Mets Roster Central 2027

[Edgy MD]

Congratulations on being part of another Mets season, however you might have participated.  While a lot went wrong — almost all the winter's MLB trades and free-agent acquisitions have been a sour harvest to date, leaving the team at the back end of the standings — not a little went right.  A scantly precedented class of four rookies, have shown themselves to be top-of-the-roster contributors, along with a rookie from two years prior making an unexpectedly robust return from UCL surgery.

If you like, you can throw Nate Lavender in the pile of assets that all matured at once, as ephemeral as relief help can be, and as hard to project as 21 2/3 innings can be.

Either way, it's a crop, leaving all something to look forward to, after a season that wasn't much to look back on. 

For the season immediately coming, the good news is the bad news, and the bad is the good — both being that no MLB contracts are expiring.  The guys you want to see are expected to be back, and so are the guys you don't want to see — with the key caveat that we have yet to hear from Bo Bichette on his opt-out. 

So, yeah, apart from buying insurance in the form of a thousand minor-league contracts, David Stearns has the option of totally standing pat.  He can trust his plan, count on young players to continue to mature and progress, and hope for better luck on the injury front.

We don't know how much taste he has for masochism, though, and moving things around — even to negative effect, as last winter, at least has the virtue of buying you some time.

So expect some changes, to the below.

Starting Pitching: What's below certainly appears to be something that can be a solid-or-better rotation, but over-reliance on youth can create volatility.  Look for at least one name-brand starter to be added and Jonah Tong to be demoted back to part of Plan B.  (And you always break the seal on Plan B.)

Relief Pitching: What's below represents the eight guys in the best position professionally on October 5, but a lot of deck-shuffling will take place before opening day.  The second half of the season certainly suggested that a bullpen you have developed and cobbled together can equal the bullpen of MLB veterans assembled on veteran contracts, but the Mets will still throw at least some resources after the latter.  If nothing else, it gives you beaucoups assets to deal at the deadline, and allows the former to be your backup plan.

Several names not appearing below — Daniel Duarte, Jonathan Pintaro, Nathan Lavender, Dedniel Núñez — gave solid late-season performances.  They currently sit behind guys with longer track records and fewer options, but they should re-emerge as the Mets make wintertime decisions on some of the more seasoned guys.  (Robert Stock is not a good candidate to last the winter on the roster, but hey, there he is.) 

Catching: It's an impressive unit, and the Mets will most likely field it in 2026.  It would be trading low to move an underperforming All-Star talent like Francisco Alvarez, but there's always a deal if you look hard enough.

Infielders: A whole lot of volatility here. 

• The firstbaseman missed most of the season. 
• His replacement is recovering from a serious concussion. 
• The secondbaseman took a step backwards (from an already precipitous decline) on offense and defense. 
• The shortstop is a fixture and a future Hall-of-Famer but saw his focus fall and his batting average drop to .225 following an extended injury.
• The thirdbaseman underperformed and still might opt for free agency.  

Oddly, two of the most reliable parts of the picture are Brett Baty and Mark Vientos, who have both demonstrated, even in failing to establish themselves, that they are pretty reliable platoon parts.  One can envision a season opening with Vientos sharing first base with Jared Young, while Baty alternates with Jorge Polanco, playing left field and bumping Juan Soto to DH against a righties.

One can envision that.  One quite possibly isn't rooting for that. 

Outfielders: Pretty set in stone, no?

Seven infielders and four outfielders is suboptimal, but Jared Young is experienced out there also.  Also, three guys on the bubble — Ronny Mauricio, Christopher Morel, and Christian Pache — have run out of options, but that likely only particularly concerns the Mets in the first case.

It's a team.  What you see below is definitely a team.  Probably not the team you're gonna see on March 25 when the season opens in Miami on March 25(!!). 

Watch this space as the picture evolves!

Your Projected 2027 New York Mets

	Starting Pitchers
	Sean Manaea	Nolan McLean	Christian Scott	Zach Thornton	Jonah Tong
	R/L DoB: 1992-02-01	R/R DoB: 2001-07-24	R/R DoB: 1999-06-15	L/L DoB: 2002-01-17	R/R DoB: 2003-06-19
Relief Pitchers
Chayce McDermott	Tobias Myers	Cionel Pérez	Kodai Senga	Robert Stock	Austin Warren	Devin Williams
L/R DoB: 1998-08-22	R/R DoB: 1998-08-05	R/L DoB: 1996-04-21	L/R DoB: 1993-01-30	L/R DoB: 1989-11-21	R/R DoB: 1996-02-05	R/R DoB: 1994-09-21
Relief Pitchers	Catchers		Infielders
Jefry Yan	Francisco Alvarez	Luís Torrens	Bo Bichette	Francisco Lindor	Ronny Mauricio	Jorge Polanco
L/L DoB: 1996-08-17	R/R DoB: 2001-11-01	R/R DoB: 1996-05-02	R/R DoB: 1998-03-05	S/R DoB: 1993-11-14	S/R DoB: 2001-04-04	S/R DoB: 1999-11-13
Infielders			Outfielders
Marcus Semien	Mark Vientos	Jared Young	Brett Baty	Carson Benge	A.J. Ewing	Juan Soto
R/R DoB: 1990-09-17	R/R DoB: 1993-12-11	L/R DoB: 1995-07-09	L/R DoB: 1999-11-13	L/R DoB: 2003-01-20	L/R DoB: 2004-08-10	L/L DoB: 1998-10-25

