Thomas Brennan - Mets Minor League Stats Are Incredible

Before you read on, let me say one thing: SIMPLY AMAZIN’

Out of 120 full season minor league teams (4 per major league squad), the Mets’ teams were ranked based on wins and losses as follows:

						Runs
Rank	Team	W	L	Win %	League	For	Against
3rd	Savannah Sand Gnats	85	51	0.625	S. Atlantic League	619	486
13th	Binghamton Mets	83	59	0.585	Eastern League	718	585
21st	Las Vegas 51s	81	63	0.563	Pacific Coast League	880	750
28th	St. Lucie Mets	76	62	0.551	Florida St. League	643	611
16TH	AVERAGE	81	59	0.580		715	608

 How impressive is that?  If a single team were ranked 16 of 130, it would be ahead of 88% of all teams in win-loss.  The Mets top 4 teams AVERAGED a 16^th ranking.  Incredible.

• No other organization had 4 teams in the top 28.
• Only the D Backs, Rangers, and (dreaded) Nationals had 3 teams in the top 28. 
• Only 18 organizations even had 1 or more teams in the top 28, and (shucks) the Yanks had none.  Zero.  Zip.  Nada.

OK, that covers the full season teams.  Law of averages would say the rookie teams would have under-performed to balance things out, right?  Wrong.

The Mets’ 3 rookie ball teams (Brooklyn, Kingsport, and GCL St Lucie) had a combined won-loss record of 109-95 (a solid .534), which certainly had to be one of the best overall records of any organization’s combined rookie ball operation.  As often is the case, when the Mets win (as these rookies did) the pitching leads the way:

Brooklyn's outstanding staff led the NY Penn League in ERA (2.74, well ahead of the 2^nd  team’s 2.97).

All in all, for an organization like the Mets, whose minor league system not too many years ago was widely disparaged, this was some incredible organization-wide performance in 2014. 

How could it not bode extremely well for the club that plays in Queens?