(I update this list throughout the season, and some slots changed due to what happened in winter ball and what I saw at ST last week)
Mack’s Updated Prospect List
Requirements: Be 24-years old at the beginning of the regular season, or have less than 100 at-bats at the major league level in one season.
Elliminated: Daniel Murphy have been removed from the list, after making the 2009 Mets’ opening day lineup. In addition, 2B Kyle Suire was removed for being a dummy.
My list is now based on ceiling, not past results. In my opinion. The Mets currently have only nine players in the system that I feel safe to say will someday have a decent major league career. There’s three more (#10-12) will play in the bigs, but, again, in my opinion, not in a major role.
The rest of the list is simply a rank of players in the system that make them better than the guys either not listed or listed below them. A lot more is needed out of their next couple of seasons to project any kind of certainly that they were worth signing.
1. SS Wilmer Flores – 17 yrs old -
2. SP Jon Niese – 22 years old – off to a good start in camp and everyone is talking about him
3. SP Brad Holt – 22 years old – Holt looks fantastic and has now developed a secondary curve. Word is he will open the season at Lucy, so he can continue to work with the pitching coaches there, but believe me, he will be B-Met bound as soon as the weather warms up.
4. OF Fernando Martinez – 20 yrs. old - Martinez went back on the shelf in February for the umpteenth time. This time it was an elbow, which definitely pushed back the Mets plans on calling him up by the All-Star break. There in no way any team would try to trade for this king of boo-boos, so I sure hope he pans out as high as all of us keep saying he will.
5. 3B Jefry Marte – 17 yrs. old -
6. 1B/OF Nick Evans – 23 years old – Evans moves down on the list because I only project him out as a potential utility player in the majors.
7. SP Bobby Parnell – 24-yrs old – As in the case of Evans, the best I see for Parnell is a relief role.
8. SP Dillon Gee – 23-years old - pitched excellently in the winter league, and is impressing the brass during ST
9. OF Cesar Puello – 18-yrs old – Reported better tools that either Marte or Flores.
10. SP Eric Beaulac – 22-yrs old – Throws both a 4-seamers and 2-seamer and has been clocked out in K-Port at 98. One of the best curveballs I’ve seen in years.
11. SP Robert Carson – 20-yrs old – His four-seamer tops off at 94, plus throws a curve, cut fast ball, cutter, and slider.
12. SP Jeurys Familia – 19-yrs old – His fastball ranges in the 92-94 range and has topped off at 96.
13. SP Jenrry Mejia – 19-yrs old -
14. SP Brant Rustich – 24/yrs old - It turned out that Rustich pitched most of the 2008 season with a major arm injury, so it’s hard to project him higher on this list going into the season.
15. 2B Greg Veloz – 21 yrs. old -
16. 1B Ike Davis – 22-yrs old –
17. SP Scott Moviel – 20-yrs old – shut down in camp
18. C Josh Thole – 22-yrs old – has impressed everyone in the Mets camp this year.
19. 3B Zach Lutz – 22-yrs old
20. SP Mike Antonini – 23-yrs old – pitched very well in the winter leagues... got bombed in first spring scrimmage outing, but doesn’t everyone?
21. SS Ruben Tejada -
22. SP Jake Ruckle – 22 years old – Jake is back after a season-ending injury last year. We injured players off the list until we are sure they are able to return 100%, and Ruckle was considered a shoe-in for the bIgs (probably as a RP specialist) before he went down.
23. SP Tobi Stoner – shut down in camp.
24. RP Roy Merritt – 23-yrs old -
25. RP Michael Powers – 23 yrs old -
26. RP Jimmy Johnson - 23 years old -
27. RP/CL Eddie Kunz – 23-yrs old –
28. SP Dylan Owen – 22-yrs old – Considered too small for a starter, you might see a slow conversion to the pen as his career goes on.
29. SP Scott Shaw – 22-yrs old -
30. C Francesco Pena – 19-yrs old –
31. SS Reece Havens – 23-yrs old - I simply had to lower Havens prior to the start of the 2009 season to the 29th slot in this report, simply on the fact that the more I surrounded myself with players that had great seasons, this was a supposedly greater player than them, with a far shittier season than most of them.
32. 2B Josh Satin – 24-yrs old –
33. SP Christopher Schwinden –
34. SP Michael Olmsted – 21-yrs old –
35. C Dock Doyle – 23-yrs old -
36. P Brandon Moore – 23-yrs old –
37. RP James Fuller - 21-yrs old –
38. 2B Alonzo Harris - 19-yrs old – signed late, thus, played very little in 2008.
39. OF Sean Ratliff – Nice combination of speed, power, and arm. Graded out as having the highest ceiling of any Met drafted that year.
40. OF Kirk Nieuwenhuis -
41. RP Kyle Allen – Throws four pitchers for strikes and tops off in the 93-94 range
42. 1B Giovanni Ortiz -
43. SP Gonzalez Germen - 21-yrs old –
44. SP Jhonathan Torres – 19-yrs old –
45. SP Angel Cuan – 19-yrs old –
46. SP Orlando Tovar – 21/yrs old –
47. RP Samuel Tavares – 20-yrs old –
48. 3B Aderlin Rodriquez – 16-yrs old
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