Alex Bregman Just like last year, it is being discussed that if the Mets lose Pete Alonso, one option could be to sign Free Agent 3rd Baseman Alex Bregman and move Mark Vientos to 1B.   Alex Bregman opted out of a 3 year $120M contract with the Red Sox in early November 2025, a contract that was signed late into the off-season in February '25.  A year older that Pete, he turns 32 in March of 2026.  He was praised for his leadership last year by Red Sox Hall Of Famer David Ortiz and he comes with the Qualifying offer he had last Winter.   Overall he slashed .273/.360/.462, an .821 OPS, with 18 homers and 62 RBIs.  He missed 7 weeks from late May to July with a right quad strain doing much better before the injury than after: .298/.380/.546 in the first half and .250/.341/.386 in the 2nd half.  His worst month was September, .216/.310/.330. David Stearns said he wants to improve the Mets run prevention in 2026 and Bregman, a Gold Glove winner in 2024, would do that.  He also could provide leadership which some analysts say the Mets could use.  But he'll be a year older and coming off a season with reduced time due to an injury. Does he make sense for the Mets? Follow the news with the below SportsSpyder's feed right here on Mets News and Links.

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  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Nov. 17, 2025 2026 BBWAA Hall of Fame Ballot Announced -- Results Revealed Jan. 20 Live on MLB Network --  (COOPERSTOWN, NY) – A player who took both Rookie of the Year and Most Valuable Player honors, a former Cy Young Award winner, a multiple Gold Glove Award and Silver Slugger Award winner and three postseason standouts are among a group of 12 new candidates appearing on the 2026 National Baseball Hall of Fame ballot that is being mailed this week to more than 400 voting members of the Baseball Writers' Association of America. Outfielders Ryan Braun and Matt Kemp, infielders Howie Kendrick and Daniel Murphy and pitchers Cole Hamels and Rick Porcello will join 15 holdovers from the 2025 balloting in which outfielder Ichiro Suzuki and pitchers CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner were elected to the Hall of Fame. Candidates must be named on 75 percent of ballots cast by selected BBWAA members with 10 or more consecutive years of MLB coverage to gain election and be part of Induction Weekend July 24-27, 2026 in Cooperstown, N.Y. Achieving the threshold in the previous election were Suzuki with 393 votes, which accounted for 99.7 percent (all but one) of the electorate, Sabathia with 342 votes (86.8) and Wagner with 325 (82.5). The only other players to gain mention on more than half the ballots were outfielders Carlos Beltrán with 277 (70.3) and Andruw Jones with 261 (66.2). Players may remain on the ballot for up to 10 years provided they receive at least five percent of the vote. This year will mark the last season on the ballot for outfielder Manny Ramírez. Other holdovers from last year’s ballot in addition to Beltrán, Jones and Ramírez are pitchers Mark Buehrle, Félix Hernández, Andy Pettitte and Francisco Rodríguez; infielders Dustin Pedroia, Álex Rodríguez, Jimmy Rollins, Chase Utley, Omar Vizquel and David Wright; and outfielders Bobby Abreu and Torii Hunter.

