Author Archives: Elliot Teichman

Reviewing Baseball America’s Top 30 Mets Prospects: #1 Andres Gimenez

The final entry in this 30 part article series! Last year’s #1 prospect – Andres Gimenez! From 2013 on the Mets farm system was turning out starting pitching prospects between the surprise success of Jacob deGrom, to the heavily anticipated … Continue reading

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Reviewing Baseball America’s 2018 Top 30 Mets Prospects: #2 David Peterson

Can you believe it? We’re almost done! David Peterson was selected 20th overall in the 2017 draft and was placed immediately in Brooklyn. Peterson was known for his control his last year in college where he cut his walk rate … Continue reading

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Reviewing Baseball America’s 2018 Top 30 Mets Prospects: #3 Justin Dunn

Well, this is going to be an awkward article. You know what happens when you drag your feet writing an article series on Mets prospects that you could have started in the first week of October? You get to the … Continue reading

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Reviewing Baseball America’s 2018 Top 30 Mets Prospects: #4 Peter Alonso

So this should be fun! Peter Alonso and Jeff McNeil were the two players in the Mets farm system that saw their stocks sky rocket last year as the season went on. Eventually Jeff made his way to Queens after … Continue reading

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Reviewing Baseball America’s 2018 Top 30 Mets Prospects: #5 Thomas Szapucki

The Mets #5 prospect had an early end to his 2017 season thanks to Tommy John. He took all of 2018 to recovered (this was planned, it’s even written in his Baseball America 2018 scouting report) and he finally returns … Continue reading

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Merry Christmas Mets – Here’s Wilson Ramos!

BVW followed up his end of Winter Meetings signing of Jeurys Familia with Wilson Ramos. Unlike the Cano/Diaz trade which were discussed heavily in the media for at least a week before they happened, the Familia and Ramos signings seemed … Continue reading

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Reviewing Baseball America’s 2018 Top 30 Mets Prospects: #6 Mark Vientos

It’s a race to finish this Top 30 article series by the end of the year! Today we will look at a prospect the Marlins were supposedly interested in as part of a package for Realmuto, Mark Vientos! Trading Mark … Continue reading

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Get To Know a Rule 5 Pick – Braxton Lee

The Mets drafted 4 players total in the Rule 5 draft during the winter meetings, including three players in the minor league round. One of those players, Braxton Lee, should sound familiar to you if you watched the Mets last … Continue reading

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Get To Know A Rule 5 Draft Pick – Kyle Dowdy

For the first time in a while (possibly 2014 when the the Mets picked up Sean Gilmartin) the Mets selected a player in the Rule 5 draft this week and did not trade him to another team (yet). The Mets … Continue reading

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Reviewing Baseball America’s 2018 Top 30 Mets Prospects: #7 Marcos Molina

No suspense or click bait here – Marcos Molina is no longer on the Mets. He was released after a terrible first half of 2018 to make room for Matt den Dekker (who was a necessary signing and then immediately … Continue reading

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