2026 New York Mets MLB Draft Day 2 Thread

[Brock Beauchamp]

Day two is here! After getting things started in Philadelphia on Saturday, the New York Mets are back at it today to work through the back half of the 2026 MLB Draft. This is the spot to follow along, react to the picks, and talk through the board together as the Mets fill out their class.

How Day 2 Works

The draft was trimmed to a two-day event for the 2026 cycle. Day 1 covered Rounds 1–4 on Friday; Day 2 runs Rounds 5 through 20 today. That's the bulk of the picks, and it's where front offices get creative — mixing high-upside prep gambles, senior-sign value plays, and money-saving college seniors to stretch the bonus pool as far as it will go.

That's especially true for New York this year. The Mets came in with a bonus pool of just $6,730,900, 28th in baseball — one of the smallest in the league — after their top pick slid from 29th to 27th as a penalty for exceeding the competitive balance tax surcharge thresholds. With a tight pool and no second-round pick, expect the Mets to be strategic about where they spend today.

Quick Day 1 Recap

Before we get into Day 2, here's how the Mets opened up (they held just three Day 1 picks):

• Round 1 (No. 27): Carson Wiggins, RHP, Arkansas. A boom-or-bust arm with a fastball that sits 98 and has touched 101, plus a chase-inducing slider — though he's coming off a May 2025 internal brace procedure, adding risk to the profile.
• Round 3 (No. 92): Aiden Robbins, OF, Texas. A potential steal who slid out of the first-round conversation; he posted a .333/.426/.696 line with 24 homers and big exit velocities at Texas.
• Round 4 (No. 120): Shane Sdao, LHP, Texas A&M. A senior southpaw back from Tommy John surgery, still armed with a nasty sweeper.

The Mets' Day 2 Picks

Here's the slate New York is working with today, along with the slot values attached to the early rounds:

Round	Overall Pick	Slot Value
5	152	$472,500
6	181	$364,600
7	210	$287,800
8	240	$232,100
9	270	$207,200
10	300	$195,200
11–20	one pick per round	see note below

A key wrinkle for the late rounds: in Rounds 11–20, teams can spend up to $150,000 per pick without it counting against the bonus pool. Anything over that threshold gets deducted from the overall pool, which is exactly the lever a pool-strapped club like the Mets pulls to chase a tougher sign late or to bank savings for an over-slot swing earlier in the day.

 

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[Frayed Knot]

So hopefully we'll see some of these names on the big club three or four years from now when maybe the team isn't dwelling in the cellar.

Round 5 / Pick 152: Luke McNeillie, RHP U Florida, 3/17/05

6 / 181: Alex Petrovic, RHP, Auburn, 5/27/04

7 / 210: Aidan Keenan: RHP, Stanford, 3/7/05

8 / 240: Landon Koenig, RHP, Mississippi, 11/23/04

9 / 270: Ryan Tayman, C, R/R, Cal Poly, 8/26/05

10 / 300: Nate Isler, RHP, Dartmouth, 10/25/04

11 / 330: Kuhio Aloy, OF, R/R, 7/13/05

12 / 330: AJ Krodel, RHP, UC Santa Barbara, 5/11/05

13 / 390: Jacob Madrid, C, HS/CA, 11/02/07

14 / 420

15 / 450

16 / 480

17 / 510

18 / 540

19 / 570

20 / 600

[The Hot Corner]

Of their 13 picks thus far, the Mets have taken 7 college pitchers (6 RH & ! LH).  I worry that our #1 pick missed most of this past season recovering from an internal brace surgery on his UCL.  The next pitcher chosen by the Mets is coming back from Tommy John surgery.  I know that now days, pitchers are often having Tommy John surgeries in middle school and high school.  I just worry about taking pitchers with an injury history so early in the draft.  Time will tell.

[Edgy MD]

What the Mets have demonstrated a yen for are pitchers (13 of 19 selections) and (certainly) collegians (17 of 19).

More importantly, they have selected a pitcher from Louisiana who is named Guidry but is somehow not related to Ron, and (how is nobody making mention of this?) a young man improbably named "Crotchfelt."

