One of the Mets’ top pitching prospects the mound on Thursday while two affiliates were rained out on an uneven day for the farm system. Triple-A Syracuse Mets (6-5) 5, Worcester Red Sox (4-7) 4 BOX SCORE CF Ben Gamel 2-for-4, R, HR (3), 2 RBI (6), 0 BB, 2 K (1.190 OPS) 3B Rylan Bannon 2-for-4, R, 2 RBI (2), 0 BB, K (.788 OPS) 1B Mark Vientos 1-for-4, 2 K (.966 OPS) SS Luisangel Acuña...
Things change quickly in baseball. Just ask the New York Mets, who are now 4-5 in Grapefruit League action after being 4-1 when 3 Up, 3 Down returned last week. Of course, as we made clear last week, results don’t matter in spring training, but there were a couple of worrying trends that emerged for the Mets over the past few days. Let’s take a look at those, as well as some...
Sunday morning, the New York Mets announced the team’s first round of major-league camp cuts. Specifically, position players OF Drew Gilbert, C Kevin Parada, and INF Jett Williams were all sent to minor league camp. In addition, pitchers RHP Eric Orze, RHP Cam Robinson RHP Christian Scott, RHP Mike Vasil, and LHP Danny Young were also sent to minor league camp. Additionally, the Mets...
For a third straight year, Eric Orze gets an invite to spring training. Orze was one of six players the Mets selected in the 2020 draft. Their first pick, Pete Crow-Armstrong, was traded for Javier Baez. J.T. Ginn was traded for Chris Bassitt. Isaiah Greene was part of the package for Francisco Lindor and Carlos Carrasco. Matthew Dyer was traded for Rich Hill. Anthony Walters was released. This...
A look at the optimism, pessimism and realism of the 2024 Mets season
Not all minor leaguers in the Mets’ system will make it to the majors, but that doesn’t mean that some of those pitchers don’t have “big league” pitches in their arsenal. The below is a list of some of the top strikeout pitches in the 2023 season from some pitchers in the Mets’ system, regardless of their prospect status or likelihood of getting to Queens....
Each offseason, teams around the league need to make tough decisions in regards to which Rule 5 draft eligible players will be added to the 40-man roster to ensure they are not taken by another team. This is a lighter group than normal for first year Rule-5 eligibility because the group corresponds to the abbreviated 2020 MLB Draft class. There are, of course, more players in the minor league...
Eric Orze has battled adversity his whole career. From two bouts with cancer, to struggles in both 2022 and 2023 with Triple-A Syracuse, he hasn’t had a smooth road to the big leagues by any means. Back in 2021, when he rocketed through the Mets’ minor league system, it looked as if he could have a meteoric rise to Queens, but he stalled in Triple-A and hasn’t gotten over the...
The Syracuse Mets staged a late rally and Brandon McIlwain drew a bases-loaded walk to win the game. The Binghamton Rumble Ponies are still on break after defeating the Somerset Patriots in the Eastern League semi-finals. Triple A Syracuse Mets 4, Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Railriders 3/10 Innings Box Score RF Brandon McIlwain 0-for-2, 2 SB, 4 BB, K, .816 OPS LF Jaylen Palmer 2-for-5, 2B, R, RBI, 2...
Triple-A Syracuse Mets (24-38) 13, Lehigh Valley IronPigs (32-29) 8 BOX SCORE RF DJ Stewart: 3-for-3, 3 R, 2B, HR, 2 RBI, 2 BB, .230/.368/.547 LF Carlos Cortes: 3-for-4, 3 R, 2B, HR, RBI, BB, .255/.341/.441 3B Nick Meyer: 2-for-5, 2 R, HR, 3 RBI, K, .204/.301/.286 The Mets had a huge game offensively on Sunday afternoon: eight of their 13 hits went for extra bases, including four home runs, and...
The Syracuse Mets lost their season opener to the Worcester Red Sox by the score of 11-2 on Friday. As the score would indicate, things did not go Syracuse’s way. The game did not start off that poorly. In fact, there was cause for excitement when Brett Baty, the second batter of the game, picked up from his hot spring by hitting an opposite field double. No. 2 @Mets prospect Brett Baty is back...
After the New York Mets took a 10-7 loss to the Washington Nationals in West Palm Beach Saturday night, the organization announced their first round of roster cuts as players start to get sent to minor league camp with the season two-and-a-half weeks away. In this latest round of cuts, the Mets optioned right-handed pitcher José Butto to Triple-A Syracuse while sending four pitchers...
