Comments on: Minors: New Baseball America’s Top 10

By: gowrightgo

gowrightgo — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 19:48:49 +0000

Agreed but only because Beckett delivered on his promise of being very very good.

Santana has to be himself and perform to his capabilities here for this to work. If he becomes Randy Johnson of the Yanks….we are very unhappy

By: gowrightgo

gowrightgo — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 19:42:51 +0000

Still makes one think the system we had was not as weak as we thought or as weak as what was talked about in the media. Mets prospects are not can’t miss but they are pretty good with some potential to be great. Without these 4 in the system…things have thinned considerably but we still have Pelfrey, Burgos, Fmart and Joe Smith in additiona to what you read about. I consider both Pelfr and Burgos as prospects since both have options and are not contributors to the big squad regularly yet.

That is a decent group above.

Plus church and Maine are cheap for a few more years as is Heilman.

We are not devoid of young inexpensive players…just need some more

By: metsforever

metsforever — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:54:38 +0000

Do you think the RedSox regret trading Hanley Ramirez for Josh Beckett? Not when they look at that nice trophy. There is nothing wrong with fair trades. Rich teams can always buy position players, but #1 starters don’t make the market very often.

Good Luck to the new Twins, but you have to do this kind of deal.

By: Mexworshipper

Mexworshipper — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:15:08 +0000

It’s amazing how everyone says our prospects are crap until we trade them.

By: Nate W.

Nate W. — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:11:59 +0000

Much of the Cyclones team was better (and older) than the NYPL. It’ll be interesting to see how those guys do this year for St. Lucie, assuming they dont get assigned to Savannah instead.

If Owen or Gee can dominate A+ the same way in 2008 then they will find themselves in the Mets top 10. But for reasons above its doubtful.

I would have like to see Evans on that list, but I guess it gives us an idea that the Mets still have a little depth in the organization… Murphy is a gym rat type with the hitting and could develop into a big league DH unless his defense gets better. I think they see more upside to Murphy than to Evans or Carp.

By: stickguy

stickguy — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 16:45:42 +0000

Well, these are the same scout’s that would rate Victor Zambrano over Greg maddux because he has more electric “stuff”

If anything, that Owens write up sounds a lot like Maddux.

So, what if he adds 2-3 MPH to the FB, or they teach him Webb’s sinker? Suddenly, he is an untouchable!

Actually, I remember that Webb was nothing special until he learned that new pitch, and became an overnight “ace”

By: Kalihan42

Kalihan42 — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 16:38:32 +0000

I am surprised to see our prospects move up to the top of the Twins organization. I always saw the twins organzation as pretty good at developing young players. IS this weakness (below mets caliber players) due to moving players up to the big leagues faster?

By: darkstar73

darkstar73 — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 15:56:05 +0000

you have to give up talent to get talent, I don’t understand the “shame on us” comment. Trades are not “steals” all the time, you shouldn’t be expecting that everytime you make a trade, its about giving up talent to get it. No one can predict at this point with exact certainty who will be better, Gomez or Fmart, if they could, all of this prospect talk would be meaningless, they’d already know who will be the best players. There’s no guarantee and there never will be.

By: Mister Koo

Mister Koo — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 15:45:55 +0000

Or if they flop and never pan out for Minnesota, then that would be OK in the sense that we can rest assured we really did give up nothing for Johan.

By: altru426

altru426 — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 15:43:56 +0000

Thanks for all the information. It made it a bit clearer. Much appreciated.

Hopefully guys can come out of nowhere and be sleepers, like an Owen, and help us out. Evans and Murphy definitely have the bats.