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2012
MLB GMs Tab Wheeler, Harvey Among Top 5 NL East Pitching Prospects
An article by Craig Lerner
Jonathan Mayo of MLB.com spoke to general managers from outside each division to get their thoughts on who the top future stars are within that division. It starts today with the NL East. This is the rotation they came up with:
Starting pitchers
- Julio Teheran (No. 4 on Top 100; Braves’ No. 1)
- Zack Wheeler (No. 28 on Top 100; Mets’ No. 1 )
- Arodys Vizcaino (No. 36 on Top 100; Braves’ No. 2)
- Matt Harvey (No. 38 on Top 100; Mets’ No. 2)
- Randall Delgado (No. 42 on Top 100; Braves’ No. 3)
The Braves, not surprisingly, are stacked with young pitchers. Adding to their value is the fact that all three in this rotation are ready to contribute in the big leagues and have considerable upside. “We like those three guys quite a bit,” one GM said of Atlanta’s trio.
He also liked the pair of Mets he chose, two power-armed right-handers who should have Mets fans excited for the future of the rotation.
Nice to see Harvey and Wheeler as pitchers opposing GMs are very high on. Sure, these two have already been featured atop many a prospect list, but when baseball GMs have a hand in it it says a lot more in my opinion.
About the Author: Craig Lerner
I'm a data analyst and researcher for a leading news agency who loves life and is hooked on the Mets. I love following the Amateur Draft and have a particular fondness for the Mets Minor Leagues who I follow each day. Give me a cold beer, a summer day, and a Mets game, and I'm good to go.
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NL East Standings
| Team | W | L | Pct. | GB |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Braves | 23 | 18 | .561 | - |
| Nationals | 23 | 19 | .548 | 0.5 |
| Phillies | 20 | 23 | .465 | 4.0 |
| Mets | 16 | 24 | .400 | 6.5 |
| Marlins | 11 | 31 | .262 | 12.5 |
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Let’s hope this 2 along with familia (The best of the 3 imo) can be studs for us in the future.. with mejia, gorski, and others down the line as well… with #5 likely traded more pitching prospects can come this way… but again, all of this will mean absolutely nothing if they come to the bigs and become busts.. many of this prospects do as we have seen…
You can’t just be happy and excited? You have to constantly get those digs in and be a wet blanket?
Well, I think we’ll see Wright traded (most likely) after his option is picked up for next year, as he’ll have time to build up value and will be able to get draft compensation to whatever team he goes to. But correct, in that if he is moved, they should certainly look for pitching (as well as a catcher!). Strength in numbers and Pitching Pitching Pitching…
Honestly I am starting to change my mind. By the time Wright is traded if those 3 pitchers develop they may need to look for positional players instead.
Perhaps a healthy and productive Wright can be turned into a legit RF prospect. Or, if someone is really desperate, a catcher.
It is just so early. If Wright rebounds, I think there is a great case for keeping him. Can Duda produce? I am guessing he will slide to LF when Bay leaves… What about all the other OF prospects like Kirk and all the guys I can’t spell? Again what makes this year interesting for me is how many questions could be answered this year.
So wait, you’re all good with keeping wright after he turns 31 years old but were against keeping reyes till he was 33??? explain to me why we should keep a big time choker like wright here in NY for many more years??
I’m not going to get into the “Choking” part seeing Reyes was just as guilty.
They are 2 different styled players. People are making a choice for a guy who’s game is based on speed, has serious leg issues and even if he didn’t, speed is the first regression that is noticeable with age. Wright’s style of play will allow him to have a longer career, a successful career can be debatable.
Because
1) He’s not a choker
2) Reyes never showed anymore aptitude at performing in big spots.
3) Wright’s skill set isn’t as dramatically affected by age as Reyes
4) We’re talking 1 year commitment to Wright vs a 6 year commitment to Reyes
Well lets start off with 3B seem to age much better than middle IF. Lets also go to the fact that at the time that Wright would need to be re-signed the Mets may be in better financial shape.
You keep going back to the known choker comment and while I refuse to be dragged into that debate again, I think you need to look into the “greatest Met of all-times” failure over and over and over again. While Wright could not carry the team in a few AB’s Reyes continued to do that over the course of a month at a time. If Wright was choker 1A for the Mets then Reyes was 1B.
