The Rule 5 Draft is set to take place on Wednesday, December 6, during the Winter Meetings in Nashville at 2 p.m. ET on MLB dot com. David Stearns has made it clear in his New York Mets tenure that he’s focused on building significant depth, and the Rule 5 Draft is a place where you can find that with minimal risk. Let’s begin with a quick summary of the Rule 5 Draft and how it works. The...
During the 2023 MLB draft the Mets selected a total of 23 players, including seven within the first four rounds. The Mets agreed to deals with their first 14 draft selections and 20 overall, with college pitchers Brady Kirtner and Christian Little, and prep pitcher Gavyn Jones choosing to forgo signing with the team. Most, but not all, of the draft choices who elected to sign made their brief...
The Mets 2021 draft was nothing short of incredible. After an initial panic by fans after failing to offer Kumar Rocker a contract, all Mets faithful should be ecstatic about how the draft class is shaping up as they navigate their way up the MiLB ladder towards the MLB summit. While this piece focuses on the pitchers slated for Double-A to start the 2023 season, it is worth mentioning that RHP...
Topps has been burning a hole in the wallets of collectors throughout the hobby since the beginning of October with so many new releases, and they didn’t let the holidays stop them. In the weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas, the hobby saw the releases of Topps Heritage Minors, Bowman Platinum, and Bowman Draft. Topps Heritage Minors is what it sounds like…a minor league version of Topps...
The New York Mets will hold seven picks before the fifth round of the 2023 MLB Draft. That is quite the haul, and underlines the organization’s long-term philosophy and approach under owner Steve Cohen. This offseason has been dominated by Cohen’s determination to outspend everyone else in baseball in order to transform the Mets into a perennial winner. Ownership and the front office...
The Mets have selected Zach Greene, a right-handed pitcher from the Yankees in the 2022 MLB Rule 5 Draft. Greene pitched in AAA in 2022, and had a 3.42 ERA in 68.1 IP. Greene also compiled 12.64 K/9 for the Scranton/Wilkes Barre RailRiders and allowed hitters to hit only .199 off of him last season. Greene, 26, was an eighth-round draft pick by the Yankees in 2019 out of South Alabama. Mets have...
Following a partial one-year hiatus brought on by the 2021 lockout, the Rule 5 Draft returns to the Major League Baseball Winter Meetings next week. There was no major league portion of the draft in 2021, but there was still a minor league draft that saw 51 players get chosen including the Mets taking right-hander pitchers Alex Valverde and Carlos Ocampo and the Mets losing right-hander pitchers...
The Mets had a draft in 2022 that could be instrumental in the franchise’s future success that included two first round picks and five of the first 90 picks of the draft. I’m going to go over how each of the Mets’ draft picks did in their brief pro debuts during the 2022 season. Unfortunately, the Mets did not sign third rounder Brandon Sproat as he decided to play another year...
Good morning, Mets fans! According to Anthony DiComo of MLB.com, the New York Mets did not make any moves to add to the 40-man roster before last night’s deadline, leaving players like Jake Mangum and others, exposed for the upcoming Rule 5 draft. Mangum, who was drafted in the fourth round in the 2019 MLB Draft, only played in72 games this season due to a spinal injury. At age 26, Mangum...
The Mets’ top pick in the 2022 MLB draft made his professional debut on a busy Friday of Mets minor league action. Triple-A: Syracuse Mets (50-65) 11, Charlotte Knights (45-70) 12 Box Score DH Dominic Smith: 2-for-4, 2B, 2 R, RBI, BB, .286/.375/.844 LF Khalil Lee: 1-for-3, HR (10), 2 R, 2 K, .213/.328/.389 SS JT Riddle: 3-for-5, HR (7), 2B, 2 R, 3 RBI, .236/.268/.407 Syracuse almost...
Good morning, Mets fans! Agent Scott Boras says that four teams –all of them very good teams and one not in the US– have reached out to him since the All-Star Game to check on free agent Michael Conforto. Now, it is time for the morning briefing. Latest Mets News Mets second-round pick Nick Morabito said, “I am going to sign and I’m real excited about getting started.”...
Draft week is upon us, and with that comes plenty of speculation about how the New York Mets will play their cards with the 11th and 14th overall picks. The Athletic’s Keith Law put out his MLB Mock Draft 3.0 on Monday, and he has the Mets selecting two college bats in Texas Tech’s Jace Jung and Arizona’s Daniel Susac. Jace Jung, 2B/3B, Texas Tech Law believes that the Mets will have a standard...
