Craig Brown - I May Be Wrong But

I wasn't a huge fan of the Mets draft strategy this year...Last year I felt like they executed a perfect plan: Best player available with the first pick, and then a nice mix of projectable high school pitching, and athletic young hitters that could potentially grow into their tools. The plan this year as far as I could tell was draft as many power hitter types as they could--no matter what defensive liablities they might have. There are two reasons I don't buy into that: #1--By my count the Mets drafted 5 guys within their first 8 picks who stand at least an average chance of landing at 1B, Michael Conforto, Dash Winningham, Eudor Garcia, Michael Katz, and Tyler Moore all have scouting reports that indicate a future at 1B. Now that might be fine, if it wasn't for the fact that the Mets appear to be 2-3 players deep at 1B at every level of the organization...Wilmer Flores, Lucas Duda, Eric Campbell, Allan Dykstra, Josh Satin, Branden Allen, Jayce Boyd, Matt Clark, Cole Frenzel, Aderlin Rodriguez, Matt Oberste, and Dominick Smith all are best suited at First. Am I missing something here?

 #2--I like a good Home Run as much as the next guy, but the Mets play in a ball park that is not terribly friendly to that type of hitter...Why not make CitiField an advantage? Ive said it before, and i'll say it again...Speedy gap hitters, and lights out pitching is the formula for this teams success...

 I am really excited to see Travis D'Arnaud back in a Mets uniform, where he belongs sometime soon. But honestly, if the Mets plan on dropping him into the bottom of this shitty lineup, then I feel like they should just leave him in Vegas...The .400 hitting AAA version of TDA is the exact same player as the .200 hitting MLB version...the difference honestly is that he is now hitting in the heart of a good lineup, instead of at the bottom of a terrible one. The other night I read that he hit a 98 mph fastball 430 feet for a home run--he can do that in Vegas because pitchers have no choice but to throw strikes when theres a guy on deck whos batting .330...but when you have Ruben Tejada hitting in front of you, and a pitcher on deck, well that just doesn't give a pitcher much motivation to throw it over the middle does it?

 So I just read that the Yankees plan on outspending their allotted pool money on international free agents by Millions of Dollars. In doing so, The Yanks will incur massive penalties including exclusion from signing free agents next year, and a 100% penalty on the amount they overspend by...Don't you wish someone with the Mets had the balls to make a play like this? In the end, spending 30 million dollars on 8-9 top level prospects this year will probably pay higher dividends that spending 60 million dollars on some 30 something free agent... I can't ever remember a time when the Mets farm system was as deep as it is right now...The Mets may not have more than a couple A level type prospects heading into 2015, but what the lack in names they more than make up for in #'s...I went on Baseball Cube the other day and looked up the Mets top prospects from 10 years ago. I saw names like Jeremy Griffiths, and Craig Brazell in the top ten...I remember them both...Brazell in particular was an interesting 1B who flashed power...but if you were to drop players like that in the Mets system right now, they may not even break the top 40.