One of the bright spots from the 2018 season has been the emergence of Jeff McNeil. With his play in Binghamton and Las Vegas, McNeil forced his way onto the Major League roster even with the Mets seeming unwillingness to give him the promotion. Through his first 44 major league games, McNeil is hitting .340/.401/.490 with eight doubles, four triples, two homers, and 14 RBI. Certainly, based...
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3 UP 1. Conforto Being Conforto As the season progresses, we are gradually seeing Michael Conforto move from an injured and rusty player to being the regular Michael Conforto. That was especially the case over the past few games. Conforto homered in consecutive games which now makes him the team leader in both homers and RBI. In the last two games of the series, he was 4-for-10 with three...
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This year, the Mets had a number of breakout performances leading some players to crack Top 100 prospect lists and for other players to finally get their chance to play at the Major League level. Looking over those performances, here are 2018 Mets full season affiliate leaders in each offensive category among qualifiers (3.1 plate appearances per game): G – 133 Zach Borenstein (Las Vegas)...
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Co-Position Player of the Month – Peter Alonso, 1B Level: Las Vegas Season Stats: .285/.395/.579, 31 2B, 3B, 36 HR, 119 RBI August Stats: .308/.392/.731, 11 2B, 11 HR, 27 RBI Alonso finished this season leading the minors in homers partially because of his 11 homers this month. Those 11 homers were the most he has hit in any month since he was drafted by the Mets. During the month, Alonso...
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3 UP 1. Mets Have Three Aces During last night’s game Mets former Senior Director of Baseball Operations Adam Fisher tweeted, “You now have 3 aces.” That analysis was mostly due to the emergence of Zack Wheeler. Including his win last night, Wheeler is now 7-1 with a 1.50 ERA, 0.850 WHIP, and a 9.3 K/9 in the second half of the season. Overall, Wheeler is 14th in the majors in...
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