  PHOENIX- The Arizona Fall League has announced its NFP Hitter and Pitcher of the Week for games from Nov. 10- Nov. 16. Hitter of the Week: Peoria Javelinas C Alfredo Duno (CIN) Cincinnati’s Alfredo Duno slashed .267/.353/1.067 with a league-leading four home runs across four games. He also led the league in total bases (16) and RBI (9), while ranking third in slugging percentage (.353). MLB Pipeline’s No. 48 overall prospect and No. 2 Reds prospect launched his four home runs across nine plate appearances, including a three-home run game in the Javelinas’ AFL Semifinal win over Scottsdale. Since at least 2005, it is the first three-home run game and first six-RBI game in the AFL postseason. Pitcher of the Week: Surprise Saguaros RHP Trenton Denholm (CLE)

ANGRY MIKE  There is a ton of chatter from every demographic focused on the Mets offseason plans, ironically, the only thing they seem to agree on is their unified belief that the Mets need to add multiple starting pitchers this winter. Some suggestions focus on signing multiple starters from this winter’s crop of free agents, while others suggest trading for multiple starters at any cost. The pandemic-level delusion over the need for starting pitching might just be PTSD from the 2025 season or they could be simply underestimating the potential of the starters we have already have at our disposal. Fortunately, I hate being trendy, so let’s outline why the Mets should focus on utilizing the pitching assets we already have in-house, and why our current group of veterans and potential rookies offer significantly more upside. VETERANS UNDER CONTRACT CLAY HOLMES Holmes had a strong 2025 season, in 30 game starts, he posted a respectable 3.53 ERA, 12 wins, and 8 quality starts. Those represent a successful transition by Holmes from reliever to starter, and there is reason to believe he can improve upon those numbers next season. Seth Lugo recently made the same transition, and produced better numbers during his second season, despite making a higher number of starts and 60 more innings than the previous season. Lugo showed no ill effects from the career high number of innings in 2023, while maintaining the same velocity and command of all his pitches. Holmes has the physical attributes and mechanics to suggest he will be able to duplicate his 2025 numbers or even improve upon them for the 2026 season. Holmes’ salary for 2026 is around $13 million, a bargain considering we paid more for Frankie Montas. DAVID PETERSON  Peterson was having a stellar 2025 season, made the All-Star team for the first time, and looked like the staff “ACE” even with Senga pitching as well as he was. He picked up right where he left off from the 2024 season, but unfortunately wore down in the second half of the season. There weren’t any medical issues reported, which helps provide optimism he can bounce back in 2026 and hopefully maintain consistent production for a full season. Despite his disastrous second half, Peterson still posted better numbers across the board than Dylan Cease and will only cost the Mets $9 million. KODAI SENGA  Senga was having a CY Young caliber season prior to injuring his hamstring on June 13th. The Mets arguably rushed him back and he wasn’t able to regain his peak form, he’d flash potential for a couple innings, but then began serving up homers at an alarming rate. Senga didn’t exhibit any shoulder or elbow concerns, and after a full off-season to heal up, there is no reason to think he can’t produce 75-80% of what he was doing during the 2025 season. Senga’s $15 million salary is another bargain and if he is able to regain his top form, we have at least one veteran starter locked in for the 2027 season. SEAN MANEA  Despite being the highest paid member of the rotation, Manea was a categorical disaster during the 2025 season. Of the 4 veteran starters we have under contract, he offers the least amount of upside and the highest level of risk, which is brutal because how much he’s paid. If the Mets can get him pitching remotely close to the numbers he produced during the 2024 season, and the others perform to their potential, Manea is a player the Mets should look to trade even if they have to eat a large portion of his salary. Peterson is a free agent after the 2026 season, and Holmes will almost certainly exercise the opt-out in his contract and cash in on 2 successful seasons as a starter. That creates the payroll flexibility needed to pursue Tarik Skubal, and if for any reason they can’t lure Skubal to Queens, they can turn their attention to Mackenzie Gore or Shane McClanahan after the 2027 season. In addition to Skubal, there are several potential free agents who offer significantly more upside than this winter’s class of free agent starters. Jesus Luzardo, Freddy Peralta, and Nick Pivetta are just a few of the big names who offer significantly more upside and represent much better long-term investments than players currently being discussed this off-season.  