Jon Heyman of CBS Sports is reporting that free agent reliever Tyler Clippard is seeking a two-year deal. That could be a deal-breaker for the Mets who are not likely to go beyond a one-year deal for their former setup man. Previous Report – 12/18 The New York Mets have not ruled out re-signing reliever Tyler Clippard, according to Jerry Crasnick of ESPN. During the Winter Meetings in...
Las Vegas (35-29) 8, Reno 7 The 51’s had a very comfortable 6-0 lead heading into the top of the 8th with starter Logan Verrett cruising along unscathed before Reno scored seven in the last two innings and had the tying run on 3rd when Jon Velasquez struck out D’Backs prospect Peter O’Brien to end the game. Verrett ended up going 7.2 innings allowing two runs on five hits while...
Now that the 2015 First-year player draft has concluded, I felt compelled to update our MMO Top Mets Prospect Rankings that our minor league team composed at the very beginning of the season. Before engaging in this discussion, I would first like to credit fellow MMO prospect writer, Michael Mayer, who helped assemble this list. Interestingly, after years of blue-chip prospects in the upper...
Here’s a look at the Mets minor league starting pitching leaders which features strong showings from Steven Matz, Michael Fulmer, Robert Whalen, and Casey Meisner who all pitched this weekend. I left out Noah Syndergaard’s strong 3-0 start with 1.82 ERA, 0.944 WHIP, and 4.25 SO/W ratio because he is in the bigs now and hopefully has seen the last of the Minors. A breakdown for the...
Sacramento 6, Las Vegas (24-11) 5 The 51’s were down 6-0 heading to the bottom of the 8th until they would a 5 spot up but Dan Rohlfing struck out swinging as the go-ahead run to end the threat. The loss snapped The 51’s 10-game home winning streak. Kyle Johnson got the night off after having the best game of the year but had a big two-run pinch hit HR in the 8th for his 1st of the...
The Mets farm system is one of the best in baseball (No. 4 according to Law) and is finally starting to produce some talented position players to go with all that young pitching that has rival teams green with envy. The last two weeks have been filled with some glowing prospect chatter stemming from Baseball Prospectus’ top prospect rankings, to MLB.com releasing their top players at each...
While former chief analyst Jason Parks now scouts future Cubs prospects for Theo Epstein & Co., Baseball Prospectus with their new minor league staff recently kicked off their off-season prospect coverage and is deep into the NL East. Today it was time for the Mets system with in-depth reports on what BP views as the “Top 10” in the system. As an add-on, 3 more prospects considered as “on...
Beginning the last day of the season, the Brooklyn Cyclones and the Connecticut Tigers were locked in a tie for the only New York-Penn League Wild Card slot. Connecticut held the tiebreaker, meaning Brooklyn needed both a win and a Tiger loss to make it to the playoffs. The dust finally settled three hours after the Tigers started their final game of the season on on a Monday night to remember...
Last Night’s Quick Scores Omaha 4, Las Vegas 0 Reading 1, Binghamton 0 Bradenton 4, St. Lucie 0 Savannah 3, Greenville 2 Brooklyn 7, Vermont 3 Kingsport 4, Greeneville 3 – 12 innings Minor League Notes Noah Syndergaard threw five innings, giving up just two runs on three hits, walked three and struck out eight. He lost the game and now is 8-7, 4.27 ERA. Matt Reynolds had half of the 51s...
The B-Mets went above and beyond for anyone who attended their game yesterday — not only did Noah Syndergaard turn in a relatively effective performance, but the Mets slammed five home runs as part of a 14-3 blowout victory. Syndergaard’s three runs allowed were all listed as unearned because of an error in the sixth that allowed a runner to reach base, and Thor served up a two-out...
In a conference call this afternoon, Mets VP of player development Paul DePodesta characterized the first two days of the 2013 MLB Draft as very productive, adding that he was “thrilled with the way everything has turned out.” DePodesta said the Mets have had more moments of jubilation, when players they wanted fell to them, than those where they missed getting the players they...
