Brett Baty is good. After a rather tumultuous 2022 debut in which he was, well, kinda bad (71 wRC+) outside of his home run in his debut game in Atlanta, he did not make the Mets’ 2023 roster—despite almost certainly being the best option to do so throughout spring training.
He was laughably good in Triple-A this year, hitting an MLB The Show-esque .400/.500/.886 across 42 plate appearances before basically forcing Billy Eppler to reverse course and bring him up. He was much better than his 2022 audition thus far in 2023, hitting .258/.343/.430 (120 wRC+), making himself a staple of the Mets lineup day in and day out.