Mets No. 2 prospect Brett Baty has been officially promoted and will make his major league debut on Wednesday. Baty will bat eighth and play third base. The 22-year-old will wear No. 22 with the Mets. In order to make room for Baty on the active roster the Mets placed Eduardo Escobar on the 10-day IL. Escobar was suffering from oblique soreness and was unable to swing from the right side of the...
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Mets first baseman Pete Alonso has committed to play for Team USA in the 2023 World Baseball Classic. The World Baseball Classic will open with pool play on March 8 in Taiwan and it will end with the championship game on March 21 at loanDepot park in Miami. The United States are the defending champs when the event was last held in 2017. They’ll play in Pool C at Chase Field in Arizona...
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The Mets first two games in Atlanta couldn’t have gone much worse. On Monday a 13-1 blowout that saw Darin Ruf as New York’s best pitcher. On Tuesday a 5-0 loss where Charlie Morton stifled the Mets lineup to three hits and 12 strikeouts in 6 2/3 innings. Did I even mention both Carlos Carrasco and Taijuan Walker got hurt? Well after dropping the first half of a four game series the...
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Noah Syndergaard still isn’t ready to face his former club. For the second time this season, Syndergaard will avoid the Mets by having his start pushed back an extra day. Syndergaard was scheduled to face New York on Sunday but will slide to Monday to gain an extra day of rest. This same situation happened in Anaheim earlier this year. Syndergaard was traded at the deadline from Anaheim to...
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Bryce Montes de Oca is now only one step from realizing the dream of becoming a big leaguer despite having gone through multiple surgeries and blood clots that wiped out two full years of throwing. The 6’7”, 250-pound right-hander is currently serving as the closer for the Triple-A Syracuse Mets. The story for Montes de Oca –besides the constant injury issues– has always...
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June 3, 2019 The Mets select third baseman Brett Baty out of Lake Travis High School in Texas. Already 19 years old it’s believed that his age is what caused him to slip to the Mets at pick No. 12. In his senior year of high school, Baty batted .615 with 19 home runs and 50 RBIs. He was named the Gatorade Texas Baseball Player of the Year and was committed to play college ball at the...
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