NEW YORK METS 2016 SEASON THREAD

yeah its a damn shame 
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He'll never be the same player. Same thing destroyed Dykstra. I wish him the best and hope for a full recovery, but my brains says, nah his best days are behind him. Get well David!!
 
Trading anyone other than Gee, Niese and Montero is shortsighted. We could have the best rotation in baseball if we keep the core together. Just be patient with the bats in the minors and make better moves in free agency. This is year one no sense in doing anything rash. If we can get some solid role players for those starters great, I'll take it.
 
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I hope y'all had a great Memorial Day weekend. I had a blast time with my old classmates from high school that I haven't seen for years at Manhattan Beach.

I was so sad when I saw the news about David on my iPhone's notification. Spinal stenosis at only 32?! So young. That stinks if David has to give up his position at 3B or even retire. I mean our future has just started to get promising. David wanted to lead the Mets to win a tile so badly. More than anything. We know David is injury prone, but he looked so healthy at the beginning of this season. I wish David all the best and a speedy recovery.

Flores's got so much potential. I hope he reaches his potential and becomes our fine clutch hitter.
 
Solid bounce back from the weekend sweep in Pittsburgh by sweeping Philly at home. Syndergaard with the little league game tossing 7.1 scoreless, going 3 for 3 with a HR.

Onto Friday night and hopefully Harvey continues the winning ways!
 
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Sad about David, at this point it's just about dealing with the symptoms, he wont be able to play everyday like he used to unless he switches positions

Wish we could play the NL East everyday.
 
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Gavin Cecchini :pimp:. He's getting better and better. I am a big fan of him. I went to Brooklyn Cyclones games a lot in the summer of 2013. Cecchini played for the Cyclones that time. I told my buddies that I really hope we don't trade him. I think he will be our best average hitter in the future. I was out of the town last summer. I wanted to watch Michael Conforto and Amed Rosario play in person. :smh:

Cecchini puts up better numbers in AA than A.

Farm report: Gavin Cecchini rebounds with B-Mets
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Adam Rubin, ESPN Staff Writer

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New York Mets fans eyeing 19-year-old Amed Rosario as the organization's future shortstop may have prematurely written off 2012 first-round pick Gavin Cecchini.

Cecchini, selected 12th overall in 2012 out of high school in Lake Charles, Louisiana, produced his fifth straight multi-hit game Tuesday with Double-A Binghamton. He is 13-for-20 during that stretch, lifting his season average to .331. He has four homers, 22 RBIs and a .387 on-base percentage in 42 games.

The output comes on the heels of Cecchini hitting a modest .247 with eight homers and 56 RBIs last season, primarily between Class A Savannah and St. Lucie.

The difference?
Gavin Cecchini, pictured during spring training, produced his fifth straight multi-hit game Tuesday with Double-A Binghamton. Adam Rubin/ESPN.com

"Because more balls are falling here than last year is the biggest difference, honestly," Cecchini said. "If you ask anybody in the front office how many balls I hit hard last year versus the outs I made, it was like it didn't add up. I was making a lot of hard outs. Balls just didn't really fall and go my way. The balls are falling more."

Three of general manager Sandy Alderson's four first-round picks currently are with Binghamton, with Michael Conforto having been promoted this past week and Brandon Nimmo currently on the B-Mets' disabled list with a sprained ACL in his left knee. Dominic Smith, the '13 first-round pick, is on a 15-game hitting streak with St. Lucie and knocking on the door for a promotion to the B-Mets, too.

Asked about any pressure as a first-round pick who has risen with a deliberate pace through the system, Cecchini said: "For me, there's really no pressure, because regardless that I'm a first-round pick or not, it's still the game of baseball. It's still the game that I've played all my life. I'm still going to go out there and do Gavin Cecchini and be me. Regardless of whether I was the first overall pick or the last pick, I'm not going to change my game. I'm still going to do what I do best and stay with my game and work hard like I always do."

Cecchini said his current goal at the plate is to "keep on just shrinking that [strike] zone and keying in on a pitch that I want to hit." In the field, he is working on "trying to get good jumps off the bat -- reading the ball off the bat and bat angles -- and making all the plays."

