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[New York Mets]

There’s a pitcher named Yoandri Gonzalez in the Mets system

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This is less of a season preview and more of a “this guy exists” type of article

Right before Game 3 of the 2024 National League Championship Series against the Dodgers, Francys Romero reported that the Mets had agreed to a deal with Cuban free agent pitcher Yoandri Gonzalez, a 19-year-old who had left his home province of Artemisa two years prior.

What we know about Gonzalez comes almost entirely from Romero and a few YouTube videos from a 2022 showcase game, and the important bits can be boiled down to two key bullet points:

• Gonzalez is 19 years old
• He throws his fastball in the low-to-mid 90s

That should be enough to grab attention from any Major League scouting department, even if that’s all that’s known about a player.

As for Gonzalez’s track record against professional hitters: We’ll see! He’ll likely kick off his pro career in the Dominican Summer League, starting the arduous process most young Caribbean hurlers endure to make it to the Majors. He has a long way to go, but also a lot of time and developmental opportunities to make it happen.

So instead of speculating about Gonzalez’s potential with limited information, let’s remember the six Cuban-born big leaguers who have pitched in a Mets uniform:

• Yoan López - 2022
• Raúl Valdés - 2010
• Livan Hernández - 2009
• Orlando “El Duque” Hernández - 2006-07
• Alay Soler - 2006
• Ed Bauta - 1963-64

With any luck, Gonzalez will be the seventh (or eighth, or ninth—it’ll probably be quite a while before he gets his shot).

Source: https://www.amazinavenue.com/2025/3...-the-mets-system-cuba-dominican-summer-league

 

[New York Mets]

Sean Reid-Foley placed on waivers by Mets

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The oft injured right handed pitcher may see his time in Queens coming to end soon.

Shortly after announcing their first camp cuts of spring training, Anthony DiComo of MLB.com reported that the Mets will also be placing Sean Reid-Foley on waivers, which opens up a spot on the 40-man roster.

Reid-Foley has been around the organization for a fair bit of time, originally landing in New York by way of a trade with the Toronto Blue Jays for Steven Matz back in 2021. His time in Queens was tumultuous at best, as it was marred by injury, waves of effectiveness and ineffectiveness, and getting non-tendered and re-signed before the 2022 season.

He began his Mets career in the 2021 season and served as a shuttle arm, getting ping-ponged between Triple-A and the majors. He appeared in 12 games for the Mets that season, earning a 5.23 ERA in those outings. He lost most of his 2022 and 2023, appearing in just 15 games between the two years due to an elbow injury requiring Tommy John surgery in May of 2022.

He came back in 2024 and was the best he was in a Mets uniform, earning a 1.66 ERA in 23 games. The biggest issue was his control, as he walked 15.6% of the batters he faced — up from his already high career number of 14.2%. Despite his strong performance, his season ended in frustrating fashion, as a right shoulder impingement in June ended his season.

The emergence of several Mets reliever options this spring — namely Max Kranick and Tyler Zuber, and to a lesser extent players like Yacksel Rios — likely made the Mets feel comfortable exposing Reid-Foley to waivers — not to mention his inconsistencies and long list of arm injuries.

While it means that Reid-Foley will be off the 40-man roster, it does not necessarily mean his time with the Mets is over. If he passes through waivers — which, due to his injury history and the timing of the move, is possible — he could be outrighted to Triple-A and kept in the organization, which the Mets did in February with infielder Luis De Los Santos.

Source: https://www.amazinavenue.com/2025/3...d-foley-40-man-roster-max-kranick-tyler-zuber

 

[New York Mets]

Francisco Alvarez looks for a healthy 2025

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The Mets’ catcher has a chance to have a less injured, lower stress season.

All top prospects debut under circumstances that are unfair. If the player starts off slow, they’re a bust. If they have a surprisingly strong performance, they’re the second coming of Ted Williams, which eventually leads to a souring when they prove to be merely human.

In his first two plus seasons in baseball, Francisco Alvarez has suffered through all of this. When he was initially called up in the last week of the 2022 regular season, he looked overmatched in big spots. When he hit 25 home runs and was being praised by the pitching staff for his game calling in 2023, people were projecting a partner for Gary Carter and Mike Piazza on the ‘best Mets catchers of all time’ list. And then in 2024, when injuries and regression hit, the bloom came off of Alvarez for a significant portion of the fanbase.

The reality, of course, is more nuanced than any of these three experiences. In 2023, the year when Alvarez impressed all of baseball with his skills on both sides of the game, he was worth 1.0 bWAR. In his ‘disappointing’ 2024 plagued by a thumb injury, he put up 0.8 bWAR. His OPS+ in 2023? 96. In 2024? 101. His slugging was down in 2024, but his on-base percentage was up. He struck out less in 2024 without his walk rate being affected. It is easy to look at his down power year in ‘24 and think that ‘23 was just a fluke, but it is also easy to justify the lack of home runs with his injured thumb.

There is also the fact that Alvarez is entering his age 23 season; he’s still very young for the majors, and yet he holds the record for most home runs by a catcher through age 23, and Alvarez hasn’t played a single game over 22 years old yet. By fWAR and Runs Above Average, since his debut, Alvarez is the tenth most valuable catcher in baseball, ahead of folks like J.T. Realmuto, Salvador Perez, and Travis d’Arnaud.

According to Statcast, Alvarez was in the 88th percentile for framing and the 83rd for pop time. He hits the ball hard (62nd percentile) and his walk rate is decent (8.8%, or 61st percentile), and his maximum exit velocity was in the top 9% of MLB in 2023 and top 5% in 2024.

All of this is to say that we don’t know exactly what sort of a player Alvarez is just yet. If he can keep his defense at approximately his 2023-2024 level, he will be one of the better framers in baseball, an incredibly useful skill, especially before the ABS challenges come to the majors. If he can normalize his offense a bit and continue to hit the ball hard, he seems like a candidate to repeat his 2023 power numbers when he’s not nursing a sore thumb.

But of course, he’s a catcher, so those injuries are going to happen. But even if he has a career’s worth of 2024s, that is still a valuable player. The Marcels Projections have him hitting .237/.309/.430 with 18 home runs. Steamer has him at .236/.314/.448 with 21 home runs. Either of those would be a good season for Alvarez, and would somewhat split the difference between 2023 and 2024. The Mets have had a better catching corps than many other teams in the majors, with two Hall of Famers playing significant portions of their careers in blue and orange. Alvarez doesn’t need to equal those numbers to be a huge part of the Mets success in 2025 and going forward; all he needs to do is keep doing what he has done thus far.

