The New York Mets took on the Houston Astros at FITTEAM Ballpark in Palm Beach, Florida on Friday evening and lost 3-2 on a walk-off homer. The Mets sent right-hander, Michael Wacha to the mound, with Lance McCullers Jr. starting for Houston. Check the box score here Pitching Michael Wacha had a solid outing on Friday where he went 2 1/3 innings, allowing five hits, one walk, and only one run....
As we inch closer to the Mets pitchers and catchers reporting next month, the big group of us at MMO/MMN got our heads together to vote on the Mets 30 prospects heading into the 2020 season. A group of 12 writers submitted their top 50 Mets prospects and from those sheets – with lots of discussion – came up with our top 30. We are lucky enough at MMO/MMN to have writers that covered...
The 2019 Major League Rule 5 Draft has been completed, and despite some well grounded concerns, the New York Mets did not lose any players. This means the last time the Mets lost a player in the Rule 5 draft was 2015 when Matt Bowman was drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals. The Mets will keep Shervyen Newton, who is regarded by MLB Pipeline as the eighth best prospect in the Mets farm system....
MiLB.com recently did an article on the Mets’ organization All-Stars from 2019 with the best performers, and quite honestly it was kind of sad with the inclusion of multiple older players like Rene Rivera and Travis Taijeron. Congrats to those guys for having terrific seasons, but let’s take a look at a list that should be more important to the Mets’ long-term outlook, their...
Scranton (62-46) 6, Syracuse (53-55) 3 Box RHP Brooks Pounders (0-1, 9.28 ERA): 2.2 IP, 2 H, R, K, 4 BB RHP Paul Sewald (3-3, 3.69 ERA): 2.1 IP, 3 H, 2 R, K RHP Matt Blackham (0-0, 0.00 ERA): 1 IP, H, 0 R, RHP Tim Peterson (2-6, 2.76 ERA): 1.2 IP, 2 H, 3 R, 3 K, BB LHP Ryan O’Rourke (1-3, 3.66 ERA): .1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, K With Ervin Santana scratched and on call-up duty if the Mets traded away...
The Double-A Binghmaton Rumbles Ponies had two pitchers combine for a no-hitter on Wednesday night in their 7-0 win over the Harrisburg Senators. Starter Harol Gonzalez went 6.2 innings before reliever Ryder Ryan finished off the historic game with 2.1 innings of no-hit ball. The right-handers combined to face 28 batters. They struck out eight Senators (Washington Nationals’ Double-A...
The Mets currently have 5.87 ERA from their supposedly revamped bullpen, a number that is the fourth highest in baseball and only the Nationals’ bullpen ERA of 8.01 is worse in the NL. Aside from closer Edwin Diaz, everyone in the Mets pen has struggled at times early on in 2019. Given that, let’s take a look at the options the Mets have in the upper levels of the minors that might...
Rochester (4-9) 5, Syracuse (7-7) 4 Box Score SS Adeiny Hechavarria: 3-for-5, R, RBI (3), K | .298/.346/.383 DH Travis Taijeron: 1-for-5, R, HR (4), 2 RBI (9), 4 K | .263/.404/.658 1B David Thompson: 1-for-4, R, HR (1), RBI (8), 3 K | .188/.263/.344 It was a rough start last night for the Mets offense as each of the first seven batters struck out to start the game leading to a total of eleven...
It was a strong season for the development of the New York Mes farm system, going from being ranked No. 27 to No. 19 according to Baseball America, one of the biggest jumps for any organization. There are many reasons for the improvement, from acquiring prospects in trade (Franklyn Kilome, Will Toffey), to pitchers finally pitching healthy full season (Anthony Kay, David Peterson), strong pro...
Las Vegas (71-69) 4, Sacramento (55-85) 3 Box Score Luis Guillorme SS: 2-3, 3B, 2 BB, K, .304/.380/.417 Peter Alonso 1B: 2-5, HR, 2 RBI, .260/.355/.585 Patrick Kivlehan LF-RF: 1-1, 2B, 3 BB, .314/.372/.588 Down 3-0 in the sixth, Las Vegas chipped away with RBIs by Colton Plaia and Zach Borenstein to make it 3-2. After Guillorme led off the bottom of the ninth with a triple, Alonso blasted a...
Las Vegas (46-52) 6, Salt Lake (51-47) 4 Box Score Jeff McNeil DH: 1-for-4, R, RBI, SF, .344/.410/.625 Phillip Evans SS: 3-for-3, 2 RBI, 2 BB, .258/.328/.493 Peter Alonso 1B: 2-for-4, HR, BB, 2 R, .271/.398/.526 It was hopefully a slump busting night for Alonso, he was just 4-for-his-last-35 going into Thursday. His home run was actually an inside-the-parker to the right center field gap. He now...
Salt Lake (49-46) 10, Las Vegas (45-50) 5 Box Score Kevin Kaczmarski CF: 3-5, .361/.409/.443 Jeff McNeil 2B: 2-4, 3B, 2 RBI, .390/.436/.657 Peter Alonso 1B: 0-4, .182/.318/.432 Kaczmarski continues to slap a ton of singles in that thin Vegas air, but it is nonetheless nice to see him hitting well after barely playing for three weeks. McNeil got two more hits including his fifth triple of the...
