Before the 2018 season, Amazin’ Avenue ranked Tomas Nido as the 9th-best prospect in the Mets’ system. It’s a potentially useful but unexciting profile: excellent catcher defense, occasional pop, and a total lack of plate discipline that makes the whole offensive skill set play down. There was some hope for the offensive output given a big year in 2016, but a poor follow-up in 2017 dampened those expectations.
Nido lived up to that billing in every way—good and bad. He was one of the best framing catchers in baseball, saving 3.5 runs in just under 1,500 framing chances—the 12th-best rate in the league, and he was solid in the other, less important aspects of catcher defense.