In today’s New York Times, Ken Belson writes about the Mets tumultuous first season in Buffalo. Belson points out that injuries to the Mets have forced them to raid their farm, hurting the upper levels in a shallow system.
“No one is tearing it up and is a can’t-miss guy” in the Mets’ farm system, said [...]

At his very fine Beating the Bushes Blog at the New York Post, Tim Bontemps talked to a scout who had nothing nice to say about the Buffalo Bisons:
“Buffalo is one of the worst Triple-A teams I have ever seen,” the scout said. “You need a birth certificate to play – 30 years or older.
“I [...]

AAA: @ Buffalo Bisons 4, Scranton/WB Yankees (NYY) 1

Lance Broadway (2-5, 5.68 – pictured), the return from the White Sox for Ramon Castro, tossed a complete game seven-hitter in easily his best effort of the season. He struck out four and walked two.
CF Cory Sullivan was 2-3 with a pair of doubles, a walk, [...]

AAA: Scranton/WB Yankees (NYY) 5, @ Buffalo Bisons 1 (11 innings)
So, it’s more painful to lose a game you should have won (Bisons), than lose a game where you barely had a chance (Mets), right?  And it’s really bad if you’re asking these questions on July 8, for a team that had dreams of a [...]

AAA: @ Rochester Red Wings (MIN) 7, Buffalo Bisons 3
Two more scoreless innings from Eddie Kunz (2 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 2 BB, 2 K – pictured) were the best news here as Brandon Knight (4-9, 5.36) gave up six runs on 12 hits in 4 innings.
AA: Erie Seawolves (DET) 12, @ Binghamton Mets [...]

AAA – International League
Charlotte Knights 12, Buffalo Bisons 7 (10 innings)
Tobi Stoner’s home debut went brilliantly for the Bisons on Monday night.  Nearly everything after the 24-year old righthander left the game did not.
Stoner’s night began with a bit of trouble: he walked the leadoff hitter, former Met farmhand Miguel Negron and gave up an [...]

MLB
Ugh.  “Most ball games are lost, not won.” Casey Stengel

AAA
Lance Broadway (1-5, 6.80) gave up seven runs on eight hits in five innings in the Bisons 7-3 loss to Charlotte.  It’s not too early to wonder exactly what the Mets were thinking at the time of that trade.  Adam Bostick tossed two more scoreless innings [...]

AA
Brad Holt pitched to six batters in his return from a sprained ankle.  His night: single (by rehabbing Asdrubal Cabrera), walk, flyout, walk, 2 RBI single, 3 run HR, showers.  The good news from the B-Mets 8-3 loss to the Aeros: 1B Ike Davis continues to hit.  He was 2-4 with two doubles and is [...]

MLB
CC Sabathia >> Mike Pelfrey. Who knew?
It’s really simple with the current Mets lineup, the team just can’t give away outs as they did in the second inning.
AAA
Nelson Figueroa (3-4, 2.61) just kept rolling, giving up just one run over six innings in the Bisons 7-5 win over Gwinnett.   Arturo Lopez couldn’t finish the ninth, [...]

AAA – International League
Buffalo Bisons 5, @ Gwinnett Braves 1
The story of the night Thursday, after the Mets win in the afternoon was the continued domination of AAA by Jon Niese.  Really.  Niese shut out Gwinnett through six innings, but left the game after giving up a single and a double to begin the seventh [...]