Author: Jorge Eckardt

Checking in on the Mets’ 2025 Draft Class

About two months post-draft, a handful of the Mets’ selections have already made their professional baseball debut. Not everyone plays—most pitchers and high school players don’t—but the Mets have had eight of their draft picks make their debuts. It is important to emphasize that these initial debuts don’t mean much, especially for an organization so skilled at developing...

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Jonathan Santucci Is the Mets’ Next Big Pitching Prospect

For most of this season, most of the attention to Mets pitching prospects has been given to Nolan McLean, Jonah Tong and Brandon Sproat. Now, all three are in the big leagues. Those are the only three Mets fans should expect to make their MLB debuts this season, but the Mets are rich with minor league pitching depth, and there will be another wave coming in 2026. The headliner? The 22-year-old...

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Minor League Players of the Month: Reimer, Gordon, and Watson Heat Up

It’s time for 2025’s final installment of the Mets’ minor league players of the month. Both the Florida Complex League Mets and Dominican Summer League Mets only played a handful of games in August, so there’s not enough of a sample size to really name players of the month. However, the end-of-the-season top international free agent signee Elian Peña had needs to be...

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How Brandon Sproat Turned His Season Around

Brandon Sproat entered 2025 as the Mets’ top pitching prospect and a Top 100 prospect in baseball, but for the first three months of the season, he largely struggled. He struggled in Triple-A in 2024 as well after blowing through High-A and Double-A, but it was largely written off as fatigue from reaching his third level of the minor leagues in his first season of professional baseball....

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The Mets Minor League Teams Are Winning

The big league club is struggling, but the minor league affiliates of the New York Mets are having seasons to remember. Single-A, High-A and Double-A have all already clinched a postseason berth, and Triple-A is currently in playoff position with a little over a month to go in the 2nd half. If the MLB squad can pull out of this nosedive, there’s a real possibility that every player in the...

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