MAYBE if your lucky the addition of Snydergaard will only drop our ranking to 22nd then….

Yeah he did a real NUMBER on improving that Ranking didn’t he?

But the point your missing is that nobody has ever said the OF prospects are great. And, the OF is just one part of the team. You can’t have homegrown studs at every position. How about we also talk about the infield where we have Ike, or the pitching staff where we have Harvey and Niese?

If the Blue Jays, Rangers, and Dodgers for example just relied on the players they developed from 05-10 to be in their starting OF, they would likely have a awful OF as well.

The Jays OF would be poor without Bautista, Rasmus, and Melky.

The Dodgers OF would be poor without Kemp, Either, and Crawford.

The Rangers OF would be week without Hamilton, Cruz, and Murphy.

One of the main reasons why the Mets OF is poor is because they are only counting on players that were drafted from 05-10 and players they picked up off the scrap heap.

That’s it. The OF isn’t very good, but most of teams’s OF wouldn’t be very good either if they just relied solely on the backs of the players drafted/signed from 05-10.

Omar left Sandy with a mediocre at best farm system. And the roster was junked up with many big underperforming contracts and/or contracts with awful vesting options and buyouts. The financial crunch due to Madoff made things even worse. And then there were the poor Citi Field dimensions that Sandy had to address almost immediately as well. Bottom line — Sandy took over a big mess.

Getting out from all that and building up the farm system to more respectable levels took time, but it may all be ready to pay off starting very soon. Even if it doesn’t, it certainly was worth it trying things this way as the route Omar took didn’t pay off and was too short-sighted and costly.

However, that does not mean the drafts were terrible. For example, if almost all the Tigers key players were drafted/signed from 2005-2010, they would likely be projected to be a poor team as well. Without Verlander, Caberera, Fielder, Jackson, and Scherzer, it would be unlikely that they would have any success either.

The Mets problem is that they have not surrounded their young talent with quality players.

Many people last year were calling Flores a bust.

In 2010, many people were saying Tejada could never be a starter.

Prior to spring training this year, many people were also saying V-Spin could never be a starter.

Not many fans considered Faimilia a valuable prospect after his poor statistical season in 2010.

None of those players were acquired by Alderson, yet fans quickly wrote them off.

Fans are just very fickle. Think about how last spring training Duda was the toast of the town, and now he’s a worthless bum who should be cut. This is just how fans are; it has nothing to do with the GM. The reaction fans have towards Nimmo and Cecchini are ordinary.

It’s simply not true
It’s simply false
It’s simply WRONG to keep saying it when time and time and time and time again the evidence shows that the farm system was not bad when he took over

Knock it off! you damn well know the farm was not bad. But coming from t agee who thinks every team should have a complete roster of all all stars under 30 with a slew of all star prospects all ready to move up at every single damned level of the Mets farm system!

That will never happen.

The farm was in good shape before he arrived.

That’s not to say not to use these rankings, but the point is that they aren’t hard cold facts.

Also, players like Ike Davis, Jon Niese, and Murphy weren’t in the Mets farm system when Alderson took over. So the Mets farm system ranking doesn’t tell you the whole story.