Photo by Ed Delany, MMN
On Monday, we wrapped up MMO/MMN’s 2020 Top 30 Prospects with shortstop Ronny Mauricio leading a group that most outlets have in the bottom half as a farm system overall.
There’s certainly upside in the Mets system, but most of it comes from younger players in the lower levels of system that has been weakened with trades over the last 16 months.
Here’s the Top 30 ranking that the 15 of us agreed on:
- Ronny Mauricio – SS
- Andres Gimenez – SS
- Francisco Alvarez – C
- Matthew Allan – RHP
- Mark Vientos – 3B
- Brett Baty – 3B
- David Peterson – LHP
- Shervyen Newton – INF
- Thomas Szapucki – LHP
- Josh Wolf – RHP
- Kevin Smith – LHP
- Franklyn Kilome – RHP
- Jordan Humphreys – RHP
- Junior Santos – RHP
- Carlos Cortes – 2B
- Freddy Valdez – OF
- Adrian Hernandez – OF
- Dedniel Nunez – RHP
- Alexander Ramirez – OF
- Ali Sanchez – C
- Jaylen Palmer – INF
- Jose Butto – RHP
- Stephen Gonsalves – LHP
- Michel Otanez – RHP
- Daison Acosta – RHP
- Ryley Gilliam – RHP
- Wilmer Reyes – INF
- Luis Carpio – INF
- Bryce Hutchinson – RHP
- Robert Dominguez – RHP
Only one of the top 20 prospects has reached the Triple-A level and that Sanchez at No. 20. Three of the top six prospects haven’t played full season ball yet. Three of the top 10 – Allan, Baty, and Wolf – were drafted in 2019.
In terms of potential short-term help for the Mets – Gimenez, Peterson, Sanchez, Kilome, Gonsalves, and Gilliam – are likely to begin the 2020 season in Triple-A Syracuse.
Thank you to all the writers for helping out with the countdown and the readers for tuning it. Coming up, we will have each writer telling us which five prospects they like the best that didn’t make the Top 30.
