If the Mets want to win their first World Series title since 1986 in the coming seasons, they’ll need their top prospects to join system success stories.
PORT ST. LUCIE — Brett Baty rises from his chair and stands Texas tall with his shoulders squared, looking larger than his listed size of 6-foot-3, 210 pounds. He is a big kid with a big place in the Mets’ ultimate dream of sustainable long-term contention.
“You have to be confident every day, and come in and be consistent. That’s just what I’m trying to do. I’m trying to be the best baseball player I can be.” — Francisco Alvarez and Baty — to join system success stories the likes of Pete Alonso, Brandon Nimmo, and Jeff McNeil.Baty’s door was thrown wide open once Cohen decided Carlos Correa was too big of a nine-figure injury risk at third base. The job belongs to veteran good-guy Eduardo Escobar, who caught fire in September after Baty’s sudden big-league promotion — after only six games at Triple-A Syracuse — was canceled by thumb surgery 11 games deep.
The GM relented on the Baty upside question and said the third baseman can be “an impact player at the major league level.” Eppler likes Baty’s disposition this spring, seven months after the call-up magically homered in Atlanta on his very first swing as a Met.“There’s an assuredness about him,” the GM said. “If he makes a mistake he owns that mistake, and I think he uses it as fuel. That’s a maturity component for me that speaks to some accountability, and his drive to be great.
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