With Major League Baseball’s amateur draft coming up on June 4, we thought it would be fun to go back in time and look at how things might have turned out in the Sandy Alderson era if the Mets had taken different players.
I am basing the “I Wanted” pick on who was what players were still available to be selected when the Mets were making their pick in each individual draft. There were numerous players in each draft that I might have preferred to my “I Wanted” pick, but were selected previously.
I am basing my “Optimal Pick” on a multiple of factors, including where the player was drafted vis-à-vis where the Mets were making their selection, if the player has produced major league value, and where the player is on recent top prospect lists.