Dylan Cease -> Way too expensive and way too unreliable to warrant such a large financial investment that is being projected to sign him. Sandy Alcantara -> Medical history has too many red flags to justify the significant prospect capital it would take to acquire him. We have comparable options in-house. Framber Valdez -> Offers the most upside of all the free agents, but he’s 32, looking for a payday on par with or that exceeds Max Fried’s contract. Joe Ryan -> Twins asking price was multiple Top prospects for a RP, anyone who thinks their asking price for their best SP, with multiple years of control will be anything close to reasonable is out of their minds.  Case in point the Mets have plenty of veteran starters to choose from, and the players being suggested either.offer less upside than the veterans we already have or pose a minuscule upgrade for a significant of cost to acquire them. How does misappropriating huge financial resources or significant prospect capital to veterans who are clearly declining, project as upgrades to our current depth chart? Answer is, they don’t. All we need is for Holmes to perform as he did in 2025 and Senga and Peterson to perform to their potential, as they represent much better upside than the names being thrown around that we should try to acquire. Remaining rotation spots can be filled from the high-upside arms we have ready to graduate from our farm system that are highlighted in Part 2…

  NY Daily News 11/17/2021 Born Today Tom Seaver. Happy Birthday Val Pascucci and Seth Lugo.  On the morning of 11/17/2021, Mets fans were waking up to the news that Noah Syndergaard had left the Mets to sign a one year $21 million deal with the Los Angeles Angels.  Noah turned down the Mets Qualifying Offer of $18.4 million. After having Tommy John Surgery in 2020, Syndergaard had a tough road back, throwing just two innings for the Mets in 2021.   He was 5-8 with a 3.85 ERA for the Angels in 2022 finishing the season with the Phillies in 10 games (5-2, 4.17 ERA) plus 3 games in the 2022 post season.  The Mets received the 75th pick in the 2022 draft as compensation choosing Nick Morabito.   Thor posted this Message on X/Twitter: Thank You New York pic.twitter.com/Yi6GmnMWcY— Noah Syndergaard (@Noahsyndergaard) November 17, 2021 Today in Mets History Per Ultimatemets.com:  Born on this date: * Tom Seaver (1944) * Eli Marrero (1973) * Jim Mann (1974) * Val Pascucci (1978) * Seth Lugo (1989) * Angel Guerrero (2003) Died on this date: * Ray Sadecki (2014) Transactions: Florida Marlins drafted Chris Donnels from the Mets on November 17, 1992. New York Mets signed free agent John Cangelosi on November 17, 1993. Atlanta Braves signed Bartolo Colon of the New York Mets as a free agent on November 17, 2016. National Pastime.com: 1964 Yogi Berra signs a two-year contract with the Mets as a player-coach, earning $35,000 per season. The recently fired Yankee manager, donning his familiar number 8, will collect two hits in his limited nine National League at-bats. 11/17/1944 Mets legend Tom Seaver is born. Nicknamed “The Franchise,” Seaver was a Rookie of the Year, 3x Cy Young Award winner, and World Series champion with New York. In addition to being a Mets and Baseball Hall of Famer, he had his number 41 retired by the team. pic.twitter.com/2LCGT3ibeX— This Day in Mets History (@NYMhistory) November 17, 2024 11/17/1964 Yogi Berra signs a two-year contract with the Mets as a player-coach. Berra went 2-for-9 at the plate and coached the Mets from 1965 to 1971 before managing the team from 1972 to 1974. pic.twitter.com/p2IacyOxYu— This Day in Mets History (@NYMhistory) November 17, 2024

The New York Mets are in full hot stove season, and speculation abounds about what they will do to improve upon a dismal 2025 season.   There are two primary thrusts to all that is being written right now.  One is to acquire some big names via trade or free agency and the other is to push for a youth movement, advancing some of the abundant minor league talent to see how they fare in the majors. Both strategies are viable, but in the first strategy, a trade to acquire a big name like headline pitchers Tarik Skubal or Paul Skenes would require the Mets to give up some of their prized prospects.   The scenarios usually try to protect our most heralded prospects like Nolan McLean, Carson Benge, and Jett Williams.  But knowing that we have to give value to get value, they often offer up a Jonah Tong or Brandon Sproat and Nick Morabito. Today I ask the question, “Why give up Nick Morabito”? First, let’s state the obvious reasons that Nick ends up on the block: 1) Jett Williams was the Mets’ first round draft pick in 2022.  He has generally performed as one would expect from a first rounder, advancing rapidly through the levels and finishing his third year in AAA.  He may have moved even faster, but lost much of the 2024 season to a wrist injury which is difficult to return from.  Williams slashed .261/.363/.465 in his 2025 season while showing both speed and defensive versatility by playing SS, 2B, and CF positions.  There is a strong feeling that he can be ready for a call-up in the second half of 2026 and since he can play both IF and OF positions, many want to see him debut in a Mets uniform to see how this investment pans out. 2) Carson Benge has been the talk of the minor league organization.  After being drafted in the first round of the 2024 draft by the Mets, Benge went on one of the most aggressive climbs through the levels, spending the last 24 games in AAA this summer.  