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Here is Ernest Dove's latest situation report on the Mets' farm system.
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4 comments:
Some good talent, but sparse results system-wide, so far.
Just not enough
If the MLB team was competent, then we would be celebrating the few good players coming up to compete. Instead, we are left searching for replacements all over the field.
I agree with Paul. There are in fact quite a few good players who display major league promise in the farm system. Mack's article indicates who a number of them are. What you need are enough to be able to trade some away for quality players. My guess is that if you have a 6-9 that at any one time are within a three year window of being ready for the bigs that's pretty damn good. So every year you can count on adding 1-3 from that group to the major league club and adding 1-3 to the list. Look at the current crop. I expect that this year and next together we will add all the following: Benge, Ewing, Wenninger, Tong, Scott; next year if not this, Morabito, Thornton, maybe Santucci, Ross, year after, Reimer, Pena?
That's a lot of talent. I think we may have to trade one or two for a power bat somewhere in the line-up and whatever we add to pitching will be free agent based. The problem with this year's team is that they are not an adequate bridge to that group and there is a lot of dead weight blocking some of the better minor leaguers.
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