Now back to the discussion, the key would be that Wright would have to rebound back to the 25/100 guy with defensive mobility before I would consider it. It would also depend on the development of Wimer as I do not see Murphy as a long term replacement at 3B.
your opinion my man.. i rather have reyes at the top of my lineup who can produced runs by himself, can be a game changer on offense and on defense, and can make everyone behind him better.. wright on the other hand, is a known choker who put up big numbers due to the players around him, has no leadership skills whatsoever, and is a guy who we’ve al seen what happens when is led to carry a team..
How much of what you just said applies to Reyes as well? Not to mention the fact that how much will Reyes get the offense going in the next 5 years with potential for bad wheels.
None of it if you use HISTORY and STATS!
You keep using WHAT IF to argue against historic and statistical REALITY and then use it again to ASSUME a better outcome for guys who havent proved it and/or have been as injured as much as Reyes has been if not MORE!
Havens and Kirk both have had injury problems!
Davis missed more time than Reyes did last year!
What If What if What if Reyes isn’t the same guy he has ALWAYS been?
What if the Kid is better than he has EVER been?
I will remind you that no MLB player has ever ended his career due to a pulled hamstring!
So your WHAT IF on reyes is paper thin and really weak!
Yeah, there is absolutely no history in the game of middle infielders who rely on speed breaking down at an early age… none.
nor history of 3B who have back issues and no longer are the same players.. none…
I agree Alex, he may not ever be the same. You won’t see me running around and saying anything different. That is why I said if he rebounds and produces both offensively and defensively this year and most of next year. If not then yeah, time to move on. Like I said earlier, regardless we both need to be David Wright fans this year if either of us are going to get what we want…
I don’t blame Omar for everything. I’ve even stated that he suffered some really bad luck and that if everything had gone the best way possible we could have even won a World Series but that wouldn’t have prevented us from crashing afterward.
I’ve also stated how hamstrung Minaya was with some of the Mets internal issues and how they may have effected some of his decisions but ultimately he was the expert. he was hired to run the show and He was the one who would have known best how he was going to run out of players if everything didn’t work out the best way possible.
He would have known the pitfalls of rushing guys up here both in production and development and he also would have known the pitfalls on counting on 16 year olds to form the 2nd wave and provide most of the true all around talent for subsequent teams or spending a #1 pick on a 40 year old OFer or giving a 4 year deal to Castillo and he knew better with Perez, that’s why he went after Lowe but the signed him anyway and on and on.
He made the decisions he did and increasingly every year they became more and more slanted toward only this year and that has had a direct influence on our immediate future and didn’t produce the desired results in the short term either.
It was his baby, He was the archetect. He took a lot of chances and it didn’t work.
Wright put up big numers in his first full year without the help of much around him.Reyes was average in 2005 and Beltran had his career worst year.Be serious man.Reyes never hit in big spots.He had a big first half last year and you’re making him out to be the 2nd coming of Honus Wagner. They should’ve traded both of them before 2011 and started all over again.
“Wright put up big numers in his first full year without the help of much around him”
Piazza Floyd and Cameron amount to NOT MUCH?
Granted Reyes didn’t have Wright or Piazza the year he came up!
Still hit .307!
Granted Reyes had all kinds of help around him with guys like Wright, Delgado and Beltran hitting at or over .400 in September when it mattered yet hit Mendoza like.
Wright could’ve hit 700 in september of 2008 and i’d still call him a choker… all year 243 and a strike out when it matter the most…
i am sure most of you watch the superbowl, welker had a great season with 122 catches, you’d think he’s remember in NE for the season he had or that dropped in the SB?? you don’t think he’d trade 50 of those catches in the regular season for that ONE CATCH??? ask david wright if he wouldn’t trade 30 RBI’s during that season just to get that one spot where he failed miserable and has haunted him for the rest of his life..
And what will you remember Reyes for? Will it be the continual flops the entire month of September every time it mattered?
When you play team sports you learn that it’s never one play, one game or one guy that costs a team a game a series or a season.
Right after the super Bowl Tom Brady said that “everyone in the locker room knows that there was one more thing that everyone on the team could have done that would have made a difference.” and he’s right.
People can blame all of 2007 on Glavine’s last start if they want but that was only one game out of 162. Does one game out weigh all the other combined? The Mets played uninspired baseball for two solid months that year. June and July both they lost more than they won. Delgado had a terrible 1st half of the season. He couldn’t have had one more hit in game 23 or 57 that wouldn’t have made a difference?