The reason Benge rocketed through the organization was pure performance.  In 2025 he hit .302 in Brooklyn over the first 60 games, then hit .317 in 32 games at AA Binghamton.  Two years out of college ball he was dominating AA pitching, so they sent him to Syracuse.  No one wants to give up that kind of talent. So the story line is that Benge and Williams are going to battle for heir apparent for center at Citi Field, so why not trade #3? Here is why: Over the past two seasons, Morabito has hit .292 in the minors. Benge has hit .280, Williams .252.  During that time frame, Morabito has 108 stolen bases, compared to 25 for Benge and 39 for Williams.  Morabito just tore up the AFL to the tune of a .362 batting average with another 16 stolen bases in 17 games.  He also might be the best outfielder of the group, committing only one error in 639 innings last year.  Nick has to improve upon his K rate to continue his upward trajectory, but he has done some impressive things so far. I am not making the case that Nick Morabito is better than Carson Benge or Jett Williams, because no one really knows how any of these three will respond to the next level challenge against the best talent in the world.  But I am making the case that the Mets should really do their best to keep all three of these guys around to determine what they can do at the MLB level. David Stearns has proven to be pretty stingy with his minor league talent over the past two off-seasons, and maybe he will be this year as well.  There is tremendous pressure on him to fix last year’s problems through trades and free agent acquisition, but he needs to follow his instincts and protect the nest egg.  

Over the weekend word filtered out that the Mets have made initial offers to both opt-out candidates.  Apparently they proposed a 3-year deal to Pete Alonso for $102 million and a 4-year deal to Edwin Diaz for $88 million.  It is interesting to see that the rates per year are indeed higher than what both had earned in the past but the lengths are going to be the sticking point (for Alonso most certainly).  Last year’s $54 million deal for Pete Alonso paid him $30 million for year one and would have resulted in $24 million for year two.  Those are certainly not bad (if unbalanced) numbers.  Still, the Mets needed to know that after being asked to take a $6 million cut in pay he would get if he fulfilled the terms of the deal as structured.  Now some could look at it that the team offered an average pay rate of $27 million per year which was more than fair but both Cohen and Scott Boras knew that it was done to hedge bets against another substandard season from Alonso for which they were paying $30 million up front. To the Mets’ and Alonso’s benefit the Polar Bear put on quite a show in an otherwise forgettable 2025 season.  He finished the year with a best ever .272 batting average accompanied by 38 HRs, 126 RBIs, a .524 slugging percentage and an .871 OPS.  He earned that big paycheck and it is understandable that without a qualifying offer attached he would not find himself on the outside looking in as he was in the 2024-2025 offseason. Fast forward to the offer made by the Mets and it appears that they were being credible but drawing a line in the sand regarding the length of the commitment.  The raise from a planned $24 million salary to $34 million is certainly reasonable and arguably higher than was anticipated, but the term of only 2026 to 2028 will surely be viewed as a slap in the face.  What Boras and Cohen need to recognize is that you can get pay rate or contract term to your satisfaction but not necessarily both. In the Diaz situation it’s a little different.  Had he honored the original deal he would have taken a pay cut to $18.5 million from the $21.5 million he earned in 2025.  That would have been the rate for 2027 as well with a team option for 2028 at a rate of $20.4 million or a $1 million buyout.  During this past season Diaz showed just how dominant he can be when he’s healthy.  His 2025 numbers were outstanding.  He earned 28 saves with a 1.63 ERA and struck out 13.3 per 9 innings pitched.  Opposing hitters tallied just a .164 batting average against Diaz.  His decision to seek more money and more years is also understandable. The Cohen offer of $22 million per year for four more years would take Diaz to age 35 with a fat bank account.  The fact that they offered Diaz 4 years while only suggesting 3 to the more expensive Alonso is revealing in who they value more for their future roster.  There are alternatives available in the free agent market at 1st base and at closer so it’s not as if being turned down by one or both players means a total loss to the team. The key thing to remember is it is merely the opening round.  Rumor floated out that Boras and Alonso are asking for $250 million for a very long term deal.  No matter how you slice it that number is simply unrealistic.  7 years at nearly $36 million per year up through his late 30s doesn’t make sound business sense.  The question is whether or not there is a middle ground acceptable to both sides.  Regarding Diaz, it would seem that there is likely a greater probability of coming to some kind of deal. 

