The St. Lucie Mets had the best performance of the day led by Elian Peña’s home run. Ryan Clifford and Nick Morabito also had strong offensive showings while the St. Lucie pitchers performed well. Weather robbed the Syracuse Mets of a potential comeback and postponed the Brooklyn Cyclones game while Binghamton struggled both offensively and defensively.

Triple-A

Rochester (17-17) 3, Syracuse Mets (18-15) 2

Box Score

The Syracuse Mets fell just short of coming back in the weather shortened game scoring two runs on five hits and three walks across six innings. This was A.J. Ewing’s first hitless game since his call up to Syracuse but he continues to shine defensively in center field. Ryan Clifford got Syracuse’s scoring started with a 108.1 miles per hour hit to drive in Nick Morabito. Clifford also smacked a 106.1 miles per hour double in the sixth inning and worked a walk during the game as well. Clifford has been streaky this season, ranging from white hot to ice cold, and that shows in his overall below average .740 OPS. He is still hitting the ball extremely hard, but he is struggling to make consistent contact in the zone giving back his gains from 2025. He is also striking out nearly 40% of the time. Nick Morabito continued his hot season and while he does not hit the ball hard or pull the ball in the air, he continues to show off his strong contact profile. Since Ewing’s call up, Morabito has split his time between both outfield corners where his defense can truly shine.

Jack Weisenburger made his first start in Triple-A and it was mixed. He cruised the first three innings before hitting a wall in the fourth. He got out of the inning, but not before giving up three runs. His slider looked excellent and is truly a plus pitch. He generated a gaudy 50% whiff rate, and overall in the outing ran a 31% chase rate and 31.3% whiff rate. Joey Gerber followed up his struggles in his last outing with a strong bounceback. He pounded the zone and was efficient retiring the side in only ten pitches. Ten year veteran Luke Jackson looked strong utilizing his three above average pitches to retire the side in 15 pitches.

Double-A

Hartford (12-15) 10, Binghamton Rumble Ponies (10-18) 2

Box Score

Four hits, five walks, seven strikeouts, and two runs scored. The Binghamton lineup continues to get runners on base and continues to struggle to drive them in. After a strong April, Eli Serrano III has slumped to start May going 1-for-11, but with a .749 OPS he is still one of the teams best hitters. Jacob Reimer has been on the opposite track. Despite going 0-for-4 today, he is slashing .357/.471/.500/.971 in his 15 plate appearances in May after slashing .333/.500/.429/.929 his last seven games of April. After a very rough first 57 PA his last 43 have been extremely strong raising his OPS from .511 to .698.

Will Watson has struggled beyond belief so far this season. He is only whiffing 18.2% of batters, which is in the 4th percentile. His swinging strike rate of 7.7% is in the 3rd percentile. His 20.2% strikeout rate is in the 26th percentile. He has an 8.55 ERA and 1.90 WHIP. We do not have Statcast data for Double-A but coming off a spring training where his velocity was significantly lower than it was in 2025 there are real concerns for Will Watson going forward. Whether injury or regression, his only positives are that he has an above average walk rate and is getting a slightly above average number of ground balls. Tanner Witt has moved quickly from Low-A to Double-A and even had a quick stop at Triple-A. It would seem the Mets view Witt as someone who can shuffle through the minors to eat innings as needed more than a long term investment arm.

High-A

Brooklyn Cyclones (7-19), Bowling Green (17-10)

Postponed

Per Justin Rocke of MiLB.com, “the game will be made up as part of a doubleheader on Saturday, May 9, with first pitch scheduled for 5:05 p.m. ET. Both games will be seven innings, with a 35–40 minute break between contests.”

The Brooklyn Cyclones have struggled this season with their offense regularly coming up short. They have lost 10 of their last 13 games and look to turn around their season with this series against Bowling Green.

Elian Pena. Photo by Ed Delany of Metsmerized

Low-A

St. Lucie (13-15) 6, Lakeland (14-14) 2

Box Score

With his 4th percentile hard hit rate and 8th percentile barrel rate, Elian Peña has struggled to consistently make hard contact, but his home run at 104.7 miles per hour will help raise his high end exit velocity numbers. His only real flaw so far keeping him from skyrocketing up prospect lists has been his lack of power but if he continues to hit the ball like that, that could change quickly. Despite his 0-for-4 today Randy Guzman is having a breakout season and could force his way into a promotion to Brooklyn sooner rather than later. Unlike Peña, Guzman hits the ball incredibly hard, placing in the top 20% in every power metric and the 96th percentile in his 90% exit velocity. He is doing this with an above average zone-contact rate and an incredibly high pulled fly ball rate. His only flaw is that he is chasing at a 36.7% chase rate. Edward Lantigua has only played a handful of games in Low-A and it has been a slow start, but he is an interesting name to watch after a strong showing in 2025.

Six pitchers combined to give up only two runs across nine innings. Returning from his lat injury R.J. Gordon was very effective in his third rehab start as he works his was back to joining Binghamton. Despite working back from injury, he has continued to show his velocity gains from 2025 averaging around 92 miles per hour so far this season on his fastball and has topped out at 93.8 miles per hour. None of his pitches truly grade as plus, but he has plus command and utilizes six pitches from a high arm slot to keep batters off balance. Across the board the Mets pitchers attacked the zone and Jorge De Leon utilizes his four plus pitches to throw a scoreless 1.1 innings pitched and earn the win.