Predictions
Organizational Player of the Year: Fernando Martinez
Come on, you think we'd really pick someone else? The only thing that would keep this from happening is if he's so good, he ends up in New York earlier in the year. But this is the season he really starts putting it together.
Organizational Pitcher of the Year: Jonathan Niese
Someone needs to fill the void created by the trades, and Niese looks ready to step up. In great shape and ready to prove he can contribute, look for him to be ready to hit the bigs by 2009.
Level-repeater of the year: Francisco Pena
If you push a teenager to full-season ball and he fails, there's the benefit of the fact that sending him back to that level won't hurt him because he's so young. Pena will have learned his lessons from last year's disappointment and show why he was such a highly sought prospect when the Mets signed him.
Good college reliever, bad college reliever: Eddie Kunz will hit the ground running and dominate Binghamton and New Orleans, reaching the Mets' bullpen by the All-Star break. Brant Rustich's transition to starting won't go nearly as well and the Mets will move him back to the 'pen right around the time Kunz hits Shea.
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