With the addition of Juan Soto to the lineup, the pressure on Alvarez to produce offensively has never been lower. If Alvarez can provide 20ish home run pop from the bottom third of the lineup, while remaining one of the best framers in baseball, he will be a steady piece of what should be a very exciting Mets team for years to come.

Source: https://www.amazinavenue.com/2025/3...catcher-new-york-national-league-injury-power

 

[New York Mets]

Mets Morning News for March 5, 2025

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Your Wednesday morning dose of Mets and Major League Baseball news, notes, and links.

Meet the Mets​

Tylor Megill gave up one run in 2.2 innings in yesterday’s 6-1 loss to the Cardinals.

Pete Alonso spent the offseason diving into swing mechanics to figure out what went wrong for him during the regular season last year.

David Wright discussed even more of his special bond with former Mets pitcher Jacob deGrom.

Anthony DiComo took a look at the Mets catching tandem this year that will hopefully provide stability at a vital position.

Sean Reid-Foley was placed on outright waivers in the first step of removing him off the 40-man roster.

The Mets made their first round of spring training cuts, a group consisting of mostly prospects and players signed to minor league contracts.

Starling Marte remains a potential target of the Kansas City Royals, who tried to trade for him earlier in the offseason but couldn’t agree on a deal with the Mets.

Around the National League East​

Jessica Camerato rounded up the latest news and stories from the Nationals’ spring training camp.

Around Major League Baseball​

Adam Duvall was pursued by the Royals in free agency but made it clear: he will be paid what he considers fair, or he will retire.

Eno Sarris wrote about six potential breakout pitchers for 2025.

MLB.com named some dark horse contenders to be stat leaders this season.

One of the Guardians’ top prospects Chase DeLauter is sidelined to start the season after undergoing surgery on his core.

Yesterday at Amazin’ Avenue​

Christian Romo brought awareness to the existence of Yoandri Gonzalez, a 19 year old Mets pitcher signed during last year’s playoffs run.

This Date in Mets History​

Today is the 47th birthday of former Met and minor league home run king Mike Hessman.

Source: https://www.amazinavenue.com/2025/3...so-alvarez-torrens-wright-degrom-marte-duvall

 

[New York Mets]

Max Kranick might be the best reliever you’ve never heard of

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A name out of nowhere is now in the mix for a late-inning role.

If you’ve not been following the Mets closely during Spring Training, this headline likely elicited one reaction; who the heck is Max Kranick? You might pull up his Fangraphs page and find that he last appeared in a major league game in 2022, tossing five innings for the Pirates. That he has a 5.56 ERA in 43.2 career innings. That he’s a 27-year-old who to date has amassed 0.6 fWAR. What in the world has transpired such that this guy merits a season preview?

Kranick was indeed drafted by the Pirates, an 11th round pick in 2016 (345th overall) out of Valley View High School in Pennsylvania. Shoulder injuries limited him early in his career, and while he regularly appeared on the back-end of Pirates’ prospect lists over the next few seasons, he was never regarded as more than a potential back-end starter with a likely home in relief. He got a brief major league cameo as a starter down the stretch in 2021, but his elbow blew out five innings into 2022. He’s not pitched in the majors since.

As we alluded to before, that brief major league cameo wasn’t particularly productive, featuring neither the ability to miss bats, avoid hard contact, nor throw consistent strikes. We know enough now to better judge Kranick’s 2021 arsenal; his fastball shape was poor, and his secondary offerings even worse. Despite this middling stuff profile, the poor major league production, and the recent injury history, the Mets saw fit to snap Kranick up on waivers in January of 2024 when the Pirates DFA’d him to make room for Martin Perez.

Kranick never got into a major league game with the Mets last season, posting rather pedestrian results across three minor league levels in 2024. There was clearly some tinkering behind the scenes - he experimented with a sinker, messed with the shapes on his slider and curveball, and picked up a sweeper - but the arsenal as a whole was still unremarkable. An outside observer had little evidence of the transformation that Kranick and the Mets pitching development team were working on.

Well folks, we’ve got plenty of evidence of it now. Kranick has struck out six batters in 5.1 spring innings, walking none and allowing no earned runs. More importantly, every public-facing pitch grader is gushing over him. Take Thomas Nestico’s model, for one:

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Thomas Nestico (@tjstats.nesti.co) pitching summary for Max Kranick’s Spring Training debut (2/23/25)

Or how about this output from Pitch Profiler:

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Pitch Profiler (@mlbpitchprofiler.com) pitching summary for Max Kranick (2/27/25)

If you’re skeptical of these stuff gradings - and you should be, to some extent - you can compare these movement profiles to pitchers from last season. Kranick’s fastball looks like a slightly slower version of Ryan Helsley’s (18.4% Whiff%). The slider doesn’t have a great direct comparable (that’s a good thing, outlier traits are harder for hitters to pick up consistently) but the closest is probably Luis Gil’s offering; that pitch was the 12th most valuable slider in baseball last year. As for the sweeper, no one throws one with this combination of high IVB, good gloveside movement, and velocity. Kevin Kelly has the most comparable offering even though it’s almost 5 MPH slower, and that pitch induced a .206 xwOBA last season.

Not it must be noted, other factors are missing here. Arm slot, pitch synergy, and a million other things combine with raw pitch characteristics as part of the arms race (*rimshot*) between pitcher and batter. However, this sort of simplistic check does give one more confidence in what the stuff metrics are telling us; Kranick’s arsenal looks bonkers right now.

Modern pitching evaluation has changed drastically from historical practices. Fifteen years ago, you signed or traded for a “Proven Closer TM” to use in the eighth inning and hoped that that would make your bullpen good (well, maybe not every team tried this, but the Wilpons certainly did). Now, instead of relying on brand recognition and shiny ERAs, we can look deeper towards the factors that actually make a pitcher good or bad. And the Mets under David Stearns have clearly embraced this philosophy, rapidly transforming the Mets from an outdated organization into one of the better pitching development spots in the league.

