Callis and Fitt On Mets Draft

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?[...]