People can also blame the entire 2008 season on Wright not driving in Murphy with a SAC fly in game 157 but he led the Majors in SAC Fly’s that year. No one else could have driven in a run? The Mets played uninspired baseball for 2 consecutive months that year as well. Under .500 in both May and June. Once again Delgado had a terrible 1st half. No one could have done just a little more that would have made the difference?
Bottom line is without Wright’s .325/.416/.546 in 2007 Mets are eliminated by mid September and without his .302/.390/.534 their eliminated mid September in 2008 as well.
124 RBI both season too. All of them completely meaningless and all of them collected in the 2nd inning of blowout loses right?
Welker could have caught that ball but Brady could have looked off the safety too and put it in a better spot too and if hadn’t been for Welker they don’t make the playoffs anyway so how you gonna win the Super Bowl if you don’t make the playoffs?
Further more Brady didn’t have to chuck one up for grabs way down field with the game seemingly under control. Brady could have completed more than 40% of his passes over 10 yards. Wilfork could have shown up. The guy who was the 12th guy on the field when Cruz fumbled could have stayed on the bench and Tuck could have been controlled better and the O line in general could have put the Giant D line on the ground to open up more passing lanes plus the Pat’s could have done just a little more in the regular season game against the Giants and they wouldn’t have even been in the playoffs.
To blame just one guy or one play for the loss of an entire season is loser talk.
“To blame just one guy or one play for the loss of an entire season is loser talk.”
Right – Like with Omar. You can’t blame him for everything. You can say the same thing Brady said about the SB loss, about our 06-08 teams. Everyone on those teams could have done one more thing that would have made a difference..
“Wright could’ve hit 700 in september of 2008 and i’d still call him a choker”
Ya, we know. that is why your opinion is never taken seriously.
It’s certainly possible. A solid catcher would be ideal. Then again, you can never have enough pitching.
I hope you are right on Familia even if I do find it dubious that you like him more than the other two. With the return of Mejia (who I think will end up being the closer of the future) and hopefully the development of Niese and Gee we could have the makings of a top rotation.
Dubios??? why?? i’ve liked familia for 2 years straight, ahead of harvey, before wheeler was even a met.. are you trying to imply something? jesus TRS, don’t go back to be TRJ ok..
Come on Alex, you tell me this yet you accuse others of the same thing? Yet my point is more about Omar than what you are implying.
I always thought Familia had more overall upside than both Harvey and Wheeler, so I see where he’s coming on this. Just saying.
He could but scouts are not seeing it that way for some reason. Of course scouts can be wrong and I hope they are. I really think though that out of Wheeler and Harvey one will be CY potential.
I’m down with that.
Maybe Mejia for Rolaids Relief Man o’ the Year as well?
They still give that award? LOL. I really do wonder what their plan for him is when he returns. How odd/great is it that just a while back he was the hopes of the pitching staff and now he is #4 at best.
Being 5’2″ and then needing TJ surgery will tend to do that.
5-2? I thought he was 6-0?
In heels, maybe.
Maybe Prince can lend him some platform shoes.
he’s 6′ and 205 punds…
alright… alright… i stand corrected. He just looks tiny to me. Maybe I sit too far away from the TV or something.
Watching the games on a small 13 inch RCA TV will do that to you. Time to upgrade to a HDTV buddy.
Whoa Whoa… 13.5″ buddy. Everything is just a little bit bigger in Texas.
touche!!! dated a girl from texas long time ago.. agree with stuckin on that …
you mean thesame scouts who said todd van poppel was a no miss prospect? a fututre ace?? those same scouts?? scouts who had lincecum as an ok pitcher with good stuff but couldn’t make it in the bigs? those same scouts??? please.. imo, familia will be better than harvey and wheeler..
“of course scouts can be wrong and I hope they are.”
Again, because they picked some wrong means they are never right? How much of Familia have you seen in person? Have you seen as much as the Mets own scouts? Have you seen as much as opposing GM’s? Have you seen as much as the guys who do it for a living? Based on our expertise I will give them much more credit than any of the opinions on here.
again, my opinion.. of course i can be wrong. but i can be super right.. as many things i’ve said and predicted here in this blog..
