It’s a theme we all love to see: a minor league player we never heard of rising to the occasion. The New York Mets have a guy in the minors right now who is inching up toward the big leagues.
In the face of losing Dedniel Nunez to Tommy John surgery, a door has swung open for the Mets to take a chance on some other in-house options before, during, and after the MLB trade deadline. The team should be hyper-focused on high-leverage veterans (many of whom won’t have minor league options) while keeping a roster spot or two open for the shuttle of relievers that’ll go back and forth from Queens to Syracuse.