For the second straight season, the Mets are inviting Dom Hamel to major league camp. Hamel was part of a trio of exciting Mets pitchers to get invited to spring training in 2024 (Mike Vasil and Christian Scott being the other two). Hamel had a rough 2024. It was so rough that at Metsmerized, he isn’t even considered a Top 30 prospect ahead of the 2025 season. Dom made 27 starts for Syracuse in...
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The Mets considered the future when they signed Adbert Alzolay. The former Chicago Cubs closer had Tommy John surgery in August of 2024 and almost certainly will miss all of 2025. In early January, the Mets signed him to a two-year minor league deal. Alzolay gets to rehab with the Mets, and the team obtains an intriguing bullpen arm for the 2026 season. Chicago signed Alzolay as an amateur free...
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Génesis Cabrera is a lefty. Why does this matter so much? The Mets just don’t have a ton of southpaw options. On the team’s 40-man roster right now, their only lefties are Sean Manaea, A.J. Minter, David Peterson and Danny Young. Cabrera signed in 2013 was the Rays and was traded to the Cardinals in a package that included Tommy Pham. The lefty made his major league debut with the...
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Ty Adcock should sound familiar to fans because the Mets acquired him during the 2024 season. He was claimed off waivers from the Tigers in May and then released by the Mets at the trade deadline. The Mets then re-signed him a few weeks later. Adcock didn’t have the most encouraging start to his professional baseball career. He was drafted by the Mariners in 2019 but missed the 2020 season...
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The Mets finally won the hypothetical R.A. Dickey deal this off-season when they signed Anthony Gose to a minor league contract with a non-roster invitation to spring training. Back in 2012 the Mets trade R.A. Dickey to the Blue Jays for a package built around Noah Syndergaard and Travis d’Arnaud. There was a time when Anthony Gose, then an outfield prospect, was rumored to be in the package....
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