Mike Newman at Scoutingthesally.com recently posted some video of Mets SS prospect Wilmer Flores’ swing. I’ve broken it down. Here’s what catches my eye, based on the video I’ve seen.
Wilmer Flores Swing Breakdown
Lower Body
Flores starts with a slightly open and upright stance. During his load, there is minimal movement in his [...]

Jesse G writes:
Hello Toby,
Found something interesting today and wanted to get your take:
Take a look at Ryan Braun’s 2006 Minor League season and Ike Davis’ 2009 Minor League season.  For both players this was their age 22 season.  The similarities are crazy, both in production and games played per level.  If you take out the [...]

Baseball America recently handed out Draft Report Card grades for all MLB teams from 2005-2008. According to BA’s Jim Callis, the grades are solely on the quality of the draftees signed, and not on the number of picks added/lost through free-agent compensation, the amount of money spent, whom the players may have been traded [...]

1. How did Mike Francesca break the Jason Bay to the Mets story on his Tuesday program after teasing it Monday? How did all of the writers both on the Mets beat and on the national beat miss it?
2. More importantly what does the signing do for the Mets?
An Upgrade
Immediately, the 31-year-old Bay will [...]

Now that the names are out and aren’t moving, I wanted to reexamine the prospects who moved around when the Phillies acquired Roy Halladay from the Blue Jays and then sent the Mariners Cliff Lee.  Note that this is actually really three separate deals: one between the Phillies and Jays for Halladay, one between the [...]

Nick Evans is an interesting story this offseason. Where does he fit in the 2010? Seems like Daniel Murphy will open the season as the Mets 1st baseman, but with Murphy’s struggles vs. LHP (.223/.267/.415/.682), it would be a good idea to have a RH platoon at 1B. Assuming the Mets upgrade [...]

Thole
On Thursday, while Mets fans and Americans across the country were watching lousy NFL football and eating delicious food, Josh Thole was in Venezuela, doing the same thing he’s been doing for going on two years now: hitting.  The 23-year old Thole was 2-5 on Thanksgiving with a pair of doubles, giving him doubles in [...]

Friday, November 20th was the deadline for Major League teams to finalize their rosters for the upcoming Rule Five which will take place on December 10, the final day of the baseball Winter Meetings.  The Mets added no players immediately before the deadline, but added 3B Shawn Bowman in early November to prevent him from [...]

Jenrry Mejia has had a rough time in the Arizona Fall League.  Wednesday, he was clocked over 97 mph with his fastball and sat 94-96 mph, but was still hit up for five runs.

The colors follow Gameday’s pitch identification algorithm.  I think it’s fairly clear that Gameday is miscategorizing some of Mejia’s changeups as two-seamers.  [...]

The Mets saved over $3 million dollars by trading Billy Wagner to the Boston Red Sox on Monday, but accomplished little else of value.
Wagner was owed over $2 million dollars in 2009 and the team was going to have to offer him a $1 million buyout to avoid paying him $8 million in 2010.  Saving [...]