2025 Mets Prospect Preview

To kick off our 2025 New York Mets prospect coverage, we will have an updated list soon now that the international free agent shortstop Elian Peña signing is official. Spoiler alert: he’s going to be very high on that list.

We are also working on getting interviews with players and coaches to get you closer to the game than we have the last couple of years. We want to ensure we provide substantial coverage of a promising system, which will hopefully continue as the Mets invest in development under Steve Cohen.

We will also ensure we’re giving you better coverage of the Triple-A Syracuse team with some of the Mets’ top prospects and veteran players who could play key roles on the Mets. Just last season, Jose Iglesias, Mark Vientos, José Buttó, Dedniel Núñez and Reed Garrett were on the Opening Day Triple-A roster and also ended up playing key roles for the Mets in 2024. I talked a bit about that recently with thoughts on Brett Baty, Luisangel Acuña and Ronny Mauricio.

My top prospect list will be first up and should be done soon. I intended for it to have already been posted, but the flu/cold/all the crazy stuff going around hit my household pretty hard at the same time. Once the list is up, the rest of the MMO editors and I will break down the players in more detail.

From there, I will be in Port St. Lucie for a bit in March to cover the Mets and do my favorite thing, which is watching the backfield minor league games. I will have reports and videos from there and, hopefully, an interview or two.

We also hope to bring you more video content covering the minor leagues in 2025. We know that’s what folks seem to be looking for, and we want to ensure we bring you the cover we deserve.

Most of the big-time baseball publications have released their top 100 (101 in some cases) MLB prospects, with the Mets having anywhere from five in Baseball Prospectus to two in MLB Pipeline’s update. Mets prospects INF/CF Jett Williams, RHP Brandon Sproat, RHP Nolan McLean, RHP Jonah Tong, INF Ronny Mauricio, SS Carson Benge, OF Drew Gilbert and INF Jesus Baez have all been listed in the various top-MLB lists.

With the ESPN (just released Wednesday morning), MLB Pipeline, and Baseball America list all published, we know which players will be eligible for the Prospect Promotion Incentive. To be eligible, the player has to be on at least two of those lists, and for the Mets, that means Jett Williams and Brandon Sproat are their two eligible prospects. You can read the full rules here.

Over the last year, the Mets added Benge (2024 1st rounder pick) and Peña (highest IFA bonus in team history at $5 million), and both of those guys will be in my top 10. They also added LHP Jonathan Santucci, RHP Nate Dohm, OF Eli Serrano III, SS Trey Snyder and RHP Will Watson in the 2024 draft, and all of them will be in my Top 30. RHP Jonathan Pintaro, whom they signed to a minor league deal out of Indy ball last June, is on my list, too.

For now, you can head over to Mets Minors, where they had eight writers vote on the Top 30 prospects in the Mets system and have started with their writeups.

Feels hard to believe, but the 2025 minor league season is less than two months away, with the Syracuse Mets kicking off their campaign on March 28 in Worcester. Double-A Binghamton, High-A Brooklyn and Low-A St. Lucie will start their seasons the following week, on April 4.

As always, we are here for the readers, so if there’s a specific way or topic you want us to cover for the 2025 minor league season, please let us know. You can message me on Twitter (@mikemayer22) or shoot me an email (michael.mayer4@gmail.com). 

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