Welcome to From Complex to Queens, Home Run Applesauce’s podcast focusing on the Mets’ minor league system.

Thomas and Lukas are both back from London this week, so promote-extend-trade discusses which part of their vacation they’d trade away. Spoiler alert, difficult to trade anything, London is a lot of fun. After that, we discuss a couple new mock drafts, neither of which land the Mets with a name we like all that much.

Moving on to the performance of the system this week, it was actually the bats leading the way rather than the arms. Simon Juan continues to hit the cover off the ball and seems primed for a Brooklyn promotion, even if he - like so much of the system - continues to hit the ball on the ground too much. On that note, Brett Baty is performing very well at Triple-A and clearly isn’t going to learn anything there; given that, and the poor performance of Jeff McNeil, it seems like the Mets should try to be creative and give him some real run at second base. We’ll see if that’s something they can manage.

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