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With Sandy Alderson at the helm, the new Mets regime quickly showed that they’re looking to add impact talent to a farm system largely devoid of much depth. Even though the Mets have a solid core of prospects at the top including Matt Harvey, Jenrry Mejia and Zach Wheeler, by selecting Brandon Nimmo and Michael Fulmer with their first two selections last year, the Mets showed their desire to take players with extremely high ceilings, even if they are not the safest choices at the top of the draft. Being in somewhat of a rebuilding mode at the minor league levels, the Mets feel as though some high-risk high-reward players such as Nimmo, who had not played against the best competition in his amateur days, are viable thanks to their all-star potential. Their early selections definitely don’t qualify as “safe,” but their early round picks are often labeled with the tag of ‘projectability’ or ‘upside.’
With their next four picks in 2011, the Mets went for signability: namely college arms to help out the minor league pitching depth. We expect this year’s draft to be no different at the top as they have 12 picks in the first 10 rounds and $7.15 million to work with. Look for high school guys first, followed by signable college players and a solid mix from rounds 6-10 of both college and high school players. Given the new CBA and all of its various requirements, they won’t be able to go very over-slot and make selections like Phil Evans in 2011 who received a large bonus after the 10th round. Expect the Mets to go for impact talent with their first two picks in the first and supplemental rounds, with some signability picks to follow.
Mock Draft Selections: David Dahl, OF, Oak Mountain HS (GA), Hunter Virant, LHP, Camarillo HS (CA
With their next four picks in 2011, the Mets went for signability: namely college arms to help out the minor league pitching depth. We expect this year’s draft to be no different at the top as they have 12 picks in the first 10 rounds and $7.15 million to work with. Look for high school guys first, followed by signable college players and a solid mix from rounds 6-10 of both college and high school players. Given the new CBA and all of its various requirements, they won’t be able to go very over-slot and make selections like Phil Evans in 2011 who received a large bonus after the 10th round. Expect the Mets to go for impact talent with their first two picks in the first and supplemental rounds, with some signability picks to follow.
Mock Draft Selections: David Dahl, OF, Oak Mountain HS (GA), Hunter Virant, LHP, Camarillo HS (CA
IMO, this would be a wonderful first 2 picks, though I'm not in love with the Dahl pick, unless Buxton, Hawkins and Almora were already gone
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