Reviewing Baseball America’s 2018 Top 30 Mets Prospects: Desmond Lindsay

Baseball America’s report on Desmond Lindsay starts the same way every other report about Lindsay does – Desmond was the 2015 top draft pick for the Mets because the Mets jumped into the market early that off-season giving up their first round pick for signing Michael Cuddyer. Thus Lindsay, who has been considered somewhere between 5 and 15 in the Mets farm system for a while has been forever linked with Cuddyer.

Lindsay’s history with the Mets also has paralleled the Mets from 2016 on as he has been consistently fighting injuries that rob him of playing time. Or as Baseball America puts it “flashed impact potential in pro ball – but only in glimpses and only in between injuries”.

They ended their report on the player drafted for his hitting that a healthy season would be critical and a chance to play in a more hitter friendly place like St. Lucie would help him.

He’s considered a top prospect with these glimpses of potential because of his slash line between his first season and his second season. In 2015 he slashed .263/.364/.386 and then in 2016 he slashed .303/.433/.451.

Last year he was able to get in 90 games, his most ever in a minor league season but struggled hitting .223/.317/.325. The Mets then sent him to the Arizona Fall League to get more playing time where he did better hitting .286/.355/.643 in 8 games.

Where he has been fighting injuries in his Mets career, he will now find himself fighting time. To protect him in the Rule V draft, the Mets will have to add him to the 40-man roster after next season. If he takes a big, healthy step forward, this probably happens. While he should, based on his numbers and his age, still only 21, play in St Lucie at the start of the season, with the Mets lack of depth in the outfield in the system, he will see playing time in Binghamton at some point. Look for him getting playing time early on in Spring Training.

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