Kranick is something of an avatar for this organizational shift, the first in what will hopefully be an ongoing pipeline of surprreliever finds. Sometimes, of course, these sorts of breakouts are a flash in the pan (wither Jim Henderson), but right now Kranick is tracking like a potentially elite late-inning weapon. He’ll have every chance to establish himself as such for the 2025 Mets.

Source: https://www.amazinavenue.com/2025/3/6/24377911/mets-season-preview-max-kranick-bullpen-2025

 

[New York Mets]

Grapefruit Juice: Astros 5, Mets 1

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Edwin Díaz looked shaky in the Mets’ loss to the Astros.

The Mets dropped their second straight game in which they only scored one run, losing to the Astros 5-1 tonight at Clover Park.

• Brandon Sproat started for the Mets, and looked relatively solid across two plus innings of work. Sproat was charged with two earned runs after leaving the game in the top of the third. The runs came courtesy of line drive off the bat of Cam Smith that Mark Vientos couldn’t snag which deflected into right field, scoring two runners (including old friend Luis Guillorme).
• Edwin Díaz looked less than great in his one-third of an inning. Chas McCormick walked, stole two bases, and scored on a Brendan Rogers double. Rogers then scored on the next play, putting the Astros up 4-1.
• Génesis Cabrera also gave up a run in the fifth when Quincy Hamilton drove in Jon Singleton to score Houston’s final run of the night.
• The lone Mets run came in the bottom of the fourth when Francisco Lindor singled to left, scoring Jeff McNeil.

Source: https://www.amazinavenue.com/2025/3...ng-training-grapefruit-league-new-york-030625

 

[New York Mets]

Tyler Zuber is an ideal bullpen gamble

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The right-hander still has every chance to make good on the 2024 trade that brought him to the Mets.

A 29-year-old reliever who has bounced between the Royals, Diamondbacks, Guardians, and Rays, Tyler Zuber is exactly the sort of arm you expect teams to bring in as a long-shot camp body. There’s a lot more beneath the surface, however, with a real chance for late-inning impact.

Zuber joined the Mets at last year’s deadline, a component of David Stearns’ nimble midseason roster reconstruction. Here’s what was said about the deal at the time:

On deadline day, the Mets hooked up with the Rays again, acquiring Tyler Zuber for relief prospect Paul Gervase. Zuber was at one point a notable relief prospect for the Royals who began suffering shoulder problems right as he made the majors. Those issues derailed his early career, and he was pitching for the Long Island Ducks earlier this year before Tampa signed him. Since that point, he’s dominated the upper minors, featuring a fastball with outlier characteristics out of his release point and a useful cutter / sweeper combination. He’s also optionable and under team control for multiple seasons after this one. Zuber is basically a present-value version of what you’d hope Gervase is, and the Mets didn’t even have to sacrifice team control to get a player who can help this year; slam dunk A.

Unfortunately, that grade looked far too optimistic down the stretch in 2024. Zuber’s gains didn’t port over to the Mets particularly well, and he walked 15 batters in 16 innings in Syracuse (never appeared for the major league team) with an ERA approaching seven. Meanwhile, the Rays made some tweaks to Gervase and watched him post an absurd 40.6% K-BB% in Double-A for the rest of the season.

We know better than to draw conclusions over 20 innings of relief work. We also know that the Mets have been hard at work with seemingly all of their arms all offseason. Zuber is no exception; he’s come back with pitch shapes even better than those he displayed in his time with the Rays last year, and now looks like a potential late inning arm once again.

Zuber’s four-seam, which averaged ~14 inches of induced vertical break and ~9 inches of arm-side run last year, now has even more movement. He’s clearly been tinkering with the pitch during Spring Training, adding movement along one axis or the other outing-by-outing. It’s impossible to say whether this is intentional experimentation, a product of inconsistency, or part of his normal ramp. What we can say is that the version he threw on 3/3 added significant vertical break—averaging 17 inches of IVB—making it similar to Joe Jimenez’s primary offering from 2024 (.277 xwOBA against).

Like most Mets, Zuber has also fiddled with a sinker and a tighter slider, but it’s his sweeper that most stands out. It was a decent offering in 2024, but he’s now throwing straight up frisbees that have averaged ~20 inches of horizontal movement across two spring outings, and even more if we look only at March 3rd. For context, the only pitcher to average that much sweeper movement in 2024 was Boston’s Greg Weissert, and Weissert’s version comes in several ticks slower with less vertical movement.

There’s obviously a “but” coming, so here it is. We are dealing with laughably small sample sizes, fewer than 30 total pitches so far this spring for which we have Statcast data. Pitch shapes can fluctuate significantly. particularly for guys who are as wild as Zuber has been throughout his career (notably, he walked three in his first spring outing, though he’s walked zero since). Weird Florida weather or poorly calibrated pitch tracking equipment in Spring Training parks could also explain some of the outlier numbers we’re seeing. Additional outings where Zuber recreates his 3/3 pitch shapes would go a long way towards increasing confidence here.

Yet you can’t deny that the early data is exciting. Stuff models are unsurprisingly very high on the latest version of Zuber’s arsenal. Reportedly, Zuber showed similar shapes during his indoor work this winter, which perhaps makes it easier to buy in. And of course, Zuber still has options, meaning the Mets can cycle him up and down if none of this sticks quite as well as we want it to.

Realistically, Zuber will feature in a middle relief role, one where his frequent bouts of wildness are less of a problem. He’s also likely to be shuttled back and forth between Syracuse and New York several times throughout the year, providing valuable bullpen flexibility when the Mets need it. And there’s always the chance that this uptick in stuff is real, that Zuber has finally harnessed his arm talent and can function as a late-inning option. This combination of utilities makes him the ideal sort of depth you want to fill out your 40-man roster with, and should give him ample time to add one more win to the 2024 deadline.

Source: https://www.amazinavenue.com/2025/3/7/24378697/mets-season-preview-tyler-zuber-bullpen-2025

 

[New York Mets]

Grapefruit Juice: Nationals 5, Mets 4

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A sloppy ninth did in the Mets tonight.

The Mets got walked off tonight in the CACTI Park of the Palm Beaches, losing to the Nationals 5-4.

