Niese

Baseball

Posted by Hasan H, August 26, 2008 - 12:46 pm

I love the fact that ESPN.com has a front page headline about the mets calling up “Top” prospect Jonathan Niese. Bringing up the kids like Daniel Murphy and Niese on a first place team in the middle of a pennant race is a big middle finger to all GMs around the league who refused to trade for our kids at the deadline. Dry farm system? Take this!

I love the ‘top’ and ‘untouchable’ tags.  And all of a sudden these tags are being applied to the kids whose numbers have always been good, but now they are being brought to the forefont. Omar has handled the perception that the Mets farm system was depleted to begin with and then further weakened after the Santana trade, very nicely. 

And as we have seen from Murphy so far, maybe these kids ARE that good and the rest of the league has just undervalued them.  Fantastic job by Omar Minaya. Yet again.