Next Saturday, June 1st, the First Annual United Baseball Blogger Mock Draft will take place and I (representing Hot Foot) will be making the selections for the Mets. Erik from Future Redbirds, a St. Louis Cardinals blog, was kind enough to help organize it and some of the better baseball blogs out there will be representing their respective teams, such as Athletics Nation (Oakland), Bryan Smith from Baseball Prospectus (Cleveland), Bucco Blog (Pittsburgh), and River Ave. Blues (Yankees).

As I wrote in an earlier post for Hot Foot, the future of the Mets’ solely lies on their three first-round selections. It is absolutely critical that Minaya get valuable players from at least two of the three players selected. The Mets will select 18th, 22nd, and 33rd in the June 5th draft. The 18th and 33rd selections came from the Atlanta Braves as compensation for the signing of Tom Glavine.

In my earlier post, I predicted that the Mets would select Yonder Alonso, University of Miami 1B with the 18th selection, but my wishful thinking got the best of me. Nearly all reports are stating that there is no chance the slugging switch-hitter will fall out of the top 10. I will post my mock selections on HotFoot next weekend.