Mets Minor League Baseball Blog

Baseball America recently unveiled their list of top ten Mets prospects and topping the list is Dominican phenom Fernando Martinez.  The kid’s just turned nineteen and he posted good but not great numbers at the Double A level.  The kid is a little raw but he definitely has the tools to succeed and it looks like the Mets hope him to be playing with the big league club as early as 2009. 

Deolis Guerra checks in at number two as the top pitching prospect and like Martinez, he’s very young.  He’ll turn 19 in April and he already has a full season at St. Lucie under his belt.  While he didn’t post great numbers, he was at least a level ahead of himself age wise.  He did have some shoulder problems and he has yet to throw more then 100 innings in a season.  I wouldn’t mind Guerra starting the season back at St. Lucie just to work on some of his pitches against lesser talent before he makes the push to Binghamton.

Carlos Gomez comes in at number three and unlike the top two, he’s major league ready.  He hurt his hand when he was hit by a pitch but like the column says, Gomez should compete with Lastings Milledge for a starting outfield job.

Kevin Mulvey and Eddie Kunz round out the top five.  Interestingly, Philip Humber has slipped all the way to seven after showing up at four last year.