Eduardo Escobar was one of the many Mets who began the season in Queens but ended it elsewhere. Traded at the end of June, more than a month before the deadline, he had an abridged second season with the Mets, and he didn’t quite impress in that short sample.
Before the season began, there was talk about Escobar potentially losing his job to Brett Baty, one of the Mets’ top prospects who had debuted in 2022 and seemed primed for an extended run to hopefully establish himself as the Mets’ third baseman of the future. Escobar took it in stride, and welcomed Baty, but in the end Baty started the season in Syracuse and the Mets took Escobar to Queens to man third base to start the regular season.