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SAVAGE VIEWS – Looking Forward
The Mets are on their way to ruining a perfectly terrible season.
The moves made at the trade deadline seemed to ensure the team would reap the benefits of a dismal season by trading away half the bullpen, plus two starters and a really good fourth outfielder.
On top of that, the injury to Soto almost guaranteed the team with a top six pick in the 2027 draft. Instead, we are among the better teams in MLB since the deadline and we are likely to fall outside the bottom six,
The Mets farm system is currently ranked around number 18. The Dodgers and Rays are among the top rated systems. However, no other team can claim to have six rookies performing at a high level as do the 2026 Mets.
The team has a large number of good prospects, just not enough that qualify as elite. Let’s look at some Mets prospects A-Z.
1.
A
– Billy Amick. Hard to imagine a player
with 30+ homers and more than 100 RBIs not ranked in the top 30.
2.
B
– Boston Baro. Finally healthy again.
3.
C
– Ryan Clifford. Won’t be long before he
falls out of top 30. Who would have thought it.
4.
D
– Gabe Davis. A potential sleeper
acquired at the trade deadline.
5.
E
- AJ Ewing. We got you, Andrew Joseph.
6.
F
– Anthony Frobose. Someone to watch in ’27.
7.
G
– RJ Gordon. After a slow start, seems
to be back on pitch track.
8.
H
– Daniel Hurtado, Nice lefty making
solid progress.
9.
I
– Irving Cota, a solid A ball reliever.
10.
J
– Antonio Jimenez. Has shown very little thus far.
11.
K
– Peter Kussow. Big things are expected of this 19-year-old.
12.
L
– Nate Lavender. Finally exploded on scene. Gotta love him.
13.
M
– Nick Morabito. A future 4th outfielder. Trade bait, maybe.
14.
N
– Nick Carreno . Undersized young lefty. Doing well in A ball.
15.
O
– Emilio Obispo. Just turned 20; seems to be a legit prospect.
16.
P
- Emilien Pitre. Closest to making team as future 2B next year.
17.
Q
– Question Marks, a number on this list qualify,
18.
R
– Jefferson Rojas. Our number one guy.
19.
S
– Jonathan Santucci. Top rated, has found road to be rocky.
20.
T
– Jonah Tong. Potential 2027 starter if he figures things out.
21.
V
– Mitch Voit – A potential top 100 player. Let’s see.
22.
W
– Jack Wenninger. Is he ready to take a leap forward?
23.
X
- Xzavian Curry. He’s here for no good
reason.
24.
Y
– Yovanny Rodriquez. Our catcher of the future?
25. Z – Calvin Ziegler – Ziggy’s back, Still only 23, making strides.
The team has solidified their prospect list at the trade deadline.
Next year they have a chance to be ranked in the top ten, especially if the next draft is productive.
Analysis shows a ton of prospects but few Tier 1 or Tier 2.
This is an area that needs to be corrected.
Ray
August 25,
2026
3 comments:
Interesting list.
At Z, I’d have considered Julio Zayas. 752 career ABs, 115 runs, 132 RBIs. Decent year with St Lucie.
Excellent list, Ray.
Basically impossible to do prior to the trading deadline.
The trading deadline.
I wish I could share with all of you what a certain Met did to me during that period...
I agree that we don't have a lot of clearly Tier 1 and 2 players in the minors, but how many does a team really need. At any given time there are only so many spots on the major league roster available, and trades for players you want rarely require more than one player that is a sure fire major leaguer. The key in those trades are taking on someone's payroll at a position the other team doesn't want to pay that amount for, in return for a player ready to break into their starting lineup at a position of need at a much lower cost while throwing in other players farther down in the rankings to compensate for the possibility that the top player you are offering doesn't make it. I know in basketball and other sports these trade monitors put it in metrics to figure out the values on both sides of a trade, but in ordinary English this is really what it amounts to.
So you need enough players in the top tiers to accomplish two things: fill your roster at key positions and serve as valuable trading assets. And you need to have them in time sequences.
So I also obviously think that the ranking of farm systems is based on criteria that seems plausible, but not necessarily directly related to what you are actually trying to do as an organization.
I also think you need a number of AAAA players in the system so that your real prospects get to be evaluated in the context of as close to major league teammates with experience as possible..
At some level for teams that can afford two or three higher priced FA on their major league roster at any one time, just collecting Tier 1 and Tier 2 players has less marginal value than it would appear. unless what you care about is having high ranking, rather than a useful farm system approach
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