Taking a closer look at how the Kingsport Mets finished the season with
a 29-37 record but just 3.5 games out of a playoff spot
What’s in this post:
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Season Summary
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Astro’s Awards
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Coaches
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Team Stats
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Mets on the APPY Leaderboards
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Promotions
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Links to 2017 highlights (34)
What Happened
Kingsport
has long been a staple of the Mets farm system, offering New York a Rookie ball
squad in the Appalachian League for all but one season since 1980 (stadium
renovations in 1983 forced the Mets to the GCL for a season). And Kingsport has
been the first minor league stop for some of the best talent to come out of the
Mets system: from Darryl Strawberry and Dwight Gooden in the early 1980’s to
Jose Reyes and David Wright in the early 2000’s. While it’s unreasonable to expect
any rookie ball player to reach the peaks those Mets legends reached, there
were plenty of interesting Mets prospects playing in Kingsport last year that
could be ready to put their name on the prospect map in 2018.
The
2017 Kingsport Mets started the season with a 3-game winning streak, but those
good feels quickly went away as they went on to lose 8 straight after that. The
long losing streaks became a recurring problem for Kingsport, as they would go
on to lose 8 of their final 11 games in July and then 8 of their final 10 games
in August. So, what happened?