Hmmm, maybe we should publish all your predictions and compare them to the best scouts in the game and see who is right more often then ridicule you every time you miss one regardless of how many you get right.
GREAT IDEA!!!!!!!
Take the BA top 100 list for 10 years (start from 5 years ago to be fair since those kids most likely are not all done with their development or have been promoted yet)
Then tell us the percentage of those 1000 players actually made the All Star game!
You want to also show how many made it to the MLB thats ok IN ADDITION to the All Star listing!
Make a point and do the research the prove it I would be very eager to see if what you think the scouts are good at holds true!
Metsie, has even one of your post in the last month been research based? Even one? Can you say the same about mine?
Of course their percentages are going to be low when ranking 1,000′s of players before they have even played a MLB game. However, why should we trust someone’s opinion on here more than team scouts, GM’s and professional scouts?
I’m game my man.. so far i said oliver perez and castillo was a mistake.. i was right..
said wright was a choker… right again..
Sandy is here to help the mets financial situation.. Right again..
this year mets will go 69-93..
i said murphy sucks.. wrong..
write them down and get back at me.. ok..
Alex you have made so many more than those over the years though buddy. I guess you can cherry pick as well.
TRS86, i was wrong about bay as well.. i thought he’d be a 25 hr guy for us.. u can say that, but i don’t make many predictions.. this year unfortunately i think tejada will struggle mightly due to pressure to replace reyes at SS.. wright will be a 25 hr guy at best, and no met will have 100 rbi’s this year..
Pelfrey will continue to suck, and niese will win 15 games this year..
It is good to see 2 of our guys in the top 5 in the division but I will forever hate that picture. the veins coming out of his arm just freak me out.
Those veins contain tiger blood!
All Braves and Mets, huh?
Here’s hoping that for the % that prospects bust, it’s all on the Braves side…..
Amen.
My question isn’t about how good they will be but what team will we have left behind them when they finally get here!
Three All Stars gone and one one on the way out the door leaves very little left to help these guys be all we keep saying they can be!
Sure they could both have a 1.00 ERA but all that means nothing if they lose 20 games 1-0!
or give up 5 Unearned runs a game because the guys behind them can’t field their position.
And if thats the case they will be the next big trade chips we use! Because it’s all about the Minor leagues you know!
Lets say that all of these guys are up and going by 2014… you wanted Krod, Beltran and Reyes as part of the core to go along with those guys?
Seriously who would you rather have then?
Krod at “33″
Beltran at 37
Reyes at 31 at 20M a year?
Mejia at 25
Duda at 28
Tejada at 23
Which group supports those 3 better?
I’d like to have both.
Having your cake and eating it too is costly and leads to being fat.
Since when is being FAT in the STATS better than being SKINNY?
You keep talking about MONEY…
Whats your take on BASEBALL cause thats why we are here!
To talk about BASEBALL not MONEY!
You keep using MONEY as the excuse for BAD BASEBALL!
And applauding the guy who is making bad baseball using MONEY as an EXCUSE!
Isn’t his job to make the team BETTER?
Or is it merely to make it cheaper baseball be damned?
Hey buddy, your cap locks keep getting stuck. You should look into that, could be a keyboard issue or perhaps a programer issue.
Now back to your same rambling post. So now as a guy that is accused of carrying too much about stats, I don’t care about stats and only money. It seems as though perhaps it is the fact that I realize that cost, stats and eyes all have a factor in organizing a team. As much as we would love for money to not be a factor, it is… even for the Yankees to a degree.
yeah and your argument keeps getting stuck on…..
WHAT IF WHAT IF WHAT IF!
WHAT IF your an idiot who would rather believe in FANTASY instead of ACTUAL MLB PERFORMANCE and are just too stupid to know how DUMB that is?
WHAT IF!
Cap Lock that!
When times get tough… resort to this “WHAT IF your an idiot ” it is the Metsie way.
Also I can give you some links on keyboard replacements as well as typing 101. I am a teacher of course and can get you some tutoring in when to use capitals and when not to. Perhaps it’s just that you have your left finger a little too tight on the keyboard? Maybe you are pressing the caps lock button instead of the shift key. Try gaining a little more flexibility in that left pinky.
Oh so your an ENGLISH teacher no wonder why the country has such issues because the guys paid to teach it are busy arguing on the internet about WHAT IF secnarios as if they are FACTS!
‘Isn’t his job to make the team BETTER?’
