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MON TUE WED THU FRI TOT Luke Weaver 0 15 0 0 0 15 Kodai Senga 0 0 0 0 0 0 Huascar Brazobán 0 0 16 0 0 16 Devin Williams 0 15 0 0 0 15 Daniel Duarte 0 0 24 0 0 24 Cionel Pérez 0 0 25 0 13 38 Brooks Raley 0 15 0 0 23 38 A.J. Minter 0 0 19 0 12 31

Hard to complain about the pitching matchup at least...

SUN MON TUE WED THU TOT Luke Weaver 0 0 15 0 0 15 Kodai Senga 0 0 0 0 0 0 Huascar Brazobán 22 0 0 16 0 38 Devin Williams 0 0 15 0 0 15 Daniel Duarte 0 0 0 24 0 24 Cionel Pérez 18 0 0 25 0 43 Brooks Raley 0 0 15 0 0 15 A.J. Minter 14 0 0 19 0 33

T-minus 11 days until the trade deadline...

FWIW, the Sox called up Eduardo Rivera to take the start today. Bello is sticking in the minors.

At long last, the 2026 MLB Draft is here! You can find DiamondCentric's Big Board here for a rundown on all of the top prospects, though you'll want to stick here on Grand Central Mets for everything New York Mets centric this weekend. As a reminder, the Mets selected Mitch Voit with their first-round pick last year, and he was their lone top-100 selection. That won't be the case this year, as the team has the No. 27 and 92 picks at their disposal. They also have a fourth round pick (No. 120) that'll wrap up their first day of the draft. The draft begins with the first four rounds Saturday, then finishing Sunday with Rounds 5 through 20. TV coverage begins at 1pm EST on NBC and Peacock, with it switching to MLB.com, MLB Network, MLB.tv and MLB+ at 1:30 p.m. Sunday’s telecast begins at 11:30 a.m. on MLB.com, MLB.tv and MLB+. The team will be working with a scant bonus pool ($6,730,900), which is the third-lowest figure in the league. Not having a second-round pick (or any competitive balance round picks) will help alleviate some of that stress, but having such a small allotment to work with means the front office won't be able to aggressively pursue over-slot players in the early rounds of the draft. As a reminder, players drafted in the 11th through 20th rounds do not technically have a slot value, although they are soft-capped at $150,000 without counting toward the bonus pool. Any amount above $150,000 will go against the cap. That amount also applies to undrafted free agents. Teams have until July 27 at 4 p.m. CT to sign their draft picks. Who do you think the Mets should take with their first pick? View full article

Kodai Senga is pitching today... TUE WED THU FRI SAT TOT Tobias Myers 45 0 0 0 0 45 Luke Weaver 0 12 11 0 15 38 Huascar Brazobán 0 34 0 18 10 62 Devin Williams 0 22 12 0 14 48 Cionel Pérez 29 0 0 21 0 50 Brooks Raley 0 20 17 0 0 37 Austin Warren 0 13 25 0 0 38 A.J. Minter 14 19 0 0 22 55

First day on the job for Andy Green. SUN MON TUE WED THU TOT Tobias Myers 0 0 45 0 0 45 Luke Weaver 0 0 0 12 11 23 Huascar Brazobán 0 0 0 34 0 34 Devin Williams 0 0 0 22 12 34 Cionel Pérez 0 0 29 0 0 29 Brooks Raley 21 0 0 20 17 58 Austin Warren 37 0 0 13 25 75 A.J. Minter 9 0 14 19 0 42

