The St. Lucie Mets will start their first season as the Mets Low-A affiliate following the reformatting of minor league baseball. This team will feature the Mets top prospect in catcher Francisco Alvarez and the Mets 2020 first round pick of Pete Crow-Armstrong.
They’re joined by fellow Top 30 Mets prospects (per MLB pipeline) in INF Shervyen Newton, INF Jaylen Palmer, RHP Junior Santos, and RHP Joander Suarez.
Here’s what the preliminary roster looks like:
Pitchers
RHP Junior Santos (Mets #11 prospect)
RHP Garrison Bryant
RHP Joander Suarez (Mets #28 prospect)
RHP Dylan Hall
LHP Cam Opp
RHP Luis Moreno
RHP Willy Taveras
RHP Reyson Santos
RHP Austin Faith
RHP Colby Morris
RHP Dan Goggin
RHP Hunter Parsons
LHP Franklin Parra
RHP Justin Lasko
Catchers
Francisco Alvarez (Mets #1 prospect)
Matt Dwyer
Jose Colina
Matt O’Neill
Infielders
UT Warren Saunders
SS/3B/OF Jaylen Palmer (Mets #12 prospect)
SS/2B/3B Shervyen Newton (Mets #15 prospect)
3B Jose Peroza
SS Branden Fryman
UT Yoel Romero
Outfielders
Pete Crow-Armstrong
Tanner Murphy
Zach Ashford
Cole Kleszcz
LT Struble
The St. Lucie Mets coaching staff is packed with former big leaguers with Reid Brignac as the manager, Jerome Williams as the pitching coach, and Tommy Joseph as the hitting coach.
St. Lucie begins their season on May 4 at home with Suarez getting the start.