ESPN’s Keith Law released his midseason update of his Top 50 Prospects list. In his preseason Top 100 list there were five Mets who made the cut. They were Noah Syndergaard (24), Travis d’Arnaud (36), Dominic Smith (37), Rafael Montero (60), and Brandon Nimmo (92). However this time around the Mets placed four prospects within the top 50 in all of baseball– and that’s...
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At one point in his career, David Wright was the young prospect looking to make a name for himself with the big club, the new kid on the block surrounded by veterans. Marc Carig of Newsday writes that even though the Mets had the key players to make a run at the title during Wright’s early years, they still found themselves competing against teams like the Marlins who had their own crop of...
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Limping through the All-Star break as a baseball fan is tough business. We try many things to speed the time up and hope that the days off do more good for our team than bad. Leading up to the break the Mets were playing some good ball. I am sure I am not the only one that gets nervous that we could be on the brink of another slow start and back to the negativity. Sometimes we stretch to...
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The Mets are in the middle of the pack in the division and the wild card race, and fans are taking sides on whether their Amazins should be buyers or sellers. Let’s look at both sides and afterwards I will tell you why the Mets should hold on tight and not make any rash deals. The Mets Should Be Buyers: Being just seven games out of the division lead and with the wild card at a tempting...
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Travis d’Arnaud has had his struggles since being promoted to the big leagues in 2013, mostly from trying to live up to the pressures of playing in the big city and producing. Coming into the 2014 season, the hype grew even larger and it might have just been too much for the young rookie to bear. So on June 7, the Mets made the right choice to demote d’Arnaud to Las Vegas who was...
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