Saturday, May 24, 2008

Who Will The New York Mets Draft?

From ESPN.com - Blogs - Buster Olney Blog:

The Mets, who didn't have a lot of depth in their farm system before they swapped a package of prospects for Johan Santana, have decided internally to focus on drafting college players -- rather than high schoolers -- in the June draft. This will be done in the hope that it will fill the talent gap at the middle and top of their minor leagues.


This doesn't sound good. Isn't that what the Toronto Blue Jays for the first several years of the JP Ricciardi regime? And don't the Blue Jays have one of the worst minor league systems in baseball?

2 comments:

Sunday Sunflower Seeds said...

It's also what Billy Beane did though for the A's

Anonymous said...

It did, but there are a lot of teams who know about they method. It has been arbitraged away.