Mets Roster Central: All Star Break Catch-Up

[Edgy MD]

Apologizing for the lack of recent updates, but we have recently been asked by powers that be to keep roster update posts to one-per-week.  That is more than a challenge for a feature that was intended be defined largely by timeliness, but we will attempt to provide substance and insight where timeliness may not be possible.  And lacking that, we will attempt to provide colorful giveaways like rubber bracelets with inspiring affirmations.

At any rate, we will attempt to help you keep up with the hand-penciled roster books you keep at home.

The Mets, meanwhile, may be looking ahead to next year, or they may be looking to reshuffle, welcome back injured players, and field as competitive a team as they can down the stretch, but to judge from the Boston series, what they don't appear to be trying to do is win.

Transactions, 6/24/2026

COMING

Signed as International Amateur Free Agent out of Cuba, Assigned to DSL Mets Blue

Relief Pitchers

Cesar Morales

L/L DoB: 2006-11-24 High Level: Academ (2026)

It is unclear how long 19-year-old Cesar Morales has been in the United States, but he comes to the Mets with no experience in the Cuban Serie Nacional de Béisbol, which most players join as teenagers, so it's a good guess that he has been schooling over here, while retaining his Cuban-ness in order to allow him the protection from the draft that non-American/Canadian players get.

He's had a strong start in the Dominican Summer League, giving up one run (on a solo homer) in 4 2/3 innings, while striking out seven and walking three.  He has a .167 batting average against.

Call him up!

Transactions, 6/29/2026

GOING

Released

Relief Pitchers

Mike Baumann

R/R DoB: 34952 High Level: MLB (2024)

Mike Baumann came to the Mets with four years of at the big-league level, which, you know, is good for him.  But the way he got there betrays so much of what is wrong with baseball roster building.  He spent three seasons with the Orioles, and then he fell into DFA hell in year four, getting cut and claimed, cut and claimed, cut and claimed, traded for cash, dropped, ironed, thrown in the pokey (that's probably just a rumor), and basically bounced around until his head spun off, ultimately spending 202r with five different teams, before getting released by Miami on the eve of the Rule V draft.

So the stability of a year in Japan should have been a relative relief.  You want to be in the big leagues, of course, but for players on the fringes the rising whale gets the harpoon, and five harpoons in 2025 was probably five too many.  (of course, whaling is still legal in Japan, and even there, he bounced between the majors and minors but stayed in one organization.

He sought to test himself again stateside, signing with the Mets, but threw only one inning in spring training, and after getting assigned to Syracuse, split the season between being hurt and ineffective.

His journey will probably go on.  He's been unsigned for two weeks, but fresh arms will be called on to fill holes after the flurry of trades that is to come.

Transactions, 7/2/2026

GOING

Released

Relief Pitchers

Adbert Alzolay

R/R DoB: 34759 High Level: MLB (2024)

One otherwise-rare maneuver the David Stearns-era Met have been fond of is the two-year minor-league contract.  You find a guy, often with MLB experience, that needs more time to pitch his way past an injury and/or surgery than a year can afford.  You suspect he will be attractive to teams next season, so you sign him this season, spend a year supervising his rehab, and hope it will pay off in year two.

It seems like a nice flanking maneuver on paper, but we can't think of a single case of this working for Stearns, and Adbert Alzolay, who spent six year on the Cubs' pitching staff, is the latest case of this continuing to not really work out

FUN FACT: It's not really fun per se, but Adbert made his MLB debut against the Mets, getting the win with four strong innings of relief.  You may remember this as The Walker Lockett Game.

Transactions, 7/7/2026

GOING
Designated for Assignment		Demoted to Syracuse
Relief Pitchers		Infielders
Alex Carrillo	Guillo Zuñiga	Ronny Mauricio
R/R DoB: 1997-06-06 High Level: MLB (2025)	R/R DoB: 36078 High Level: MLB (2026)	S/R DoB: 2001-04-04 High Level: MLB (2026)
COMING
Added to 40-Player Roster, Promoted from Syracuse, and Transferred from Rotation	Ended Rehab Assignment and Activated from Injured List
Relief Pitchers	Infielders
Matt Seelinger	Jorge Polanco
R/R DoB: 1995-04-19 High Level: AAA (2026)	S/R DoB: 1999-11-13 High Level: MLB (2026)

Now we are starting to get busy.

