Major League Baseball will conduct day one of the 2016 First Year Player Draft on Thursday, June 9 at MLB Network’s Studio 42 in Secaucus, New Jersey.
The event will air live on MLB Network and will be streamed on MLB.com at 7:00 p.m. ET.
The New York Mets will have two picks (19, 31) during the first round on Thursday night and the team will be represented by former closer John Franco.
MMO will be on hand at Studio 42 where senior editor Clayton Collier will live tweet the event, speak to some of the draft day hopefuls, and get some insights from the Mets contingent.
Here is a summary of past top draft picks by the New York Mets spanning the last five hears of the current regime.
Mets Top Draft Picks During Sandy Alderson ERA:
2015: Desmond Lindsay, OF (2nd round, 53rd pick)
In 35 games with the GCL Mets and Brooklyn Cyclones in 2015, Lindsay batted .263 with a .364 on-base percentage, seven doubles, two triples, one home run and 13 RBI in 134 plate appearances. He currently is biding his time St. Lucie until the Cyclones season begins.
2014: Michael Conforto, OF (1st round, 10th pick)
Conforto was the first top draft pick to reach the major leagues in the Alderson era. In 2015, Conforto skyrocketed from Single-A St. Lucie all they way to the big-league team and wrestled the starting left fielder job from incumbent Michael Cuddyer. He put an exclamation point on his rookie season with two home runs in Game 4 of the World Series.
2013: Dominic Smith, 1B (1st round, 11th pick)
A highly regarded defensive first baseman, Smith had his breakthrough season as a pro in 2015, batting .305 with 33 doubles, nine home runs and 79 RBI in 118 games with Single-A St. Lucie. He is currently batting .264 with 11 doubles, four homers and 36 RBI in 55 games with Double-A Binghamton.
2012: Gavin Cecchini, SS (1st round, 12th pick)
Cecchini is tearing things up at Triple-A Las Vegas after a breakout season for Double-A Binghamton (.317/.377/.442) in 2015. The slick fielding shortstop is batting .326 with a .394 OBP for Las Vegas with 23 runs scored and 13 RBI.
2011: Brandon Nimmo, OF (1st round, 13th pick)
Nimmo has yet to have a full season in the minors, having spent significant chunks of his first five years on the DL with various injuries. He has been very adept at drawing walks, but the Wyoming native has yet to show the home run power many believed his swing would generate. He is now at Triple-A Las Vegas where he’s off to a great start, batting .317 and posting the best slugging percentage of his pro career at .481 – more than 100 points higher than 2015.