The ‘team’ is not just the starting 25.
It’s his job to make the organization better overall.
Yup, think of him more as a general of an army. You can’t just worry about your front line and then charge them into a battle that you can’t win. You build up all your forces and attack when the time is right.
The general of an Army doesn’t go around replacing his best VETERAN fighters with kids just out of boot camp!
And if he gets rid of those vets before the kids even get OUT of boot camp the war will be lost long before they get on the boat that takes them to the front lines!
In fact by then they may not need a boat as the front will only be a mile away from the camp because we got our ases kicked all the way back to the homefront!
LOL, yeah the army has always been known for how it treated it’s veterans… LOL. Bad analogy there buddy.
Hey your the one who made the Military analogy not me!
LOL you picked the wrong guy to talk about helping veterans and what the government does AFTER they come home…
Go to familiesofwarvets.org I’m on the board of directors for that group!
But while they are IN the army the military doesn’t just STOP USING trained and experienced Vets due to some fear they might get hurt and as a result be less effective!
Neither do they get rid of them because they get paid more than some kid just out of boot!
But your free to believe in any fantasy you want!
because we live in the home of the free BECAUSE of the Brave!
What do you think the % of very experienced veterans are on the front lines in War? Just
curious.
As for the sacrifices those guys make? Unmatched.
Metsie=Michael O’Leary?
^ maybe the admin can remove the above post, didn’t really mean to take away the anonymity if it was him. Just though the guy had a rocking hair cut…
That would obviously be Michael O”LEARY as his caps lock would have obviously gotten stuck again.
Metsie, wasn’t trying to be negative in anyway with the site or attempt to OUT you in anyway. I have veterans in my family and as friends and my sisters kid is attempting to go into the rangers next year, so I was just checking the place out…
Yeah and building one is a lot more than just WHAT IF anyone under 25 could be great without any performance to say it with and anyone over 27 might get hurt despite the fact your no better off now because they will be here even LESS than if they DID get hurt!
I have no idea what you’re trying to say here.
Other than we all know you don’t like the starting 25 as it’s currently constructed.
What am I trying to say?
Lets just for a second ASSUME all these kiddie WHAT IF’s are right?
In the same vain as saying taking 5 steps is 5 steps in the right direction….
If the team you made is three steps worse than the team you had…
How far BEHIND are you if you get the SAME from the what ifs?
How much further AHEAD were you with a better starting 25 than you are now with a worse starting 25?
WHERE you start determines how far you MIGHT get if all your WHAT IFs are true!
Start Further back and whatever you think MIGHT happen is less than if you started from where you WERE before you took those steps back!
EVEN in the case where only 3 of your What Ifs pan out from where you were, your still closer to the goal than you were by taking 3 steps back and getting all that HOPFUL WHAT IF your counting on!
THATS what I’m saying!
When you start off going in the wrong direction in the hopes of what if will make up for it, even if it DOES you still lost those backward steps from the end result!
Because if you could get 8 steps forward going two steps back you lost two steps compared to where you would have been if you didn’t step back!
so now by using “” you mean krod real age may not be 33 by then?? come on man, you’re better than that.. so i think..
Alex either Krod’s arm is toast or he is older than he is listed. Look at his velocity drop in the last couple of years. Either his arm is going to need a lot of work soon or he is older. Not hard to see. He’s already lost 4-5 mph off of his fastball and could not even find a closers job at age 30?
Hold up, my man. He couldn’t find a closers job for the money he wanted. That’s were taking arb. from the Brewers was in his best interest. If he wanted less money, I bet he could be closing for a multitude of teams (even the Mets!).
And I would have to say his drop in velocity was due to pitching way too much and then being over 30. So I’m not sure you should go dropping the “”‘s around his age. Yes, he may actually be a very young looking 56 year old, but it’s probably not good to go down that route without some definitive backing to those claims.
Unfortunately it’s the era we live in NJ. As I said he is the oldest 29 year old closer out there and that could be because he started so young but regardless of correct age there are a lot of miles on that arm. Also, are we honestly saying that he chose the money and staying with the Brewers over being a closer for many teams? Don’t you think that looks awful suspicious? He’s 29 years old, did pitch well for the Brewers as a setup man (to answer Vinny’s question) and has the all-time saves record for a single season yet could not find someone to pay him 8M to close or even enough to make it worth the move?
lincecum did the same thing.. his velocity was like 97 he’s not at around 93-94 in just 2 years.. it happens ok …
Where did you see that Timmy was at 97 and down to 93-94?