Two guys are DFA'd for two different reasons.  It sucks to be Guillo Zuñiga, but he got DFA'd not through failure, but stupid policy that treats human beings as disposable.  He pitched in one game and pitched a successful shutout inning, but in the ever-crazy search for people to throw mop-up innings in an MLB baseball season that is all too often treated as one big mop-up job, that one inning somehow made him too useless to keep around on the roster the next day, and as a veteran without options, overboard he was thrown.

But here's the deal — HERE'S THE @#$%ING DEAL! — Guillo was in line to take home the win in his one Mets appearance, but he had it sucked away by weepingly bad outing by Devin Williams, who continues to be given high-leverage, ninth-inning work because it is more important for the organization to redeem a bad decision than to win games.

Alex Carrillo, on the other hand, simply got tossed because he had been on the roster all season long without a big-league appearance and the Mets needed that spot to activate Jorge Polanco.  Can you imagine how badly things have to be going for you to be on the 2026 Mets roster and not be given a chance to come up and pitch a garbage inning on some Tuesday night in the midst of a 12-game losing streak?

Matt Seelinger, Long Island native and eight-year minor league vet got the call to be fed to the sharks instead, and as you probably know by now, the sharks did what sharks do.

Transactions, 7/8/2026

GOING
Designated for Assignment	Added to 15-Day Injured List with Right Forearm Strain	Promoted from Syracuse and Transferred from Rotation
Relief Pitchers
Matt Seelinger	Austin Warren	Xzavion Curry
R/R DoB: 1995-04-19 High Level: MLB (2026)	R/R DoB: 1996-02-05 High Level: MLB (2026)	R/R DoB: 36003 High Level: MLB (2026)
COMING
Promoted from Syracuse	Transferred from Binghamton to Syracuse on Rehab Assignment	Transferred from Syracuse to Binghamton on Rehab Assignment
Relief Pitchers		Outfielders
Tobias Myers	Dedniel Núñez	Luis Robert, Jr.
R/R DoB: 1998-08-05 High Level: MLB (2026)	R/R DoB: 1996-06-05 High Level: MLB (2025)	R/R DoB: 1997-08-03 High Level: MLB (2026)

If you did sit through that lone Matt Seelinger appearance, you saw humanity at its best.  A dream that had been deferred for so long was in the guy's grasp, only to blow up in his face, and he not only stayed out there grinding as seven runners crossed the plate in a game that the Mets were winning, but he sucked it up and went out there for a second inning and knocked 30 runs off his ERA.

It was a completely unfair situation for him or anybody to make their MLB debut in — we are now treating a tie game in the seventh inning as mop-up work? — but whatever the Mets management is trying to do these days, winning the day does not appear to be one of them.

Xzavion Curry who we first met in "On a Double Word Score, That Would Be 72 Points," becomes the latest plug of cannon fodder in a war the Mets sure don't seem to be trying to win.  Austin Warren, who was viciously dragged in that Matt Seelinger game — doing far worse than Seelinger, in fact, is now reported as injured, and while a cynic may throw water on that report, it isn't too much to ask a team to diagnosis these things before five runs cross the plate without a single out being recorded.

Tobias Myers, who had been rock solid before the Mets decided to stretch him, at which point he became soft and squishy and has remained, is back, wondering when he got put on the Syracuse carousel.   Dedniel Núñez and Luis Robert, Jr. indefatigably work through their rehab, passionately trying to get back where they were, so they can be a part of ... this.

This! 

Transactions, 7/9/2026

GOING
Released	Demoted to Syracuse	Designated for Assignment
Relief Pitchers		Outfielders
Alex Carrillo	Tobias Myers	Jared Oliva
R/R DoB: 1997-06-06 High Level: MLB (2026)	R/R DoB: 1998-08-05 High Level: MLB (2026)	R/R DoB: 1995-11-27 High Level: MLB (2025)
COMING
Promoted from Syracuse	Cleared Waivers and Assigned to Syracuse
Relief Pitchers
Dan Hammer	Guillo Zuñiga
R/R DoB: 35683 High Level: AAA (2026)	R/R DoB: 36078 High Level: MLB (2026)

No, Alex Carrillo, it's not that the Mets just wanted your MLB roster spot when they DFA'd you.  They apparently wanted your AAA spot as well, and that's a helluva fall for a guy who gave them 4 2/3 ... well, really ineffective ... innings as the team began crashing and burning around this time last year.

