Monthly Archives: December 2018

Reviewing Baseball America’s 2018 Top 30 Mets Prospects: #6 Mark Vientos

It’s a race to finish this Top 30 article series by the end of the year! Today we will look at a prospect the Marlins were supposedly interested in as part of a package for Realmuto, Mark Vientos! Trading Mark … Continue reading

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Get To Know a Rule 5 Pick – Braxton Lee

The Mets drafted 4 players total in the Rule 5 draft during the winter meetings, including three players in the minor league round. One of those players, Braxton Lee, should sound familiar to you if you watched the Mets last … Continue reading

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Get To Know A Rule 5 Draft Pick – Kyle Dowdy

For the first time in a while (possibly 2014 when the the Mets picked up Sean Gilmartin) the Mets selected a player in the Rule 5 draft this week and did not trade him to another team (yet). The Mets … Continue reading

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Reviewing Baseball America’s 2018 Top 30 Mets Prospects: #7 Marcos Molina

No suspense or click bait here – Marcos Molina is no longer on the Mets. He was released after a terrible first half of 2018 to make room for Matt den Dekker (who was a necessary signing and then immediately … Continue reading

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Mets Bring Back Familia – Who Should Be The Last Bullpen Piece?

The Mets signed Jeurys Familia to a 3-year, 30 million dollar deal last night that just makes too much sense. There’s a lot of relievers still on the market looking for closer jobs, longer term deals etc. Familia likes the … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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Reviewing Baseball America’s 2018 Top 30 Mets Prospects: #9 Chris Flexen

Happy first day of the Winter Meetings! While we anxiously wait for whatever BVW has up his sleeve in Vegas, let’s talk about a pitcher who’s season ended this year in Vegas. Due to the injuries and trades on the … Continue reading

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Reviewing Baseball America’s 2018 Top 30 Mets Prospects: #10 Luis Guillorme

Earlier in this series I discussed how Corey Oswalt was misused by management in terms of being jerked around off his pitching schedule. We also talked about Tyler Bashlor being on the roster for a while but going through long … Continue reading

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Reviewing Baseball America’s 2018 Top 30 Prospects: #11 Ronny Mauricio

Spoiler Alert; Ronny Mauricio was named the #3 Prospect in the Mets farm system for 2019 last week (ahead of Kelenic and Dunn) so he must have had a good year. Let’s dive in. Baseball America notes that Mauricio was … Continue reading

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Brantley and Grandal Over Pollock and Realmuto

It’s now been a day after the Mets presser for Cano and Diaz where it became clear that the Mets were after Realmuto. Realmuto will cost the Mets one of Conforto/Nimmo/Rosario. Part of the issue is not the promise than … Continue reading

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