Author: Jorge Eckardt

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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Minor League Players of the Month: Sproat, Benge Dominate July

July is in the books, which means it’s time to see how the Mets’ minor leaguers played during the dog days of summer. TRIPLE-A: SYRACUSE METS Hitter of the Month: Francisco Alvarez Stats: 14 G, .333/.433/.902/1.335, 2 2B, 9 HR, 14 R, 19 RBI, 7 BB, 15 SO Yes, the first player featured in the July edition of the Mets minor league players of the month is a major leaguer, but what...

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The Most Interesting Traits From the Mets’ 2025 Day 2 Selections

More than any other sport, baseball’s draft is just a series of dart throws. Plenty of first-round picks never even play a game in the majors, and plenty of late-round, unheralded picks go on to have great MLB careers. Even from last year’s draft, Will Watson (seventh round), Ryan Lambert (eighth), Brendan Girton (10th) and R.J. Gordon (13th) are looking like legitimate possible...

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