Mack’s Morning Report – 6-1-16 – David Wright, Will Craig, Ernest Dove, Bernie Madoff

Good morning.

It’s June. Welcome to Draft Month. I will have a ton of posts about the draft leading up to the opening of the draft on June 9^th.

Since I’m retiring at the end of this season, this will also be the last year I research the draft. I’ll especially miss this portion of my blog. It always generated the most readers of any days throughout the year.

On June 5^th I will be posting a series of posts that rank the top players available, by position. You can make copies of these and keep them in front of you while you watch the Mets ignore all the experts and draft someone out of Kiwanis ball somewhere in the Aleutian Islands.

On June 6^th I will post up two posts… my last mock draft that will be five rounds and my personal picks for the first 19 picks in the draft, which end with the Mets pick.

As you already know, David Wright now has been diagnosed with a herniated disc in his neck to go along with his spinal stenosis. There simply is nothing good about this, but the Mets might want to consider a draft option that literally could follow the meteoric rise that Michael Conforto had to the majors.

Wake Forest third baseman/first baseman Will Craig is considered by many draft experts as the top college hitter available in the draft. Fangraphs had a feature on him  this year which did say that he may have to be moved full time to either first base or a corner outfield position due to his limited mobility at third.

I’d still consider him for the 19^th pick in the draft. Craig is hitting .392/.537/.766 with 16 home runs and 65 runs batted in. By the way, he’s also 2-0, 2.42 as the team closer.

Craig literally could report to St. Lucie the day after the draft, start next season in Binghamton, and be a September call-up to replace either Wright at third or Lucas Duda at first


IF Dale Burdick was transferred from Binghamton to Brooklyn


C Tyler Moore was placed on the Columbia disabled list


RHP Nicco Black was transferred from Columbia to Brooklyn


IF David Thompson was activated on the Columbia roster


RHP Witt Haggard came off the Columbia disabled list


OF Jayce Boyd was transferred from Brooklyn to Binghamton

Ernest Dove no longer writes for Mack’s Mets. You will find him exclusively at MetsMinors.net He did a wonderful job here for a long period of time and his Friday features were some of the most read on the site. He will be sorely missed.

Remember when the Bernie Madoff mess came down and everybody claimed Mets poverty? Well, now a story comes from  Adam Rubin that Jeff and Fred Wilpon are scheduled today to make a $16,000,000 worth of profits they made on their buddy’s scheme. -

Under the original 2012 court settlement, the sides stipulated that the Wilpons lost $176.6 million in certain Madoff funds, while making $162 million from other funds.

The Mets owners originally agreed to make payments in 2016 and 2017 to return the $162 million profit -- with one major wrinkle:

Through lawsuits and other means, a court-appointed trustee has made significant progress in recovering money for the Ponzi scheme's victims. And since the Wilpons lost money in certain funds, they were allowed to reduce their settlement by whatever principal was recovered from their funds that were not profitable.

Right now, the figure owed is down to $61 million from the original $162 million.

        Mack - Only 61 mil... such a deal.