Author: John Bernhardt

Don’t Count Out Michael Fulmer

Steven Matz’s record setting debut had Met fans abuzz last weekend. Pre-game press stories hyping the event called Matz’s Citi Field ascendency ‘the final call up of the crop of Met ‘uber-pitching prospects,’ the last piece of Sandy Alderson’s Met pitching puzzle. Certainly, the highly touted cadre of young Met pitching prospects made being a Binghamton Met baseball fan tantalizing over the last...

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Mets Minors: Pedro Lopez Has B-Mets Back In Playoff Mode

“In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explode, and every sunset is different.” – John Steinbeck, The World of Our Discontent In Binghamton over the last two seasons, the popularity of baseball has exploded as Pedro Lopez and his B-Mets have hit their stride putting together a run of winning baseball that earned back-to-back playoff appearances and an Eastern League...

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Gavin Cecchini Displaying Solid Skills For Binghamton

It was a draft pick viewed skeptically by many New York Met fans and openly derided by several more in the media when GM Sandy Alderson and his player development team selected Gavin Cecchini as their number one draft selection in the 2012 draft.  Following a philosophy that favored baseball talent out of high school, not college, Cecchini joined Brandon Nimmo as top high school talent that was...

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Who Is Hansel Robles and Why Did Mets Choose Him?

Note from Joe D. As we reported yesterday, Hansel Robles was called up to replace the injured Jerry Blevins who sustained a fractured forearm after he was hit by a come-backer to the mound on Sunday. Robles was off to a good start in his first taste of Triple-A for Las Vegas where in five relief appearances he’s pitched 7 2/3 scoreless innings, allowing only six hits and a walk with ten...

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Rivera On Fire In Binghamton

He’s a virtual hitting machine.  The combination of the ability to stay back on a pitch, quick, explosive wrists and a short compact swing has translated to success at the plate at every level of the New York Mets farm system thus far..  And, he’s determined to show he has little left to prove, at least as a hitter, playing Double-A baseball.  T.J. Rivera is on fire in Binghamton. Rivera treated...

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