During the top of the fourth inning of today’s game against the Cardinals, SNY’s Kevin Burkhardt caught up with RHP Brad Holt on the back fields of the Mets’ Port St. Lucie complex.
On what secondary pitches he’s been focusing on this spring:
“Pretty much the same as last summer. Still working on the breaking ball. I’ve [...]

The Mets defeated the Florida Marlins this afternoon 9-0 inside Tradition Field at Port St. Lucie. Oliver Perez started, tossing two shutout innings and striking out three.
RHP Dillon Gee took over in the third and was impressive, allowing just an infield hit to Cameron Maybin while fanning two over his two innings of work. Maybin [...]

Yesterday morning the great team at Baseball America broke down their Top 100 Prospects list by position and looked at the best tools at each. They came to the conclusion that “based on star quality and depth, catcher has emerged as the best position, edging righthanded starters.”
Some of highlights from the Met organization include:

Jonathon Niese [...]

Over the weekend, Ben Shpigel of the New York Times caught up with Josh Thole, the Mets 22-year-old catching prospect. The young backstop took hitting lessons growing up from Jason Rakers (a former Padres minor leaguer), whose family owned a farm in southern Illinois.
Shpigel writes how Thole would work on his hitting “inside a converted [...]

In their first game of the Grapefruit League season this afternoon, the Mets defeated the Orioles 9-3 in Fort Lauderdale.
Nick Evans played first and went 3-for-4 in the victory. In his blog for the New York Post, Bart Hubbuch writes that Mets manager Jerry Manuel was happy with Evans’ lone out, a groundout to second [...]

This morning in the Daily News, Jon Harper takes a close look at OF Fernando Martinez and what the organization expects from him in the coming months.
Harper reiterates several times throughout the article that we must remember that Fernando is just 20 years old and doesn’t turn 21 until October. The Mets signed him in [...]

According to Adam Rubin:
Phil Regan will be named the pitching coach of Single-A St. Lucie. Regan, 71, had a career 96-81 record with a 3.84 ERA from 1960-72 with the Tigers, Dodgers, Cubs and White Sox. He also managed the Orioles in 1995 and has served as a pitching coach for the Cubs and [...]

Baseball America has posted its list of the top 100 prospects in baseball.  There were four Mets.  The indented number and commentary is original to BA.
#30 Fernando Martinez
0: Players in Double-A younger than Martinez last season.
#47 Wilmer Flores
0: Players younger than Flores (who turned 17 on Aug. 6) in full-season ball last season.
#77 Jonathan [...]

2B

Greg Veloz 2B
Josh Satin 2B
Alzonzo Harris 2B
Garcia, Emmanuel 2B

Notice that only Veloz made the top 41.  Satin was #42 and Harris wasn’t far behind.
The proceeds from the sale of the shirt [...]

3B

Jefry Marte 3B
Aderlin Rodriguez 3B
Zach Lutz 3B
Shawn Bowman 3B

A really observant reader will notice that I’ve flipped Lutz and Bowman (now Lutz is on top) from my top 41 and added A. Rodriguez.  I [...]