• The Mets got on the board in the top of the third when Alexander Canario doubled and then scored on a José Azocar single off of old friend Trevor Williams.
• In the bottom half of the third, Paul Blackburn gave up home runs to CJ Abrams and James Wood, putting the Nats up 3-1.
• Max Kranick replaced Blackburn and continued his excellent spring, striking out two and allowing just one hit over an inning and two-thirds. Maybe Lukas is onto something here.
• Once Williams was out of the game for the Nats, the Mets bats came alive a bit. In the fifth, Azocar singled with two outs in the fifth and was eventually driven home by Francisco Alvarez. In the sixth, singles by Jeff McNeil, Joey Meneses, and Tyrone Taylor, followed by Brett Baty at-bat that ended in an error led to two more New York runs, putting them up 4-3.
• Washington tied it up in the bottom of the sixth off of Huascar Brozaobán when Abrams drove Alex Call home.
• The game would stay knotted until the bottom of the ninth, when Ben Simon hit Riley Adams with a pitch and an error by right fielder Travis Swaggerty led to the winning run scoring.

Source: https://www.amazinavenue.com/2025/3...ng-training-grapefruit-league-new-york-030725

 

[New York Mets]

With some tinkering, Grant Hartwig could be a cromulent bullpen option for the 2025 Mets

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Grant Hartwig hasn’t exactly lit the world on fire, but if you squint, the makings of a perfectly fine middle reliever are there.

Baseball is a funny game. Sometimes, the path to the big league is linear and players who are good as amateurs are also good as professional minor leaguers and eventually make it to the promised land. Sometimes, the path to the big league is not linear, and there are all kinds of twists and turns. Players who seemed all but destined to be penciled onto that major league lineup card never make it and players who once seemed to have no chance in hell not only make it but thrive.

Grant Hartwig is a player who can certainly be put in that second grouping. To a certain degree.

Hartwig attended Detroit Catholic Central High School and performed well there, earning All-Catholic League, All-District and All-Region player honors, but was never seen as more than a low-level follow by baseball scouts and evaluators. He did not get selected in the 2016 MLB Draft and attended Miami University of Ohio, a confusingly-named institution known for its high level of education, on par with Ivy League institutions. An elbow injury, Tommy John surgery, and the COVID-19 pandemic all bit into his playing time, and when the right-hander was on the mound, his numbers with the RedHawks were not horrible, but they were far from great.

Over the course of four years, he posted a 4.32 ERA in 154.1 innings over 42 games- 24 starts- and allowed 148 hits, walked 50, and struck out 138. Hartwig graduated in 2021 with a Bachelor of Science in pre-med microbiology, but no baseball offers, and intended on pursuing his education further, preparing for the MCATs and applying for medical schools to become an orthopedic surgeon.

Roughly a week after the draft, the Mets reached out to him regarding the opportunity to sign as an undrafted free agent. After weighing his options, he agreed to terms with the organization and was sent to Port St. Lucie to finish out the 2021 season, playing for both the FCL Mets and the St. Lucie Mets.

In 2022, he got a grand tour of the system. He started the season in Single-A St. Lucie, got promoted to High-A Brooklyn at the end of May, got another promotion to Double-A Binghamton in mid-August, and got one final promotion to Triple-A Syracuse at the end of September. The right-hander posted a cumulative 1.75 ERA in 56.2 innings over 39 games, allowing 38 hits, walking 24, and striking out 83 and a strong performance in Spring Training 2023 further solidified his dark horse bonafides.

The right-hander started the season in Syracuse and spent the first few months of the season there, but finally, on June 19, 2023, the New York Mets selected the contract of Grant Hartwig from Syracuse Mets and he was officially a major leaguer. There were some ups-and-downs, and ultimately, the right-hander posted a 4.84 ERA in 35.1 innings over 28 games, allowing 34 hits, walking 15, and striking out 30.

Hartwig was optioned to Triple–A Syracuse to begin the 2024 season but was recalled from Syracuse twice in mid-to-late April, appearing in a pair of games and allowing two earned runs over 3.0 innings with 1 hit allowed, 2 walks issued, and 1 strikeout. The same thing happened in mid-to-late May, and in that stint in the big leagues, he allowed three earned runs over 3.0 innings with 5 hits allowed, 2 walks issued, and 2 strikeouts. On June 21, while playing with Syracuse, Hartwig underwent surgery to repair a torn meniscus in his left knee.

He remained out of action until the end of July, when he began a rehab assignment. He rejoined the Syracuse Mets in mid-August and finished out the year giving up 12 earned runs over 12.0 innings over 12 appearances. All in all, the right-hander posted a 4.34 ERA in 37.1 innings over 33 games, allowing 33 hits, walking 20, and striking out 37. He was non-tendered this past November and then re-signed with the Mets just ten days later in early December on a minor league contract.

As analyzed by Lukas Vlahos after the 2023 season, Hartwig possesses a fringy repertoire exacerbated by the fact that, at the time, his pitch usage was not optimal. In layman’s terms, the right-hander doesn’t have exceptional stuff to begin with and wasn’t maximizing his expected results by using different sequences of pitches.

Looking at Hartwig’s pitch metrics over the course of the 2024 season, the story seemingly remains the same. In 2024, he threw his fastball 47.2% of the time, his cutter 12.6% of the time, his changeup a negligible 1.3% of the time, and his sweeping slider 38.8% of the time. Compare to his time with Syracuse and the Mets in 2023 when he threw his fastball 44.9% of the time, his cutter 14.4% of the time, his changeup 4.2% of the time, and his slider 36.3% of the time, and there are no real differences in his pitch selection. Likewise, looking at the underlying data on his individual pitches themselves, there were no signs of noticeable differences in his velocity, spin rates, spin axis, spin efficiency, or any other metric.

In addition to competing with players already on the Mets’ 40-man roster, Grant Hartwig is one of many non-roster invitees looking to score a spot on the opening day roster. Health concerns surrounding A.J. Minter and Dedniel Nuñez may potentially open up room for another reliever or two, but it remains a steep hill for Hartwig to climb, regardless. The right-hander will most likely start the 2025 season with the Syracuse Mets, but should the need arise, he already has major league experience and will be just about four hours away.

Who knows where Hartwig’s baseball career goes from here, but there’s a good chance that sometime in the future, a retired major league player will be telling his kids and grandkids how he struck out against a real, triple board-certified Dr. K.

