Mack Ade - I May Be Wrong, But… PP’s Mets Prospects, 2nd Wild Card Team, TPA and MaxiPrep Links, Draft Sunday, MLB Draft Guild

· Project Prospect came out with their top 100 baseball prospects and, like the rest of the expert projections, there are three Mets on the list. RHP Matt Harvey is 26^th (up from 48^th), RHP Zack Wheeler came in at #32 (up from 45^th) and RHP Jeurys Familia was 73^rd (previously unranked). Three prospects, in 100 picks, with 30 teams, are just below the average and, in my opinion, is exactly where this team stands. Jenrry Mejia would be listed if he didn’t get hurt. But at this point in the growth of all the other prospects, against the quality of players on other teams, the Mets have three top prospects only.

· Ronald Blum of The Associated Press interviewed Bud Selig Saturday night and Selig said the following about a second wild card team in each league:

"I really believe we'll have the wild card for 2012, this year clubs really want it. I don't think I've ever seen an issue that the clubs want more than to have the extra wild card this year. We're working on dates right now. That'll all take place. It looks to me like we'll have it because I've told everybody we have to have it. It'll be exciting. One-game playoff, it will start the playoffs in a very exciting manner."

I like playoff baseball. Sometimes I feel like you can’t have enough of it, but I don’t want baseball to someday adopt the NHL formula. How can I hate wild card teams? I’m a New York Giants fan.

· We’ve added a few information centers on the left side columns of the site:

o Top Prospect Alert’s top 15 prospects for every baseball team are listed and linked. All you have to do is click on the team and it will take you to the TPA page.

o MaxiPrep’s Pre-Season All-American team is also listed and linked. Click on the name of the player and it will take you to their page, so you can keep track of how they are doing in their senior year.

·       I’ve done a little re-programming here. Sunday is going to be dedicated exclusively to the draft and high school and college-eligible draft players. Stephen Guilbert will start off each Sunday morning (8:00am) with his weekly draft post, followed by guest posts from people like Jeff Reese of Bullpen Banter, writers from other major league team blogs, and yours truly.

20% of the people that come to Mack’s Mets come solely here because of the draft coverage and they deserve their own day. For those of you that do dig it: Please spread the word about “Draft Sunday.” 

Lastly, a very good guy (Matt Grabusky) who runs an excellent site   (http://mlbdraftguide.com/), got really fucked last week. Someone hacked into his site and Matt lost absolutely everything.

Please check into the site and offer Matt any info you have that he can use to rebuid his site.