  6 things the NY Mets need to do this offseason if run prevention is the focus CLICK HERE 1) Trade for an ace, any ace, and include Mark Vientos in the package It’s about time the Mets traded for an ace. And when they do, make Mark Vientos a part of the deal. After his 2024 season, Vientos probably could have helped headline a trade for a frontline starter. At minimum, he could’ve helped the Mets better acquire a number two or the league’s best number three out there. His struggles this past season at the plate and with the glove have hurt his trade value. Now out of options, a little older, and with one brief albeit fantastic run in the latter part of 2024 as the shiniest part of his resume, he’d need to be paired up with a group of prospects or maybe even some big leaguers as well. Using Vientos in a trade for a legitimate ace solves two problems. One is the absence of that killer on the mound. The other is what to do with Vientos whose defensive shortcomings make him a DH and nothing but.   Ranger Suarez CLICK HERE This year's free agency might not feature a Juan Soto or Shohei Ohtani sort of superstar, but there are a slew of impactful players available, particularly when discussing starting pitchers. This logjam of talent on the mound has resulted in arguably the best starter available, Ranger Suarez, going overlooked. Nobody is talking about him, and it's hard to understand why. In fact, the only recent news involving Suarez is that the Philadelphia Phillies are almost certainly going to let him walk as a free agent. Here's what Matt Gelb of The Athletic had to say about Suarez's free agency:   Carlos Beltrán reveals Mets’ top offseason priorities https://www.si.com/mlb/mets/onsi/news/carlos-beltran-reveals-mets-top-offseason-priorities-john9 “I do feel that with Edwin Díaz opting out, there’s no doubt we need a closer,” Beltrán said. “Pete Alonso is another guy that is going to be on the market. I hope we can bring those guys back, the front office and the team upstairs are going to do the best we can to make that happen.”   Jim Koenigsberger          @Jimfrombaseball "Gehrig was walked intentionally. Dickey singled, scoring Rolfe. Hoag hit  a grounder to third and DiMaggio was out at home. The bases were still loaded. Tony Lazzeri was the next batter. From the dugout, Giants Mgr. Bill Terry waved to catcher Gus Mancuso to bring in reliever Dick Coffman. Terry did not go out to the mound. Coffman started in from the bullpen. Mancuso turned to home plate umpire Red Ormsby and said, “Gumbert” by mistake. Ormsby announced, “Gumbert now pitching." When Bill Terry heard that, he jumped up, hitting his head on the concrete top of the dugout and fell to the ground. By now Coffman was on the mound. I was still sitting on the bench. Bill Terry wobbled out to home plate and argued that Coffman was supposed to have been announced. He convinced the umpire and the announcer corrected his announcement. Coffman began throwing warmup pitches. Art Fletcher, the Yankees third base coach, hasn’t made a move until then. Art then comes over to the umpire and says that according to the rules, Gumbert must pitch to one man. The umpire says, ‘You’re right. Bring him out here.’ So out I go, cold off the bench. I threw Lazzeri two curve balls and he hit a nice soft ground ball to Burgess Whitehead at second base, a perfect double play ball. 'Whitey' lets it roll between his legs and another run scores." Harry "Gunboat" Gumbert Bottom of sixth inning, 1937 World Series. "Gunboat", who was never sure of the origin of his nickname, believing  that a sportswriter had tagged him with it because it sounded good with Gumbert. 'Gunboat' led the National Leagues in games pitched (61), games finished (46), saves (17) in 1948. Set the National League record for assists by a pitcher in a game, recording 10, May 23,1938. World Series Champion, 1946.   Running From The OPS      @OPS_BASEBALL Elian Pena - New York Mets Pena received the largest bonus ($5 million) for any Latin American prospect this season and showed exactly why. The 18-year-old posted a 144 wRC+ with 9 HR, 21 SB, and a 1:1 K/BB ratio. He had 2 3-HR games this season and has a fantastic toolset.  (pc: ernest dove) The 26-most-productive careers for the Mets in the 21st Century CLICK HERE 26 – David Peterson (8.5 fWAR) – It’s not a surprise that a former first-round pick makes this list. You just wish that the total would be higher than this. But this is the time to point out that the Mets have finished under .500 14 times in this span. 25 – Edwin Diaz (9.0 fWAR) – He’s been a Met for seven seasons, on the field for six of those. One of those was the Covid year of 60 games, so let’s count that as 37% of a full season. If we divide 9.0 by 5.37, we get an annual fWAR of 1.6 for Diaz as a Met. With a unit of fWAR valued at roughly $8 million, he’s been worth an average of $12.8 million per year. 24 – Angel Pagan (9.1 fWAR) – You weren’t expecting him on this list, were you? He had a 4.9 fWAR for the Mets in 2010 and two seasons later, he posted a 4.6 mark for the Giants in his first year after leaving the Mets, in his age-30 season. From age-31 onwards, Pagan recorded a combined 4.5 fWAR in the final four years of his career. 23 – Pedro Martinez (9.9 fWAR) – He had his last great season in his initial year with the Mets, posting a 6.1 fWAR in 2005. I’d like to see an alternate reality where the Mets pitched him with an extra day of rest, staring in 2006. Would he have been able to stay healthy with more recovery time? He was a joy to watch pitch. 22 – Mike Pelfrey (10.1 fWAR) – From 2008-2010, Pelfrey was 38-32. For the rest of his career, he had a 30-71 mark.

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 The Major League Baseball Rule 5 Draft is scheduled this year for Thursday, December 11th - the last day of the Winter Meetings.  Mets have until November 18th to add players to the 40 Man Roster to protect them from the draft. The full list of Mets 2025 Rule 5 eligibles are below.  Here are some of the more interesting ones: OF Nick Morabito.  Coming off a great stint in the Arizona Fall League, Nick has a good chance of being added to the 40-man roster to stay out of the draft.  In Arizona Nick hit .362/.450/.464, 25 hits, 17 runs and 16 stolen bases in 17 games.  It seemed like every time up he was beating out a grounder for an infield single, then stealing 2nd and later scoring.  Beating out ground balls gave Nick an insane .453 Batting Average Balls in Play.  Granted, it is a small sample size but he has had high BABIP numbers in the past - .390 in 119 games for Brooklyn and St. Lucie in 2024. 2022 1st Round Draft pick, Catcher Kevin Parada, is no longer a top ten Mets Prospect.  He slashed .245/.319/.407 with 11 homers and 57 RBIs while splitting time between Syracuse and Binghamton.  On the Syracuse roster, he'd have to be added to a team's 40 man roster if selected. RHP Saul Garcia went 5-2 with a 1.70 ERA for Brooklyn and Binghamton in 2025,  He had 76 Ks in 47.2 innings.  In September, Baseball America had him on their list of 10 best performing fastballs in 2025. They noted: "Pitching from a lower release height, Garcia sits 94-96 mph with more than 2500 rpm of spin on average."  If he doesn't get added to the 40-Man or the Syracuse Roster to keep him out of the minor league portion, there is a good chance he will be selected. Calvin Ziegler: Was another former top ten prospect in 2023 but after just two games with Brooklyn in 2024, needed Tommy John surgery.  He missed all of 2025.   In addition, players not added to the 38-Man AAA Roster will be eligible for the minor league portion of the draft.   Here is the full list of eligible Rule 5 players: Pitchers: Luis Alvarez; Eli Ankeney; Juan Arnaud; Felipe De La Cruz; Jorge De Leon; Joel Díaz; Estarlin Escalante; Saul Garcia; Jordan Geber; Cristofer Gomez; Joe Jacques; Wilson Lopez; Gregori Louis; Trey McLoughlin; Estarling Mercado; Nate Lavender, Douglas Orellana; Layonel Ovalles; Luis R. Rodriguez; Jorge Rodriguez; TJ Shook; Dylan Tebrake; Zebulon Vermillion; Calvin Ziegler; Catchers: José Aular; Ronald Hernandez; Kevin Parada; Vincent Perozo;   Infielders: Jefrey De Los Santos; Diego Mosquera; JT Schwartz; D'Andre Smith; Kevin Villavicencio; Wyatt Young;   Outfielders: Yohairo Cuevas; Nick Morabito; Matt Rudick; All the recently signed minor league free agents will also be eligible such as Joe Jacques; Jose Rojas, Jackson Cluff, Joander Suarez, Jefry Yan, Carlos Guzman, Brian Metoyer and Onix Vega.  Since they are all currently on the Syracuse Mets Roster, they will need be added to an MLB Roster if drafted.