Source: https://www.amazinavenue.com/2025/3...nt-hartwig-bullpen-2025-baseball-new-york-mlb

 

[New York Mets]

Grapefruit Juice: Mets 7, Marlins 3

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Soto goes 3-for-3 and Peterson pitches four shutout innings

The New York Mets snapped a five-game winless streak by beating the Miami Marlins 7-3 Saturday night at Roger Dean Stadium in Jupiter, FL.

• Luisangel Acuña led off the game reaching on an infield single, and Juan Soto drove him in on the next pitch with an RBI double. Soto finished 3-for-3 and raised his spring batting average to .400.
• David Peterson started shaky in his first Grapefruit League start of 2025, but settled down after the first inning. He allowed one hit while walking two and striking out two in four shutout innings.
• Offseason minor-league signing Joey Meneses hit his first home run in a Mets uniform, a solo shot to lead off the fifth inning.
• Bret Baty stayed hot, driving in two runs on an RBI double in the sixth inning. Among all Mets hitters with at least 20 spring at-bats, Baty’s 1.201 OPS is the highest.
• Former Marlins starter José Ureña allowed the first runs of the game for Mets pitching, allowing two runs (one earned) in the seventh.

With the win, the Mets rise to 5-8 in Grapefruit League play, with only the Marlins (3-8) having a worse record.

Source: https://www.amazinavenue.com/2025/3...ins-3-new-york-miami-juan-soto-david-peterson

 

[New York Mets]

Open Thread: Mets vs. Nationals, 3/9/25

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Clay Holmes takes the mound for the Mets, but unfortunately it won’t be Francisco Alvarez catching him.

Mets lineup​

1. Francisco Lindor - SS
2. Mark Vientos - 3B
3. Pete Alonso - 1B
4. Jeff McNeil - 2B
5. Tyrone Taylor - CF
6. Alexander Canario - LF
7. Luis De Los Santos - DH
8. Jakson Reetz - C
9. Eli Serrano - RF

Clay Holmes - RHP

Nationals lineup​

1. CJ Abrams - SS
2. James Wood - DH
3. Nathaniel Lowe - 1B
4. Paul DeJong - 3B
5. Luis García - 2B
6. Alex Call - LF
7. Andrew Pinckney - CF
8. Daylen Lile - RF
9. Andrew Knizner - C

Jake Irvin - RHP

Broadcast info​

First pitch: 1:10pm ET
TV: WPIX
Radio: Audacy Mets Radio WHSQ 880AM

Source: https://www.amazinavenue.com/2025/3...neups-broadcast-info-thread-grapefruit-league

 

[New York Mets]

Grapefruit Juice: Mets 7, Nationals 6

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The Mets almost let a six-run lead get away, but they pulled it out in the end.

The New York Mets defeated the Washington Nationals 7-6 in a seesaw affair on Sunday afternoon at Clover Park in Port St. Lucie.

• Clay Holmes issued a four-pitch walk to lead off the game, but bounced back to strike out a whopping eight batters over 3 2⁄3 scoreless innings of work, as he continues his fantastic spring campaign.
• Mark Vientos hit a two-run homer off Jake Irvin in the bottom of the first to get things started for the Mets—his first long ball this spring.
• The Nationals could not put that first inning to bed and played some shoddy defense to extend the frame. They paid for that dearly when Jakson Reetz, who now has a real chance to make the team with Francisco Alvarez’s injury, hit a grand slam to cap off a six-run first inning explosion for the Mets.
• Edwin Díaz walked the first two batters he faced, but then struck out three straight hitters to log a scoreless fifth inning. Grant Hartwig followed with a scoreless frame of his own in the sixth.
• The Nationals answered the Mets’ six-run first inning with a six-run seventh off a combination of Genesis Cabrera and Daniel Juarez. Washington’s big inning was similarly assisted by some shaky defense by the Mets.
• But the Mets managed to pull out a win by scratching a run in the eighth inning to retake the lead. With one out in the inning, Travis Swaggerty hit a long fly ball to left that short-hopped the wall and was misplayed by Darren Baker, allowing Swaggerty to reach third base. Luis De Los Santos then hit a deep enough fly ball to right to plate Swaggerty for what would turn out to be the winning run.

The Mets now improve to 6-8 in Grapefruit League action and the Nationals fall to 8-7. Cameron Foster earned the win, while Orlando Ribalta took the loss. Connor Overton earned the save—his first of the spring—for a scoreless top of the ninth.

Source: https://www.amazinavenue.com/2025/3...pefruit-league-recap-mlb-holmes-vientos-reetz

 

[New York Mets]

Grading the Mets’ peripheral additions this offseason

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There’s been significant churn around the margins of the roster.

We spend a lot of time focusing on the major moves of the offseason, the big free agent signings and trades. But a lot of work happens with less fanfare, as teams make moves that impact the margins of the roster. The Mets have been quite active in this regard:

Minor moves for the Mets 24-25 offseason

Those in italics are no longer in the organization.

That is a lot of moves, more than 20 MiLB signings alone, with another healthy handful of transactions sprinkled on top. That makes the Mets one of if not the most active team in baseball in this department. Lets discuss some of the more interesting players - those highlighted in orange - and what they mean for the 2025 Mets.

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The pitchers in this group are the ones more likely to have a significant impact on the roster, so we’ll start there with Genesis Cabrera. A 28-year-old lefty who has pitched for both the Cardinals and Jays, Cabrera had a nice ERA but troubling peripherals in 62.2 innings. Command remains a problem, but the stuff metrics are still impressive; his 4-seamer ranks in the 98th percentile per Rob Orr’s metrics, while his sinker ranks in the 75th in terms of raw stuff. That makes him one of the rare instances of a reliever who should probably throw more fastballs (an idea perhaps tempered by a reverse correlation between his pitch-specific stuff ratings and outcomes).

Justin Hagenman fits into a similar narrative. He had an ugly ERA and worse peripherals as a swingman for Boston’s Triple-A affiliate. He also has a highly rated sweeper (95th percentile stuff) and four-seam fastball (90th percentile), neither of which he threw often enough. He also has a solid enough change and slider that bulk out the diversity of his arsenal, something that should make him a viable candidate to start.

It’s much the same story for Rico Garcia (83rd percentile stuff on his 4-seam) and Anthony Gose (90th percentile slider, 68th percentile 4-seam). The Mets have brought in a bevvy of arms who haven’t made it all work just yet, but who have strong building blocks and low-hanging adjustments to be made. Throw these raw ingredients into a good pitching development environment and you’re likely to wind up with a couple of breakout arms every year.

