A Look At The Mets' Trade Chips

As a braves fan it feels really good to know that The Metro's have no future lol.

when do the mets hope to get Reyes back?

Around the ASB. Ollie Perez is about a rehab start or two away and we are expecting Maine, Beltran, Delgado, Putz, and Reyes sometime around or after the ASB.

The mets are in a tight position and might have to risk trading there veteran players for top of the line prospects.

I'm a Indians fan and to say the Mets are lacking top prospects is a joke.

Wilmer Flores
Brad Holt
Reese Havens
Jefry Marte
Jenrry Mejia
Ruben Tejada
Jordany Valdespin
Jeurys Familia
Josh Stinson
Carlos Guzman
Kirk Nieuwenhuis
Ike Davis
Emmanuel Garcia

I left several of the upper top prospects out but they have the mid and lower prospects to get any deal done that they want.

The problem is they normally don't like to trade away their better prospects if they did DeRosa would be a Met now and most likely Cliff Lee would be also.

FMart, Flores, Marte, Holt, Mejia, Niese are all nice prospects..

best hitting prospects are still FMart and Flores .. best pitching prospect is now Mejia in my opinion.

Seriously, how are you people missing Mejia (by you people, I mean the mainstream media and "mainstream" blogging community")? He throws in the upper 90s (There's an iffy report that he touched 102 as a starter!!!), he's got an offspeed out pitch that scouts can't even identify, he's 19 and dominated the FSL and is pitching very will in Double-A. He dominated the NYPL as an 18 year old last year. And even jucier, his bonus was like $16,500 or something, he signed for peanuts a few years ago. And he's been absolutely insane. He's going to be at worst #3 on all Mets prospect lists, and probably #2 almost universally, and is probably a Top 50 prospect right now and could be as high as Top 10 if he continues to succeed in Double-A. John Sickels already jumped his grade from C+ to B+ and said he could be an A- or even an A by the end of the season, and he's as conservative as they come in terms of raw grading.

The Mets have a depleted minor league system and don't have a lot of pieces to trade in the first place.

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I tend to ignore the Media they rarely really truely understand how the Minors work let alone who is and who is a real prospect.

But I will say one thing I would love from a Indians fans stand point see Lee traded to the Mets in a deal that involved Holt / Parnell / Mejia and Kirk Nieuwenhuis ( this guy reminds me alot of Sizemore as he can up through our system.

But I know this would be viewed as highway robbery on our part but this would solve alot of our pitching depth problems going forward.

what's the story on Mejia and Brad Holt? Mejia hasn't pitched since June 23rd and Holt since

And while Mejia is still very young for the level he just ascended to while he was strong in his first start the last 3 haven't been nearly as good. Same goes for Holt who seemed (by the stats at least) to get shelled in his second start which lasted 1/3 of an inning.

I also agree that the Mets SHOULD hold onto their prospects and see what becomes of them. Their farm is starting to get better but if they strip the system to try to catch up to the win the East they could hurt themselves much more in the long run.

Likewise I don't think the Phils should go nuts and trade Drabek (still very strong in AA), Taylor (raking like crazy in AA and should be in AAA now) and others. If you want to trade lower levels guys like Cloyd, D'Arnaud and some others I'm fine with that but again those guys won't bring you much either.

I think the issue with the Mets vs the Phils is that since the Phils won I think (and I hope) that there isn't this absolutely NEED to buy just for the sake of buying. I'm fine with not winning this year as long as it means winning in 2010, 2011 and beyond with the likes of Drabek, Taylor, Carrasco et al in our future rotations and lineups.

philsWSchamps,

Holt rolled his ankle in his first AA start and missed 3 weeks, he obviously wasn't sharp when he came back, hence his struggles. He's pitching tonight so we'll see if he's back to form.

Mejia, I believe they're skipping a turn in the rotation over Inning Count concerns, but I haven't gotten anything more definitive then that.

AdropOFvenom,

thanks for the headsup. I'll be watching Holt's start tonight to see how he does.

I agree on holding back on Mejia. I expect us to do the same soon with Drabek to avoid issues with our top prospect as well.