The Syracuse Mets (1-2) finished off their opening series of the season with the Rochester Red Wings (2-1) on Sunday. Mike Vasil, MLB Pipeline’s No. 11 Mets prospect, was on the bump for his first start of the season, going against Jackson Rutledge, the starter for the Nationals’ Triple-A affiliate. In the rubber game between these two teams, Syracuse fell behind from the jump and...
The Mets recently placed Dominic Smith on the 10-day injured list with a sprained right ankle. The move is retroactive to July 17. Now the Mets announced they’ve selected the contract of INF/OF Travis Blankenhorn from Triple-A Syracuse to take Smith’s place on the active roster. Blankenhorn was removed from the 40-man roster earlier this season but now he’s back on it making it...
While a couple of his fellow top prospects were playing in the MLB Futures Game, Brett Baty was putting on a show for the Binghamton Rumble Ponies. He reached base in all five of his plate appearances on Saturday. He also crushed his 13th home run of the season. AAA: Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp (48-41) 8, Syracuse Mets (39-50) Box Score Travis Blankenhorn 1B: 1-for-4, 2B, RBI, BB, K,...
In what has become a near-daily theme, top prospect Francisco Álvarez hit yet another home run on Saturday night for Binghamton. His 17th of the season. Joining Álvarez in the power surge, Ronny Mauricio homered for the second night in a row. These two top prospects’ power surge was the key to Binghamton’s 11-0 blowout against Reading. AAA: Syracuse Mets (28-42) 5, Rochester Red...
AAA: Game 1 – Rochester Red Wings (12-10) 3, Syracuse Mets (7-14) 0 BOX SCORE Nick Plummer – CF: 1-2, BB Daniel Palka – 1B: 0-2, BB Carlos Cortes – LF: 0-1, BB There are not many positive takeaways from the Syracuse offense in game one of the team’s series against Rochester. Syracuse only logged one hit and no runs in a shortened, seven-inning game. Plummer tallied...
Columbus Clippers (9-3) 4, Syracuse Mets (1-10) 3 Box Score Khalil Lee CF: 1-for-2, 2 BB, .103/.235/.138 Patrick Mazeika 1B: 2-for-3, R, BB, .226/.333/.226 Travis Blankenhorn 2B: 1-for-5, R, HR, 2 RBI, K, .233/.258/.533 Despite only recording six hits, the Mets’ offense had plenty of opportunities in Sunday’s game, but they went 1-for-11 with runners in scoring position. Following a...
The Mets minor league season kicked off last week with most of the Mets top prospects in action. Let’s take a look at how some of them performed. Week In Review All four Mets affiliates kicked off their 2022 campaigns this past week. Only one of their affiliates finished over .500 last season, St. Lucie at 60-55, as all four teams work towards more success this time around. Triple-A...
After Mookie Wilson began the 2022 affiliate schedule with a ceremonial first strike, the excitement on Opening Day dropped precipitously. The Syracuse Mets fell in a season-opening snooze fest at NBT Bank Stadium, losing 5-0 to the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Railriders. With both David Peterson and Tylor Megill traveling with the big league club in case of a need for Opening Day innings in...
You know the drill by now, folks. After detailing the New York Mets’ organizational depth chart at catcher and first base, we continue going around the horn by looking at second base. Big League Starter Unlike the first two positions we detailed over the weekend, the second base job could go a number of different ways for the Mets. This depends not only on what manager Buck Showalter wants...
After game one on Saturday against the Washington Nationals, the New York Mets announced that outfielder Brandon Nimmo was placed on the 10-day injured list with a right hamstring strain. Early in the game Nimmo exited with hamstring tightness after pulling up during a run from second to third. He was 2-for-2 with a double and an RBI before exiting the game. “It’s a strain in his hamstring,”...
The New York Mets announced on Tuesday afternoon that they have claimed infielder Travis Blankenhorn off of waivers from the Seattle Mariners. He has been added to the 26-man roster and will join the team in Arizona for their Tuesday night matchup against the Arizona Diamondbacks wearing No. 73. With the addition of Blankenhorn, the Mets designated infielder Wilfredo Tovar for...
