As Mark Vientos continues to progress through a challenging 2023 season with the Mets, he may very well emerge as a hidden gem among the team’s pool of prospects. He had a solid afternoon at the plate, contributing significantly to the Mets’ 8-4 victory over the Cincinnati Reds in front of a crowd of 38,044 at Citi Field on the final game of a weekend series. Vientos made solid...
Good morning, Mets fans! Mets top prospect Kevin Parada is going on the injured list with a right ankle sprain. Parada was injured on Thursday night when going from first to third on a base hit. The 21-year-old catcher who is generally considered the Mets’ no. 1 prospect, has built up to a .797 OPS for High-A Brooklyn after a slow start to the year. Latest Mets News The Mets defeated the...
Good morning, Mets fans! As shared by SNY Mets, Ronny Mauricio on Saturday drove in his 28th and 29th runs of the year for Triple-A Syracuse. Mike Mayer of Metsmerized added that he’s the first hitter in the major or minor leagues to hit 20 doubles this season. Latest Mets News Per Will Sammon of The Athletic, Saturday’s game between the Mets and Guardians was postponed due to rain. It...
Good morning, Mets fans! Former Mets first-round pick and current Texas Rangers prospect Kumar Rocker is going to have Tommy John surgery later this week, according to Evan Grant of The Dallas Morning News, after suffering an ‘acute’ injury. Rocker, who was last pitching in Single-A ball in Hickory, suffered the elbow injury resulting in the surgery on May 11. Texas Rangers General...
For years, Bowman Baseball has served as the first product of the new season for collectors to get their hands on the first card of players that changed teams in the offseason in their new team’s uniform. This is in addition to rookie cards for top prospects that made late season debuts, and the first card for several of the game’s top prospects.The 2023 Bowman Baseball prospect delivers on all...
As we get a chance to see a number of the Mets’ top prospects in action this spring including Ronny Mauricio hitting a 450-foot home run and Brett Baty slugging a home run in his first at-bat, top baseball publications are releasing their prospect lists and MLB Pipeline put out their updated top 30 Mets list on Monday. Here’s the new list: Francisco Alvarez – C Brett Baty – 3B Kevin Parada – C...
As the season gets closer to beginning, we have another Top 100 prospect list that was just released on Wednesday. Eric Longenhagen and Tess Taruskin unveiled their list of the Top 100 Prospects in the game on FanGraphs and the Mets were well-represented on the list. In total, the Mets had five prospects and had a chance at six on the list. Catcher Francisco Álvarez was the highest on the list...
No. 4 Alex Ramirez, CF B/T: R/R Age: 1/13/03 (20) Ht: 6’3” Wt: 170 lb. Acquired: Signed in 2019’s International Free Agency Period from the Dominican Republic ETA: 2025 Previous Rank: 7 Stats (DSL): .281/.346/.436, 30 2B, 11 HR, 71 RBI, 21 SB, 16 CS The Mets have done incredibly well in the international free-agent market during the last decade. The club parlayed IFA...
MLB Pipeline has released their rankings of their top third base prospects in the game, and Brett Baty was ranked No. 2. This marks the second straight year Baty was rated in the top 10. In fact, Baty was the highest-rated player from last year’s rankings. If not for Baltimore Orioles prospect Gunnar Henderson switching positions from shortstop to third base, Baty would actually be the top...
Good morning, Mets fans! On Thursday, it was announced that Mets prospect Ronny Mauricio won MVP of the Dominican Professional Baseball league, receiving 61 of 69 votes for the award. As a result, Mauricio will receive a brand new Chevy Colorado MVP Edition truck. The 21-year-old had five home runs, 31 RBIs and an .803 OPS in 47 games. He is currently the Mets’ sixth-ranked prospect and...
Jake Mangum, Photo by Richard Nelson The New York Mets have traded outfielder Jake Mangum to the Miami Marlins to complete the trade for Elieser Hernández and Jeff Brigham, as first reported by Jordan McPherson of the Miami Herald. This comes on the heels of Mangum not being selected by any team Wednesday in the Rule 5 draft. Mangum, 26, was the Mets 2019 fourth-round draft pick out of...
Mike Puma of the New York Post reports the New York Mets have traded right-handed pitching prospect Franklin Sánchez to the Miami Marlins for right-handed relievers Jeff Bringham and Elieser Hernández. The Mets announced the deal on Friday afternoon with the note that they will also send Miami a player to be named later or cash. Sánchez, 22, signed as an international free agent out of the...
