SIGNED - LHP Matt Purke

The Mets have signed LHP Matt Purke to a minor league contract.


Mack - 

    this could be interesting...

    you all know that I do Mock Drafts each year... well, back in the beginning of the 2009 Mock Draft season, Purke was 1.1 in the early mocks. He was that good out of Klein High School, in Texas. Junior year: 12-1, 0.37

He wound up with some arm problems and they shut him down early in his senior year with a 4.2, 1.18 line. 

Texas drafted him but he signed with TCU instead, where he went 16-0 in 2010. Life seemed like a bowl of cherries back then.

Since then... well, Washington drafted him in the 3rd round in the 2011 draft when he once again had arm problems. A sure fire first rounder down the third round...

And nothing has happened right since... six minor league seasons: 14-23, 3.84, 1.36.

What now?