The Mets selected high school outfielder Pete Crow-Armstrong with their first pick, 19th overall, in the 2020 MLB Draft on Wednesday. The pre-draft rankings had the California teenager as high as 10 (The Athletic) and as low as 25 (Fangraphs). Crow-Armstrong is the third consecutive high school bat taken in the first round by the Mets, following Brett Baty in 2019 and Jarred Kelenic in 2018....
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All of the hard work over the past year by scouting departments across baseball has led up to… something resembling a draft. The 2020 First-Year Player Draft, as we’ve never seen it before, kicks off Wednesday night at 7 p.m. ET. The Mets have the 19th overall selection — it’ll be their only action on Day One before picking up with rounds two through five on Thursday. And...
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The Mets have committed to paying their minor leaguers a $400 stipend through the end of June, according to multiple reports. All teams have been paying the stipend in lieu of player salaries since professional baseball shut down in March, though the original agreement only covered players through the end of May. The news comes on the heels of the announcement that the Mets (as well as other...
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I always felt like Terry Collins got the short end of the stick. Sure, his bullpen usage was questionable. His lineup construction caused frequent head-scratching, yes. But I never felt that it was fair to throw the blame on Collins for having to trot out Jason Bay 175 times over two years or hand the ball to Rafael Montero over 50 times across four seasons. Any way you slice it, when Collins...
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Compared to the other 30 franchises, the Mets have rarely called upon the services of a rookie starting pitcher over the past 20 seasons, needing someone to take the ball in their major league debut a mere 21 times — only six teams have done it more infrequently. You could argue that’s a good thing. Fewer rookies means more established arms, and of those 21 the Mets have cranked out quite...
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