Image courtesy of © Brad Penner-Imagn Images If there was ever a single series that served as a paradigmatic example of an entire season, the New York Mets' recent disaster against the Chicago Cubs is it. The pitching staff allowed 29 runs over the first three games of the set, including 15 RBIs in 24 hours to Dansby Swanson, who entered the series as the lowest-qualified hitter in terms of batting average in the league. Pete Crow-Armstrong continued to infuriate his original team, depositing home runs into right field and bunts over Bo Bichette's head at third base. And, somehow, the Mets couldn't muster enough offense to win any games against the league's most-injured pitching staff. The lowlight of the series, of course, was the six error embarrassment on Wednesday night. Yours truly was at that game, helplessly watching as the entire Mets infield -- on the same night that Gold Glove shortstop Francisco Lindor returned to action after two months away -- played and performed like a tee-ball squad. In a near-impossible feat, New York hit four home runs to Chicago's zero, and yet had their score doubled up by the time the final pitch was thrown. Those fielding miscues came back haunt the not-so-Amazins one night later, as the Mets lost 4-3... despite allowing zero earned runs. It's truly a boggling set of games when taken in a vacuum, but also a pointed reminder of just how flawed this roster is. Naturally, someone was going to have to take the blame for this, and it appears that skipper Carlos Mendoza will be the sacrificial lamb. That's all well and good -- Mendoza finishes his tenure in Queens with a 206-199 record, and he was almost certainly a goner after this season anyway considering the lame-duck status of his contract. If anything, one could argue that the team should have moved on after last year's second-half collapse, though that magical 2024 run clearly bought Mendoza a little time. In his stead, Andy Green, former manager of the San Diego Padres, will take over for the remainder of 2026. Over the past few years, his official title has been "Senior Vice President, Baseball Development." He'll be a steady-enough hand to guide this listless roster to the finish line, though anyone hoping that his arrival in the dugout can key a season-defining turnaround á la Don Mattingly in Philadelphia is kidding themselves. This roster is far too flawed to go anywhere but the bottom of the NL East. Which, of course, raises the question: What happens to the man who built said roster? David Stearns tore the whole operation apart last offseason in the name of "run prevention" and then promptly watched his pitching-and-defense squad repeatedly shoot itself in the foot all year. The Cubs series was as LOLMets as any set of games you'll ever see from this team, defined by a truly incompetent game plan and lethargic group of players on the diamond at the same time. Firing Mendoza for his part in that is fair, but does Stearns get a pass when he's the one who put Mendoza and those players in that position in the first place? Steve Cohen sold out to bring the architect of the Milwaukee Brewers to New York, but so far, all he has to show for it is a single trip to the NLCS and one of the two-most expensive rosters in baseball. This year's team, in particular, will go down in the annals of history given their historically large price tag and last-place performance. Giving Stearns the boot may not be the right path forward -- he did such a good job turning around a moribund franchise in Milwaukee -- but it does have to at least be considered. At least, it would, if the league weren't staring down the prospect of the most disruptive work stoppage since the 1994 World Series was canceled. Who knows how long the upcoming CBA negotiations will take, or what form the final ratified deal will assume, but what we do know is that both sides (the players and the owners) are preparing for a very long hiatus from the sport. That lockout (if it does happen) will begin on Dec. 1, which is just about two months after the regular season ends and only a month or so after the conclusion of the World series. When the Mets fired Mendoza, they effectively chose Stearns for the remainder of 2026. It just so happens that, with the lockout coming, they basically have two months to replace him between the end of the season and then. That is a tight turnaround timeline to overhaul the front office ahead of a historic change in the economics of the sport. Really, the question is: Do you trust Stearns to navigate the new economic world more than a guy you'll only be able to have in the building for roughly six weeks beforehand? Something tells me Mets fan won't like Cohen's answer to that query. View full article

Yeah, on the road today and just wanted to make sure it got up since I can't check again later. I'll get the other post deleted for ya.

... and back to last place in the NL East we go. MON TUE WED THU FRI TOT Yoendrys Gómez 11 0 36 0 13 60 Travis Adams 0 19 0 0 29 48 Taylor Rogers 11 0 0 0 0 11 Simeon Woods Richardson 18 0 0 0 0 18 Luis García 0 0 0 0 0 0 Kendry Rojas 46 0 0 0 0 46 Eric Orze 19 0 0 0 14 33 Anthony Banda 0 16 0 0 14 30 Andrew Morris 16 0 10 0 0 26

What happens when an unstoppable force meets a very movable object? Find out on tonight's episode of Mets baseball. SUN MON TUE WED THU TOT Tobias Myers 12 0 0 0 10 22 Sean Manaea 20 0 0 0 0 20 Luke Weaver 0 0 0 23 0 23 Huascar Brazobán 0 0 0 25 0 25 Devin Williams 0 0 0 13 0 13 David Peterson 77 0 0 0 0 77 Craig Kimbrel 0 0 0 0 19 19 Brooks Raley 0 0 18 17 0 35 Austin Warren 0 0 41 0 0 41

