New York Mets Minor-League Hitters of the Month: July 2026

[Braden Ramsey]

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The end of July and early August are a crazy time for a MiLB system. When the MLB team gets to dealing, you get players going out, players coming in, and players forced both up and down the ladder to make room for or replace members of the first two groups.

We’ve known for months that the New York Mets would be selling at the trade deadline. Their efforts netted them more than a dozen prospects, giving the organization another much-needed injection of young talent. It also led to seemingly every hitting prospect already in the system changing levels throughout the month, including all four of the guys mentioned below.

Perhaps we’ll see Jefferson Rojas or Sammy Stafura on this list for August. In the meantime, we celebrate the OG farmhands who tore it up in July.

Monthly stats referenced in tables are from milb.com for the player’s full month, as opposed to a specific level, like in past editions. Prospect Rankings are from Grand Central Mets.

Ranking Mets' Best Minor League Hitters from June

4. Trey Snyder – SS, Low A/High-A (St. Lucie/Brooklyn)

Snyder, New York’s fifth-round pick (No. 144 overall) in 2024, opened the year on the injured list. He rehabbed briefly before joining St. Lucie in June, where he posted a .569 OPS across 18 games. His .394/.438/.592 slash line (1.030 OPS) for St. Lucie in the same number of games in July suggests whatever rust impeded him the prior month has been shaken off.

G (AB)	Slash Line (OPS)	XBH (HR)	R	RBI
21 (85)	.365/.411/.541 (.952)	10 (2)	12	17

A 3-for-14 start in three appearances for Brooklyn slightly watered down Snyder’s overall monthly numbers, but his dominance more than earned him this spot. If his July performance was not an aberration, but a preview of what happens when things click for him, he should put on a show as a Cyclone.

3. Randy Guzman – OF, A/High-A (St. Lucie/Brooklyn, No. 13 Prospect)

July was a busy month for Guzman, who spent time in the Florida Coast League, Single-A and High-A. The FCL stint was a rehab assignment that he didn’t play particularly well on (2-for-14). He shredded that entire script in St. Lucie and Brooklyn, though, posting an OPS of 1.000 or better in both spots.

G (AB)	Slash Line (OPS)	XBH (HR)	R	RBI
18 (59)	.339/.432/.576 (1.007)	7 (3)	14	18

The Dominican Republic native has a lot of red on his Prospect Savant page from his 60-game sample in St. Lucie, which is what you want to see. Any improvement in his chase rate could lead to July’s massive numbers over a much larger sample.

2. John Bay – OF, High-A/AA (Brooklyn/Binghamton)

Bay played 11 games in Brooklyn before moving to Binghamton on July 21st. He then took the field six times for the Rumble Ponies, and essentially maintained his production from High-A, which is easier said than done.

G (AB)	Slash Line (OPS)	XBH (HR)	R	RBI
17 (59)	.305/.438/.576 (1.014)	9 (3)	14	11

We’re being real sticklers if we’re going to bash a guy for *only* boasting a .940 OPS in his first six Double-A games after notching a 1.041 OPS across (presumably) his final 17 contests of High-A action. Not bad for someone who went undrafted out of Austin Peay a year ago, eh?

1. Corey Collins – 1B, High-A/AA (Brooklyn/Binghamton)

Collins was an honorable mention here in June despite posting 18 RBI and a .409 OBP. That status had more to do with other incredible months than any slight toward him. Nonetheless, he took it personally.

G (AB)	Slash Line (OPS)	XBH (HR)	R	RBI
18 (59)	.356/.465/.508 (.973)	5 (2)	9	9

Like Bay, Collins was promoted from Brooklyn to Binghamton on July 21st. Unlike Bay, Collins somehow played better for the Rumble Ponies than Cyclones, raising his OPS more than 200 points (.881 to 1.082) in just five fewer at-bats (27) than he saw at High-A (32). The increase in production while jumping levels makes him our top hitter of the month.

Honorable Mentions: JT Schwartz (AA, Binghamton), Antonio Jimenez (High-A, Brooklyn)

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Bay and Collins are a bit on the old side, which explains why they haven't been on the prospect radar, but they have live enough bats to have a shot of getting to Queens.