Rd.	Pick	Player	School	Pos	B/T	Class	Ht.	Wt.	DoB
1	27	Carson Wiggins	Arkansas (AR)	P	R/R	4YR SO	6' 5"	215lbs	6/1/2005
3	92	Aiden Robbins	Texas (TX)	OF	R/R	4YR JR	6' 2"	205lbs	1/14/2005
4	120	Shane Sdao	Texas A&M (TX)	P	L/L	4YR SR	6' 3"	185lbs	9/29/2003
5	152	Luke McNeillie	Florida (FL)	P	L/R	4YR JR	6' 3"	200lbs	3/17/2005
6	181	Alex Petrovic	Auburn (AL)	P	R/R	4YR JR	6' 5"	235lbs	5/27/2004
7	210	Aidan Keenan	Stanford (CA)	P	R/R	4YR JR	6' 2"	202lbs	3/7/2005
8	240	Landon Koenig	Mississippi (MS)	P	R/R	4YR JR	6' 6"	245lbs	11/23/2004
9	270	Ryan Tayman	Cal Poly (CA)	C	R/R	4YR JR	6' 2"	210lbs	8/26/2005
10	300	Nate Isler	Dartmouth (NH)	P	R/R	4YR JR	6' 6"	235lbs	10/25/2004
11	330	Kuhio Aloy	Arkansas (AR)	OF	R/R	4YR JR	6' 1"	205lbs	7/13/2005
12	360	AJ Krodel	UC Santa Barbara (CA)	P	R/R	4YR JR	6' 4"	200lbs	5/11/2005
13	390	Jacob Madrid	Notre Dame HS (CA)	C	R/R	HS SR	6' 4"	215lbs	11/2/2007
14	420	Zach Crotchfelt	Troy (AL)	P	L/L	4YR SR	6' 3"	225lbs	10/3/2003
15	450	Dustin Hagens Jr.	Missouri-St. Louis (MO)	P	R/R	4YR JR	6' 1"	185lbs	1/5/2005
16	480	Gavin Guidry	LSU (LA)	P	R/R	4YR JR	6' 2"	184lbs	7/14/2003
17	510	Cooper Dossett	Arkansas (AR)	P	R/R	4YR SR	6' 0"	210lbs	4/10/2004
18	540	Marcus Ward	King's Ridge Chr. Sch. (GA)	P	L/L	HS SR	5' 11"	172lbs	11/14/2007
19	570	John Smith III	Central Florida (FL)	OF	R/R	4YR SR	6' 1"	200lbs	11/19/2003
20	600	Kooper Schulte	U Iowa (IA)	SS	R/R	4YR SR	6' 1"	198lbs	12/8/2003

[Benjamin Grimm]

9 hours ago, Edgy MD said:

... and (how is nobody making mention of this?) a young man improbably named "Crotchfelt."

Do we need to send out a search party to look for Fman99?

[Edgy MD]

Eighth-round pick Landon Koenig of Ole Miss — if you don't want to play with him, you sure as hell want to party with him.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Kooper

Cooper

Qooper

[Chad ochoseis]

Guidry is a common Cajun name.

Crotchfelt is not.

[Cowtipper]

I like the guy with the word crotch in his name. 

[Edgy MD]

The first half of the Mets draft seems to be very much concentrated among the four big-time conferences of the SEC, ACC, Big 10, and Pac 10 12, particularly the SEC.

Three of the picks came out of The University of Arkansas alone.

[Edgy MD]

There seems to be something intriguing going on with 18th-round pick Marcus Ward.  All the scouting reports I have been able to find list him as an outfield draft prospect.  The Mets, though, have him labeled as a pitcher, even though very few reports mention that he pitches as well, and those that do, only mention it as an afterthought.

So either that's a clerical error or the Mets are seeing mystery talent.

[Edgy MD]

On 7/13/2026 at 4:28 PM, Johnny Lunchbucket said:

Kooper

Cooper

Qooper

I'll see your Kooper/Cooper and raise you an Aiden/Aidan.