Steven Matz (Flushing, NY): Was I worth the 72nd pick by the Mets or should they have gone for a better talent with signability issues?

Aaron Fitt: I’ve got no problem with the Matz pick; he does have a lot of upside, and the consensus in the Northeast was that he was a late second- to third-round talent. Matz has run his fastball up to 94 from the left side and shown a good breaking ball at times, and there’s tons of projection with him.

…For starters I obviously know it wasn’t really Steven Matz just getting that out of the way.  I agree with Fitt and think this was kind of a dumb question.  Matz was an overslot to begin with.  He is going to for somewhere in the million (1.3 millionish is my guess), which is end of the first or 1st round supp money and he is a young upside, projectible lefty.  Who else would you have liked with signability issues? Austin Maddox who fell into the 30′s or Max Stassi who fell to the 4th?  I really like taking the hometown boy with upside he was definitey “worth it”…

Mookie (Queens, NY): Can the Mets and other teams afford to lose their first round pick every year and still hope to have a decent farm system?

Jim Callis: Sure, provided your willing to spend on first-round talents who fall in the draft. The Mets haven’t shown much willingness to do that, though.

…That’s always been my biggest beef with the Mets always taking the slot pick and never going over slot.  I think they did a little better job at that this year drafting a bit more high school players and already signing Chase Greene, Nelfi Zapata, and Jeff Glenn.  The didn’t, however, jump on Stassi or Maddox who both fell much further then exected because of $$$….