By Brian Joura
ou hear a lot of reasons why the Mets haven’t had more success thru the years. These range from cheap owners, to GMs with questionable roster decisions to incompetent managers. But there’s one thing that flies under the radar. And that’s that the club is considerably below average in grabbing young talent from the international free agent (IFA) market. It’s not for a lack of trying. The Mets have spent decent money in this area and have had prospects with a lot of hype climb thru the system. But for whatever reason, these players fail to pay off the way they do in other organizations.
Let’s look at these IFAs in the Mets360 era. Here are the players signed by the Mets and who made their MLB debut with the club since 2010. Furthermore, we’re interested in the players who signed when they were teenagers, rather than someone like Kodai Senga, who signed when he was 30 and immediately played in the majors. The Mets have had multiple Latin players who they traded for or signed as free agents who’ve contributed over the years. But their homegrown IFAs have been for the most part borderline terrible.
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