2025 Report Card: Brandon Sproat, RHP
Brandon Sproat
Age: 25 (9/17/2000) B/T: R/R
Primary Stats: 0-2, 4.79 ERA, 1.21 WHIP, 20 2/3 IP, 17 SO, 7 BB, 4 GS
Advanced Stats: 85 ERA+, 20.2 K%, 8.3 BB%, 3.90 xERA, 2.80 FIP, 3.84 xFIP, 0.6 fWAR, 0.2 bWAR
2025 salary: $760,000
Grade: B
2025 Review
Brandon Sproat entered 2025 as the top pitching prospect in the organization, but was hit hard at Triple-A Syracuse to start the season, giving up six earned runs three times in his first nine starts. His ERA on May 20 was 6.69. Then, he turned things around.
Sproat posted a 3.19 ERA over his next 17 outings, including a five-start stretch in July where he gave up two runs in 27 innings while striking out 33. The 2023 second-round pick out of the University of Florida was the International League’s Pitcher of the Month.
But over the course of the season, fellow pitching prospects Nolan McLean and Jonah Tong jumped him. When the Mets’ rotation was hit with injuries and poor performance, McLean was called on to debut on Aug. 16. Tong was next up on Aug. 29.
Sproat joined the big club on Sept. 7 in Cincinnati and held the Reds hitless through 5 1/3 innings before allowing three straight hits. He was done after six, as he gave up three runs, struck out seven and took the loss.
Sproat’s next start was his home debut and he rose to the occasion, firing six scoreless frames before 41,752 fans at Citi Field against the Texas Rangers.
“It was awesome,” he said two weeks after making his final minor-league start in front of 4,546 in Moosic, Penn. “The fans are outstanding. The field’s outstanding. Just everything’s top notch.”
A rare Edwin Díaz blown save (he had three all season) denied Sproat his first career win.
Sproat gave up four runs in the third inning in his next start against the Washington Nationals, but kept his composure enough to throw a 1-2-3 fourth inning and strike out two before being pulled.
“If I dwell on it, it’s not going to do anything for me,” he said of his third inning troubles. “I went to the bathroom, just kind of talked to myself a little bit. I told myself, hey it’s the past, put it in the past, it is what it is. I got to move forward for this team. And that’s what I was able to do.” The Mets rallied for a 12-6 victory.
His last outing was on the final Friday of the season, in Miami with a playoff spot hanging in the balance. He pitched four scoreless innings, but the Marlins got him for four runs in the fifth and the Mets lost 6-2.
“They put a couple of hits together and it didn’t go my way,” he said. “But I mean that’s baseball. That’s the game.”
2026 Preview
At a news conference the day after the season, David Stearns was asked about the roles of Sproat, McLean and Tong moving forward.
“All three of those guys I think demonstrated that they can pitch at the major-league level,” he said. “At various points all three of them pitched very well at the major-league level. We’ll see what our roster looks like when we get to Port St. Lucie. But I would certainly expect all three to have a role in the major leagues at some point next year. Don’t know exactly when. But I think those guys should be really proud of what they accomplished this year.”
The Mets have that trio, plus David Peterson, Sean Manaea, Kodai Senga and Clay Holmes, and everyone can’t fit in the rotation. New York also may look to add an ace in the offseason, so Sproat could be in the rotation, bullpen, back at Triple-A or maybe even traded. Detroit?
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