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Baseball America - Mets Top Ten Prospects - 1999

Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2025 5:57 pm
by Centerfield
Let's take a trip down memory lane.

Who were the Mets top ten prospects in 1999 according to Baseball America? It's a fun mix of names.

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Re: Baseball America - Mets Top Ten Prospects - 1999

Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2025 6:18 pm
by Johnny Lunchbucket
Jose Reyes

Re: Baseball America - Mets Top Ten Prospects - 1999

Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2025 6:28 pm
by Cowtipper
Alex Escobar

Re: Baseball America - Mets Top Ten Prospects - 1999

Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2025 6:31 pm
by Centerfield
Alex Escobar is correct. Your top rated prospect of 1999. Jose Reyes was not on the list. Jose would debut on the BA Top 10 in 2002.

1. Alex Escobar, OF
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Re: Baseball America - Mets Top Ten Prospects - 1999

Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2025 6:35 pm
by Cowtipper
I'm going to do a wild one and say...Rob Stratton.

Re: Baseball America - Mets Top Ten Prospects - 1999

Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2025 7:04 pm
by MFS62
Terrence Long

Later

Re: Baseball America - Mets Top Ten Prospects - 1999

Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2025 7:11 pm
by Edgy MD
Brian Cole.

Re: Baseball America - Mets Top Ten Prospects - 1999

Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2025 7:19 pm
by Benjamin Grimm
Bobby Parnell?

Re: Baseball America - Mets Top Ten Prospects - 1999

Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2025 7:20 pm
by MFS62
Octavio Dotel

Later

Re: Baseball America - Mets Top Ten Prospects - 1999

Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2025 8:09 pm
by Edgy MD
Patrick Strange.

Re: Baseball America - Mets Top Ten Prospects - 1999

Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2025 8:43 pm
by The Hot Corner
Pete Alonso before he rocked MLB as a rookie.

Re: Baseball America - Mets Top Ten Prospects - 1999

Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2025 8:51 pm
by MFS62
Jorge Toca

Later

Re: Baseball America - Mets Top Ten Prospects - 1999

Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2025 9:08 pm
by Edgy MD
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"The Dwead Piwate Gwant Wobbits is here faw yaw SOUL!"

Re: Baseball America - Mets Top Ten Prospects - 1999

Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2025 9:11 pm
by kcmets
George Harrison. Oh wait, wrong thread and I'm wrong poster.

I have a dozen Jorge Toca rookie cards if anyone needs them!

Re: Baseball America - Mets Top Ten Prospects - 1999

Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2025 9:15 pm
by kcmets
The Hot Corner wrote: Tue Feb 11, 2025 8:43 pm Pete Alonso before he rocked MLB as a rookie.
Pete's old, but not that old!

Re: Baseball America - Mets Top Ten Prospects - 1999

Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2025 10:07 pm
by Johnny Lunchbucket
A boy named Seo

Re: Baseball America - Mets Top Ten Prospects - 1999

Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2025 10:16 pm
by Edgy MD
Glendon 2112 Rusch.

Re: Baseball America - Mets Top Ten Prospects - 1999

Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2025 11:21 pm
by Centerfield
Wow. You guys are good.


1. Alex Escobar, OF
2. Octavio Dotel
3. Grant Roberts
4. Jae Weong Seo
5. Terrence Long
6. Jorge Toca
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Incorrect: Glendon Rusch, Pete Alonso, George Harrison, Pat Strange, Bobby Parnell, Rob Stratton, Brian Cole.

The last four are hard. Though I think you guys will get one of them.

Re: Baseball America - Mets Top Ten Prospects - 1999

Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2025 12:30 am
by Edgy MD
Jason McCoy Tyner.

Re: Baseball America - Mets Top Ten Prospects - 1999

Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2025 7:40 am
by Johnny Lunchbucket
Ty Wiggletoes?

Re: Baseball America - Mets Top Ten Prospects - 1999

Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2025 7:46 am
by metirish
I don't have any guesses, but man so cool to see those names , Grant Roberts , Bobby V loved him, until something happened? Got in the doghouse if I recall

Re: Baseball America - Mets Top Ten Prospects - 1999

Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2025 8:26 am
by Johnny Lunchbucket
He hung out with Tony Tarasco and did bong hits. I may be conflating separate pot incidents

Re: Baseball America - Mets Top Ten Prospects - 1999

Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2025 8:36 am
by metirish
Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Wed Feb 12, 2025 8:26 am He hung out with Tony Tarasco and did bong hits. I may be conflating separate pot incidents
Yes, a quick search leads to an ESPN article and a typical Bobby V response , Mark Corey was the other player


I guarantee you no one was in uniform and smoking marijuana, unless they were running around with a whole lot of Visine in their eyes,'' manager Bobby Valentine said. "I grew up in the '60s. I think I could tell by looking in a guys' eyes if he was smoking dope.''


https://www.espn.com/mlb/news/2002/0920/1434282.html

Re: Baseball America - Mets Top Ten Prospects - 1999

Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2025 9:04 am
by MFS62
Jason Tyner.

And I should have remembered Roberts. I wrote a song parody of Genie in a Bottle called Pee into the Bottle.
Later

Re: Baseball America - Mets Top Ten Prospects - 1999

Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2025 9:23 am
by Gwreck
Jay Payton?