Deep Leagues Top 250 Features Seven Mets Prospects

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• Mr North Jersey January 23, 2011 at 12:32 am

  A year from now we’ll crack the top 20 just you wait and see MLB won’t know what hit them.

  LETS GO METS!!!
  • alwaysnextyear January 23, 2011 at 1:11 am

    just sign Darvish, and jump right in there!

    also, there is a typo. Teheran is on the braves (list is correct, but the note about the NL east guys in the top 10 gave him to the phils)
• Matt January 23, 2011 at 11:47 am

  Shows how poor the Mets farm system is when their highest prospect is #36 and he is the only guy the Mets have listed in the top 100. Next year, Cory Vaughn could be a top 50 prospect…maybe top 20, this kid is the real deal.
  • alwaysnextyear January 23, 2011 at 12:24 pm

    well, they did get some good players out of the system last year, including their starting 1B, likely starting catcher, and one of their SPs (Neise).

    If Ike had not had to be called up earlier than expected, he would probably be high on this list. Same with Neise. Not sure about thole.
    • Matt January 23, 2011 at 12:36 pm

      I’m sure David Wright and Jose Reyes would be high on the list as well if they were still in the minors. However, this is a list of players who are not CURRENTLY major leaguers. Going by your thought process, you should change your name to “alwayslastyear.”
      • alwaysnextyear January 23, 2011 at 12:44 pm

        I think you missed the point. These lists change quickly depending on when guys get called up. And I was responding to your comment about it being sad that the Mets had no one high on it, but that is because they already promoted them.

        Of course it has nothing to do with guys that have been in the majors since 2003.

        I am not sure what the criteria is for being on this list. I assume still having rookie eligibility? Because there are a bunch of guys on it that played in the majors last year (brown, chapman, drabek). And some where up for a while.

        just MHO of course, but to me, there is not much difference between a guy that is ready to graduate from the minors and one that did it last year, in terms of evaluating a teams MiL system/young talent/prospect pool. Other than, of course, a guy like Ike proved that he could actually play in the majors, while a guy like Brown hasn’t.
• Bradley O'Neill January 23, 2011 at 3:31 pm

  What’s up yall,

  We created the list and really appreciate the link. You are right the Mets have some talented young players who graduated from the rankings.

  Also, a few of our Mets’ rankings are questionably low. For example, I think Wilmer Flores will fair much better in the publication lists that get published in a few weeks. Excluding Cesar Puello is also a questionable decision. I didn’t list Darren Cecilliani, Juan Urbina and Corey Vaughn. They are all decent prospects but I ran out of spots. Tried to ranking them objectively as possible but it’s possible I missed something.

  Once again, I appreciate the link. The Mets’ farm system will be fun to watch, and over the next few years, I think they’ll do a good job adding new talent and developing the players already in your system.

  Bradley

  Also, a sleeper worth watching out for is Brad Emaus (your Rule 5 pick). It’s hard to predict which Rule 5 guys will succeed, but based on his numbers (K/BB, major league equivalency, etc), Emaus might surprise people.
• Des January 24, 2011 at 10:03 am

  To produce a linear list of the best players is useful for grouping purposes but is really a keyboard fantasy. Prioritizing players, with all the unknowns, variables, and position dependencies is just a fan’s game and really is fruitless. But it does make the dreary winter pass more quickly. So thanks for your effort, Bradley O’Neill.

  One issue that does pop out of any grouping of the young players is the miserable to mediocre showing of the Mets, despite their big market resources. I’m hopeful that our new front office team brings more competence to the talent selection process.
• Bradley O'Neill January 24, 2011 at 9:32 pm

  I agree it’s a pretty tough (and arbitrary) ranking process. An amazing fact is most of the “top 100″ prospects never play long enough to reach arbitration! On the flip side, there is a definite correlation between a strong farm system and winning within 2-3 years. But where a prospect ranks is ultimately meaningless (you could form an all-star team consisting of players who never made these lists).

  The Mets scored a little lower, which is partially b/c a few of my rankings didn’t do them any favors (not intentional…I’m a ‘stros fan and we scored lower than the Mets). They definitely have a new group coming in who I think will do an awesome job. This year, it will be interesting to see how the new management’s philosophy mixes w/ players signed by the previous group. I think several of your young prospects have the potential to take off if the management convinces them to make some adjustments.