Also on 40-Player Roster

Starting Pitchers	Relief Pitchers
Tylor Megill	Philip Abner	Daniel Duarte	Reed Garrett	Justin Hagenman	Nathan Lavender	Dedniel Núñez	Jonathan Pintaro	Dylan Ross
R/R DoB: 1995-07-28	L/L DoB: 2002-05-04	R/R DoB: 1996-12-04	R/R DoB: 1993-01-02	R/R DoB: 1996-10-07	L/L DoB: 2000-01-20	R/R DoB: 1996-06-05	R/R DoB: 1997-11-07	R/R DoB: 2000-09-01
Relief Pitchers		Catchers	Infielders			Outfielders
Jack Weisen- berger	Cameron Weston	Hayden Senger	Christian Cairo	Christopher Morel	Eric Wagaman	Nick Morabito	Cristian Pache
R/R DoB: 1997-10-08	R/R DoB: 2000-08-27	R/R DoB: 1997-04-03	R/R DoB: 2001-06-11	R/R DoB: 1999-06-24	R/R DoB: 1997-08-14	R/R DoB: 2003-05-07	R/R DoB: 2020-08-21

Your Projected Mets Coaching Staff

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 Catchers
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

2026-2027 MLB Free Agents

Manager	Relief Pitchers
Carlos Mendoza	Joey Gerber
S/R DoB: 1979-11-27	R/R DoB: 1997-05-03

2026-2027 Minor-League Free Agents

Starting Pitchers					Relief Pitchers
Eris Albino	Dalton Mall	Matteo Morelli	Christopher Rochin	Omar Victorino	Luis Alvarez	Adbert Alzolay	Jesüs Anton	Brett Banks	Mike Baumann
R/R DoB: 2004-02-24	R/R DoB: 1999-08-27	R/R DoB: 2006-02-27	R/R DoB: 2006-09-18	R/R DoB: 2005-06-09	R/R DoB: 2003-05-05	R/R DoB: 2995-03-01	R/R DoB: 2006-02-17	L/R DoB: 2001-10-03	R/R DoB: 1995-09-10
Relief Pitchers
Tyler Burch	Nick Burdi	Yoralbert Cadíz	Alex Carrillo	Joe Charles	Jamdrick Cornelia	Colton Cosper	Anthony Crespo	Chris Devenski	Franyel Diaz
R/R DoB: 1997-09-02	R/R DoB: 1993-01-19	R/R DoB: 2004-10-24	R/R DoB: 1997-06-06	R/R DoB: 2000-04-05	L/L DoB: 2005-11-17	L/L DoB: 2002-09-08	R/R DoB: 2004-05-04	R/R DoB: 1990-11-13	R/R DoB: 2004-12-18
Relief Pitchers
Luis Garcia	Kevin Herget	Jordan Geber	Wilson Lopez	Robinson Martinez	Yoelvis Martinez	Trey McGough	Pablo Medina	Jahzeel Montas	Layonel Ovalles
R/R DoB: 1987-01-30	L/R DoB: 1991-04-03	R/R DoB: 1999-07-31	R/R DoB: 2002-07-15	R/R DoB: 1998-03-20	R/R DoB: 2006-06-21	L/L DoB: 1998-03-29	L/L DoB: 2006-10-12	R/R DoB: 2005-01-06	R/R DoB: 2003-06-16
Relief Pitchers						Catchers
Rayner Reyes	Anthony Reynoso	Jun-Seok Shim	Jermayne Verdu	Deivy Victora	Brandon Waddell	José Aular	Austin Barnes	Julian Hernandez	Daniel Silva
R/R DoB: 2005-10-20	L/L DoB: 39102	R/R DoB: 2004-04-09	?/R DoB: 2006-07-27	R/R DoB: 2005-08-14	L/L DoB: 1994-06-03	R/R DoB: 2004-01-02	R/R DoB: 1989-12-28	R/R DoB: 2005-09-24	S/R DoB: 2005-01-12
Infielders
Christian Arroyo	TT Bowens	Jackson Cluff	Taylor Darden	Jefrey De Los Santos	Alexander Eneas	Cole Fowler	Yonny Hernandez	Grae Kessinger	Leandy Mella
R/R DoB: 1995-05-30	R/R DoB: 1998-05-27	L/R DoB: 1996-12-03	R/R DoB: 2000-01-16	R/R DoB: 2003-05-30	R/R DoB: 2007-09-12	L/R DoB: 2002-12-10	S/R DoB: 1998-05-04	R/R DoB: 1997-08-25	L/R DoB: 2007-02-24
Infielders
Diego Mosquera	Sam Robertson	José Rojas	Nick Roselli	Dangelo Sarmiento	JT Schwartz	Zack Short	Kevin Villavin- cencio	Trace Willhoite	Wyatt Young
L/R DoB: 2005-05-14	R/R DoB: 2004-07-17	L/R DoB: 1993-02-24	L/R DoB: 2003-03-31	R/R DoB: 38356	L/R DoB: 1999-12-17	R/R DoB: 1995-05-29	R/R DoB: 2003-11-24	R/R DoB: 2000-11-17	L/R DoB: 1999-12-05
Outfielders
Haniel German	Simon Juan	Adolfo Miranda	Jared Oliva	Jaylen Palmer	Jeffry Rosa	Matt Rudick	AJ Salgado	Mike Tauchman
R/R DoB: 2005-12-05	R/R DoB: 2005-07-13	R/R DoB: 2006-10-04	R/R DoB: 1995-11-27	R/R DoB: 2007-07-31	R/R DoB: 2004-09-11	L/L DoB: 1998-07-02	L/R DoB: 2001-09-16	L/L DoB: 1990-12-03

