With the 2018 Major League draft having occurred over a month ago, it is a good time to look at the players the Mets selected to see how they are performing in their first month of professional baseball. Gulf Coast Jarred Kelenic, OF (First Round) – The sixth overall pick in the draft has had an incredible beginning to his professional career hitting .396/.450/.623 in 14 games. His...
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When a player receives a then team record $2.1 million signing bonus, you have a real inkling the organization is high on the player. It may not seem possible, but in the first 20 games of his career, Ronny Mauricio is already exceeding lofty expectations. At the same time the sixth overall pick in the draft, Jarred Kelenic was setting the world on fire forcing a promotion to Kingsport, the...
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While prospects like Peter Alonso, Jeff McNeil, and since the draft, Jarred Kelenic receive all the headlines and attention, the consensus in scouting circles continues to be that Andres Gimenez is the best prospect in the Mets organization. We saw further evidence of that with Gimenez skyrocketing up into Baseball Prospectus Top 50. In their pre-season list, Gimenez was ranked 82. After a...
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3 UP 1. Walk-Off Magic On Monday, the Mets won the first game of the doubleheader. on a Wilmer Flores walk-off homer. This gave him the Mets record with 10 walk-off hits. His four walk-off homers tie him with Mets legends like Mike Piazza and Cleon Jones for most in team history. If he wears “Ca Tire” instead of “Walk-Off Wilmer” on his jersey for Players’...
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With the Mets 17 games under .500 and seemingly getting worse by the day, the attention is clearly shifted to 2019 and beyond. Naturally, this leads to questions about what exactly the Mets are going to do and the development of their young players. Those issues are tackled in this week’s mailbag. Mr. Belvedere asks . . . With $92.5 million locked into Yoenis Cespedes, David Wright, Jay...
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