All in all, the Mets’ 2017 season was a bummer, man. Everyone got hurt, and a bunch of guys we had come to enjoy rooting for in recent years were traded away. The upshot to those things was that they cleared up some roster space and opportunity for a couple of much-anticipated prospects. The headliner, of course, was Amed Rosario, but the other guy, Dominic Smith, was arguably the more intriguing, as there was (and is) far less consensus on his talent and potential.
Dom Smith was the Mets’ first-round draft pick (13th overall) in 2013, and there have been many takes and widely divergent assessments of his future prospects ever since.