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Mets pitching prospect Justin Dunn ranked #84 on Keith Law's Top 100

Updated Mar. 4, 2020 7:40 p.m. ET

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ESPN’s Keith Law has the Mets’ 2016 first-round pick ranked as the No. 84 overall prospect in baseball.

Keith Law began to reveal his Top 100 prospects today, starting with 81-100 (ESPN Insider only).

Clocking in at No. 84 is the Mets’ 2016 first-round draft pick and Freeport, NY native, right-handed pitcher Justin Dunn.

Here is ESPN’s pre-draft scouting report on Dunn:

The Mets took Dunn with the 19th overall selection in last year’s draft, and his professional career got off to a very impressive start.

He appeared in 11 games and started eight, totaling 30 innings pitched with the single-A Brooklyn Cyclones of the New York Penn League.

In 30 innings in Brooklyn, Dunn had a 1.50 ERA and allowed just one home run while notching 35 strikeouts and issuing only 10 walks.

Prior to his 2016 season with the Brooklyn Cyclones, Dunn finished up his junior year at Boston College.

In 65.2 innings pitched with BC, Dunn pitched to a 2.06 ERA and struck out 72 batters. Eight of his 18 appearances for BC came as a starter.

Dunn’s emergence along with left-hander Thomas Szapucki has re-stocked the pitching in the Mets’ farm system, which Law currently ranks as the seventh-best in all of baseball.

It’s great to see the Mets not only be able to compete at the big-league level, coming off back-to-back playoff appearances, but also keep the farm system stocked with solid young pitching.

Dunn’s inclusion on Law’s Top 100 is a good sign for the team moving forward.

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