Mack's Notes - 10-1-17 - Mets Logo, Konnor Pilkington, Noah, BA Top 50

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Mets Logo -

ESPN had an interesting  podcast  regarding the Top 30 Baseball Logos. And the Mets came in...

      

  14) New York Mets primary logo

Why does this merit a spot in our Top 30? For one thing, it’s the only primary logo the franchise has ever known, dating back to the Mets’ inaugural season in 1962.

The logo, created by sports cartoonist Ray Gotto, says baseball, it says New York, and it says “Mets”—which is a word that defies easy depiction. It’s an aesthetic masterwork, well balanced, perfectly proportioned, and readable at any size, instantly recognizable and timeless.

It does, however, lack one small detail that was included when it made its debut—a tiny interlocked “NY,” which used to be positioned to the left of the “M” in “Mets.” Beyond that, it connects all 56 seasons of franchise history from Marvelous Marv straight through to Thor. As Casey Stengel said, “you can look it up.”

Konnor Pilkington –

Holyfield posted their first mock draft of the season –

            6. NY Mets: Konnor Pilkington — LHP, Mississippi State                        University

Pilkington combines 6’3” 225lb stature with three above average pitches. He has a good arm side run on his fastball and uses it to get hitters to chase high. Pilkington also held opponents to a .199 AVG last season, which is quite impressive.

Jeff Zimmerman's final thoughts this season on Noah Syndergaard –

It’ll be tough for (fantasy) owners to correctly value Syndergaard next year. Owners will have two innings of post-injury production to formulate their offseason projections.

Here’s what we know. In his one inning of work, he averaged 98.8 mph on his fastball with his season average at 98.2 mph. For at least this single inning his velocity was back. I’m not going to predict the small improvement sticks because most pitchers can ramp up the velocity for one inning.

He did drop his release point some but                          previously he’s effectively thrown from a lower              release point.

BA came out with their Top 50 College players in the 2018 draft. Here’s the top 25… go to the link                                                          for the rest  –

1          Brady Singer, RHP, Florida

2          Nick Madrigal, SS/2B, Oregon State

3          Shane McClanahan, LHP, South Fla    

4          Casey Mize, RHP, Auburn          

5          Greyson Jenista, OF/1B, Wichita State

6          Griffin Conine, OF, Duke

7          Ryan Rolison, LHP, Mississippi 

8          Logan Gilbert, RHP, Stetson     

9          Tristan Pompey, OF, Kentucky 

10       Travis Swaggerty, OF, South Alabama

11       Jackson Kowar, RHP, Florida

12       Luken Baker, 1B/DH, Texas Christian

13       Jeremy Eierman, SS, Missouri State

14       Alec Bohm, 3B, Wichita State

15       Steele Walker, OF, Oklahoma

16       Zach Watson, OF, Louisiana State      

17       Seth Beer, OF/1B, Clemson

18       Konnor Pilkington, LHP, Mississippi St  

19       Sean Hjelle, RHP, Kentucky       

20       Blaine Knight, RHP, Arkansas  

21       Austin Bergner, RHP, North Carolina

22       Tristan Beck, RHP, Stanford      

23       Tanner Dodson, OF/RHP, California

24       Tim Cate, LHP, Connecticut

25       Cadyn Grenier, SS/2B, Oregon State