We should also mention Alex Carrillo, Yuhi Sako, and Adbert Alzolay, all of whom are less conventional signings. Carrillo and Sako both pitched in the frontier league; the former was throwing in the Venezuelan winter league when signed, the latter playing winter ball in Australia. Information is more limited here, but the Mets are clearly casting a wide net and being creative in their search for talent. Alzolay, meanwhile, is a former closer recovering from Tommy John. He’ll be out for all of 2025, but the Mets signed him to a two-year deal, giving them the first crack at harnessing a post-surgery rebound.

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Bats of this type are less likely to be impactful, but the Mets are doing some tactical things here as well. Donovan Walton deserves mention simply because he’s one of two favorites (along with Brett Baty) for the utility infield spot. There’s nothing particularly notable here, he’s just a viable bench body if the team prefers Baty and Luisangel Acuña to receive full time at bats in Syracuse. Luis de los Santos also merits a mention given his strong damage metrics in Triple-A even though he’s already been booted off the Mets 40-man roster.

Though the re-signing of Pete Alonso made him less immediately relevant, Jared Young remains a very interesting addition to the corner infield picture. Young didn’t stick in his two major league cameos despite strong Triple-A results. He took that to the next level in 2024, displaying an improved approach and contact skills versus secondaries while maintaining his high-end damage numbers (93rd percentile 90th percentile EV). That prompted the Doosan Bears of the KBO to snatch him up, and he want nuclear down the stretch in Korea. We don’t have access to the full data, but it seems likely that Young made real improvements under the hood in 2024, and the Mets gave him a major league deal to secure a bet on his damage potential

Nick Madrigal is on the other end of this spectrum, a contact-first (and second, and third) player with limited thump. His 80 grade hit tool has been degraded by multiple should injuries, but you can look under the hood to see he’s still got plenty of bat-to-ball ability despite a disastrous 2024. An outlier trait combined with a right-handed bat, defensive flexibility, and options remaining made him an ideal bet for the utility infield spot. Unfortunately, Madrigal’s career is very much in jeopardy after yet another catastrophic shoulder injury and he’s out for the season.

Events unfolded in such a way that greatly reduced the immediate impact of Madrigal and Young. However, there’s a clear process at play here, one quite similar to that which we saw on the pitching side; find players with valuable underlying skills, then figure out how to best deploy them.

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Ten years ago, process-brained fans bemoaned the lack of moves around the periphery of the roster. Sandy Alderson was infamously inactive in this arena of roster construction. Brodie van Wagenen and Billy Eppler gradually increased activity, but the volume remained too low and there was never a coherent plan, more a haphazard acquisition of former top prospects or guys whose name you’d recognize.

Two years into David Stearns’ tenure and the picture is entirely different. What might appear to be a Moon Knight-style approach to roster construction is in fact a structured, targeted strategy. Right now, it looks like that plan will pay dividends; several of these arms have looked good this spring, at least one will likely open the season with the major league team, and most are likely to contribute at some point. Both Madrigal and Young will remain under team control as well, with the latter potentially impacting the DH / CI picture at some point this season.

Analyzing these moves is perhaps the most direct view we have of the new processes deployed by the Mets, and the takeaways are universally positive; the peripheral moves receive an A+.

Source: https://www.amazinavenue.com/2025/3...s-hagenman-young-gose-cabrera-madrigal-garcia

 

[New York Mets]

Grapefruit Juice: Mets 8, Cardinals 0

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Griffin Canning had a strong outing and Juan Soto hit another spring home run, as the Mets trounced the Cardinals at Clover Park.

The New York Mets shellacked the St. Louis Cardinals 8-0 at Clover Park this evening. Unlike in yesterday’s game, when the Mets took an early lead, this time they didn’t look back.

• Griffin Canning earned the win for the Mets, logging 3 2⁄3 scoreless innings of work with five strikeouts. He only allowed one base runner in the outing. His changeup in particular looked sharp.
• The Mets got out to an early 3-0 lead in the second thanks to a Jeff McNeil RBI double and a home run by now starting catcher Luis Torrens.
• Starling Marte also doubled in his first Grapefruit League at-bat as part of that second inning rally, but Jesse Winker was thrown out at the plate trying to score on an ill-advised send, so Marte did not get an RBI for his effort, but he did score a run on McNeil’s double.
• With the wind blowing out at Clover Park, the home run barrage continued into the middle innings. Juan Soto hit a solo shot in the third—his third long ball of the spring—and Mark Vientos went deep for the second straight day in the fifth to extend the Mets’ lead to 6-0. Soto scored on Vientos’ home run; among the Mets’ dozen hits, he was the only player responsible for more than one.
• The Mets added another pair of runs in the seventh on RBI singles by Luisangel Acuña and Yonatan Henriquez.
• The pitching staff completed the shutout thanks to the combined efforts of Carlos Guzman, Ryne Stanek, Anthony Gose, Chris Devenski, Huascar Brazobán, and Trey McLoughlin.

The Mets improve their Grapefruit League record to 7-8, while the Cardinals fall to 8-9. Tylor Megill will take the mound for the Mets tomorrow afternoon as they face off against the Astros in West Palm Beach.

Source: https://www.amazinavenue.com/2025/3...efruit-juice-mlb-canning-soto-vientos-torrens

 

[New York Mets]

Grapefruit Juice: Astros 7, Mets 4

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The Mets’ bullpen did not help matters this afternoon.

The Mets dropped a matinee to the Astros this afternoon in West Palm Beach, 7-4.

• With a skeleton crew on the road for a day game after a night game, the three pitchers that the Mets need to be getting tuned up for the regular season all looked quite good. Tylor Megill went four innings of shutout ball, striking out five, walking one, and allowing two hits.
• Megill was relieved by Max Kranick and Reed Garrett, both of whom struck out two while allowing one hit in an inning of work. Garrett also allowed a walk.
• The scoring didn’t get underway until the 7th inning, when Donovan Walton launched a grand slam off of Tayler Scott to put the Mets up 4-0.
• Sadly, the Astros answered and then some in the bottom half of the inning. While facing José Ureña, Houston uncorked five runs, including a doubles by Brendan Rogers and Jose Altuve, as well as an RBI single from old friend Luis Guillorme. Ureña got just one out, so he was relieved by Ben Simon, a 2023 draftee from New Jersey. Simon loaded the bases but escaped further trouble by inducing a double play off the bat of Collin Price.
• Things did not go well for Sean Reid-Foley in the eighth, surrendering two runs on three hits, extending the Houston lead to three.