[ashie62]

Simon Juan was released by the Mets I believe 8/15/26

I get afraid for these international kids that get released. It feels like a tough uncertain future ahead for most of them

Maybe he can catch with someone here in MLB or elsewhere 

[Edgy MD]

3 minutes ago, ashie62 said:

Simon Juan was released by the Mets I believe 8/15/26

Yes, most of those minor-league free agents are guys the Mets have released during the season.

[ashie62]

I only noticed Simon when I was looking to see if he was a top 30 Mets prospect 

Jaylen Palmer is a Cublet for now anyway

[Gwreck]

It would be fun to have a running projection of 2027 wins as this roster changes over the course of the offseason.

As shown above:  that’s maybe a…75-win team?  

[ashie62]

I'm trying to come to grips with the idea that Baty and Vientos may still be reliable parts of a platoon

I just don't see it

[Edgy MD]

41 minutes ago, ashie62 said:

I'm trying to come to grips with the idea that Baty and Vientos may still be reliable parts of a platoon

I just don't see it

 

	PA	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS
Brett Baty vs. Righties (2026)	382	.250	.318	.406	.723
Mark Vientos vs. Lefties (2026)	125	.252	.296	.513	.809
Combined	507	.250	.313	.432	.745
National League (2026)	92,354	.246	.321	.405	.726

 

 

It may not be what you want, but hey, even in a lousy year, it's there.

[Gwreck]

A .745 OPS would still have only ranked 20th among all teams at first base this past year.  And that’s before we even consider the 1B defense of Baty (not good) and Vientos (abysmal).  They’re just not good enough for a team that is serious about competing.

[seawolf17]

You know, looking at the roster... get us an ace, three or four bullpen arms, a first baseman, a second baseman, and a third baseman, and I think we've got a team that could win 120 games.

[Edgy MD]

10 hours ago, Gwreck said:

A .745 OPS would still have only ranked 20th among all teams at first base this past year.

It may not be what you want.

And nothing says either or both must be deployed at first base.

[Gwreck]

4 hours ago, Edgy MD said:

IAnd nothing says either or both must be deployed at first base.

Playing Vientos elsewhere would be wild, but ok!

All seriousness, I do think Baty would be valuable in a utility role off the bench and probably could get 300 PAs next year doing that.

[Edgy MD]

If opening day was today, and I went to work with a healthy version of the above roster, we probably open the season with Vientos being the firstbaseman against some or all lefties, and Baty playing left against some or all righties (alternating with Polanco, as Soto swung between DH and left).

Probably. 

Also, that probably wouldn't last.  We at Mets Roster Central are just saying narrower roles allow for strategic deployment and new talent to emerge.  At least until health breaks down and folks get over-exposed.

