Kelenic? We hardly Cano him
Full list of 2018 Mets draft picks
The good news amid the utter disaster that has been the Mets lately is that they’re getting to pick early in the draft. Not too exciting, but we’ll take what we can get. With the 6th pick this year, the Mets took Jarred Kelenic, widely regarded as the top high school bat in the draft. He has one of the widest assortments of amateur autographs you could hope for – Leaf Perfect Game, Panini USA Baseball, etc. Five more Mets picks already had autographs at the time of the draft: Carlos Cortes (picked by the Mets in 2016 but didn’t sign), Ryley Gilliam, Nick Meyer, Saul Gonzalez, and Ian Mejia. All but Mejia signed. So far so good…
Panini Contenders brought one last crop of amateur autographs before the flood of year-end draft pick autograph products turned them pro. That added Simeon Woods-Richardson and Adam Hill into the mix and signalled that Panini could have, at a minimum, the Mets’ top four picks in Elite Extra Edition. With amateur autographs from all of the top six picks in the last 18 months, it seemed clear that Jarred Kelenic wouldn’t have to carry the Mets checklist on his own. Which is a good thing, because his first Mets autographs would be his last…
As with last year, Bowman Draft featured autographs from the top three Mets picks. Panini also featured the top three in EEE, snubbing Adam Hill (and subbing in former Mets prospect Jhoan Urena for some reason) while Leaf went with just Kelenic and Woods-Richardson (plus Peter Alonso and Ronny Mauricio). Jarred Kelenic was everywhere in December.
Everywhere except with the Mets, that is. With Kelenic dealt to Seattle at the start of the month (along with 2016‘s top pick Justin Dunn), this is as close as we would get to seeing him in a Mets uniform. Instead, the Mets will have Edwin Diaz and Robinson Cano in Queens in 2019 alongside all of the other big acquisitions they’re sure to make any day now. Any day now…
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| 1 Jarred Kelenic | 2 Simeon Woods-Richardson | 3 Carlos Cortes | 4 Adam Hill |
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| 5 Ryley Gilliam | 6 Nick Meyer | 7 Kevin Smith | 23 Saul Gonzalez |
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