Source: https://www.amazinavenue.com/2025/3...ng-training-grapefruit-league-new-york-031125

 

[New York Mets]

Open Thread: Mets vs. Astros, 3/11/25

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The umpteenth Mets/Astros spring game is here!

Mets lineup​

1. Luisangel Acuna - 2B
2. Brett Baty - 3B
3. Tyrone Taylor - CF
4. Joey Meneses - 1B
5. Alexander Canario - RF
6. Donovan Walton - SS
7. Jose Azocar - LF
8. Luis De Los Santos - DH
9. Hayden Senger - C

Tylor Megill - RHP

Astros lineup​

1. Jose Altuve - LF
2. Isaac Paredes - 3B
3. Yordan Alvarez - DH
4. Yainer Diaz - C
5. Zach Dezenzo - 1B
6. Jeremy Pena - SS
7. Brendan Rodgers - 2B
8. Chas McCormick - RF
9. Mauricio Dubon - CF

Hunter Brown - RHP

Broadcast info​

First pitch: 1:05PM
TV: MLB Network
Radio: Astros - KBME 790 AM/94.5 FM HD-2

Source: https://www.amazinavenue.com/2025/3...ning-lineups-megill-brown-watch-listen-031125

 

[New York Mets]

Grapefruit Juice: Mets 2, Cardinals 0

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Paul Blackburn looked strong against the Red Birds.

The Mets won an efficient game on the road this afternoon, defeating the Cardinals 2-0.

• After a less than stellar start of his spring, Paul Blackburn had a nice outing this afternoon, going four perfect innings with two strikeouts.
• The bullpen also looked quite good, with only two hits and two walks scattered across the afternoon. A.J. Minter, Danny Young, Tyer Zuber, and TJ Shook struck out six total and gave up just one extra base hit all day, a double to Pedro Pagés in the bottom of the sixth off of Young.
• The first Mets run came in the fifth when Francisco Lindor drove in Tyrone Taylor off of Cardinals starter Miles Mikolas. Mikolas looked more human than Blackburn did, giving up five hits and walking one against three strikeouts.
• A solo home run by William Lugo in the top of the ninth extended the Mets’ lead. Lugo, a name that most Mets fans probably aren't’ aware of, who made his professional debut for the GCL Mets in 2019, got as high as Brooklyn over the last three seasons.

Source: https://www.amazinavenue.com/2025/3...ng-training-grapefruit-league-new-york-031225

 

[New York Mets]

2025 Mets King of Spring Training, first update

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Our time-honored tradition is BACK.

Fear not, Amazin’ Avenue community. I did not forget about our annual King of Spring Training contest. It just took me longer to unfreeze from my winter malaise than usual. Spring training is already more than halfway over. We’ve seen Juan Soto hit three dingers as a New York Met, which has warmed my soul just as much as the spring sunshine.

Juan Soto knew pic.twitter.com/1yDoLI3kVp

— SNY Mets (@SNY_Mets) February 28, 2025​

But KoST is not about the Juan Sotos of the world. We’re here to celebrate the unsung heroes of Mets camp and we once again have an excellent crop of contenders. Let’s introduce them, shall we?

Brett Baty - .370/.433/.667 in 27 ABs​

It feels Brett Baty being among our top KoST candidates has become an annual tradition. Baty leads the team in hits, runs scored, and RBIs this spring.

A 2-hit day for Brett Baty! pic.twitter.com/SxUDw5KXIJ

— SNY Mets (@SNY_Mets) February 25, 2025​

The Mets signed Nick Madrigal in the offseason to fill the OMG-shaped void left by Jose Iglesias in a utility infield role, but Madrigal unfortunately dislocated his shoulder early in camp and will be out for awhile. This opens the door for Baty—or perhaps Luisangel Acuña—to make the team out of camp. And Baty looks like he really wants it. Are we going to get fooled again into hanging all of our hopes on this being the Brett Baty Breakout we’ve all been hoping for? I can only speak for myself, but I know for me the answer is yes, yes I will.

KoST Points: 5

José Azócar - .346/.393/.462 in 26 ABs​

Of all the position players on this list, I think Azócar is the KoSTiest: the true hero no one saw coming. The Mets claimed him off waivers back in September from the Padres and so he spent the end of last season in Triple-A Syracuse, where he posted a .911 OPS in 51 at-bats down the stretch. As long as Starling Marte and Brandon Nimmo are healthy and ready for Opening Day, it’s hard to see a path for Azócar to make the team, but he is proving to be a solid depth option for the Mets and may be the first called up if a spot in the outfield opens up.

KoST Points: 4

Joey Meneses - .308/.357/.615 in 13 ABs​

Along with Azócar, Meneses was mentioned as one of five unsung Mets players this spring recently profiled by the Bergen Record—and for good reason. Meneses may be a veteran and proven big leaguer, but he struggled last season and only got a minor league deal from the Mets this winter. But he has been tearing it up this spring in a small sample and even flashed the leather too. As a non-roster invitee, he is absolutely in the spirit of KoST and is a late-emerging candidate for the crown. Along with Jared Young, he will provide depth at first base and DH for the Mets in the minors.

KoST Points: 3

Jose Siri - .235/.417/.765 in 17 ABs​

Jose Siri is doing very Jose Siri things this spring. His batting average may not be that exciting, but he’s hitting prodigious bombs and admiring those is part of what spring training is for.

Bat drop.

Jose Siri knew this one was gone! pic.twitter.com/zSGdU1q3X1

— SNY Mets (@SNY_Mets) February 25, 2025​

Other than Juan Soto, Siri is the only Met to rack up three long balls this spring and they represent three of his four total hits. He also somehow is tied for the team lead in walks with five. Siri is a near lock to make the team, but what exactly his time share with Tyrone Taylor will look like is an open question and may in part depend on who the hot hand is at any given moment. So far this spring, it’s Siri.

