Paul Greco of Gotham Baseball has been hanging out in Arizona talking to players and clearly sitting with the scouts at the games.  He posted a really strong player by player review for both the Mets and Yankees.
Excerpts of his commentary follows, as usual, mine is italicized.
P – Eddie Kunz : Although he’s been a [...]

BA’s Ben Badler did the honors for Baseball America in their weekly ESPN chat this week.

Brian (Brooklyn): Was Wilmer Flores the number 1 international prospect signing last year? Also has he been the most productive from last year’s class?
Ben Badler: (2:20 PM ET ) Nope, there were eight others who got more [...]

Wenesday Keith Law Chatted at ESPN.com
Jeff (NYC): should I be excited about Holt and Flores?
Keith Law: Yes, although I still want to see a better second pitch from Holt.
Sure. Everyone does.

John - Philadelphia: Hey Klaw, Thoughts on Jon Niese’s debut last night. Results were pretty rough but that curve looked good at times. [...]

RHP Bobby Parnell will make his triple-A debut tonight for New Orleans. He was promoted from double-A Binghamton over the weekend. He takes Claudio Vargas’s place while the veteran deals with inflammation in his elbow. Parnell, the Mets ninth round pick in 2005 out of Charleston Southern, represents a strong data point in [...]

Just as I was preparing a post comparing the relative merits of importing Jon Niese or Claudio Vargas from AAA or Bobby Parnell from AA for the Mets rotation, comes word from Will Carroll at Baseball Prospectus that the Mets are expected to sign Livan Hernandez by “mid-week.” Hmmm.
Really? Hernandez had allowed almost [...]