The Glendale Desert Dogs just won their third game in a row, bringing their record to 5-10 in the 2023 Arizona Fall League. New York Mets prospects JT Schwartz, Kevin Parada, D’Andre Smith, Rowdey Jordan, and Nolan Clenney all played in the Desert Dogs’ 6-2 win on Thursday. The 23-year-old JT Schwartz had another great day at the plate after homering on Tuesday, hitting an RBI double...
With about a month’s worth of games left to play in the Arizona Fall League, the Mets affiliate team, The Glendale Desert Dogs, sit in last place with a 2-10 record. With nine of the Mets’ prospects joining the league this fall, most have gotten off to slow starts. However, things are beginning to pick up as the season progresses. After the AFL season started, we examined how the...
One of the New York Mets’ top prospects, Kevin Parada, hit his first career Arizona Fall League (AFL) home run on Saturday. The long ball smacked off the center field batter’s eye which is 410-plus feet away from home plate. The 22-year-old catcher, who had an up-and-down season this past year, is now slashing .231/.259/.385, good for an OPS of .644, across only 26 at-bats early on in the AFL...
The Peoria Javelinas kicked off their 2022 season with a victory on Monday afternoon, defeating the Glendale Desert Dogs by a score of 5-3. Box Score Two Mets prospects were featured in the starting lineup, but no pitchers made an appearance. 2B Kevin Kendall: 1-for-3, R, BB 3B Luke Ritter: 0-for-4, SO Kendall was the Javelinas’ leadoff hitter and reached base twice, scoring the team’s first run...
With the Arizona Fall League set to kick off in just a few weeks, the rosters for the six teams in the league were released on Friday. The Arizona Fall League offers minor leaguers an opportunity to get extra reps right at the start of their offseason and can prove to be especially valuable for players who missed time during the regular season due to injury. Nine prospects in the New York Mets...
The Salt River Rafters lost their second straight game on Wednesday and Brett Baty had a rare day without a hit. Earlier in the day, Baty was named the AFL Player of the Week after posting a 1.278 OPS during the first week of the season. The game was scoreless going into the sixth inning when the Surprise Saguaros scored one run off Mets prospect Connor Grey. Fellow Mets pitching prospect...
Mets prospect Brett Baty has been named the Player of the Week for the first week of the Arizona Fall League season. Baty, 21, has done nothing but impress since the Mets selected him in the first round of the 2019 Draft. In the opening week of the AFL, the Texas native showed he belonged among baseball’s best prospects. Baty batted a robust .444/.565/.722 with three doubles, a triple, and three...
No. 13 Jordan Humphreys RHP B/T: R/R Age: 23 (6/11/1996) Height: 6’2’’ Weight: 223 lbs Acquired: Drafted in 18th round of 2015 Draft out of Crystal River HS (FL) ETA: 2021 Previous Rank: 19 2019 Stats: GCL Mets 0-0 4.50 ERA, 2.0 IP, BB, 2 SO, AFL 0.77 ERA, 11.2 IP Drafted in 2015 out of Crystal River High School in Crystal River Florida, Jordan Humphreys received a signing bonus of $150,000...
With the Arizona Fall League season coming to an end, MLB Pipeline has comprised an All AFL Team. The team has been assembled using both performance and prospect status in their determinations. Taking all of that into account, Andres Gimenez was named as the shortstop. This should come as no surprise as Gimenez led the AFL in both batting average and OPS. He was also fifth in the league in hits,...
By Steve Schaeffler While most of the baseball world is focused on the postseason, some of the game’s best young prospects are playing in the desert sun out in Arizona. The Arizona Fall League, or AFL for short, allows players to play versus and with other top talent from all over the league and a quartet of Mets pitching prospects have been doing their best to showcase what they can do....
Desmond Lindsay Position: CF B/T: R/R Age: 1/15/97 (22) Acquired: June 2015 Amateur Draft – Round: 2, Pick: 11, Overall: 53, Out-Of-Door Academy, FL Previous Rank: 19 2018 Stats (Gulf Coast League/St. Lucie Mets): 90 G, 360 PA, 314 AB, 31 R, 13 2B, 5 3B, 3 HR, 33 RBI, 9 SB/7 CS, .223/.317/.325, .309 BABIP If you are a person who keeps up with the Mets farm and recent drafts, then...
The talk of the 2018 season, as far as the Mets minor leaguers were concerned, was the power display of Peter Alonso. Whether it was Double-A, Triple-A, or the Future’s Game, Alonso was hitting the ball harder than anyone. He was setting Statcast records left and right. Seeing how well he played, people were wondering how he would do against a higher level of competition. To the...