KoST Points: 3

Luis Torrens - .273/.304/.409 in 22 ABs​

While Torrens’ Grapefruit League numbers may not be eye-popping, the fact that they are good has taken on a huge level of importance of late because of Francisco Alvarez’s injury. Torrens has racked up six hits, including a home run, and four RBIs this spring across nine games. Unless the Mets make a move to go outside of the organization, Torrens is the starting catcher now and will be for awhile, so even though spring training performance should always be taken with a grain of salt because guys are tinkering and working their way up to game readiness, Torrens producing at the plate is a good sign.

KoST Points: 2

Max Kranick - 0.00 ERA, 0.63 WHIP, 10 Ks in 8 IP​

I know there are some purists here who really don’t like pitchers as KoST. We will let the community decide the winner democratically as always and my vote counts the same as everyone else’s, but let me say: at this point, Kranick is my personal KoST frontrunner. On A Pod of Their Own, I even picked him as my Dude for 2025. That’s how excited I am about Kranick. And I’m not the only one. The pitching nerds on social media, most of whom are much more knowledgeable about this stuff than I am, are aflutter about him too.

Every time I see a Max Kranick report, I think, "It can't get much better than this"

Then he goes and proves me wrong lol pic.twitter.com/UL13NjWhip

— Pitch Profiler (@pitchprofiler) March 4, 2025​

“I’m confident in my stuff,” Kranick said to Will Sammon of The Athletic in a piece that ran over the weekend. And he has reason to be. His velocity is up and his pitches have looked nasty this spring. It appears as if the adjustments Kranick made after the Mets picked him up from the Pirates late last season are for real. Kranick was on the Mets’ Wild Card roster in October, but did not pitch. I have a feeling he’ll pitch a lot for the Mets this season. He does have a minor league option remaining, so that may count against him when it comes to making the team out of camp, but as a converted starter, the Mets like his ability to go multiple innings out of the bullpen, which will come in especially handy if fellow KoST candidate Griffin Canning makes the rotation.

KoST Points: 5

Griffin Canning - 0.00 ERA, 0.75 WHIP, 7 Ks in 5 1⁄3 IP​

Canning has appeared in two games this spring like Max Kranick, has yet to allow a run. In his most recent outing in particular, Canning showcase the changes he made to his arsenal and it yielded positive results.

Five strikeouts for Griffin Canning pic.twitter.com/yIuQ26Qjwe

— SNY Mets (@SNY_Mets) March 10, 2025​

The Mets signed Canning to a one-year, $4.25 million deal in December to bolster their rotation depth and it’s a good thing they did because injuries to Frankie Montas and Sean Manaea have opened the door for Canning to potentially make the Opening Day rotation. It’s two spots for Canning, Tylor Megill, and Paul Blackburn. Canning is the only one of those three who has both pitched well this spring and does not have any options remaining, so his chances seem good. Him pitching himself into a much more important role with his spring performance makes him a strong KoST candidate.

KoST Points: 4

I want to note that I considered Clay Holmes as a KoST candidate alongside Kranick and Canning in the pitching group, but ultimately decided against it. Holmes has of course been fantastic this spring and is among the standout players in camp. It is notable that his transition from a reliever to a starter is going very well and the transition to a new role could potentially make him KoST-eligible. But ultimately, Holmes is a very established big leaguer who signed a multi-year deal for substantial money, so I did not feel he belonged with this group. Feel free to sound off in the comments if you disagree, though!

And I will, as always, include “Pizza!” as a poll option as a stand-in for write-in votes if you want to make your case for Holmes or anyone else who doesn’t end up on the list. Because KoST got off to a bit of a late start this year, I will only be doing one more KoST post for the final poll, at which point I will provide updates on our existing KoST candidates, award additional points based on performance the rest of the spring, and add any new candidates who may emerge. Good luck to our field of contenders!

10/10, no notes pic.twitter.com/RDmppk40xa

— SNY Mets (@SNY_Mets) March 9, 2025​

Source: https://www.amazinavenue.com/2025/3...date-baty-kranick-azocar-canning-siri-meneses

 

[New York Mets]

Grapefruit Juice: Red Sox 3, Mets 2

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The Mets couldn’t solve Boston this afternoon.

The Mets dropped this afternoon’s game to the Red Sox, 3-2. This is a game that wasn’t broadcast in any capacity today, so who can say if it even happened?

• David Peterson’s worst pitch of the afternoon was his first, which was sent over the right-center wall by David Hamilton to put the Sox up 1-0. The dinger was the only earned run on the day for Peterson, though a second run did score in the second inning. Brett Baty, a player now looking destined to make the Opening Day roster, booted a ball off the bat of Vaughn Grissom. Grissom would come around to score on an Abraham Toro double.
• Peterson’s line for the day was three and two thirds innings, with one strikeout, two walks, and three hits across 69 pitches.
• Another error in the eighth led to the third Boston run of the afternoon, when Romy Gonzalez stole third and scored on an errant throw by catcher Chris Williams.
• The Mets’ offense all came in the bottom half of the eighth, when Nick Roselli drove in Donovan Walton and Joey Meneses to come within one run, but it wouldn’t be enough.
• Huascar Brozobán did not get charged with the run that scored while he was on the mound. He joins Edwin Díaz, Ryne Stanek, Connor Overton, Génesis Cabrera, and Dakota Hawkins as pitchers who didn’t allow an earned run this afternoon.

Source: https://www.amazinavenue.com/2025/3...ng-training-grapefruit-league-new-york-031325

 

[New York Mets]

Open Thread: Mets vs. Red Sox, 3/13/25

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This game isn’t on TV or radio. Sorry baseball fans!

Mets lineup​

1. Francisco Lindor - SS
2. Brandon Nimmo - DH
3. Pete Alonso - 1B
4. Jesse Winker - LF
5. Jose Siri - CF
6. Brett Baty - 2B
7. Alexander Canario - RF
8. Luis De Los Santos - 3B
9. Hayden Senger - C

David Peterson - LHP

Red Sox lineup​

1. David Hamilton - SS
2. Ceddanne Rafaela - CF
3. Triston Casas - 1B
4. Romy Gonzalez - 3B
5. Carlos Narvaez - C
6. Nick Sogard - LF
7. Vaughn Grissom - 2B
8. Abraham Toro - DH
9. Trayce Thompson - RF

Sean Newcomb - LHP

Broadcast info​

First pitch: 1:10 PM EDT
TV: none
Radio: none

Source: https://www.amazinavenue.com/2025/3...-lineups-peterson-newcomb-watch-listen-031325