Image courtesy of © Reinhold Matay-Imagn Images The 2026 season has only just begun, but Grand Central Mets is here to officially publish our new top-20 prospect rankings for the New York Mets' farm system. We'll break this down into four pieces (five prospects per piece), starting with Nos. 16-20. Note that these rankings were voted on by our front-page writing staff. In future iterations, we'll open up prospect voting to all of our members on the site. No. 20: R.J. Gordon, SP (Double-A Binghamton) 2025 stats: 128 2/3 IP, 3.36 ERA, 3.72 FIP, 27.3 K%, 8.5 BB%, 1.24 WHIP Gordon hasn't pitched this year due to a lat injury, which is expected to hold him out until early May. Upon his return, he should be a rotation fixture for the Rumble Ponies after he impressed in Double-A down the stretch in 2025. He lacks upper-echelon stuff, but a 24-year-old starter with above-average command and two above-average secondaries (his changeup and his slider) is going to get a look in the big leagues at some point. He honestly reminds me a bit of longtime Cubs stalwart Kyle Hendricks, who thrived with pinpoint control and movement despite lacking any velocity of note. Gordon throws harder than Hendricks ever did (he's been sitting 92-93 mph consistently with his fastball), but he also doesn't have quite the same knack for pitch sequence as "The Professor." A mid-2027 debut is firmly on the table if Gordon can get and stay healthy this year; at the very least a cup of coffee in Syracuse should be the expectation before 2026 is over. No. 19: Antonio Jimenez, SS (High-A Brooklyn) 2025 stats: .263/.345/.274, 83 wRC+, 0 HR, 8 SB, 13.6 K%, 10.9 BB% The Mets' third-round pick in the 2025 draft, Jimenez is known for his raw power despite failing to hit a home run last year. He's already hit two in 2026 with the Cyclones, and he possesses a tantalizing power-speed game that would play anywhere in a lineup. There are questions about his fit at shortstop, but he's got a rocket arm that would look really good at third base or in right field if he can't stick at the six. More importantly, he'll need to evolve his hit tool and plate discipline to survive at the highest level of the minors; he's already running a 33.3% strikeout rate through his first 40 plate appearances in High-A. A mid-2028 ETA is reasonable for the 21-year-old, who's a bit more raw than other college prospects, Still, the archetype he fits is the kind of player that could become Francisco Lindor's heir apparent at shortstop in Queens. No. 18: Dylan Ross, RP (Triple-A Syracuse) 2025 stats: 54.0 IP, 2.17 ERA, 3.32 FIP, 35.7 K%, 14.7 BB%, 1.15 WHIP There's no denying Ross' raw stuff out of the bullpen. He's got a triple-digit fastball, biting splitter, and hard slider that allows him to work effectively against hitters on both sides of the plate. There's even a decent curveball in his mix, giving him four legitimate weapons that make him a menace to face in one-inning situations. The problem, of course, is that he just doesn't know where the ball is going. His walk rate in Syracuse last year (17.3%) was calamitous and simply untenable for a leverage reliever. He aids his own cause by striking out heaps of batters and producing weak contact routinely; even as he struggled to find the strike zone in Triple-A in 2025, he still struck out 30.7% of the batters he faced and allowed a ridiculous .106 opponent's batting average. The range of spectrums on Ross is enormous. At 25 years old, he's basically ready for the big leagues. If he ever finds consistency with his location, he could become a legitimate closing option at the MLB level. If not, he may never earn enough trust from his manager to tackle anything more than mop-up duty. No. 17: Ryan Lambert, RP (Triple-A Syracuse) 2025 stats: 50.0 IP, 1.62 ERA, 2.13 FIP, 39.5 K%, 13.2 BB%, 1.16 WHIP Another pure relief prospect, Lambert's fastball might be even better than thunderbolts that Ross hurls. He doesn't have quite the same upper-echelon velocity as his Syracuse teammate, but he produces absurd ride and spin on his heater and used it to generate a comical 38% whiff rate a year ago. Lambert, who is two years Ross' junior, also struggles with command, though it's not quite as egregious. The bigger problem is that he only has two pitches -- his fastball and a slider -- which gives left-handed batters a big advantage, since he doesn't have any breakers that run away from them. Still, his two-pitch mix is as good as anyone's in the minors, and he's got less bust potential than Ross thanks to slightly better command and exceptional feel for his fastball up in the zone. A 2026 debut isn't guaranteed, but if the Mets find themselves in need of high-upside bullpen reinforcements later in the year, Lambert should be the guy they call upon. No. 16: Eli Serrano III, OF (Double-A Binghamton) 2025 stats: .222/.332/.358, 113 wRC+, 7 HR, 9 SB, 20.1 K%, 13.1 BB% Serrano doesn't have any terribly loud tools, making him more of a jack of all trades and a master of none, hence why he's in the bottom quartile of our prospect rankings. That shouldn't blind anyone to his steady floor and impressive upside, though. His hit tool will always be the big question since he stands at a lanky 6'5", but that frame is ripe for more power as he adds strength. He'll turn 23 in May, and he's got some solid plate discipline for someone in their second full pro season, even if he's striking out more in 2026 as he adjusts to the Double-A caliber of pitching. After recording 10 outfield assists a year ago, calls for him to move to right field on a full-time basis will be loud. He's got more than enough speed to stick in center if his glove develops, but he'll have a home in the outfield regardless. He remains a ways off from the majors, and seeing as he isn't Rule 5 eligible until after the 2027 season, a 2028 debut feels like a reasonable estimate. View full article