Morning Report – June 9th – Draft Picks 11-40, Recker-Teagarden

                                                                                             

Coming Later Today –     

                                  
                      

        9 30 am – Herb G – Minor League Report

        11 00 am - Stephen Guilbert - Late Round Draft Picks, Two Agreements, and the Mets Overall 2014 Draft

        12 30pm - Craig Mitchell - The Enigma that is the 2014 Mets 

         2 00 pm - Round 21 (#625) - OF - Luke Bonefield -The Pendelton School (FL)

         4 00 pm – Round 28 (#835) - Keaton McKinney, RHP, Akeny Centennial (Iowa) HS

         6 00 pm - 2015 Draft Profile  -  RHP  -  Riley Ferrell  -  TCU

Kevin Kernan ‏@WheresKernan  2-  Talked to an opposing scouting director and he said Mets pick Michael Conforto has a chance to be middle of order bat.

We’ll, I’m still in Atlanta… returning sometime late today.  I don’t anticipate much of a Morning Report tomorrow either, so look for things to return to normal Wednesday morning.

My coverage of the draft was interrupted by my trip. I'll feature posts on picks 11-40 as soon as I get home.

 For today, I did breakout some information on, IMO, the two best picks they made on Day 3, Luke Bonefield, and Keaton McKinney. The sad part is I don’t expect either of these guys to be signed but there’s some nice reading material in the posts that come up later on today.

I did get a chance to peek online and see what happened Saturday. What I missed was what did losing a game on an Anthony Recker miscue have to do with demoting Travis d’Arnaud?

I’m back in my Atlanta hotel room and I am able to catch up a little on what’s going on out there in Met-land. It’s good to read that Arnaud was for the reassignment to AAA and he acknowledges that he has work to do on his swing. I believe the talent is there. Let’s give him some more time here to work this out.

I’m not sure what to think about the Recker-Teagarden platoon. I make it a point lately to not look at the win-loss record for the Mets and, based on what has gone on since May 1^st, I just don’t see them 

contending for a playoff spot this year.

And I’m fine with that.

And I’m sort of fine with the platoon because the future at this position is d’Arnaud and Kevin Plawecki.

There are things this team has to do to become a playoff team; however, I think catcher is a position that we don’t have to worry about.