New York Mets 60-Man Roster Prospect Analysis

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ROSTER

Name	Position
Matthew Allan	RHP
Tyler Bashlor	RHP
Dellin Betances	RHP
Matt Blackham	RHP
Brad Brach	RHP
Jacob deGrom	RHP
Edwin Diaz	RHP
Jeurys Familia	RHP
Ryley Gilliam	RHP
Robert Gsellman	RHP
Walker Lockett	RHP
Seth Lugo	RHP
Steven Matz	LHP
Corey Oswalt	RHP
Pedro Payano	RHP
David Peterson	LHP
Rick Porcello	RHP
Yefry Ramirez	RHP
Jacob Rhame	RHP
Paul Sewald	RHP
Chasen Shreve	LHP
Drew Smith	RHP
Kevin Smith	LHP
Hunter Strickland	RHP
Marcus Stroman	RHP
Michael Wacha	RHP
Justin Wilson	LHP
Daniel Zamora	LHP
Francisco Alvarez	C
Patrick Mazeika	C
Tomas Nido	C
Wilson Ramos	C
Rene Rivera	C
David Rodriguez	C
Ali Sanchez	C
Matt Adams	1B
Pete Alonso	1B
Robinson Cano	2B
Luis Carpio	2B
Jake Hager	2B
Brett Baty	3B
J.D. Davis	3B
Andres Gimenez	SS/2B
Jed Lowrie	INF
Jeff McNeil	INF/OF
Max Moroff	INF
Eduardo Nunez	3B/2B
Ronny Mauricio	SS
Amed Rosario	SS
Dom Smith	1B
Quinn Brodey	OF
Michael Conforto	OF
Ryan Cordell	OF
Johneshwy Fargas	OF
Jake Marisnick	OF
Brandon Nimmo	OF
Jarrett Parker	OF

NOTABLE INCLUSIONS

SS Andres Gimenez is a 40-man roster member who played at Double-A last year, so he was an obvious inclusion to the Mets’ player pool. LHPs Kevin Smith and David Peterson are not on the 40-man, but both were teammates with Gimenez last year at Double-A Binghamton and join him on the club’s 60-man player pool.

NOTABLE EXCLUSIONS

There Mets still have 15 open roster spaces available to use for their 60-man player pool, so they might still add prospects later. But in some ways, that makes it even more glaring how few prospects the Mets left at home. No SS Ronny Mauricio, their No. 1 prospect. No CF Pete Crow-Armstrong, their first-round pick this year, or 3B Brett Baty, their first-round pick in 2019. Mauricio and Baty were later added to the site. The Dodgers put fellow C Diego Cartaya on their roster, but the Mets left off C Francisco Alvarez, a fellow 2018 Venezuelan signing, 3B Mark Vientos, LHP Thomas Szapucki and RHP Josh Wolf all entered the season as Top 10 Prospects in the farm system but are not in the 60-man player pool.

PARTING THOUGHTS

As far as prospects, the Mets have the most boring player pool in the game. They have plenty of roster space available to change that, but if they knew they wanted to get a player like Mauricio extra reps to develop on the 60-man player pool this summer, why not just add him now, with all the space they have available instead of later? Still, this is a team that has postseason dreams, and their priority was to add players who can help them get back to the playoffs for the first time since 2016.