During Brodie Van Wagenen’s short tenure as the New York Mets‘ general manager, the overall state of the farm system suffered a few hits. It’s a natural thing for contenders to surrender prospects as they look to improve their chances to win it all, but most of the valuable, blue-chip players were dealt away for questionable returns.
The Mets traded Jarred Kelenic, Simeon Woods-Richardson, Justin Dunn, Anthony Kay, and others in the last couple of years, and now, there aren’t too many potential game-changers in the system.
That doesn’t mean that the farm system is useless.