Apparently this is ESPN Insider content.
I am not an insider, but I read some tweets he had the Cubs #1, Mets #4.
Obviously farm system rankings don't mean a whole lot, but they do mean a little.
I'd rather have major league success of course, but at the same time regardless I'd rather the farm system be ranked highly than ranked poorly.
Does anyone have access to and can summarize?
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Keith Law bullish on #Mets farm system. Ranks it in top five in MLB. ESPN Insiders can read here: http://insider.espn.go.com/blog/keith-law/post?id=2575 … |
Hitting on just two of thor, degrom, or montero would be huge.
dan, ppl started to wonder where you were for a while. lol
Dan: Fair point, but anecdotally it seems like the guys who throw thru walls (like Syndergaard) tend to have a much easier time jumping levels. I do think that we're morons for having the finishing school be in Vegas, and our Single A team play in a massively pro pitcher league/park. Why not reasonably neutral conditions for training?
Even Wullmer Buccera is hitting over .300 in A ball and he was a throw in AFTER TDA and Thor. Its crazy.
Beltran had some great years with the Cardinals after he got traded but he was an injured mess thought to be on two bad knees when we traded him. 2 months of that for Wheeler? TDA and Syndergaard for Dickey? Its incredible. Even Blake Taylor for an Ike Davis being shown the door anyway.
Omar, Phillips, ect have all had varying degrees of success and failures but I don't ever remember this many trades going so lopsided in the Mets favor. Maybe when I was a kid in the 80s.
Pitching wise I feel like players need to work on pitch selection and learning what to throw so its even that more important in a place like Vegas. You won't be able to get away with just blowing people away there. I'd hate to see a guy like Montero think he's an ace because he's pitching in a pitcher's park then get called up and play in a place like Yankee stadium. He'll likely get rocked.
I know there's a lot of negatives but I tend to look at it that way.
hope he gets over it.
I don't get why people can't ever be happy. The system is in the best shape its been in almost 30 years. We just graduated TDA(blue chipper) Wheeler the year before(blue chipper) and Harvey the year before that(blue chipper) . As Dan mentioned Thor's outside peripherals have actually been pretty good. He's about as close to a blue chipper as you can get. Nimmo, Conforto, Herrera, Plawecki, Smith, Rosario, aren't considered blue chippers yet because they aren't beating down the door but they are all getting closer and this year are all getting put on the map cracking top 50's and top 100's. They aren't far away. Law had Smith as the second best 1st base prospect in the game. What more do you want?
Cubs system is ridiculous. Was top 5 BEFORE the Oakland trade. Now they have BA's top 2, 5, 7, and 33 overall midseason plus the #4 overall pick Schwarber.
Cubs are a really interesting experiment. My understanding is that they are sick of pitching prospects getting hurt, so they're throwing all their assets at hitting prospects on the assumption that they'll be able to trade hitting for pitching down the road and will have more prospects develop since hitters tend to be healthier. Really curious to see if it works out for them.
Also, our system is becoming a lot more balanced. The Cubs don't have a lot of pitching obviously.
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I still have never seen him play.. all hype aside, is this kid the real deal?
He's got a career .800+ OPS for a middle infielder in over 1200 minor league at bats.
The Mets have 5 players in the top 50 and Herrera, Matz, and Rosario all missed it.
His stats would be discounted if he were 27 in the PCL, not 20 in the EL.
He’s a right-handed hitter with plus speed and a bit more pop than you would expect from a 150 lbs middle infielder. But the fact is that his .281 AVG and .202 IsoP are excellent numbers for an 18 year old. He has plenty of room to add weight and gain additional strength and he moves up the ladder, so more power could be in his future and he has some speed to spare.
Our Instinct: Herrera is probably the Top 10 guy here that is the furthest away from the majors. He’ll need to continue to show his hit tool and mature as a hitter. If he adds additional size to his frame he could be a .280 hitter with double digit HR power and 20+ SB speed. He’ll make his full season debut in 2013 and would be on target for a debut in about 3 years. ETA: 2016
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#7 and #9 on Pirates top 10 prospect lists by those two sites heading in to last season.
IF they trade Murphy, is this kid 2 years away?
BESIDES the fact that he would easily out-produce Tejada, they would have a better idea on what they have in Flores.
It would be nice for them to say at the end of the year "Flores had 300 ABs, we know what we have"
Unless they are looking to trade him and don't want to hurt his value??
Maybe they want to keep Flores' trade value high but I wish they'd just give the fucking guy a shot. A real shot.. not a week and then bench him for 3 out of every 4 games.
"start Flores at SS" I can't see Collins ever saying "NO"
On the other hand, letting him play SS, and he does well... His trade value skyrockets since he could play 3B and 2B already. Now add in SS potentially, and he has shown he can hit major league pitching.
Funny thing is, when Flores first signed if I told you he would hit 320 120 runs 50 2Bs 27 HRs and 130 RBI at 21/22 in AAA - everyone would have ecstatic.
Absolutely. Mets 2b of the future. RT @Jetsfan999: @keithlaw is dilson herrera a real prospect to watch?
Also, our system is becoming a lot more balanced. The Cubs don't have a lot of pitching obviously.
We can't forget deGrom.