Note on the Series: A tradition at 213 Miles From Shea is walking through Baseball America’s Top 30 Mets prospects, one year after the list comes out. The BA printed book is generally out of date immediately when it’s published, especially when BVW was at the helm trading away prospects. Our goal with this series is to check in with how the prospects are doing. Some of them have been traded away. Because of the pandemic, minor league games did not happen last year, so we are also missing stats. Staying on top of the Minor League camp was not something I did last year, so when appropriate, I’ll link to the actual experts.
The #29 Prospect, Quinn Brodey was skipped from the 2019 list. Same is true for Ali Sanchez. We’ve written about Ali Sanchez a few times over the last few years. Last year we looked at him as an NRI at camp, the year before it was to look at his spot on the 2018 BA list. Our main conclusion last year – we were looking forward to Ali Sanchez to having afull year at Syracuse, despite having Francisco Alvarez right behind him.
Last year BA wrote about his defense. This is the reason why the Mets protected him in the rule V draft, his defense! BA even made a note that if rosters are expanded permanently, it would create a larger market for defense minded catchers.
It’s no secret the last few years that the Mets have completely mishandled catchers. So Ali Sanchez actually made his major league debut last season. He got into 5 games, had 10 PA’s and recorded a hit and a walk – and that’s it. Going into next season he looks to be behind Tomas Nido on the Mets depth chart for catcher. We’ll probably see Sanchez get a cup of coffee again next year.
