Mid Season Prospect lists

[MFS62]

Baseball Prospectus is the first to be released, and five Mets made it:

17 – Jett Williams, SS

20 – Jonah Tong, RHP

32 – Carson Benge, OF

34 – Nolan McLean, RHP

52 – Jacob Reimer, 3B

Brandon Sproat has fallen from grace.

CF, I guess this is what we can do during the break.

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[Centerfield]

Wow that’s cool!

Didn’t realize Jett was that high. Too bad about Sproat. Maybe a strong second half gets him back on the radar.

[smg58]

Jett is having a pretty sold year in Binghamton (.288/.396/.495) and is still only 21.

Sproat hit a brick wall in AAA. McLean has not, which justifies his jump in the rankings, but Sproat is not unique in that regard recently. If Tong joins the ranks of pitchers who flounder after getting that promotion (I have to think that is imminent), the front office may need to take a long hard look at what's going on. Plus Sproat's K rate went from 11 per 9 innings to 6, which is... concerning.

[Edgy MD]

A big part of what is going on appears to be many pitchers not adjusting to a digital strike zone.

[MFS62]

Metsmerized online has a midseason Top 50 list of Mets prospects:

Here are their top 10:

Jett Williams – SS/2B/CF

Jonah Tong – RHP

Nolan McLean – RHP

Carson Benge – CF

Brandon Sproat – RHP

Jacob Reimer – INF

Jesus Baez – INF

Elian Pena – SS

Ryan Clifford – 1B/COF

A.J. Ewing – 2B/

the entire list

https://metsmerizedonline.com/midseason-top-50-mets-prospect-list/

After a horrendous start, International bonus baby Pena has brought his average up to .250, with power. Looks like they may have chosen well.

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[MFS62]

Pena went 1-2 today (a double) and has brought his average up to .299 (with some power) His OPS is .924.

He's starting to show why he gets a high ranking on the prospect lists.

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[ashie62]

Promoted to AAA

Carson Benge

Jonah Tong

Jett Williams

Ryan Clifford

[Edgy MD]

An entire potential outfield there.

Bad news for your Omar de los Santoses and your Gilberto Celestinos.

[Cowtipper]

They also promoted this Douglas Orellana feller to Triple-A and he's been killing it with Binghamton.

[MFS62]

Just heard about this. I didn't know it was a thing.

If one of these players were to play the full year in 2026 and win Rookie of the Year, the Mets would receive an extra draft pick. It’s part of MLB’s prospect promotion incentive. Both Corbin Carroll and Gunnar Henderson won their respective Rookie of the Year Awards, and the Diamondbacks and Orioles received an extra draft pick in the next season’s Draft.

 

https://metsmerizedonline.com/five-mets-crack-multiple-top-100-prospect-lists/

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[Frayed Knot]

The mlb.com prospect crew [Jonathan Mayo, Sam Dykstra, Jim Callas] rank the NYM system #7 in their post-trading deadline analysis.

Top-100 players: Carson Benge, OF (No. 20); Jett Williams, SS/OF (No. 30); Nolan McLean, RHP (No. 37); Jonah Tong, RHP (No. 44)

The Mets have as many up arrows in their system as any other organization in baseball with Benge surging into the No. 20 spot in his first full season, McLean and Tong solidifying their places in the Top 50 overall and Jacob Reimer, A.J. Ewing and Will Watson making significant jumps in the Top 30 team list. That increased depth allowed New York to move several prospects at the Trade Deadline for bullpen help, while still maintaining an impressive system on the whole, and it makes you wonder what the organization could get out of 38th overall pick Mitch Voit as he moves to full-time hitter status in the pros.

And you didn't ask but I'm going to tell you anyway:

#1 - LAD

#2 - MIN

#3 - SEA

#4 - MIL

#5 - CLE

#6 - DET

#8 - CIN

#9 - PIT

#10 - TBR

https://www.mlb.com/news/farm-system-rankings-2025-midseason?t=mlb-pipeline-coverage

[Edgy MD]

Voit probably has to go through his adjustments, as he only played wood-bat summer ball briefly (11 PA) after his frosh year.

