Buffalo Loses As Familia Is Ineffective Again By Pete Shapiro Jeurys Familia (5-4, 5.00) was ineffective yet again, giving up five earned runs and not able to get through the third inning as Norfolk defeated Buffalo 5-3 to take the four game series three games to one. Three Bisons relievers went 5.1 innings of scoreless relief, but the Bisons bats were unable to play catch-up. Zach Britton (2-1, 5.82) got the win for Norfolk with [...]

It.s been a busy week for Wilmer Flores… First he has a huge game if the FSL All Star game and is named MVP. Next, he learns that he’s been promoted to Double-A Binghamton and follows that up with a game-winning hit in his last game as a St. Lucie Met. And today came the announcement that he has been named to the MLB Futures Game as one of two Mets, the other being top [...]

Nobody wants to see a player injured, and despite his lack of production I haven’t heard anybody say a negative thing about Jason Bay. However, in the wake of his latest concussion, which could keep him out indefinitely, this could turn out to be one of the best things to happen to the Mets. If Bay was hitting as they hoped, things would be different. However, this is a young team that is winning and [...]

I can remember when I heard about R.A Dickey being called up to the Mets.  When I heard the news, it felt like an ordinary call-up.  Nobody knew who this guy was and I felt that he was going to be a short-term option in the rotation. Little did I know, Dickey would go on to become one of the league’s best starting pitchers two years after his call-up to the team. R.A currently leads [...]

After a sweep of the Tampa Bay Rays, the Mets laid an egg in a home series against the Red, dropping all three games. The Mets needed a bounce back series against Baltimore, who has been terrific the first few months of the season. They did just that only alowing two runs in the three games and sweeping the Orioles at Citi FIeld. Once again the Mets show their resiliency a resiliency that they have shown all [...]

Bisons Offense Stymied In Loss by Andrew O’Brien Buffalo scored one run in the top of the second inning Wednesday night, but the Bisons offense went quiet the rest of the game as they fell to Norfolk, 3-1, in the third game of the four-game series. The lone Bisons run came on a Matt Tuiasosopo solo homer to center field. Norfolk plated one run in the bottom of the fourth inning when Blake Davis singled home [...]

With the mid-season mark for the minor league long-season leagues fast approaching, I wanted to release a Who’s Hot update to cap off the season’s first half. These statistics do not include Wednesday’s games, but are accurate through Tuesday June 19th. Two out of three players here are pitchers, which makes sense considering pitching is presently the biggest strength in the farm system. About half of these players have been listed on the hot-list before [...]

The Mets improved to 38-32 after completing a three-game sweep of the Orioles with a thrilling 4-3 victory tonight in Citi Field. Dillon Gee started and delivered his best performance of the season tossing 7.1 innings and allowing just two runs on three hits and two walks while striking out nine. Gee was in command and had his changeup working, but his only mistake was one bad pitch that Wilson Betemit blasted for a two-run home [...]

Earlier today we posted on the promotions of Wilmer Flores and Cory Mazzoni from St. Lucie to Binghamton. You can read more about that here. No surprise there as we expected Flores to advance very soon and in fact we speculated that Cory Mazzoni would get the start in one of the games in tonight’s doubleheader. However, these moves, like most minor league moves, led to a small chain reaction of other moves at the [...]

Starting Lineup Andres Torres – CF Jordany Valdespin – 2B David Wright – 3B Scott Hairston – RF Vinny Rottino – LF Ike Davis – 1B Justin Turner – SS Mike Nickeas – C Dillon Gee – RHP The Mets go for the sweep of the Orioles tonight at Citi Field! Johan Santana followed up Dickey’s performance by a 6.0 inning shutout that was kept up by a flawless bullpen performance. The Mets bullpen was [...]