Minors: New Baseball America’s Top 10

by Matthew Cerrone on February 4th, 2008 at 8:16 am

In a chat at Baseball America, Jim Callis re-ranked the Mets Top 10 Prospects List to look as follows: (1) OF Fernando Martinez, (2) RHP Eddie Kunz, (3) RHP Brant Rustich, (4) LHP Jon Neise, (5) LHP Nathan Vineyard, (6) RHP Robert Parnell, (7) RHP Joe Smith, (8) RHP Scott Moviel, (9) 3B Danny Murphy, (10) SS Wilmer Flores.

…first off, i like that the Top 10 contains seven pitchers, one of which is not pelfrey, who is still a prospect in my mind…

…if you recall, last week, i wrote of some new rhetoric coming from the Mets, specifically from the minor-league coaches down in St. Lucie, which went as follows…

…for the first time in a long while, the Mets are working hard to draft and sign as many young pitchers as they can…they feel they have acquired some of the best young pitching through the draft over the last year or two…so, even if the Mets trade a few minor-league pitchers, they still have a good number of young arms to fill in with over the next few years…

Meanwhile, Deolis Guerra and Carlos Gomez now sit as the top two prospects in the Twins organization, according to Callis.

…now, that’s what i like to hear…of course, this will not stop the Twins from getting slammed in reports about how they goofed up by getting so little in return for santana - as if they had a choice…

…people like to break these deals down, in the now, and try to determine a winner and a loser…but, why…i mean, the Mets needed an ace, and they got one…the Twins needed to move santana, and they did, and they got four prospects in the process…when i hear  people make the winner-loser comment, it suggests that one side must fail, while the other must succeed…why can’t both teams do well…

…if gomez makes an all-star team in a few years, and mulvey, guerra and humber contend for cy-young awards, does that alter how badly the Mets needed an ace today…no, it doesn’t…the Mets had to make this trade, and they were not going to acquire santana for free…if i had a crystal ball, and knew that gomez will be an All-Star, and the Twins had to have him, i’d still trade him to get santana because the Mets need an ace now…end of story…

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