[Frayed Knot]

Voit probably has to go through his adjustments, as he only played wood-bat summer ball briefly (11 PA) after his frosh year.

 

Plus they're not going to let him continue to play with his own personal ball going forward.

They're going to make him play with the smaller one from now on and that's going to be a big adjustment.

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[MFS62]

I can't wait for some of those great #2 MINN prospects to make it to the majors the next time they play the MFYs.

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[smg58]

Sproat's last 7 starts: 39 IP, 5 ER, 19 H, 13 BB, 4 HBP (a bit of a concern), 1 HR, 40 K. That's really, really good at Syracuse.

[MFS62]

Andy Martino reporting that Nolan McLean will be called up to make his major league debut on Saturday. McLean will start against the Mariners at Citi Field.

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[ashie62]

McLean went 74-75 pitches in four innings in his last out

[Frayed Knot]

Jim Callas profiles ten players who mlb.com had unranked in their pre-season Top-100 who then made the biggest jumps onto their recently released mid-season re-ranking.

And three of them are Mets.

Carson Benge, OF, Mets (No. 20)

Benge snuck onto the Top 100 in a rare March move related to injury and spent the next few months asserting himself with authority, courtesy of one of the best offensive seasons in the Minors this year. The 22-year-old really turned it on after a midseason promotion to Double-A Binghamton, where he homered eight times in 32 games (double his homer output at High-A in almost half the games) to earn another promotion to Triple-A Syracuse. All told, the '24 first-rounder was hitting .308/.413/.513 with 12 homers and 19 steals across three levels during his first full pro season at the time of the rerank.

Nolan McLean, RHP, Mets (No. 37)

The Mets have had a recent trend of top pitching prospects struggling in their first taste of Triple-A, but not McLean. After an uneven first full season in '24, the '23 second-rounder reached the Minors' highest level after only five starts and emerged as one of the best pitchers in the International League, posting a 2.78 ERA with more than a strikeout per inning across 16 appearances (13 starts). McLean's best weapon is his 70-grade sweeper, which he can spin at upward of 3,000 rpm. And it's hurtled him to The Show, he's expected to make his MLB debut on Saturday against the Mariners.

Jonah Tong, RHP, Mets (No. 44)

Three of the 10 players on this list are Mets, and Tong is the epitome of a breakout prospect with his Tim Lincecum comps and eye-popping strikeout numbers. The 22-year-old reached Double-A down the stretch last season and absolutely dominated the level this year, posting a 1.59 ERA in 20 starts before heading to Triple-A with Benge and others to start the week. He leads the Minors with 162 strikeouts -- 27 more than the next closest pitcher at the time of our rerank.

https://www.mlb.com/news/biggest-breakouts-on-new-top-100-prospects-list-2025?t=mlb-pipeline-coverage

And a link to the entire new Top-100 released earlier this week: https://www.mlb.com/milb/prospects/top100/

[MFS62]

Elian Pena went 4-5 today with 3 HR.

And he's still an "orphan".

Later

[MFS62]

The Mid-season ESPN list has 6 Mets:

Williams

McLean

Tong

Benge

Ewing

Sproat

and one in the "next 10" - Reimer.

Not bad.

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[MFS62]

ESPN rated the Mets farm System #1 in their mid-season update. The write-up:

https://sny.tv/articles/mets-farm-system-ranked-1-8-26-25?fbclid=IwY2xjawMaolNleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFaMHhiOWc5bkJnQXVVOFllAR47LYTTGOPILePOKe1PCi2M_TFM-_EB5tmvc7sGz-EvfOiNzgfYVs-hdZfP1Q_aem_9aiU3SC5ingHe-lYepmnMw

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