The Binghamton Rumble Ponies and Brooklyn Cyclones continue to struggle offensively while the Syracuse Mets continued to hit even without A.J. Ewing. Jack Wenninger continued his strong start to the season for Triple-A Syracuse.

Triple-A

Syracuse Mets (21-18) 7, Scranton/WB (20-18) 4

Box Score

Two Mets minor league teams played Yankee affiliates, and the Syracuse Mets came out victorious in 13 innings. Nine hits and six walks led to seven runs scored.

Hayden Senger hit his sixth home run of the season, which is one more than he hit in Syracuse last year. He also has done this in less than half as many games. I am taking an expanded look at him because as I write this Francisco Alvarez has injured his knee and it is unclear if he will miss time. Senger isn’t hitting the ball harder than last year, coming in worse across every exit velocity marker as well as hard hit rate, and his barrel rate is virtually the same. He is pulling the ball in the air 6.1% less than 2025 and making 2.9% less contact in the zone while striking out 15.5% more. He is not really doing anything better than he was in 2025 and still looks like the low offense but elite defensive catcher he has been. His home run was 106.7 miles per hour today though it only went 386 feet.

Ryan Clifford struggled heavily most of April save for one great week and so far the big concern with him is that he looks like he gave up all the contact gains he made in 2025. So far in May he is running an 83% zone-contact rate with absolutely elite power metrics and is slashing .306/.372/.564/.936. He did this for a week in April before falling back into bad habits, so he will likely need to show he can sustain this before he can force his way up to the majors.

Nick Morabito in May looks as you would expect. He is running a good AVG and OBP combo with a low SLG slashing .257/.381/.286/.667. His 85.6% zone-contact rate this season is in the 66th percentile and if he was a plus defender in center field, he maybe could have pushed out Tyrone Taylor by now. Morabito also brings another dimension to any team he is on with his base running, stealing another base today.

Jack Wenninger. Photo by Ed Delany of Metsmerized

Jack Wenninger looked strong today running a 30.3% whiff rate and 32.7% chase rate. He continues to struggle with his fastball, regularly missing the zone, giving up hard contact, and not generating swing and miss, but his secondaries have been so strong that he has been able to make up for that. his changeup looks like it could be a true plus pitch, and slider and sweeper combo remain strong. His sinker has been much stronger than his four-seam fastball, generating weak contact. He did still struggle to find the zone today and this is a true concern which could limit his ability to be a starting pitcher in the majors but there could be room for him to improve more. His fastball performs very strongly when his velocity is up and he threw it 95 miles per hour at points in his start, but he struggles to maintain velocity in higher pitch counts.

Nate Lavender meanwhile is throwing slightly harder than he did before surgery, and his stuff looked better than his line suggests. He showed elite extension, plus movement, and good spin. There are arguments Anderson Severino should be in the majors now and his insane whiff rates on his slider (60% today) are a big part of that reasoning.

Double-A

Somerset (16-18) 3, Binghamton Rumble Ponies (11-23) 0

Box Score

I feel like each week I write about how the Binghamton Rumble Ponies struggled to score runs but that is just their story this season. Only two hitters in the lineup today have an OPS that begins with seven and three have an OPS that begins with five. After a strong April Eli Serrano is slashing .107/.212/.179/.391 in May. This does seem to be at least in part driven by bad luck. He is not swing and missing, is attacking pitches in the zone, and is making consistent contact. Even with a 0-for-3 today

Reimer has been swinging the bat better lately. In his last 15 games he is slashing .206/.400/.408/.808. Over that span he is pulling the ball in the air 25.8% (95th percentile) and only whiffing at 24.4% of pitches (72nd percentile). This is the version of Reimer that landed him on multiple top 100 lists this offseason.

Chris Suero has looked like a true three-true-outcomes hitter this month slashing .190/.357/.476/.833 in May with a 16.7% walk rate. His contact rates are terrible with a 71% zone-contact rate (13th percentile) and 41.3% whiff rate (7th percentile) but when he makes contact it is hard.

Brendan Girton is having a good start to his season with a 3.81 ERA. His WHIP is too high at 1.45, but that was ballooned by walking 10 batters in his first two starts. He is running a strong 55% ground ball rate (90th percentile) and an above average whiff rate at 27.6% (53rd percentile). Today he ran a 25.8% whiff rate and only walked one batter while running up seven strikeouts. Saul Garcia struggled to find the zone and generate whiffs, but Gabriel Rodriguez and Zach Peek looked strong.

High-A

Rome (19-15) 2, Brooklyn Cyclones (8-25) 0

Box Score

The Brooklyn Cyclones only got two hits today and only walked once. Maimonides Park is not known for being hitter-friendly, but this takes it to another level. The only positive is that Mitch Voit, who has struggled this season, got a hit today.

I do not know if I should be impressed or not by a pitcher walking seven batters and only giving up two runs. Joel Diaz continues to struggle with an 8.46 ERA and 2.20 WHIP. Danis Correa and Hoss Brewer looked strong both generated high whiff rates at 54.5% and 33.3% respectively.

Single-A

St Lucie (14-19), Jupiter (19-14)

The St. Lucie game was rained out and postponed to May 13 as part of a doubleheader beginning at 4:00 PM.