Jared Oliva, we need your roster spot too, and we can't promise that you won't get the same fate as Alex.  Hitting .200 in the International League is on brand for 2026, but we have to pretend harder than that.

Myers, now a human yo-yo, is back down, Zuñiga survives waivers, and Dan Hammer gets a reward for his 1.77 ERA in Syracuse. 

Transactions, 7/10/2026

GOING		COMING
Designated for Assignment	Placed on 10-Day Injured List with Right Hand Fracture	Promoted from Syracuse	Added to 40-Player Roster and Promoted from Syracuse
Relief Pitchers	Infielders	Relief Pitchers	Infielders
Dan Hammer	Mark Vientos	Tobias Myers	Zack Short
R/R DoB: 35683 High Level: AAA (2026)	R/R DoB: 1993-12-11 High Level: MLB (2026)	R/R DoB: 1998-08-05 High Level: MLB (2026)	R/R DoB: 1995-05-29 High Level: MLB (2026)

Know what we hate?  We hate when a guy takes a pitch off his hand, it sounds terrible, it looks terrible, he's in agony, the trainer goes out, manipulates his hand, leaves him in the game to run the bases, only to have him removed a half inning later when the obviously fractured hand starts swelling up like a grapefruit and he ends up on the Injured List for a few months while it heels.

We realize benches are short these days and we frankly don't care.  Show some humanity and don't force Mark Vientos to run the bases with a fractured hand that amateurs like ourselves could diagnose through TV screens while watching from home.  God forbid the guy was compelled to slide and damaged his hand worse while remaining in the game.

There may be a prospect or two you were thinking you might get a look at in Vientos' stead.  You get Zack Short instead.  And because we're catching up here and you've already largely seen what went down, Short started all three games of the Boston series as Bo Bichette rested up for ... something ... went 0-for-6 with a walk, was replaced before the end of all three games, and joined the Mets in losing all three games, each of which was winnable.

In case you missed it.

Dan Hammer, meanwhile, gets sent packing with naught but a bullpen session as evidence of his Metliness.  It has all grown quite insane.

Transactions, 7/11/2026

GOING	COMING
Released	Cleared Waivers and Assigned to Syracuse
Outfielders	Relief Pitchers
Jared Oliva	Matt Seelinger
R/R DoB: 1995-11-27 High Level: MLB (2026)	R/R DoB: 1995-04-19 High Level: AAA (2026)

Jared Oliva, your destiny has been sealed.  The Mets, though, perhaps appreciative of that second sackup inning Matt Seelinger gave them, spared him the same sad fate.

Oliva must be a hell of an outfielder, because that .418 career MLB OPS (and a modest .734 AAA mark) hasn't ended his career yet.

Transactions, 7/12/2026

GOING	COMING
Demoted to Syracuse	Promoted from Syracuse
Relief Pitchers	Starting Pitchers
Tobias Myers	Zach Thornton
R/R DoB: 1998-08-05 High Level: MLB (2026)	L/L DoB: 2002-01-17 High Level: MLB (2026)

And, finally, Tobias Myers gets bounced one more time so the Mets can return to lefthander Zach Thornton as they needed a starter, and stretching Tobias into one hasn't been working out.  But Thornton, who had only appeared two other times for the team, just couldn't get himself with the current program and instead pitched the game of his life.

Efficiently, too:

IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	HBP	Pit	Str
7.0	2	0	0	0	2	0	5	82	56

The Mets decided that they could have none of that, turned the game over to the bullpen.  Devin Williams, who really shouldn't have been in that situation to begin with, blew up the game in the ninth, with help from a Francisco Lindor who seems deeply unhappy despite driving in the Mets only two runs on the afternoon, and the 2026 Mets, who simply cannot get out of their own way, burned down their chance at joy.

But now you know how we got here, though the why is still a very open question.  Best wishes in the second half.