  Thomas Nestico       @TJStats My Top 10 Right Fielders of 2025 Matt Eddy                        @MattEddyBA In the post below, you can see all the late-season callups in 2025 who (A) retain rookie status for 2026, and (B) finished the season as Top 100 Prospects. It's so difficult for pitchers to win ROY. It requires health, durability and not too many blow-up starts It also takes dominant stuff, which McLean and Yesavage have demonstrated in MLB games Also: Rookie starters had 40.2 fWAR in 2025, the 7th best total of 30-team era I don't know which Top 100 Prospects will make Opening Day rosters and remain in MLB for the entire 2026 season, but I can make educated guesses about  Rookie of the Year favorites and thus PPI favorites. Curt Schilling                   @gehrig38 Today it's 'standing tall' vs 'extension', one is extremely stressful the other is not. Someone has made these guys believe max effort 'whip' is the best way to max velocity, it is NOT. Extension and FINISH generate max backspin and velocity AND you can command the fastball. The new way is why pitchers no longer command the FB INSIDE the zone. They can throw strikes, but they cannot repeat fastball location within a 6-8" box, if they could Skenes would punch out 400                         Pitch Profiler              @pitchprofiler                         Curt has no data to back this up.                         The best way to throw is the way your body moves most    efficiently. Comparing two guys without knowing anything about how they move is pointless. Trying to get a guy to move in a way that his body doesn’t find efficient is a recipe for disaster. Bleacher Report                        @BleacherReport Top 100 MLB Prospect Rankings for the Offseason  92. OF Edward Florentino, PIT  58. IF Alex Freeland, LAD  27. SS George Lombard Jr., NYY  9. RHP Nolan McLean, NYM  1. SS Kevin McGonigle, DET      MACK - McLean has rocketed up the top prospects lists, mainly due to his dominating demonstration last fall for the Mets. May be a true gem here.   Michael Baron                            @michaelgbaron Mets signed INF Jose Rojas and INF Jackson Cluff to Minor League contracts with invitations to Spring Training. Jose Rojas    RF/3B/2B  5-10    200    LHH    36th rd. 2016   Vanguard U. (CA) Turns 33 in February MLB Career -   -1.8-WAR, 224-AB, .188 2025 – AAA/NYY -   517-PA, 108-K 32-HR, 105-RBI, .287/.379/.599/.978     MACK - this kind of dominating AAA bat could translate into a possible Mets platooned DH next season. Low K-rate for a boomer like this. Too bad he doesn’t play first. Jackson Cluff     Turns 29 next month    SS/2B/3B    LHH    5-11    180 6th round 2019 – Nats – THE Brigham Young U. (UT) 2025 – AAA/WSH – 383-PA, 110-K, 12-HR, 40-RBI, .242/.349/.422/.771 MACK – looks to me to be a filler AAAA utility infielder for AAA-Syracuse