played a big part in the Cyclones offensive explosion, driving in four runs. Patrick Biondi contributed going 4-5 with an RBI triple. The pitching performance byMiller Diaz was

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As he’s been doing for all of the Major League Baseball teams, John Sickels at Minor League Ball of SB Nation has been going through his pre-season top-20 prospects per team, and evaluating how they’ve done to this point in the season. You can see the original top-20 list

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Noah Syndergaard has steamrolled through the minor leagues. His worst ERA at any level of the minors is a still-impressive 3.11 in 12 starts with St. Lucie. He doesn’t walk many batters and he strikes out more than one per inning. The excitement surrounding the enormous 6’6, 240 pound

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