Despite Brandon Sproat's strong spring training for the Mets, David Stearns still wants to see the top prospect develop more in the minor leagues.

The next step, early next week, on Monday or Tuesday, we’re going to retest (and) reimage,” Stearns told reporters. “And then, if all is good, we progress into a throwing program.” Manaea was throwing in the early stages of camp,

Those were the happy words of David Stearns, who listed the team’s relative dullness as a positive development. “Maybe that’s the surprise: It’s been calm,” the Mets president of baseball operations said Thursday,