[Edgy MD]

As the annual reshuffling of the Mets coaching deck occurs, gleaning meaning from the moves is tempting, but it can be harder than reading Bigelow Tea leaves.  We watch a lot of baseball, and some of us watch a LOT of baseball, but we don't see too much coaching, and if we're honest, we can glean little insight into the coach/player dynamic.  But pay attention long enough, and patterns emerge.

Or delusions.  That happens too.

Transactions, 10/6/2026

GOING	GOING	GOING	NEUTRAL
Non-Tendered	Non-Tendered	Non-Tendered	Projected to Transfer from Hitting Coach
Hitting Coord.	Strategy Coach	Bat'g Pract. Pitcher	Hitting Coord.
Jeff Albert	Danny Barnes	Kevin Mahoney	Troy Snitker
R/R DoB: 1992-08-16 High Level: MLB (2026)	L/R DoB: 1989-10021 High Level: MLB (2026)	L/R DoB: 1987-05-11 High Level: MLB (2026)	R/R DoB: 1988-12-05 High Level: MLB (2026)
COMING	COMING	COMING
Projected to Be Promoted from Syracuse	Projected to Transfer from Director of Defense, Baserunning, & Gameplay	Projected to Be Promoted from St. Lucie Bench/Assistant Hitting Coach
Hitting Coach	Strategy Coach	Bat'g Pract. Pitcher
Nate Irving	Tucker Frawley	Jonathon Cramman
R/R DoB: 1992-10-17 High Level: MLB (2024)	S/R DoB: 1984-05-08 High Level: Development (2026)	R/R DoB: 1991-03-23 High Level: A (2026)

The highest-profile Met coachie to not get asked back is Jeff Albert. While repeating the caveat that we don't know what's going down, this comes as something of a surprise at Met Roster Central, as much of the 2026 offensive failure came from veterans — presumably more set in their ways and less sensitive one way or the other to the whims of coaching — while rookies Carson Benge (after needing an April mulligan) and AJ Ewing prospered.

Maybe it was the struggles of mid-career-types like Brett Baty and Mark Vientos that did him in.  Francisco Alvarez, too.  That's our theory.

That Mets previous hitting coordinator Eric Chavez, rather than finding new MLB work like many of his fellow 2025 veterans, spent much of 2026 telling everyone who would listen that the Mets (a) generally had their heads up their butts as an organization, and (b) that splitting the hitting coach role was counterproductive.  Now that his successor has followed him into the "ex-" column among Met coaches, we can expect him to double down.

Anyhow, we're putting our kranepools down on junior hitting coach Troy Snitker elevating to senior status.  Troy has not only the name-brand Snitker pedigree, but he has the track record, having been co-hitting coach (with Alex Cintron) for the 106-game/World Championship-winning 2022 Astros.

Who gets his junior chair is more likely to come from outside the organization, but Nate Irving is an organizational guy on the rise, having coached the superb 2025 Binghamton squad, who were near the league lead in pretty much all offensive categories, and then moved up to Syracuse in 2026.  He's coached Ewing and Benge in the minors as well as many of the prospects who will hopefully follow them.

Danny Barnes is a tough loss, as the former Princeton Tiger represented an organizational commitment to brains over brawn and the good old boy hiring network.  Danny, 36, had started with the ambigous title of "coaching assistant," and the team continuously re-worked the role to suit the man.  He spent five years with the big-league team in multiple roles under four different managers. He was even put in charge of organizing the team's MLB spring training camp.

With the manager coming out of the development staff, it is certainly easy to see the new strategy coach guy (assuming there is one) coming from there.  Among other things, Tucker Frawley has also had a broad portfolio that could serve him well at helping implement organizational strategy at the big league level, and was praised for his work with Mitch Voit,

Who knows how a batting practice pitcher gets fired, other than losing the strike zone, and figuring who his most likely replacement might be is clearly a shot in the dark, but we stayed within the organization, and our arrow struck St. Lucie bench coach/assistant hitting coach Jonathon Cramman. You have to go pretty low in the chain to find somebody who will take such a narrow role.  The Haringey, London, UK-born Crammy managed the Under-23 squad for Great Britain, so having had that sort of authority over young men, along with a smart British accent, could bring some authority to keep him from being a mere lackey. 

He could also bring some reverse-Ted Lasso fun to the clubhouse, along with an appearance of the Union Jack on our roster grids.

Mets Roster Central looks forward to updates involving players, but it'd b good to see Andy Green's braintrust in early in the offseason, even if they fail to bring back Antoan Richardson.

[MFS62]

I'm not sure whether I would want a hitting coach, albeit a successful one, from a team that plays half its games on turf (while you don't). It's that "approach" thingie - hitting down on the ball. Houston ‘s field is grass.  I hope Snitker works out.

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