Just posted on Mets.com, Jonathan Mayo’s annual look at the Mets Top 10 Prospects, complete with predictions, near misses, and estimated times of arrival. Mets’ Top 10 Prospects 1. Wilmer Flores, SS: Flores’ best tool, by far, is his bat. After scuffling a little at age 17 in 2009, he started to figure things out last year in the South Atlantic League, earning a promotion to...
Read MoreDon’t look for Jason Bay in the Mets lineup this weekend as he will sit out for the next couple of days with a sore back. Bay said his back tightened up on him taking batting practice on Friday and it still feels a little stiff this morning. He has decided to sit out for a couple of days to let it heal and hopefully some rest will do the trick. He did say, that if this were the regular...
Read MoreAs we all know, Izzy (Jason Isringhausen) is on his way back from an elbow injury. With about 1 spot left in the bullpen, (with Sandy Alderson saying that Pedro Beato will probably make the roster) some are wondering if he will even make the bullpen. Well, it may still be a possibility. According to Mike Puma of the New York Post, Jason Isringhausen has stated he will not accept a...
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Since floating the idea that Bobby Parnell could be sent down to the minors to start the season yesterday, we have a little more clarity based on some new information. This morning, Andy Martino of the Daily News wrote that the Mets front office “has considered demoting reliever Bobby Parnell to the minors”, but a team source told him that they decided to reject the idea because of...
Read MoreEno Sarris of FanGraphs, posted his 2011 Organizational Rankings and ranked the Mets #21 out of 30 teams. Quite honestly, I don’t agree one bit with his low estimation of the team and while I’m not saying the Mets should be in the top five, I certainly could make a case that the Mets could have ranked somewhere around 12-15. The way they do it on FanGraphs is they break it up into...
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