Your 2026 New York Mets

	Starting Pitchers
	Sean Manaea	Nolan McLean	Freddy Peralta	Christian Scott	Zach Thornton
	R/L DoB: 1992-02-01	R/R DoB: 2001-07-24	R/R DoB: 2996-06-04	R/R DoB: 1999-06-15	L/L DoB: 2002-01-17
Relief Pitchers
Huascar Brazobán	Xzavion Curry	A.J. Minter	Cionel Pérez	Brooks Raley	Kodai Senga	Luke Weaver
R/R DoB: 1989-10-15	R/R DoB: 36003	L/L DoB: 1993-09-02	R/L DoB: 35176	L/L DoB: 1988-06-29	L/R DoB: 1993-01-30	R/R DoB: 1993-08-21
Relief Pitchers	Catchers		Infielders
Devin Williams	Francisco Alvarez	Luís Torrens	Bo Bichette	Brett Baty	Francisco Lindor	Jorge Polanco
R/R DoB: 1994-09-21	R/R DoB: 2001-11-01	R/R DoB: 1996-05-02	R/R DoB: 1998-03-05	L/R DoB: 1999-11-13	S/R DoB: 1993-11-14	S/R DoB: 1999-11-13
Infielders		Outfielders
Zack Short	Eric Wagaman	Carson Benge	A.J. Ewing	Juan Soto	Tyrone Taylor	Jared Young
R/R DoB: 34848	R/R DoB: 1997-08-14	L/R DoB: 2003-01-20	L/R DoB: 2004-08-10	L/L DoB: 1998-10-25	R/R DoB: 1994-01-22	L/R DoB: 1995-07-09

Also on 40-Player Roster

Starting Pitchers			Relief Pitchers
Clay Holmes	Tylor Megill	Jonah Tong	Daniel Duarte	Reed Garrett	Joey Gerber	Justin Hagenman
R/R DoB: 1993-03-27	R/R DoB: 1995-07-28	R/R DoB: 2003-06-19	R/R DoB: 1996-12-04	R/R DoB: 1993-01-02	R/R DoB: 1997-05-03	R/R DoB: 1996-10-07
Relief Pitchers						Catchers
Tobias Myers	Dedniel Núñez	Jonathan Pintaro	Dylan Ross	Austin Warren	Jefry Yan	Hayden Senger
R/R DoB: 1998-08-05	R/R DoB: 1996-06-05	R/R DoB: 1997-11-07	R/R DoB: 2000-09-01	R/R DoB: 1996-02-05	L/L DoB: 35294	R/R DoB: 1997-04-03
Infielders			Outfielders			Outfielders
Ronny Mauricio	Marcus Semien	Mark Vientos	MJ Melendez	Nick Morabito	Luis Robert, Jr.
S/R DoB: 2001-04-04	R/R DoB: 1990-09-17	R/R DoB: 1993-12-11	L/R DoB: 1993-11-29	R/R DoB: 2003-05-07	R/R DoB: 1997-08-03

Designated for Assignment

Relief Pitchers

Dan Hammer

R/R DoB: 35683

Your Mets Coaching Staff

Interim Manager	Bench Coach	Pitching Coach	Hitting Coord.	Third Base Coach	First Base Coach	Bullpen Coach	Ass't Pitch. Coach
Andy Green	Kai Correa	Justin Willard	Jeff Albert	Tim Leiper	Gilbert Gomez	José Rosado	Dan McKinney
DoB: 1977-07-07	DoB: 1989-07-14	DoB: 1990-09-09	DoB: 1992-08-16	DoB: 1996-07-19	DoB: 1992-03-08	DoB: 1974-11-09	DoB: 1989-06-06
Hitting Coach	Strategy Coach	Catching Coach	Coaching Assistant	Bat'g Pract. Pitcher	Equip. Manager	Bullpen Catcher	Bullpen Catcher
Troy Snitker	Danny Barnes	J.P. Arencibia	Rafael Fernandez	Kevin Mahoney	Kevin Kierst	Eric Langill	Dave Racaniello
DoB: 1988-12-05	DoB: 1989-10021	DoB: 1986-01-05	DoB: 1988-08-03	DoB: 1987-05-11	DoB: 1964-07-09	DoB: 1979-04-09	DoB: 1978-06-03

Your Mets Training Staff

Director of Player Health	Head Athletic Trainer	Assistant Athletic Trainer	Recond. Coordinator	Recond. Therapist	Head Performance Coach	Assistant Performance Coach	Performance Coordinator	Soft Tissue Specialist
Brian Chicklo	Joseph Golia	Bryan Baca	Sean Bardanett	Josh Bickel	Dustin Clarke	Tanner Miracle	Jeremy Chiang	Hiroto Kawamura
DoB: 1972-07-17	DoB: 1978-??-??	DoB: Circa 1980	DoB: 1988-06-23	DoB: 1996-??-??	DoB: 1987-??-??	DoB: 1991-??-??	DoB: ????-??-??	DoB: 1962-07-19

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