1. We have a special Sunday version
coming up on… err… Sunday, on Mack’s
Mets. There will only be one post for the day, probably going up around 8am. It
will show you my current projection of all of the key minor league prospects
in the organization and where I project them out for next season. I do
something like this every off-season and post the top five prospects, and then
build the teams of the future. I may do it again in the off-season this way,
but I thought I’d show you this “big picture” style. It is also supposed to
generate an open discussion all day about the work I did. Yes, I will
participate and I hope the other writers will join in as well. Yeah I know,
comments around here are as rare as Ebola, but, come on folks, let’s have some
fun this Sunday.
2. I was following the end of the 9-1
win in San Francisco on Thursday and I realized that the Mets aren’t playing
that bad on this road trip. I also noticed that Ike
Davis, Josh Thole, Lucas Duda, and Kirk
Nieuwenhuis wasn’t in the lineup either. Yeah, I know Ike and Josh will
probably be back tomorrow, but who remembers me saying at the beginning of the
year that I would hold judgment on Ike, Kirk, and Duda until they finish their
first full season. Fans get excited when new players come up and everyone sees
nothing but blue sky. Frankly, I don’t think we will see either Nieuwenhuis or
Duda until rosters expand next month, so I have no problem declaring them as
projected utility players. It’s where I had them a year ago, it’s where scouts
have always had them, and it looks like it’s where the Mets will play them in
the future. Sad, but true.
3. Brian Costa wrote a piece on Josh Edgin in which Josh described the Mets ‘negotiation’
the day he was signed and offered a $2,000 signing bonus: "They called and
said, 'Hey, do you want to play?' And I said, 'Yeah.'". I wish I knew the
name of the Mets scout that found Edgin and I wonder if he is one of the guys
that the team shit-canned this last time around. Being a scout in the Mets
organization has the life expectancy of crossing the street with your children
in Allepo, Syria.
4. The site has some writing snag again. Got a
couple of quick ones out of David Rubin, but no
other MMs writers have posted anything for around 10 days. If anyone wants to join the
“team”, please email me at macksmets@gmail.com
.
5. I could use some questions to, both
about the Mets and the draft. I would love 3-5 a day but I’d settle for one per
moon cycle. Again, the email is: macksmets@gmail.com.
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