The Mets drafted Joe Genord with their ninth pick in the draft. The 6’2″, 200 pound catcher/first baseman hit .333/.446/.618 with 13 homers as a 22-year-old this year for the University of South Florida. Fish Stripes had this writeup on Genord: ” He has a ton of raw power and can be a middle of the order hitter at the next level. He’s a sound defensive first baseman with a high...
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Tonight is Major League Baseball’s annual draft. The draft will begin at 7 p.m. on MLB Network and can be seen on MLB.com. The Mets will be picking 12th overall tonight and they will $8,224,600 to work with. Here is a link for the full draft bonuses. The heavy consensus seems to indicate it will be a college player. Specifically, a college pitcher. The college pitchers who have been...
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The rumors for the draft seem to only be building towards the Mets taking a college player, specifically a pitcher Jim Callis of MLB.com released a mock draft of 5/31 which had the Mets taking Zack Thompson. Callis also mentioned “New York is in play for the top four college arms. If none of them get to 12 or Thompson fails to check out medically after having a shoulder injury in high...
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The Mets lost the finale of their series by a score of 2-0 and dropped three-of-four against the Dodgers in painful fashion. (Box Score) Pitching Jason Vargas was the starter for New York tonight, and his first inning did not get off to a promising start. Chris Taylor tripled to lead off the game for LA. Max Muncy followed up with a RBI double, causing the Dodgers to smell blood in the water....
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There were only three mock drafts to cover this week. Baseball America and MLB.com released one on 5/24 and Perfect Game released on 5/23. Baseball America has the Mets taking Zack Thompson. This is not the first one with that pick. Baseball America has had him as their pick multiple times now while Fangraphs had him as their pick last week. Fangraphs also said, “most expect a college...
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