The New York Mets aren’t the best drafters in MLB. They are far from it and end up relying on their top-tier international free agents and trades to fill out the farm system.
Despite that, they have a shocking number of homegrown players. The Mets have 12 homegrown players on their roster entering 2020 and eight were drafted by the team. The most shocking part, three of those players wouldn’t have been drafted under the shortened version of the 2020 MLB Draft.
Three of the team’s biggest stars never cracked a top-100 list, and they never made the team’s top-five prospects.