Fangraphs has his 2007 season at 94.2 and last season at 92.3. Hardly the same. Also his most dominant year statistically was 2009 where his velocity was at 92.4.
Reyes…YES!
K-Rod? Well certainly more than Francisco!
What good is having good SPs if there is no one to close out the games they go 8 Innings and they lose because of that?
Is Tejada going to be the cog that makes the offense go the way that Reyes was?
Is Lucas Duda going to be the guy we saw in the first half or the guy we saw in September?
Is Ike Davis going to be Ike Davis again?
Will Wright even be here?
Will Murphy last a season at 2B?
Will Havens make up enough with the glove to make up for the loss of Murphy’s bat?
Will Kirk stay healthy or be F-Mart redux?
Sure things could go either way but which way the TEAM goes that is around them will have a hefty say in which way it goes!
Confidence is based on how many questions are adequatly answered is it not?
The more questions the more DOUBT there is!
The more Answers the greater the CONFIDENCE!
Lots of What ifs which are great except for the fact those What Ifs can easily be truned around to doom and be just as valid and possible as the optimistic What Ifs that are presented!
By 2014 Harvey and Familia will have had a year under their belt and stats to look at!
And if the team hurts those stats, hurts their confidence what your left with is WASTED talent that will either be given up on due to not meeting such HIGH expectations and/or ruined talent because they had such bad numbers due to what was around them that they all turn into the next pelfrey or Generation K due to lack of success when they came up!
No player can succeed on his own!
It’s still a TEAM sport like that fact or not!
And your TEAM can greatly affect your performance and longevity in the league!
ESPECIALLY true with Rookie Kids coming up and needing to be successful to stay in the MLB and have a long career!
Thing is bringing back Reyes, Krod and Beltran would not provide less questions but more. Will Reyes’ legs be able to hold up over the next 5 years? Would Krod’s velocity continue to drop while he continued to struggle putting men on base? Would Beltran be able to stay healthy for more than a half season at a time? Those guys provide no more answers yet cost 50-60 million dollars to provide them.
Yeah the questions of WHAT will happen if they AREN’T able to play for us?…
Which you just turned into a self forfilled prophecy!
because now they DEFINITLY CAN’T play for us!
What if they get HURT?
No more would happen than what will happen now! Because in BOTH cases they would not play for the Mets!
They are as good as INJURED now aren’t they? Worse though because when they are now NOT HURT they will be CONTRIBUTING to the opposition!
What If What if!
What If Harvey and Familia Suck?
Maybe we should trade them based on that What If as well?
What If Kirk gets hurt?
Lets send him off based on a bad dream and none of his past performance!
You want to DISCREDIT and ignore PAST MLB PERFORMANCE in the name of pumping up MiL be PREDICTIONS not Statistical fact that has anything thing to do with what they MIGHT do in the MLB!
This is why people don’t buy a word of what your saying!
Really? Again you are showing the fact that you have no idea how money and age actually do factor into roster construction. Also as to your point about people not buying what I am saying? Who exactly? You and 2 others? I would find that I have many more people who can at least see my side of the issue that can stand any of your random ramblings of various capitalized words.
TRS why bother with this guy, it’s just the circle of doom. He’s tying to tell me that I keep saying the sky is the color green, even though I say it’s blue just so he can argue against me. There is just no point and it’s a complete bore fest.
I honestly have no idea… Maybe that will be my goal for the day. Respond only to Alex and he can get the message to Bay and Metsie for me.
Did you see how good K-Rod pitched for the Brewers last year? He was great for them. 1.86 ERA, 33K’s in 29 IP.
So, I wouldn’t say his arm is “toast”.
Seems that this topic has once again switched gears to Reyes, KRod and Wright.
Back to the topic though, this just reinforces the thought that the Mets are actually starting to build something rather than sell the fan base on 1 prized prospect (FMart, Escobar, Milledge style)
This has nothing to do with Baseball America, though I am sure somehow they will be blamed.
The one thing that stands out to me is how there is only 2 teams shown on this list. An aging Phillies team is not going to be in a good position soon, and the Marlins and Nats who continue to show they are going for it all, may not have a safety net to fall back on.