Cecchini has 11 errors this season, but he noted a spate came in late April, right after he returned from the disabled list for a groin injury.

"After I had tweaked my groin and I went out for a week, those next few games were in Portland," Cecchini said. "I made like four errors in two games. Not to make any excuses, but when you're out for a week -- I actually think I was out for a little more than a week -- it takes a little time, a few more days, to get back into the speed of the game. So my timing was a little bit off defensively with reading the ball off the bat and footwork and stuff. I made a few errors.

"Other than that, it's just staying with what I always do. Sometimes you can lose a little bit of focus out there. It's always about staying in the game and taking it one pitch at a time. And it all starts during BP. Sometimes, with 142 games, me playing every day, it's really easy to take BP for granted and go out there and just go through the motions. But that's when your day starts. You can always get better taking live fungoes or live balls off the bat during BP, reading balls off the bat. I'm always trying to get better and be the best player I can be."
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Yes, he can play third. He's got a cannon for his arm. His brother switched from shortstop to third. Gavin is a better defensive player than his brother though.
 
Suppose Wilpons are afraid of Kaz Matsui 2.0. Sign international baseball players who can hit then end up bust in the major.
 
They're just cheap. The premiere Cubans cost a lot but they're worth it. Yoan Moncada would've been perfect for us.
 
I appreciate wright and everything he has meant to this team, BUT, wasn't the main reason we didn't resiign Reyes, other then the coupons being cheap, was because management felt Reyes would break down sooner?
 
yep and wright's played the same amount of games. i'm at the point when I'm considering moving cuddyer to 3rd and getting a left fielder. i'd say send gee to the dodgers for ethier but that contract is atrocious.
 
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NEW YORK -- After waiting past 11 p.m. ET to make their first selection, the New York Mets drafted prep center fielder Desmond Lindsay from Bradenton, Florida, with the 53rd overall pick. The Mets had forfeited their first-round selection for signing Michael Cuddyer as a free agent in November, shortly after he received a qualifying offer from the Colorado Rockies.

Mets amateur scouting director Tommy Tanous labeled the 18-year-old Lindsay an "offensive machine" and expressed an exceedingly high degree of confidence the organization will sign him. Lindsay, who played in high school for Out-of-Door Academy, has committed to the University of North Carolina.

"I would say there's a very small risk," Tanous said about the likelihood the Mets lose Lindsay to UNC. "This is a player that has expressed his interest in playing professional baseball, especially for the Mets. I know his grandmother is a huge Mets fan. Desmond will be a Met. I don't think there's much decision there."

@dez_lindsay selected 53rd overall by @mets pic.twitter.com/XTvFuVU8no
— Evoshield Canes (@EvoshieldCanes) June 9, 2015

Mets VP Paul DePodesta speculated that Lindsay was not rated in the top 100 in some draft rankings because he suffered a hamstring injury early in the year, came back and again injured the muscle.

"Without the hamstring injury this spring, we don't think there would be any way that he would have lasted until the 53rd pick in this draft," DePodesta said. "There's just too much talent there -- and the combination of power and speed, which is very difficult to find. We felt like it was an opportunity for us in a year where we didn't have a first-round pick to maybe reach up and try to get a first-round talent. That's what we did."

Lindsay, who bats and throws righty, has been listed as an infielder in some places. Tanuos said Lindsay played multiple positions to accommodate travel teams, but is a center fielder.

Tanous said the Mets scouted Lindsay "extensively over the last couple of years." That included Lindsay playing in a showcase hosted by the Mets at Citi Field.

"This is an athlete that probably has a 'plus, plus' run tool for us. He's one of the faster kids in the draft," Tanous said. "Although he's a fairly strong kid, this is a kid that can run, has a lot of versatility."

Said DePodesta: "The last few drafts we kind of looked for offensive players who we thought were hitters first, who had power potential. We think he certainly fits that mold. But then he also has the speed on top of it. Of the players we've taken with our first pick in each of the last four drafts, he is certainly a more dynamic runner than any of those guys that we've taken. But we really like the hitter first."
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Risk pick.
 
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I am surprised to see the name of academy, Out-of-Door. I am not even sure if it actually exists.
 
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