The Mets’ have been pressed for catching depth for what feels like the better part of a decade, often turning to less-than-inspiring options from their farm when a thin major league depth chart inevitably succumbs to injury. Going on 27, Patrick Mazeika is the next such catcher, as the 2015 draftee now sits fourth on the Mets catching depth chart.
An 8th round draft pick out of Stetson, Mazeika was an unheralded college player despite a consistent track record of offensive production. He rocketed through the lower minors, partially on the power of his more-advanced-than-his-peers hit tool and partially because he was a small fish in a big pond, an older player from a school with a strong baseball program; In 2015, he appeared in 62 games for the Kingsport Mets and hit .